"are they environmentally friendly"? Really? Just because of a few high profile accidents this video questions the environmental safety of harvesting the energy of the wind?
@@reahs4815 it may sound similar but they are on completely different scales. A windmill as far as I know is always built in an isolated area to have most efficient access to wind power and only requires occasional maintenance so it is normally unmanned. If it started collapsing or exploding, it is extremely unlikely to affect anyone other then normal inconveniences such an accident would entail. Having a catastrophic failure at a nuclear power plant would be exponentially more dangerous in comparison. The dedicated workforce normally in attendence at the factory would obviously be put at risk, but nearby buildings and facilities along with their occupants would be in just as much danger since the potential hazards are devastating. Comparing the failure of a windmill to a nuclear power plant is like comparing a small car accident to a large passenger train derailment. One is simple and unlikely to hurt more then the people involved. The other could easily seriously maim or kill everyone in the immediate vicinity.
@@nopenope5203 But the problem is that people still think nuclear power plants are built exactly like those 50 years ago which is not the case. If a modern nuclear plant would fail the worst thing that could happen would be that they had to restart the reactor. That's why we should encourage usage of nuclear so we can make nuclear better, more efficient and cheaper to build and maintain but also most importantly rebuild/demolish/upgrade old reactors that do not fulfill modern safety standards. I'm not saying that we should stop using wind or solar but we should not get rid of nuclear power or have less of it because the masses of misinformed people think they are nukes in fancy houses. If we get rid of nuclear what will replace it? Wind? solar? HA! they will never be able to reliably replace nuclear as long as we don't have a safe, economically viable, efficient and good way to store excess power during low demand and use the stored energy during high demand
As you mentioned, hand built 'Wind' Powered 'Mills' were actually cost effective and labor saving, grinding far more grain than possible by human hands. Wind electric energy generating Turbines should be so lucky. Without the original Wind powered 'Lift' devices to pump out the polders before electrical turbine pumps, Holland would still be under water along it's coastal areas.
Well, the one labelled #5, anyway. Seems they had a short clip showing it working, then Boom! Down it comes. (I'm not including the damage being done in the title clip prior to that... #5 was the first of the series of 5 reviews.)
It definitely looked like a freakin simulated demolition! How can one lightning strike kill a windmill? I mean, it can but it can't make it fall over, so I take it as a yes that it was a simulated demolition
I only clicked here because of " Enviromental friendly?" sounds like making the argument that nuclear power isnt as good as coal, becuase theres been 3 large meltdown since we build nuclear reactors
Here I will explain all of them 5 you said that one 4 dumbass bird not being smart at all I’m pretty sure if my dog knows not to to jump into the pool in my backyard the bird should know not to go there 3 again old and it was probably rusty 2 Mother Nature 1 show me the full clip please
carter masters if you worked at a wind farm you’d know that the blades also turn to prevent that from happening... it probably got hit by lightning and shorted a fuse causing the safety features to shut down
*Windmill accidentally kills 1 bird* "IS THIS ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY" *Oil spill happens killing thousands possibly millions of living organisms* "Hey man, it happens"
@@TheXanderGrim I never claimed it wasn't? Oil spills kill thousand of birds, turtles, otters etc. and that's a fact. Oil being used for gas causes co2 pollution which will eventually melt the poles killing every animal up there as well. It will also cause sea levels to rise which will end up causing many humans to die as well for various reasons. It being a natural substance doesn't make it environmentally friendly lol.
Windmills kill thousand of big birds every year. Especially eagles and owls, plus bats. Windmills are not eco friendly at all. In average they just produce 1/3 of their capacity due to unstable wind conditions.
@@TheXanderGrim loool yes, uranium/mercury/cyanide etc. are also a natural substances but you would't want to have them in your drinking water would you
Wow. 'Hundreds' of gallons? Off of China, there is a single tanker that had a collision and fire. According to the BBC, it was "carrying 136,000 tonnes of ultra-light crude oil from Iran which generates a toxic underwater slick that would be invisible from the surface." There is no comparison. Hundreds of gallons of oil or other fuel may be what a container ship (not a tanker, which holds much more) leaks inadvertently in the course of a week of operation. In 2012, a small cargo ship was described to have a 'minor' leak of 1500 gallons. A single oil tank car, the kind that have been derailing and exploding in past years, can hold over 34,000 gallons.
Before you guys comment, you should actually read his stance on Wind Power (article link in description.) He is not pro-fossil fuels, nor does he discredit Wind Power. He states that the current way we manage Wind Turbines is too much of a liability and we need to figure out how to prevent fires, which in term, prevents losing millions of dollars. He includes a graph and cites a solution to the fire problem involving lubricant, hypothesized by a trusted engineer. He even promotes wind power build kits. Please research before you comment.
The Centralia Pa. coal mine fire has been burning since 1962, with no way to put it out. It may burn for hundreds of years. I'll take a few minor wind turbine fires instead.
It's been continually burning for nearly 60 years... Where do you figure 3-5 years it will be out? There is a coal seam fire in Australia that has been burning for an estimated 6000 years. The Centralia fire will continue to burn for a long, long time.
Exactly my thoughts xD Like windmills should be 100% reliable while everything in the industry fails sometimes, even things built using way older and well-rounded technologies... When it comes to windmills, they don't really have anything toxic inside to harm the environment. Just some garbage to collect, bring new parts and you're good to go. Things break, nothing new. In comparison to the amount of them all over the world, I'm sure we can call windmills pretty reliable. Prepaid propaganda video, nothing else.
Title is either clickbait or this video was only made for propaganda purposes. Wind turbines can have problems just like any other energy source but compared to coal they're clearly better for the environment.
it would take a crew of a half-dozen guys and a couple trucks maybe a week to pick up the pieces of these fails vs. whatever it costs to clean up 1 million barrels of oil in the ocean
You are absolutely wrong as it takes coal oil and gas to manufacture and keep a wind generator running It actually uses more coal oil and gas to build and install one then keep it running than it will ever be able to save over just using coal fired generators In short you are the one spewing propaganda
"(Enviromental friendly?)" What are you exactly critical of here? How do you think this compare to... when a oil field catches on fire? or a when a tanker sinks and leaks billions of gallons of crude into open sea? oh my boy
@@RonP51 no they are not. and even if they do kill a dozen birds a year, coal plants however, kill millions (of human beings, not to mention wildlife) every year via air pollution. the trade off is crystal clear.
Can you please enlighten us when ANY TANKER EVER leaked 'billions of gallons of crude' into the sea then Oh...I though not. Stop exaggerating to make your point
"a machine for producing continuous power in which a wheel or rotor, typically fitted with vanes, is made to revolve by a fast-moving flow of water, steam, gas, air, or other fluid." I don't know if you have been around wind "Turbines" much but they are not continuous. They always seem to be shutting down because the wind is to slow or the wind is to fast or they just feel like it for all I know.
Be aware that "continuous" in that context means that (as long as there is wind) the power output is constant, unlike a petrol/diesel or steam engine that has some moments where the engine is coasting (not producing any power or consuming power to compress air) and the load runs off the flywheel. It isn't related to the fact they aren't able to run because there isn't enough wind.
Aint it the truth. It cranks me up when I drive by these wind generating farms and see how many blades are not turning knowing that my tax money is subsidizing those non-turning tax drains.. The owners make money no matter if the blades are turning or not.
well wind turbine goes up in flames mostly because of hydraulic failure it cannot control blades pitch any more, starts to spin to fast generator and gearbox overheat ant then fire lot of it
The fiberglass and other composites continue the combustion. Most people do not realize that the blades themselves are hollow fiberglass shells. During runaways, they fling themselves for great distances... if remaining intact. Read about the maintenance crew on one tower trapped during the intense, deadly fire. Rescue, if even possible, is rare.
Well that took about 2 minutes. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_and_radiation_accidents_by_death_toll#List_of_accidents Coal at 15,000 deaths per trillion kWhrs produced, while nuclear is the least at zero. Wind energy kills a mere 100 people or so, the majority from falls during maintenance activities. In England, there were 163 wind turbine accidents that killed 14 people in 2011. Wind produced about 15 billion kWhrs that year, so using a capacity factor of 25%, that translates to about 1,000 deaths per trillion kWhrs produced (the world produces 15 trillion kWhrs per year from all sources). - from www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2013/09/29/forget-eagle-deaths-wind-turbines-kill-humans/ So unless you care more about dirt than you do your fellow man you are wrong.
@@elmariotti934 You should look up Chernobyl, it wasnt very deadly compared to the good it had done, that is why i say if you choose wind you care more about dirt than human life. If your take is you care more about the environment it would be a better arguement.
Chernobyl is still a no go area for humans. There were also large cancer clusters where the radiactive cloud passed by - My wifes family lives in one the areas so I have personal experience. Choosing dirt over wind No entiendo?!
You all actually questioning whether this is more environmentally friendly than fossil fuels? Taking this so seriously is messin wit ma vibe I'm just tryna watch windmills tear itself apart 🤣🤣🤣
@Sharkzer My grammar is bad intentionally; it's fun and funny. Yours? I cant imagine someone uses intentionally bad grammar to correct another's grammar. "Write english" ? English is an idea, one being self referential. You dont write English: you write in English. Can I not just make a comment for fun while I'm high?
Wind turbines are polluting a lot more scenery than the fossil fuel business now, and are a menace to anything that flies, especially bats. I'm not a fracking apologist but that infrastructure is much smaller and sites can at least be restored when the oil or gas plays out. Wind turbines are meant to loom over landscapes indefinitely, including red-lit night skies, and it's no simple matter to take them down once they're up. cutt.us/blight_for_naught
Respect Silence when you said polluting, I assumed you were talking about poisoning the natural world in some way, but that link is just about how wind turbines look ugly. Do they actually have a significant negative environmental impact, or is this really just about them feeling intrusive in landscapes?
A sleek white windmill looks a lot better than a black oil well tower that spews orange flame and dark plume once in a while when overflow valve opens.
They seem to be drawn to them. Bird kill is a serious issue. I think they can't figure out what they are, but, since they are in their territory, are looking for a way to chase them away.
The birds are drawn to the tall wind turbines because they are very tall and the birds think it would be a good place for a nest to be safe from critters on the ground. There is turbulence around the blades that create a vortex that pull the bird into the blade so it may seem like a dumb bird but the nesting is the bait and the blade it the death trap. I have a design that gives them a place to nest on top with no danger of getting hit by a blade.
Thank you. I suspected that was the case. There is almost no environmental impact from taking down one wind turbine, though. I'd think that plowing that field would be more environmentally damaging than the wind turbine takedown.
Says it all on the description...200,000 turbines operating. 117 catch fire. So that's 0.0585%. Wind turbines create free energy for millions of households. Yes. They are environmentally friendly.
@@geeterdun5966 What I mean is that it doesn't require energy input to create power once they are in place. I understand that they aren't free to manufacture/install/maintain. Then again neither is a Nuclear Power plant.
free energy my ass. its called subsidies for wind energy. people in nearby cities that do not have turbines end up paying more so that people who live in cities with wind turbines can pay less. its nothing more than a tax break that somebody elses fits the bill for. just like when obama was handing out subsidies for people who buy hybrid cars. he just ended up making them pay it all back the next year. NOBODY gets anything for free when it involved the government.
Free energy? Wind power is one of the most expensive sources of electricity! And how are they environmentally friendly? Look at the bird kills, the noise and sight pollution, and all the pollution involved in the manufacture and maintenance of these monstrosities!
@@redmercury1159 See above for clarification of free energy. I'm not an idiot. I understand they aren't free to install. But wind turing a turbine creating electricity is free energy in the sense that it doesn't require fossil or nuclear input to make it work. I'd love to see your evidence of government ramping up people's energy prices to lower others. Energy is expensive...wind energy less so. If you live in an area supplied by wind farms then you're energy will be priced lower. Fact. Move house...better still install solar.
@@Novusa Any wind turbine failure is environmentally safe compared to a hydro dam bursting, a steam boiler exploding and a nuclear power plant "incident"!
Their fail rate is hilariously low. I think its good for people to understand that they aren't infallible, but this video and headline are pretty much click bait.
@@scottday1988 I mean if science is propaganda... Look, I'm not going to take the jobs of oil workers and coal miners away. It's a finite resource, but it's still important. But as a country, and as a global community, we've got to find better sources of energy. There's a reason miners get black lung. There's a reason oil spills kill and some wells poison. You've got to be honest yourself about whether or not you would want to live next to a plant spewing pollution next to your house. I'm willing to bet you don't live anywhere near a place like that.
triz313 not far from one coal gens don’t spew smoke like they used to. As an oil field worker I can vouch that we make as small a foot print as possible. We are conservationists we live here too. We go out of our way for wild life. I agree with the finding new energy sources. I just hate wind and solar. Wind turbines are ugly unsightly landscape spoiling hideous junk. Solar field are built in wet lands they don’t produce enough energy for the space they take up
WIND TURBINE FAILURES: 1: Struck by lightening 2. A bid got hit by one of the blades (Only one that was the fault of the turbine) 3: An old, outdated design of a turbine collapsed 4: Someone forgot to turn one off during a storm 5: Same as #4, someone forgot to shut one down during high wind speeds Yup, all of these were definitely the fault of the wind turbine.
Wow, thanks for posting the video of the windmills on fire. That just looks horrible, almost as horrible as fires I've seen at oil and gas wells or refineries. Or when I've seen an oil spill from a pipeline leak or offshore drilling site catch fire and leak for weeks and months.
Old post I know but I just saw this and that smoke of the wind turbine fire seemed about the same as an oil power plant while it fired up each (and every) morning at a place I used to live. So one time vs every morning.
I just got into the industry of wind turbines.. even though some break down, i was told maybe ten a year across the country, the worst part of a wind turbine is the ladder on the inside that a technician has to climb to get to the top for maintenance.. it is over 250 feet to get up there.. I would put a turbine in my backyard before a coal mine.. so if these things fail, it’s because of age, human error or an act of god...
I think that scene number two was a Danish mill. That mill took some severe force but had to give up after all. I was working at the plant where they cut the steel from coils for the towers and where the bottom flange flange was cut with plasma burner. The reason for the mill malfunction was the brakes that failed allowing the mill to run free in very strong wind. the bottom flange should be 30 centimeters thick and the plasma burner cuts with a tolerance of 1,5 millimeter. All steel for the tower body is certified and stamped with highly approved quality control. The yield stress of the steel for the tower body should be 350 to 400, not sure after so many years. The steel was made in Sweden from the best material from the company SSAB Svensk Stål Aktie Bolag. The yield stress number stand for the strength and flexibility of the steel.
Modern wind turbines switch off during storms and have an integrated fire extinguishing system. In any case, a burning wind turbine is less of a problem than when a nuclear power plant explodes.
Hi, Jay Gee - Careful, my friend: the free use of irony and sarcasm can confuse TH-cam's more literal-minded viewers. Meanwhile... Yep, you're right to be outraged. It must have taken four guys two or three HOURS to clear up that mess. I mean they'd need a broom and a bucket; maybe even a shovel and a truck. And you can bet that the unfortunate bird (a vulture, I think) was disappointed not to have had its feathers coated in lovely black gunk before it got clobbered. Hey, if it WAS a vulture, do you think it was hanging around hoping to feed on birds killed by the turbine's blades? Now THAT would be ironic...
WIND TURBINE FAILURES: 1: Struck by lightening 2. A bid got hit by one of the blades (Only one that was the fault of the turbine) 3: An old, outdated design of a turbine collapsed 4: Someone forgot to turn one off during a storm 5: Same as #4, someone forgot to shut one down during high wind speeds Yup, all of these were definitely the fault of the wind turbine.
Top flight German turbine maker, Siemens booked a €223 million write down (ie loss) in 2014 due to the fact it had to replace bearings in a fleet of turbines that were less than 2 years old.
Is the point of this video to turn people off wind energy? #5 was clearly someone digging it up. #4, yeah, sometimes birds get killed but don't they also get killed from oil spills and polluted environments due to coal/oil?
I think the point of this video is to harness the power of clickbait to generate more views and comments. But to answer the title's question, I think wind power is not the best choice for the environment. They are expensive to build (with what kind of energy) and install (usually with diesel burning equipment, both to put into the ground but also to transport to the site) and require a lot of land which also isn't cheap. They are expensive to maintain because each turbine (and generator) is pretty high and only accessible by a ladder which eats up a lot of time. Also they are usually spread out over a large area which needs the maintenance people to drive around in gas or diesel burning trucks or boats to get to them. Furthermore, they have a relatively low lifespan before needing to be replaced with new turbines or generators which is manufactured and transported using fossil fuels. Lastly, it doesn't get more efficient with size or quantity like *every* *other* *form* *of* *power* *generation*. Still better than coal though.
@@TheXanderGrim 3rd gen nuclear: My comment to this: goverments still don't know what to to with the burned fuel rods. And fusion reactors please dream on... they can't even stabalize the plasma properly, so please don't just talk about nuclear power being nice. Atleast the waste which is produced by destroyed windmills is atleast somewhat better.
Alot cleaner than coal... yeah birds might get hit rarely but at least their not flying through clouds of smoke and smog. Most of the windmills in the video are old. New ones are made with gears that keep them from spinning too fast
your not right about the bird statistic the Fish and Game estimates 10,000 birds a year are killed by wind farms and the power companies that build these wind farms get free pass to kill bald eagles while us peons are fined and possibly jailed if we kill a bald eagle.
Melluns 07 accutally 331 tons of coal equals about 662,000 KWh but in a year a windmill produces about 6,000,000 KWh hypertextbook.com/facts/2006/LunChen.shtml www.ewea.org/wind-energy-basics/faq/
Of course they make enough and more than what was required to make them. If they didn't they'd be economically inviable and people would've realized that a while back.
Really?? How many mutilated birds does it take to equal the animals from the relatively few major spills? Also, the thousands of gallons of oil seep into the oceans naturally all the time. The ocean actually has organic life that breakdown and convert the natural petroleum into perfectly safe nature.
@@AudioAtmos, I love how you pretend that only the major spills which kill tens of thousands of animals from birds to fish is somehow better than wind turbines which are being changed all the time to reduce the number of birds killed. In fact Norway has shown that painting the blades black increases their visibility and reduces the number of birds that fly into them. And WTF makes you think that all the minor spills happening every day don't kill birds and everything else? And please stop excluding how much life dies from breathing in all the exhaust from burning oil and gas.
Julia Sjögren No, it doesen't. It is a video of windmills, dumbass. There is nothing to disprove Global Warming in it, despite what you and your fellow conspiretards want to believe.
You all dont get it. He said "in this video", not that all wind turbines are harmful, but just those in the video, wich ONLY in this video are actually harmful because they exploded and caught fire and left litter and what not. Read the comment and understand it before posting this crap.
......BUT What's the percentage of failures based on the total number of operating wind turbines? 1%? 2%? LESS? I see someone comparing the amount of pollution from these failed turbines as being more than that of "coal fired power plants last decades longer and don't emit the type of pollution these things do when they burn". Is this statement truly accurate? I think not. I think the sane person perhaps is buying into something that just doesn't exist, ie. "Clean Coal", of which there is NO SUCH THING, LOL! - it's COAL. Energy derived from mining then burning Coal is either dirty or extremely dirty.
1% is still an unacceptable rate of failure. Nuclear has the best ratio of cost-energy production-environmental impact. I agree with your fossil fuel argument though. Coal needs to go. A nuclear plant of the same cost will be many times cleaner and produce many times more energy.
+Darkaito Bruns Yet I bet over 95% of people protesting against their use no doubt still use them despite other options being available. Fossil fuels are an important component of our economy not just for power production. A modern economy needs to use some fossil fuels. And just because people don't have chains around their ankles anymore doesn't mean the country isn't full of slaves. That little greenie in his wind powered electric car (or his palm oil biofuel powered car) driving to work is a slave for kids, his car, his boss, his smartphone, his mortgage.
LOL, i think that is a heavy thing to call a slave, life choices like choosing to buy a car, have a kid or a phone, by that logic every human on this planet is a slave the CEOs in every country, and people living on social/welfare are just slaves to the government, that just screams something Hippies or people who are foil heads would say XD Also the people who use coal power plants for energy don't actually get to choose, you can not choose who you get your electricity from. When you live somewhere say like St. Louis, MO and you buy a house, you don't get to choose what electric company you go with like you do with Internet and Cable. Also the protesting is to move away from coal power plants that pump tons of CO2 into the air and move towards cleaner sources like Solar, Wind, Geo-thermal where possible. The reason companies don't change to the alternative is because it costs A LOT, and i mean A LOT of money to change over. They would rather pay for the costs of coal, witch is cheap than the upgrades to make alternatives possible. Though in the long run it would save money for the companies since they will not have to buy coal, and maintain the power plants as much. As an example, say you bought a house for 150,000 on a 30 year mortgage, about 805 a month, it you pay an extra $100 a month totaling $905 a month, you would be spending more upfront, but in the long run you would be saving just shy of $35,000 on interest In this example the $805 is the cost to run the plant, the $100 extra a month would be the cost to upgrade to alternatives, but the money saved on interest would represent how much they save when they no longer have to pay for limited sources like coal, coal miners, transporting coal ect.. PS. I fully realize that you will probably find some thing to nit pick about this and say how im wrong, people with the kinda mentality you shown always do :)
I saw #2 (1:44) on the TV Show "Destroyed in Seconds" It's failure was caused by a *faulty braking system* - that and it was essentially in a hurricane when the brakes failed. Fast wind speed, plus the failed braking system caused the turbine to spin far faster than it was ever designed to. it literally tore itself apart from the centrifugal force.
Exxon Valdez. Three Mile Island. Chernobyl, Fukushima......ETC. Five wind turbines OMG. Eyes, ears and mind need to be open. If some one says "no regrets" they are a lair or a fool. But thanks for the thoughts Jon.
My country has enough hydro power to power the country until it has about 1.5x the current population but they have to go and put ugly fucken wind mills that are huge. They cover the ranges and have ruined the landscape.
TMI was not as bad as people think . and the main issue is in this area we have a radon issue which causes thyroid cancer people do not take that into account Fukashima was a natural disaster it could happen anywhere it was stupid to build it in a subduction zone Exon was a bad captain who was drunk at the helm . Also you are ill informed on Gen 3 nuclear
"Environmental Friendly"? Did you mean ENVIRONMENTALLY friendly? Engineer my ass. Go back and finish high school. And you're telling me that hitting a bird broke the turbine? Looks like only the bird failed to me.
@@dannydior7830 I think that is just right xD Even if i am an environmental engaged guy.. (holy shit these things are way too hard to form to a sentence in english.. " environmental engaged guy" is that even right? "Umweltbewusster Befürworter für Tier- und Klimaschutz" is way easier xDD (maby not)
This is an electrical transformer fire, it is not* a "wind turbine fire." Wind turbines ARE environmentally friendly - it's the transformer in the nacel that has mineral oil in it (you can tell mineral oil fire because of the black smoke) which is why it's on fire as it can't cope with load flux and/or high heat under load. If it was insulated with a MIDEL ester fluid - a biodegradable fire safe fluid that self-extinguishes, high fire point and a high flash point - it would not burn. Even if the transformer exploded. It would instead merely need a repair/Tx replacement. Vestas specify their wind turbine transformers with MIDEL in case of this very eventuality. Zero Tx fire incidence. www.midel.com/case-studies/compact-high-power-transformer-solution/
#2 probably someone forgot to turn it off or it was a malfunction, they're not supposed to work during a storm with winds that exceed a certain nominal velocity.
The next state over from me has only a few hundred windmills. I talked to an ex co worker, who used to work on them, and he said they find thousands of birds dead every year from windmills. He said the blades are too thin and aerodynamic so they basically run so silent birds don't detect them.
@@marcushenness6437 I monitor several 2.2 mgw turbines near a very bird populated lake, in 5 years I have never found a dead bird, I have seen them playing in and around the blades as they run, eagles, hasks even buzzards, they don't seem to be bothered.
My thoughts are that this video must be paid for by the friendly folks at Exxon Mobile. Besides, compared to the catastrophic disasters related to fossil fuel. That dead bird doesn't even show on the radar. How many birds get squashed on windshields every day?
Your so busy playing tit for tat about your hatred for oil that you wouldn't give one second of thought as to how we could keep birds out of the blades. How about whistles on the blades to scare the birds? Or reflective tape on the blades to scare away the birds? Or maybe a decoy on top of the unit that might frighten the birds away? Or maybe we can just blame it on George Bush and do nothing meaningful to change it?
So, your video is not paid for by the oil industry ? Personally, I'm fine with alternative energy, and you seem to be trying to create a false narrative. O.O.O.O...wind power is so dangerous ! It's the art of saying something, without actually saying it.
Gerald Trudeau how many died from being coated with oil after deepwater horizon leaked in checked for months? not to mention all the marine life killed,or adversely affected. that spill will have repercussions for a long time.
vf12497439 so you prefer fossil fuel pollution? water poisoned in whole communities from fracking is good by you? millions of gallons of radioactive water released into the ocean from fukishima is ok? I'll take the wind turbines,and continued effort to keep birds safe through learned applied engineering,everytime thank you...
#5 neither of those two turbines failed. The 1st on got hit by lightning, which probably did no eletrical damage and very minor strucural damage, and the second one was clearly a controlled demolition. #4 Although it was sad for the Eagle that was just a rare acident, not a faliure of the turbine.
Damian Simmonds the killings of thousands of eagles, condors, falcons, geese, and other endangered species every year that’s ok because of the wind didn’t mean to hurt them right
Ho yes, then to save all these birds we will build nuclear power plants that can destroy everything on the planet in case of failure ... All solutions have disadvantages, we must choose those that are, in the end, the least dangerous ...
Not according to several research programs that studied bird strikes, only 2% of the bird population dies from wind generators. Less than hit by cars or trucks on the highways.
I think they're useful on small scale applications like for large farms or an industrial complex. Useful out in the open plains and high hills. They're clean, they have to be maintained, so that's providing jobs. But i'm not so sure they can ever replace nuclear power to provide the entire national demand for energy.
while they may not equal the amount of power produced by nuclear, they do help in offsetting the energy that needs to be generated by coal, gas, and nuclear at least, which means less waste and gasses
In 2019, wind turbines supplied 47% of the electricity used in Denmark. They are planning to increase this to over 80% by 2035. I think we tend to imagine these things as small scale if we don't have them in our own country, but part of the reason for that is propaganda from the traditional fuel industry who obviously have an interest in selling their product. However, the damage caused by (and the limited supply of) fossil fuels, mean traditional fuel will look less appetising in the long run. Nuclear energy is cleaner and supposedly safe, but we've seen what happens when that isn't the case - swathes of the country become uninhabitable.
And what should we be doing with all the nuclear waste? It doesn't break down for tens of thousands of years, yet we have to put it somewhere. Any solutions?
@@lashinka2574 First of all, the truly hazardous radiation takes a few decades to dissipate, not tens of thousands of years, that is an extreme exhaggeration. This constitutes only a small fraction of all waste. The less harmful waste takes longer but poses no significant threat. Second of all, the entire US at the moment produces about half an olympic swimming pool of nuclear waste a year, for the entire country. That is a miniscule amount if you compare that to the size of the US and its population. Furthermore, if we start using breeder reactors, for which the technology is now just about there, that amount would decrease by 9/10 because the waste can be almost fully reused. Storage has been figured out decades ago, too, there a plethora of safe options Lastly, compare this to the cataclysmic damage which fossil fuels are doing. We are going to see ludicrously profound impacts across the globe in the coming decades even if we stop emissions fully today. We are now emitting CO2 on a level higher than the average level which has caused at least 50 mass extinction events in the last 500 million years. At this rate, we will reach the peak CO2 concentration in the air during the worst of those events (think 97% of all life extinct) by the end of the century and we are now past the halfway point, with emissions still rising. There is no other option, we need to use nuclear because it is a thousand times less harmful than what we are doing now and we will otherwise never be able to make an impact on that, we don't have any alternatives, green energy does not have the energy density to be able to significantly replace fossil fuels enough to mitigate what's coming. It is either that or we'll see our societies and environment collapse before our very eyes and human population along with it, in this century. We must, there is no other option
These viseos are outdated. The first automobiles also crashed and exploded. Nevertheless we all own one these days. I work on offshore windfarm projects and have seen the prices drop to as close as 5,5 ct/kWh.The amount of work and polution to build one may be the same as an oil-rig, but once done there is hardly any polution going into the air. Windfarms may not be perfect. But having multiple sources of power availlable will make a country less dependent on fluctuating oil prices, wars, crisis and whatever. Oil will be gone one day anyway.
While I agree that we need alternate energy sources, this one is not nearly consistent enough to be a viable alternative. Turbines require something that sailing boats do, a steady stream of wind in going in the correct direction (sailing boats were also rendered obsolete by this). When the wind stops, so does the electricity. Hydro-electric energy is much more suitable for powering large areas consistently. The only drawbacks involve flooding and the fact that they need to be near rivers. Geothermal energy is another good example. Just because we will eventually need to convert to other energy sources doesn't mean we should use all of them. Some methods simply do not work well enough to sustain the needs of the masses, and wind turbines are one of them.
One is badly installed, one is badly designed (the one which did not stick under high wind), one is made of low quality materials (which crashed without an obvious reason). As for the bird, perhaps, they should use ultrasound to make birds stay away from mills.
A bird got killed by a wind turbine, people call it a reason to stop building them. How much animals die in accidents with cars, should we fucking stop driving cars now?🤷🏼♂️
120 a year gets locked and wait for service due to monitoring equipment detecting higher turbine resistance than normal parameters. There is NO fire. When your car is due for an oil change, does it "fail?" No, you get it serviced, and it gets back on the road.
Valdis Lācis for your pocket book maybe, the costs to produce a and transport a 150 foot mill is a waist of effort! It looses money day its built! Save the world my ass ! Save the world by all you liberals throwing your electronics away!
Engineering World I was thinking about the emergency brakes for them but it may of given the farm a brief power increase :). Still that's 1m worth of windmill down the drain.
wind turbines have extremely low environmental impact, even with fires and failures world wide it comes to less than 1%, that is good reliability plus no long term pollution unlike nuclear which has a poor reliability record and contamination that lasts thousands of years
The brains know you are right, this was just one small reaction to clean energy, and it is only going to escalate. we had the knowledge of battery operated vehicles, long ago. Man on the moon done basically with batteries, yet, the upgrading and cost have been kept high because of America's interest in the middle east and opec's control or leverage against the united states. Why, because oil made a lot of people rich AKA, the Bush family. And many more.
We don't k live in a perfect world. Lessons must be earned. Failure is a chance to learn. Over time and engineering the problems will be addressed. Then fixed . Are they good for our environment? Thats a ridicules question.
On the one had, 200'000 bird deaths a year caused by wind turbines.. On the other hand, an increase of 5 degrees centigrade by 2100 of which the last example of rapid temperature rise like that would be the End Permian event which is better known as 'the great dying' in which 96% of all life died.
There is an estimated 1.3-4 billion birds killed a year by cats. Are cats bad for the environment? Shall we order the extermination’s of fluffies everywhere? I heard there are no cats in America. Catchy little jingle.
@@benjaminmccarter4318 Did you even read what I said? I'm pointing at the fact human climate change will be the death of a lot more than 200'000 birds. Wind power is not a perfect system to use but it is so many magnitudes greater than causing higher global temperatures from burning fossil fuels or nuclear waste.
Love how the first clip was a turbine functioning exactly as intended and redirecting lightning through the lightning rods built into the blades. yet it's on a list of "failures". Do your research, the entire thing is rigged with built in, engineered lightning rods and is all grounded. And the second clip is unfortunate but does not happen very often. I work oil field and am around those turbines often and not once have I seen any dead birds killed by them. I know its true predators could have gotten to the birds after hitting the ground.
Yes a farm with 100 wind turbines and when one fails ... OMG we only have 99 left. When a Oil refinery catches fire or coal fire plant fails the WHOLE system is done for weeks
Or when Nuclear Plant explodes and almost irradiated half of Europe: Nah this was just human error, and as we all know, human errors don't happen twice
We need THORIUM power... Safe Efficient, Plentiful, and mothballed because it cant be used to make weapons :P Wind Solar Geothermal Hydro during the day and THORIUM at night.
If thorium reactors succeeds and delivers on most of its promises it will be the end of any large scale wind turbine or solar farms. Unless the endless "just 30 years away" that is Fusion actually arrives.
Failures? Ones a bird strike, ones installed wrong, ones hit but flying debris and a few are unclear. How did they lose a blade before failing. It's good technology but sometimes they are a target for critisism usually unfairly. If you throw something into the blades it's gonna fail.
So true. I didnt even comment cause they are acusing it being a not so good. And its really pissing me off. Like it was not one of these that killed thousands with the two atomic bomb
Steve Daly I bet the brake burned out because one them were on fire from my guess it went to fast for the brakes mean it slowed down but it burst into flames because of to much friction
A mill - broadly - is anything that produces some output. A flour mill produces flour, a textile mill produces fabric. By comparison, a locomotive engine is not a mill. "Engine" used to mean pretty much any complicated thingumabob - eg, Babbage's "analytical engine".
+kkknotcool Just thought id help clear this up. A turbine IS a machine FOR producing continuous power. It does not have to be producing continuous power. A turbine engine is still a turbine engine even when its not turned on.
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"are they environmentally friendly"? Really? Just because of a few high profile accidents this video questions the environmental safety of harvesting the energy of the wind?
i am friendly to u mom
_If they suck up all the wind we'll all run out of fresh air._
Hmmmmmmmmmm Kinda sounds like the argument vs nuclear power
@@reahs4815 it may sound similar but they are on completely different scales. A windmill as far as I know is always built in an isolated area to have most efficient access to wind power and only requires occasional maintenance so it is normally unmanned. If it started collapsing or exploding, it is extremely unlikely to affect anyone other then normal inconveniences such an accident would entail.
Having a catastrophic failure at a nuclear power plant would be exponentially more dangerous in comparison. The dedicated workforce normally in attendence at the factory would obviously be put at risk, but nearby buildings and facilities along with their occupants would be in just as much danger since the potential hazards are devastating.
Comparing the failure of a windmill to a nuclear power plant is like comparing a small car accident to a large passenger train derailment. One is simple and unlikely to hurt more then the people involved. The other could easily seriously maim or kill everyone in the immediate vicinity.
@@nopenope5203 But the problem is that people still think nuclear power plants are built exactly like those 50 years ago which is not the case.
If a modern nuclear plant would fail the worst thing that could happen would be that they had to restart the reactor.
That's why we should encourage usage of nuclear so we can make nuclear better, more efficient and cheaper to build and maintain but also most importantly rebuild/demolish/upgrade old reactors that do not fulfill modern safety standards.
I'm not saying that we should stop using wind or solar but we should not get rid of nuclear power or have less of it because the masses of misinformed people think they are nukes in fancy houses. If we get rid of nuclear what will replace it? Wind? solar? HA! they will never be able to reliably replace nuclear as long as we don't have a safe, economically viable, efficient and good way to store excess power during low demand and use the stored energy during high demand
mechanical things fail all the time...shit happens..
(Psst, common sense isn't very common anymore. Please be mindful of flat earth retards)
Mott theHoople cat
Exactly. We cannot create perfect things after all...
Forest gump reference
forrest who's named after Nathaniel Bedford Forrest ? Literally the founder of the KKK. Come on don't bring that democrat stuff around here.
2:16 someone installed wind turbines on Windows xp. It failed miserably
NO you IDIOT! It was t'other way round - stuxnet did the rest!!!!
Tradcast Someone installed an Apple Mac OS into that turbine.
don't you mean it crashed?
Blue screened
Windows XP is not enough, it needs Protegent.
Anything mechanical is prone to failure... except for 1996 Toyota Camrys.
my 99 frame rusted in half before i had any major failures internal failures lol
@@Manice08 i totalled mine....but it still ran good lol
yes!! you cant kill the 90s model camrys
Or 3310 nokias
300k miles...only thing I ever had to fix was the snapped axle I did in a snow bank and my alternator.
These are wind turbines, not windmills.
It's "Pat & Terry's". I've been there. Good looking chicks, too. They just don't "polish knobs".
The fuck?
See, "Pat" and "Terry" can be either a man or woman's name. Never seen the comedy: "It's Pat!" movie I take it..? You should have known.
As you mentioned, hand built 'Wind' Powered 'Mills' were actually cost effective and labor saving, grinding far more grain than possible by human hands. Wind electric energy generating Turbines should be so lucky.
Without the original Wind powered 'Lift' devices to pump out the polders before electrical turbine pumps, Holland would still be under water along it's coastal areas.
Without those pumps, water pipes would be big sellers, eh?
the first one was a demolition.
Yup. Everyone seemed pretty chill about it, even mimicking the honking warning horn.
FACE PLANT!
U meaned second
Well, the one labelled #5, anyway. Seems they had a short clip showing it working, then Boom! Down it comes. (I'm not including the damage being done in the title clip prior to that... #5 was the first of the series of 5 reviews.)
It's unfortunate they haven't all been demolished yet. :)
It definitely looked like a freakin simulated demolition! How can one lightning strike kill a windmill? I mean, it can but it can't make it fall over, so I take it as a yes that it was a simulated demolition
lack of proper maintenance is normally the cause of failure
Lack of failure (reliability) is normally caused by proper maintenance.
Michael Gillette
Michael Gillette. people don't take care there stuff
Looks like those last 2 had failed brakes. You have to be able to lock those down in too high winds
Michael Gillette no truer words ever spoken! keeps farm silo crews employed to this day!
I only clicked here because of "
Enviromental friendly?" sounds like making the argument that nuclear power isnt as good as coal, becuase theres been 3 large meltdown since we build nuclear reactors
*because
@@rolfpoelman3486 grammar Nazi
The First one wasn't a failure it was a contorlled destruction!
I know right! That first one was obviously not a failure! It was _entirely_ a controlled demolition!
Yeah, it was not a failure. It was a completely controlled dismantling!
Indeed! It clearly wasn’t a failure. But rather a controlled wrecking.
Here I will explain all of them 5 you said that one 4 dumbass bird not being smart at all I’m pretty sure if my dog knows not to to jump into the pool in my backyard the bird should know not to go there 3 again old and it was probably rusty 2 Mother Nature 1 show me the full clip please
Absolutely the first one was without a doubt a controlled destruction
We should quit planting trees because they might catch on fire someday.
or fall down in a storm and kill a person
And you will inhale only co2 n live rest of your life😂
@I Am Sekouu surely will 😀😀
Dumbest comment ever lmao!
Munji nescafe r/whoooosh
1:36, I don't think wind turbines are meant to turn into sonic.
Aurctic it went crazy bc the brakes weren't working right. I know that bc I build wind farms and wind turbines
The brakes most likely failed
carter masters if you worked at a wind farm you’d know that the blades also turn to prevent that from happening... it probably got hit by lightning and shorted a fuse causing the safety features to shut down
Yea the gear reduction system probably ran out of oil or something and failed to turn the speed down
daniel PC/ Xbox its called feathering, propeller planes do it too
Camera man: records
*something happens*
*Immediately points camera at the ground*
👌🏿
*Windmill accidentally kills 1 bird* "IS THIS ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY" *Oil spill happens killing thousands possibly millions of living organisms* "Hey man, it happens"
you do realize Oil is a natural substance right ......
@@TheXanderGrim I never claimed it wasn't? Oil spills kill thousand of birds, turtles, otters etc. and that's a fact. Oil being used for gas causes co2 pollution which will eventually melt the poles killing every animal up there as well. It will also cause sea levels to rise which will end up causing many humans to die as well for various reasons. It being a natural substance doesn't make it environmentally friendly lol.
Windmills kill thousand of big birds every year. Especially eagles and owls, plus bats. Windmills are not eco friendly at all. In average they just produce 1/3 of their capacity due to unstable wind conditions.
@@TheXanderGrim loool yes, uranium/mercury/cyanide etc. are also a natural substances but you would't want to have them in your drinking water would you
Leaky pipes aren't tho
Why do cars fail? Are they unreliable? Are they safe for the environment?
Post your answers down below in the comments section!
1. They're complex machines with unbelievable stresses on various parts.
2. Yes.
3. No.
lol, did you not understand his irony? really?
Peter literally bikes to work wherever he goes lol
when someone tells you 300 story and you suddenly ask, oh so this is how romeo met juliet . Wake up dumbo.
Johnny Miller राम राम
Oh look, I can almost see the oil spill that these windmills didn't create.
You can see all of the people being evacuated from the nearby community, right?
yeah, no.
They contain hundreds of gallons of motor what do you think is burning
Wow. 'Hundreds' of gallons?
Off of China, there is a single tanker that had a collision and fire. According to the BBC, it was "carrying 136,000 tonnes of ultra-light crude oil from Iran which generates a toxic underwater slick that would be invisible from the surface."
There is no comparison. Hundreds of gallons of oil or other fuel may be what a container ship (not a tanker, which holds much more) leaks inadvertently in the course of a week of operation. In 2012, a small cargo ship was described to have a 'minor' leak of 1500 gallons. A single oil tank car, the kind that have been derailing and exploding in past years, can hold over 34,000 gallons.
Fuskisima still has stopped pouring radio active water in to the pacific i take a bath in petrol over cesium anyday
Strategos Gaming actually the windmills by my house are leaking oil onto the fields
Before you guys comment, you should actually read his stance on Wind Power (article link in description.) He is not pro-fossil fuels, nor does he discredit Wind Power. He states that the current way we manage Wind Turbines is too much of a liability and we need to figure out how to prevent fires, which in term, prevents losing millions of dollars. He includes a graph and cites a solution to the fire problem involving lubricant, hypothesized by a trusted engineer. He even promotes wind power build kits. Please research before you comment.
The Centralia Pa. coal mine fire has been burning since 1962, with no way to put it out. It may burn for hundreds of years. I'll take a few minor wind turbine fires instead.
This is the original setting for the movie Silent Hill, Centrailia Penn.
It's been continually burning for nearly 60 years... Where do you figure 3-5 years it will be out? There is a coal seam fire in Australia that has been burning for an estimated 6000 years. The Centralia fire will continue to burn for a long, long time.
Why would it run out of air? I has been burning for years with enough air to keep it going for 60 years.
John Thaller there’s more than 60 years worth of oxygen on this planet...
John Thaller Like that response! But as I was told by a nice liberal lady with a very foul mouth"facts are racist".
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Exactly my thoughts xD Like windmills should be 100% reliable while everything in the industry fails sometimes, even things built using way older and well-rounded technologies... When it comes to windmills, they don't really have anything toxic inside to harm the environment. Just some garbage to collect, bring new parts and you're good to go. Things break, nothing new. In comparison to the amount of them all over the world, I'm sure we can call windmills pretty reliable. Prepaid propaganda video, nothing else.
You wanna go sober up and try that sentence again?
No. This ad brought to you by an internet troll, and you took the bait.
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Title is either clickbait or this video was only made for propaganda purposes. Wind turbines can have problems just like any other energy source but compared to coal they're clearly better for the environment.
Terry Melvin and the hills and mountains of Ireland 🇮🇪
it would take a crew of a half-dozen guys and a couple trucks maybe a week to pick up the pieces of these fails vs. whatever it costs to clean up 1 million barrels of oil in the ocean
How are they better for the environment when they dont produce enough revenue to sustain themselves? You can not rob Peter to pay Paul.
You are absolutely wrong as it takes coal oil and gas to manufacture and keep a wind generator running
It actually uses more coal oil and gas to build and install one then keep it running than it will ever be able to save over just using coal fired generators
In short you are the one spewing propaganda
Terry Melvin they're certainly less ugly than a coal mine! Less of an eyesore too.
"(Enviromental friendly?)" What are you exactly critical of here?
How do you think this compare to... when a oil field catches on fire? or a when a tanker sinks and leaks billions of gallons of crude into open sea?
oh my boy
These things are being put in the path of bird migration patterns they do not produce enough electricity to run big cities
@@RonP51 no they are not. and even if they do kill a dozen birds a year, coal plants however, kill millions (of human beings, not to mention wildlife) every year via air pollution.
the trade off is crystal clear.
Can you please enlighten us when ANY TANKER EVER leaked 'billions of gallons of crude' into the sea then
Oh...I though not. Stop exaggerating to make your point
@Exinety Icxee Actually you are , there is no taker that carries over 312,000MT
@Exinety Icxee Why respond then ....... Why the need for profanity , does one not have an verbose vocabulary from which to draw ?
Amazing that the title reads windmills and not wind turbines.
"a machine for producing continuous power in which a wheel or rotor, typically fitted with vanes, is made to revolve by a fast-moving flow of water, steam, gas, air, or other fluid."
I don't know if you have been around wind "Turbines" much but they are not continuous. They always seem to be shutting down because the wind is to slow or the wind is to fast or they just feel like it for all I know.
Be aware that "continuous" in that context means that (as long as there is wind) the power output is constant, unlike a petrol/diesel or steam engine that has some moments where the engine is coasting (not producing any power or consuming power to compress air) and the load runs off the flywheel.
It isn't related to the fact they aren't able to run because there isn't enough wind.
Aint it the truth. It cranks me up when I drive by these wind generating farms and see how many blades are not turning knowing that my tax money is subsidizing those non-turning tax drains.. The owners make money no matter if the blades are turning or not.
you are kidding right. you are why this country is failing
Solar is better. That's what we have.
well wind turbine goes up in flames mostly because of hydraulic failure it cannot control blades pitch any more, starts to spin to fast generator and gearbox overheat ant then fire lot of it
Thank you for your valuable input it was indeed informative.
I was wondering why there was so much fire and smoke, forgot about the hydraulics. (oil).
kawasaki whip two wind turbines in this video that are collective control can hold up to 30L of good stuff 40 if yaw is hydraulic powered
The fiberglass and other composites continue the combustion. Most people do not realize that the blades themselves are hollow fiberglass shells.
During runaways, they fling themselves for great distances... if remaining intact. Read about the maintenance crew on one tower trapped during the intense, deadly fire. Rescue, if even possible, is rare.
Blogen Geezer true keeping it light so it doesn't break from its own weight
Now let's take a look at what happens when a nuclear power plant fails...
hahahahhaa
Well that took about 2 minutes. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_and_radiation_accidents_by_death_toll#List_of_accidents
Coal at 15,000 deaths per trillion kWhrs produced, while nuclear is the least at zero. Wind energy kills a mere 100 people or so, the majority from falls during maintenance activities.
In England, there were 163 wind turbine accidents that killed 14 people in 2011. Wind produced about 15 billion kWhrs that year, so using a capacity factor of 25%, that translates to about 1,000 deaths per trillion kWhrs produced (the world produces 15 trillion kWhrs per year from all sources). - from www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2013/09/29/forget-eagle-deaths-wind-turbines-kill-humans/
So unless you care more about dirt than you do your fellow man you are wrong.
So, after all the statistics ... i would still prefer the windmill crashing to a nuclear power plant fail ... just my 2 cents
@@elmariotti934 You should look up Chernobyl, it wasnt very deadly compared to the good it had done, that is why i say if you choose wind you care more about dirt than human life. If your take is you care more about the environment it would be a better arguement.
Chernobyl is still a no go area for humans. There were also large cancer clusters where the radiactive cloud passed by - My wifes family lives in one the areas so I have personal experience. Choosing dirt over wind No entiendo?!
Anyone ever hit a bird with their car? If so you better park it.
You all actually questioning whether this is more environmentally friendly than fossil fuels? Taking this so seriously is messin wit ma vibe I'm just tryna watch windmills tear itself apart 🤣🤣🤣
@Sharkzer My grammar is bad intentionally; it's fun and funny. Yours? I cant imagine someone uses intentionally bad grammar to correct another's grammar. "Write english" ? English is an idea, one being self referential. You dont write English: you write in English. Can I not just make a comment for fun while I'm high?
😂 Yuh get nerded @skarkzer
@Sharkzer ...What? dude that was straight gibberish
Danceswithsloths ma nigga one of them internet trolls. thirst’n 💦 for sum attention, ain’t TH-cam without em
@Sharkzer jummijammi emppu :D
Ever see an oil well fire? These are sparklers by comparison.
yeah, these are better for the enviroment. things malfunction once in a while
I was about to say, at least these don't spill toxic fumes and radiation.
Wind turbines are polluting a lot more scenery than the fossil fuel business now, and are a menace to anything that flies, especially bats. I'm not a fracking apologist but that infrastructure is much smaller and sites can at least be restored when the oil or gas plays out. Wind turbines are meant to loom over landscapes indefinitely, including red-lit night skies, and it's no simple matter to take them down once they're up. cutt.us/blight_for_naught
Respect Silence
when you said polluting, I assumed you were talking about poisoning the natural world in some way, but that link is just about how wind turbines look ugly. Do they actually have a significant negative environmental impact, or is this really just about them feeling intrusive in landscapes?
A sleek white windmill looks a lot better than a black oil well tower that spews orange flame and dark plume once in a while when overflow valve opens.
0:42 Clearly the bird is Suicidal
They seem to be drawn to them. Bird kill is a serious issue. I think they can't figure out what they are, but, since they are in their territory, are looking for a way to chase them away.
The birds are drawn to the tall wind turbines because they are very tall and the birds think it would be a good place for a nest to be safe from critters on the ground. There is turbulence around the blades that create a vortex that pull the bird into the blade so it may seem like a dumb bird but the nesting is the bait and the blade it the death trap. I have a design that gives them a place to nest on top with no danger of getting hit by a blade.
What is that Design ? :O
So are people that support this hideous scar on the land. If you really think this is the way to save the earth from our energy addiction dream on.
There is a way to save the earth from peoples energy addiction. Remove all people from the planet :)
1:37 how to power the whole city with one turbine
1:53 or no
he gone hyper drive too far
For like 10 minutes nice
died trying
FBI OPEN UP
0:22 close to my house, it was taken down on purpose. There is a new one there, not exactly friendly for the environment but not a fail.
Thank you. I suspected that was the case.
There is almost no environmental impact from taking down one wind turbine, though. I'd think that plowing that field would be more environmentally damaging than the wind turbine takedown.
Number 5 didn't fall collapse on accident it was on intentional because they were removing it.
4 wasn't a fail either- the turbine was performing as intended, and 2 was done intentionally to determine the turbine's maximum stress limit.
Eugene Levin , why ?
Number 2 was not intentional it happend under a storm in Denmark where the brakes failed
Funny looking windmills.. Where do you get the flour?
Jamie Bales lol
Uh, WalMart, aisle 12? You should have known.
from the birds the blades mash up ......"MAN...it is tuff to be a bird"....look it up..funny Disney cartoon
Yamaha SR650 are the maxi pads for tt500 dirtbikers right next to that,or one aisle over?
Shots fired.
Says it all on the description...200,000 turbines operating. 117 catch fire. So that's 0.0585%. Wind turbines create free energy for millions of households. Yes. They are environmentally friendly.
free my ass
@@geeterdun5966
What I mean is that it doesn't require energy input to create power once they are in place. I understand that they aren't free to manufacture/install/maintain. Then again neither is a Nuclear Power plant.
free energy my ass. its called subsidies for wind energy. people in nearby cities that do not have turbines end up paying more so that people who live in cities with wind turbines can pay less. its nothing more than a tax break that somebody elses fits the bill for. just like when obama was handing out subsidies for people who buy hybrid cars. he just ended up making them pay it all back the next year. NOBODY gets anything for free when it involved the government.
Free energy? Wind power is one of the most expensive sources of electricity! And how are they environmentally friendly? Look at the bird kills, the noise and sight pollution, and all the pollution involved in the manufacture and maintenance of these monstrosities!
@@redmercury1159
See above for clarification of free energy. I'm not an idiot. I understand they aren't free to install. But wind turing a turbine creating electricity is free energy in the sense that it doesn't require fossil or nuclear input to make it work.
I'd love to see your evidence of government ramping up people's energy prices to lower others. Energy is expensive...wind energy less so. If you live in an area supplied by wind farms then you're energy will be priced lower. Fact. Move house...better still install solar.
Thanks for sharing, but, I must say, the title is a bit off, and the details are a bit lacking.
Not to see if wind tirbines are friendly
IG Midas - What are trying to say?
a BIT????????????????
@@Novusa Any wind turbine failure is environmentally safe compared to a hydro dam bursting, a steam boiler exploding and a nuclear power plant "incident"!
You know, I can show some videos of house failures and how deadly those are to the environment. But you would still need shelter
Their fail rate is hilariously low. I think its good for people to understand that they aren't infallible, but this video and headline are pretty much click bait.
triz313 they are still shit and worthless. Tree hugger propaganda.
@@scottday1988 I mean if science is propaganda... Look, I'm not going to take the jobs of oil workers and coal miners away. It's a finite resource, but it's still important. But as a country, and as a global community, we've got to find better sources of energy. There's a reason miners get black lung. There's a reason oil spills kill and some wells poison. You've got to be honest yourself about whether or not you would want to live next to a plant spewing pollution next to your house. I'm willing to bet you don't live anywhere near a place like that.
@@triz313 Look up LFTRs, and Kirk Sorenson.
badreality2 Thorium. I watched a few docs about it. Very intriguing.
triz313 not far from one coal gens don’t spew smoke like they used to. As an oil field worker I can vouch that we make as small a foot print as possible. We are conservationists we live here too. We go out of our way for wild life. I agree with the finding new energy sources. I just hate wind and solar. Wind turbines are ugly unsightly landscape spoiling hideous junk. Solar field are built in wet lands they don’t produce enough energy for the space they take up
This video was probably made by a petroleum engineer.
Sole Survivor So are most of the comments. They are increasingly out of work anyways :P
stephen dwyer That is soms excellent reasoning you got there!
Well of course,!
Politician claiming to be an engineer were the makers of this video
Marley Ottman dweee
WIND TURBINE FAILURES:
1: Struck by lightening
2. A bid got hit by one of the blades (Only one that was the fault of the turbine)
3: An old, outdated design of a turbine collapsed
4: Someone forgot to turn one off during a storm
5: Same as #4, someone forgot to shut one down during high wind speeds
Yup, all of these were definitely the fault of the wind turbine.
I kind of feel like that bird was an idiot....
that is what we call natural selection, mah boy
Same
agreed
Yes
A bird brain, if you will
lets ask what the gulf of mexico would rather take a second chance with, oil or wind
Oil of course.
mike jakob dsss
mike jakob think of the power it would bring in
absolutely, we can also ask fukishima and prypiat about nuclear or wind....
Jonathan Niay id be willing to bet they’ll pick wind
Turbins: " All we are is junk in the wind.....". Junk in the wind all we are is junk in the wind... oh oh oh, lol
Wow, thanks for posting the video of the windmills on fire. That just looks horrible, almost as horrible as fires I've seen at oil and gas wells or refineries. Or when I've seen an oil spill from a pipeline leak or offshore drilling site catch fire and leak for weeks and months.
Old post I know but I just saw this and that smoke of the wind turbine fire seemed about the same as an oil power plant while it fired up each (and every) morning at a place I used to live. So one time vs every morning.
@@DavidStrchld finally someone who knows that turbines dont emit smoke regularly lmfao
I just got into the industry of wind turbines.. even though some break down, i was told maybe ten a year across the country, the worst part of a wind turbine is the ladder on the inside that a technician has to climb to get to the top for maintenance.. it is over 250 feet to get up there.. I would put a turbine in my backyard before a coal mine.. so if these things fail, it’s because of age, human error or an act of god...
I think that scene number two was a Danish mill. That mill took some severe force but had to give up after all. I was working at the plant where they cut the steel from coils for the towers and where the bottom flange flange was cut with plasma burner. The reason for the mill malfunction was the brakes that failed allowing the mill to run free in very strong wind. the bottom flange should be 30 centimeters thick and the plasma burner cuts with a tolerance of 1,5 millimeter. All steel for the tower body is certified and stamped with highly approved quality control. The yield stress of the steel for the tower body should be 350 to 400, not sure after so many years. The steel was made in Sweden from the best material from the company SSAB Svensk Stål Aktie Bolag. The yield stress number stand for the strength and flexibility of the steel.
That was informative ! Thank you for your feedback !
And Happy New Yeah ;)
Too informative
Modern wind turbines switch off during storms and have an integrated fire extinguishing system. In any case, a burning wind turbine is less of a problem than when a nuclear power plant explodes.
They dont explode, that's only steam that causes an explosion, fusion reactors are safe entirely
They simulated the wind turbine to fall down on the 5th one, the storm didn't do anything to it except for making it wet and soggy
XxQw34TyM069xX Plutonium escapes with that steam
@@ronaldstaples5752 That was debunked too.
No power at all kills people. Face facts
The fossil fuel companies pay you for this video ! ?
Alfredo Valencia Are you an Orange??🤔
And if they are? It's called business.
Fossil fuel,as in dino fuel,pa leez
Jethro Tul Yeah get me sum of that good'ole Dinomordial soup to get the V8 purring lol.
Probably
OH WOW!!!! Look at the hundreds of miles of coastline ruined when the windmill explodes.
Very nice and warm
nuclear power plants clearly are better
Hi, Jay Gee - Careful, my friend: the free use of irony and sarcasm can confuse TH-cam's more literal-minded viewers. Meanwhile... Yep, you're right to be outraged. It must have taken four guys two or three HOURS to clear up that mess. I mean they'd need a broom and a bucket; maybe even a shovel and a truck.
And you can bet that the unfortunate bird (a vulture, I think) was disappointed not to have had its feathers coated in lovely black gunk before it got clobbered. Hey, if it WAS a vulture, do you think it was hanging around hoping to feed on birds killed by the turbine's blades? Now THAT would be ironic...
Complete disaster. Destroyed the ozone layer and now there's less oxygen on the earth 🤣
Hey look at the minimal destruction when a nuclear plant goes bam
From a channel called engineering world... lmfao
Bro his channel literally says "ew"
WIND TURBINE FAILURES:
1: Struck by lightening
2. A bid got hit by one of the blades (Only one that was the fault of the turbine)
3: An old, outdated design of a turbine collapsed
4: Someone forgot to turn one off during a storm
5: Same as #4, someone forgot to shut one down during high wind speeds
Yup, all of these were definitely the fault of the wind turbine.
Top flight German turbine maker, Siemens booked a €223 million write down (ie loss) in 2014 due to the fact it had to replace bearings in a fleet of turbines that were less than 2 years old.
Is the point of this video to turn people off wind energy? #5 was clearly someone digging it up. #4, yeah, sometimes birds get killed but don't they also get killed from oil spills and polluted environments due to coal/oil?
None get Killed by 3rd Gen Nuclear or the up coming Fusion reactors
Jeff hayes THIS !!!!!
I shoot em
I think the point of this video is to harness the power of clickbait to generate more views and comments.
But to answer the title's question, I think wind power is not the best choice for the environment. They are expensive to build (with what kind of energy) and install (usually with diesel burning equipment, both to put into the ground but also to transport to the site) and require a lot of land which also isn't cheap. They are expensive to maintain because each turbine (and generator) is pretty high and only accessible by a ladder which eats up a lot of time. Also they are usually spread out over a large area which needs the maintenance people to drive around in gas or diesel burning trucks or boats to get to them. Furthermore, they have a relatively low lifespan before needing to be replaced with new turbines or generators which is manufactured and transported using fossil fuels. Lastly, it doesn't get more efficient with size or quantity like *every* *other* *form* *of* *power* *generation*. Still better than coal though.
@@TheXanderGrim 3rd gen nuclear: My comment to this: goverments still don't know what to to with the burned fuel rods. And fusion reactors please dream on... they can't even stabalize the plasma properly, so please don't just talk about nuclear power being nice. Atleast the waste which is produced by destroyed windmills is atleast somewhat better.
Alot cleaner than coal... yeah birds might get hit rarely but at least their not flying through clouds of smoke and smog. Most of the windmills in the video are old. New ones are made with gears that keep them from spinning too fast
your not right about the bird statistic the Fish and Game estimates 10,000 birds a year are killed by wind farms and the power companies that build these wind farms get free pass to kill bald eagles while us peons are fined and possibly jailed if we kill a bald eagle.
KILLKING110 Do you know how much birds traffic kill every year? This ain't nothing in comparison.
It's cats that kill more birds than anything else. Then there is buildings that kill more birds than wind mills.
John Johno I think it's safe to say that there is a lot that kills more birds than windmills.
Nuclear is the best.
lack of maintenance & human error.
Thanks for your feedback !
Every coin has two sides, maybe we could learn it from these lesson, and find a better solution
Melluns 07 accutally 331 tons of coal equals about 662,000 KWh but in a year a windmill produces about 6,000,000 KWh
hypertextbook.com/facts/2006/LunChen.shtml
www.ewea.org/wind-energy-basics/faq/
yes, most of these look like they were just running in harsh conditions, wind turbine blades rotate so they can be toggled on and off.
Of course they make enough and more than what was required to make them. If they didn't they'd be economically inviable and people would've realized that a while back.
Compared to an oil spill? Yes they are environmentally friendly.
Oil comes from the ground genius
So do you fuckstick, now crawl back under your rock.
@@buzzsaw301, what kind of asinine answer is that?
Really?? How many mutilated birds does it take to equal the animals from the relatively few major spills? Also, the thousands of gallons of oil seep into the oceans naturally all the time. The ocean actually has organic life that breakdown and convert the natural petroleum into perfectly safe nature.
@@AudioAtmos, I love how you pretend that only the major spills which kill tens of thousands of animals from birds to fish is somehow better than wind turbines which are being changed all the time to reduce the number of birds killed. In fact Norway has shown that painting the blades black increases their visibility and reduces the number of birds that fly into them. And WTF makes you think that all the minor spills happening every day don't kill birds and everything else? And please stop excluding how much life dies from breathing in all the exhaust from burning oil and gas.
Use vertical axis wind turbines with bird screens.
use river and sea turbines and chop up fish instead, remember Nirvana said fish dont have any feelings :)
VAWTs are less efficient than HAWTs.
Gammareign no they don't they have nothing to keep the birds away. I know this bc my dad is building a wind farm
We should paint them green so they fit/blend in
Thomas Jones Then we can get more birdstrike vids!
Green half blue half. Perhaps a whistle at a pitch birds can hear but not humans.
This would be rather more effective.
Julia Sjögren No, it doesen't. It is a video of windmills, dumbass. There is nothing to disprove Global Warming in it, despite what you and your fellow conspiretards want to believe.
Thomas Jones BECAUSE THE SKY IS GREEN AND NOT BLUE AND WHITE!!!
2:08
When you are a wind turbine and you realise that you are on the Teletubbies' hill
this video is actually harmful to environment 😏
Wtf is ur problem
You all dont get it. He said "in this video", not that all wind turbines are harmful, but just those in the video, wich ONLY in this video are actually harmful because they exploded and caught fire and left litter and what not. Read the comment and understand it before posting this crap.
@Charlotte Dobrovits and what we gonna do ? build nuclear plant remember the chernobyl radiation
......BUT What's the percentage of failures based on the total number of operating wind turbines? 1%? 2%? LESS? I see someone comparing the amount of pollution from these failed turbines as being more than that of "coal fired power plants last decades longer and don't emit the type of pollution these things do when they burn". Is this statement truly accurate? I think not. I think the sane person perhaps is buying into something that just doesn't exist, ie. "Clean Coal", of which there is NO SUCH THING, LOL! - it's COAL. Energy derived from mining then burning Coal is either dirty or extremely dirty.
Ah yes the dirty evil fossil fuels that we all hate thanks to al gore. The stuff that built up the country.
1% is still an unacceptable rate of failure. Nuclear has the best ratio of cost-energy production-environmental impact. I agree with your fossil fuel argument though. Coal needs to go. A nuclear plant of the same cost will be many times cleaner and produce many times more energy.
@john johno Yep fossil fuels helped build this country and make it strong and independent, just like slavery did. but we dont keep that around lol
+Darkaito Bruns Yet I bet over 95% of people protesting against their use no doubt still use them despite other options being available. Fossil fuels are an important component of our economy not just for power production. A modern economy needs to use some fossil fuels.
And just because people don't have chains around their ankles anymore doesn't mean the country isn't full of slaves. That little greenie in his wind powered electric car (or his palm oil biofuel powered car) driving to work is a slave for kids, his car, his boss, his smartphone, his mortgage.
LOL, i think that is a heavy thing to call a slave, life choices like choosing to buy a car, have a kid or a phone, by that logic every human on this planet is a slave the CEOs in every country, and people living on social/welfare are just slaves to the government, that just screams something Hippies or people who are foil heads would say XD
Also the people who use coal power plants for energy don't actually get to choose, you can not choose who you get your electricity from. When you live somewhere say like St. Louis, MO and you buy a house, you don't get to choose what electric company you go with like you do with Internet and Cable. Also the protesting is to move away from coal power plants that pump tons of CO2 into the air and move towards cleaner sources like Solar, Wind, Geo-thermal where possible. The reason companies don't change to the alternative is because it costs A LOT, and i mean A LOT of money to change over.
They would rather pay for the costs of coal, witch is cheap than the upgrades to make alternatives possible. Though in the long run it would save money for the companies since they will not have to buy coal, and maintain the power plants as much.
As an example, say you bought a house for 150,000 on a 30 year mortgage, about 805 a month, it you pay an extra $100 a month totaling $905 a month, you would be spending more upfront, but in the long run you would be saving just shy of $35,000 on interest
In this example the $805 is the cost to run the plant, the $100 extra a month would be the cost to upgrade to alternatives, but the money saved on interest would represent how much they save when they no longer have to pay for limited sources like coal, coal miners, transporting coal ect..
PS. I fully realize that you will probably find some thing to nit pick about this and say how im wrong, people with the kinda mentality you shown always do :)
I saw #2 (1:44) on the TV Show "Destroyed in Seconds"
It's failure was caused by a *faulty braking system* - that and it was essentially in a hurricane when the brakes failed.
Fast wind speed, plus the failed braking system caused the turbine to spin far faster than it was ever designed to.
it literally tore itself apart from the centrifugal force.
That was quite informative. Thanks for the feedback !
million of automobile failures a year (Environmentally friendly?)
Nope. Some are quite the selective environmental activists.
The statistics of fatal car crashes do put gun death statistics to shame.
No these are not harmful..we cannot judge them by few incidents
I saw a wind turbine kill a dolphin. It was brutal.
Sure it wasn't a 'Flying Fish' ⚠ ☠ ♒ ✌
how can it kill a dolphin, it can't be on water -_-
@@CL-lk5kz it was a Japanese model
Link pls
C L th-cam.com/video/4ySwVDRKCns/w-d-xo.html
Are you sure?
Exxon Valdez. Three Mile Island. Chernobyl, Fukushima......ETC. Five wind turbines OMG.
Eyes, ears and mind need to be open. If some one says "no regrets" they are a lair or a fool. But thanks for the thoughts Jon.
My country has enough hydro power to power the country until it has about 1.5x the current population but they have to go and put ugly fucken wind mills that are huge. They cover the ranges and have ruined the landscape.
TMI was not as bad as people think . and the main issue is in this area we have a radon issue which causes thyroid cancer people do not take that into account Fukashima was a natural disaster it could happen anywhere it was stupid to build it in a subduction zone Exon was a bad captain who was drunk at the helm . Also you are ill informed on Gen 3 nuclear
Wind and solar are more deadly than nuclear. And we don’t get much electricity at all from petroleum, so why the mention of Exxon Valdez?
"Environmental Friendly"? Did you mean ENVIRONMENTALLY friendly? Engineer my ass. Go back and finish high school. And you're telling me that hitting a bird broke the turbine? Looks like only the bird failed to me.
Where were you able to see a bird breaking turbine??
Calm down its just a dumb video of wind turbines breaking you dont need to critique it
@@dannydior7830 I think that is just right xD Even if i am an environmental engaged guy.. (holy shit these things are way too hard to form to a sentence in english.. " environmental engaged guy" is that even right? "Umweltbewusster Befürworter für Tier- und Klimaschutz" is way easier xDD (maby not)
@@calvinsbrennholzverleih3588 I just dont care if grammar was wrong it was a good video
This is an electrical transformer fire, it is not* a "wind turbine fire."
Wind turbines ARE environmentally friendly - it's the transformer in the nacel that has mineral oil in it (you can tell mineral oil fire because of the black smoke) which is why it's on fire as it can't cope with load flux and/or high heat under load. If it was insulated with a MIDEL ester fluid - a biodegradable fire safe fluid that self-extinguishes, high fire point and a high flash point - it would not burn. Even if the transformer exploded. It would instead merely need a repair/Tx replacement.
Vestas specify their wind turbine transformers with MIDEL in case of this very eventuality. Zero Tx fire incidence. www.midel.com/case-studies/compact-high-power-transformer-solution/
I can't imagine how much power #4 was producing before it broke
I can't see how the 4th is a turbine fail. The 2nd is epic
#2 probably someone forgot to turn it off or it was a malfunction, they're not supposed to work during a storm with winds that exceed a certain nominal velocity.
Who even questions if windmills are environmentally friendly? Of course they are.
@Y O J I M B O 用心棒 people these days dude, fucking idiots
R.I.P Bird
Fuck that stupid bird !
The next state over from me has only a few hundred windmills. I talked to an ex co worker, who used to work on them, and he said they find thousands of birds dead every year from windmills. He said the blades are too thin and aerodynamic so they basically run so silent birds don't detect them.
@@marcushenness6437 I monitor several 2.2 mgw turbines near a very bird populated lake, in 5 years I have never found a dead bird, I have seen them playing in and around the blades as they run, eagles, hasks even buzzards, they don't seem to be bothered.
The eagle has landed.
Titanic: yea 😭😭😭😭😭 😢😢😢😢:(
I was gonna hide in the comments from the collapsing huge fans but everyone’s so salty I’d rather be a bird caught in a blade
Well it's for a good cause a least, right?
@@Scrod117 i forgot i even commented this what is this video
It's probably bearing overload mostly, they're going too fast for it to cope then heat gets into the system and into the housing.
A burning windmill: finally generates some useful energy.
My thoughts are that this video must be paid for by the friendly folks at Exxon Mobile.
Besides, compared to the catastrophic disasters related to fossil fuel. That dead bird doesn't even show on the radar. How many birds get squashed on windshields every day?
Your so busy playing tit for tat about your hatred for oil that you wouldn't give one second of thought as to how we could keep birds out of the blades. How about whistles on the blades to scare the birds? Or reflective tape on the blades to scare away the birds? Or maybe a decoy on top of the unit that might frighten the birds away? Or maybe we can just blame it on George Bush and do nothing meaningful to change it?
So, your video is not paid for by the oil industry ?
Personally, I'm fine with alternative energy, and you seem to be trying to create a false narrative.
O.O.O.O...wind power is so dangerous !
It's the art of saying something, without actually saying it.
Gerald Trudeau how many died from being coated with oil after deepwater horizon leaked in checked for months? not to mention all the marine life killed,or adversely affected. that spill will have repercussions for a long time.
vf12497439 so you prefer fossil fuel pollution? water poisoned in whole communities from fracking is good by you? millions of gallons of radioactive water released into the ocean from fukishima is ok? I'll take the wind turbines,and continued effort to keep birds safe through learned applied engineering,everytime thank you...
I think you misunderstood my position. This video seemed like a hit piece against wind power.
The sheer stupidity of linking mechanical failures to environmental impact renders you unqualified for discussion. Great videos btw
Precisely! Most of these failures happen because of bad maintenance or production faults.(Very rare btw) So it's humans again. 😂
Better then a nuclear disaster.
#5 neither of those two turbines failed. The 1st on got hit by lightning, which probably did no eletrical damage and very minor strucural damage, and the second one was clearly a controlled demolition.
#4 Although it was sad for the Eagle that was just a rare acident, not a faliure of the turbine.
Damian Simmonds the killings of thousands of eagles, condors, falcons, geese, and other endangered species every year that’s ok because of the wind didn’t mean to hurt them right
Ho yes, then to save all these birds we will build nuclear power plants that can destroy everything on the planet in case of failure ... All solutions have disadvantages, we must choose those that are, in the end, the least dangerous ...
Not according to several research programs that studied bird strikes, only 2% of the bird population dies from wind generators. Less than hit by cars or trucks on the highways.
That was a vulture
Bob Martin would you rather have the species go extinct due to external factors caused by conventional power plants?
I think they're useful on small scale applications like for large farms or an industrial complex. Useful out in the open plains and high hills. They're clean, they have to be maintained, so that's providing jobs. But i'm not so sure they can ever replace nuclear power to provide the entire national demand for energy.
That's a very interesting point you made there. Thanks for your feedback !
while they may not equal the amount of power produced by nuclear, they do help in offsetting the energy that needs to be generated by coal, gas, and nuclear at least, which means less waste and gasses
In 2019, wind turbines supplied 47% of the electricity used in Denmark. They are planning to increase this to over 80% by 2035. I think we tend to imagine these things as small scale if we don't have them in our own country, but part of the reason for that is propaganda from the traditional fuel industry who obviously have an interest in selling their product. However, the damage caused by (and the limited supply of) fossil fuels, mean traditional fuel will look less appetising in the long run. Nuclear energy is cleaner and supposedly safe, but we've seen what happens when that isn't the case - swathes of the country become uninhabitable.
And what should we be doing with all the nuclear waste? It doesn't break down for tens of thousands of years, yet we have to put it somewhere. Any solutions?
@@lashinka2574 First of all, the truly hazardous radiation takes a few decades to dissipate, not tens of thousands of years, that is an extreme exhaggeration. This constitutes only a small fraction of all waste. The less harmful waste takes longer but poses no significant threat. Second of all, the entire US at the moment produces about half an olympic swimming pool of nuclear waste a year, for the entire country. That is a miniscule amount if you compare that to the size of the US and its population. Furthermore, if we start using breeder reactors, for which the technology is now just about there, that amount would decrease by 9/10 because the waste can be almost fully reused. Storage has been figured out decades ago, too, there a plethora of safe options
Lastly, compare this to the cataclysmic damage which fossil fuels are doing. We are going to see ludicrously profound impacts across the globe in the coming decades even if we stop emissions fully today. We are now emitting CO2 on a level higher than the average level which has caused at least 50 mass extinction events in the last 500 million years. At this rate, we will reach the peak CO2 concentration in the air during the worst of those events (think 97% of all life extinct) by the end of the century and we are now past the halfway point, with emissions still rising. There is no other option, we need to use nuclear because it is a thousand times less harmful than what we are doing now and we will otherwise never be able to make an impact on that, we don't have any alternatives, green energy does not have the energy density to be able to significantly replace fossil fuels enough to mitigate what's coming. It is either that or we'll see our societies and environment collapse before our very eyes and human population along with it, in this century. We must, there is no other option
A bird flies into a wind turbine, killing itself, and the turbine "failed." Interesting twist.
Just look at the first one =) another failure
I felt bad for the bird 😞
John Smith - me too r.i.p 😞
These viseos are outdated. The first automobiles also crashed and exploded. Nevertheless we all own one these days.
I work on offshore windfarm projects and have seen the prices drop to as close as 5,5 ct/kWh.The amount of work and polution to build one may be the same as an oil-rig, but once done there is hardly any polution going into the air.
Windfarms may not be perfect. But having multiple sources of power availlable will make a country less dependent on fluctuating oil prices, wars, crisis and whatever.
Oil will be gone one day anyway.
That's a very interesting point you made there. Thanks for your feedback !
Finally a voice of reason in this bizarre comment section
While I agree that we need alternate energy sources, this one is not nearly consistent enough to be a viable alternative. Turbines require something that sailing boats do, a steady stream of wind in going in the correct direction (sailing boats were also rendered obsolete by this). When the wind stops, so does the electricity. Hydro-electric energy is much more suitable for powering large areas consistently. The only drawbacks involve flooding and the fact that they need to be near rivers. Geothermal energy is another good example. Just because we will eventually need to convert to other energy sources doesn't mean we should use all of them. Some methods simply do not work well enough to sustain the needs of the masses, and wind turbines are one of them.
Same with nuclear power! There have only been a handflu of bigger accidents with nuclear reactors and people are paranoid...
Oil can't go away. It is needed in the turbine. Each one uses hundreds of liters of oil to function properly.
One is badly installed, one is badly designed (the one which did not stick under high wind), one is made of low quality materials (which crashed without an obvious reason).
As for the bird, perhaps, they should use ultrasound to make birds stay away from mills.
A bird got killed by a wind turbine, people call it a reason to stop building them. How much animals die in accidents with cars, should we fucking stop driving cars now?🤷🏼♂️
No. What is harmful is humanity's immaturity, such as its greed, corruption, etc.
Engineering World. Do you freaking know how *RARE* These fails actualy happen???
Do not hate wind turbines! They are the good thing about the world!
Description says 120/year. That is nothing. :P
120 a year gets locked and wait for service due to monitoring equipment detecting higher turbine resistance than normal parameters. There is NO fire. When your car is due for an oil change, does it "fail?" No, you get it serviced, and it gets back on the road.
George Dang
So true dude
Valdis Lācis for your pocket book maybe, the costs to produce a and transport a 150 foot mill is a waist of effort! It looses money day its built! Save the world my ass ! Save the world by all you liberals throwing your electronics away!
They kill birds
1:41 MAN SOMEONE SLAM ON THE BRAKES FOR THAT ONE MY WORD :O
Looks like the mechanism which controls the speed of the windmill failed in this instance.
Engineering World I was thinking about the emergency brakes for them but it may of given the farm a brief power increase :). Still that's 1m worth of windmill down the drain.
kiki
wind turbines have extremely low environmental impact, even with fires and failures world wide it comes to less than 1%, that is good reliability plus no long term pollution unlike nuclear which has a poor reliability record and contamination that lasts thousands of years
The brains know you are right, this was just one small reaction to clean energy, and it is only going to escalate. we had the knowledge of battery operated vehicles, long ago. Man on the moon done basically with batteries, yet, the upgrading and cost have been kept high because of America's interest in the middle east and opec's control or leverage against the united states. Why, because oil made a lot of people rich AKA, the Bush family. And many more.
Friday:arrives
Me: 0:28
We don't k live in a perfect world. Lessons must be earned. Failure is a chance to learn. Over time and engineering the problems will be addressed. Then fixed . Are they good for our environment? Thats a ridicules question.
November 2016 presidential election returns.
IF human kill birds NP ,... if Wind Turbine kill OMG THIS IS SO BAD
On the one had, 200'000 bird deaths a year caused by wind turbines..
On the other hand, an increase of 5 degrees centigrade by 2100 of which the last example of rapid temperature rise like that would be the End Permian event which is better known as 'the great dying' in which 96% of all life died.
KRP Mills I have wind turbans on three sides of me. Still looking for a dead bird
There is an estimated 1.3-4 billion birds killed a year by cats. Are cats bad for the environment? Shall we order the extermination’s of fluffies everywhere? I heard there are no cats in America. Catchy little jingle.
@@benjaminmccarter4318 Did you even read what I said? I'm pointing at the fact human climate change will be the death of a lot more than 200'000 birds. Wind power is not a perfect system to use but it is so many magnitudes greater than causing higher global temperatures from burning fossil fuels or nuclear waste.
0:40
bird:going to the MOOOOOON
windmill:GOING TO HELLLLLLLLL
Love how the first clip was a turbine functioning exactly as intended and redirecting lightning through the lightning rods built into the blades. yet it's on a list of "failures". Do your research, the entire thing is rigged with built in, engineered lightning rods and is all grounded. And the second clip is unfortunate but does not happen very often. I work oil field and am around those turbines often and not once have I seen any dead birds killed by them. I know its true predators could have gotten to the birds after hitting the ground.
Jacob Blain bird kept flying around it too, birds fault, looked like he was committing suicide.
@@paullee7467 Yes, it is the bird's fault. Because it fully understands all the engineering, math, and angular velocities involved in a wind turbine.
2:29 this scene looks exactly in Windows XP 😂
1 was truck by lightning and 2 struck a bird. Those turbines did not fail.
Yes a farm with 100 wind turbines and when one fails ... OMG we only have 99 left.
When a Oil refinery catches fire or coal fire plant fails the WHOLE system is done for weeks
Or when Nuclear Plant explodes and almost irradiated half of Europe:
Nah this was just human error, and as we all know, human errors don't happen twice
We need THORIUM power... Safe Efficient, Plentiful, and mothballed because it cant be used to make weapons :P
Wind Solar Geothermal Hydro during the day and THORIUM at night.
Now that's what I'm talking about!
What the hell is thorium
(Edit) oh it’s more efficient fuel for nuclear plants.
Or battery storage?
If thorium reactors succeeds and delivers on most of its promises it will be the end of any large scale wind turbine or solar farms. Unless the endless "just 30 years away" that is Fusion actually arrives.
Well at least they are making energy without acid fumes!
Stupid bird won Darwin award. Natural selection at its finest.
why not do a review of oil wells that fail as a comparison
0:22 when you trust fall but you don’t get caught
Failures? Ones a bird strike, ones installed wrong, ones hit but flying debris and a few are unclear. How did they lose a blade before failing.
It's good technology but sometimes they are a target for critisism usually unfairly. If you throw something into the blades it's gonna fail.
So true. I didnt even comment cause they are acusing it being a not so good. And its really pissing me off. Like it was not one of these that killed thousands with the two atomic bomb
Steve Daly I bet the brake burned out because one them were on fire from my guess it went to fast for the brakes mean it slowed down but it burst into flames because of to much friction
Texas is experiencing rolling blackouts as wind turbines freeze in a winter storm.
I feel bad for those Texans, their wind turbines down there in the south aren't built for the cold like ours up here in SW Minnesota.
They aren't windmills. What are they "milling"?
It isn't producing continuous power either, so if we want to split hairs then it's not a turbine either.
birds. they mill birds.
milling them electrons
A mill - broadly - is anything that produces some output. A flour mill produces flour, a textile mill produces fabric. By comparison, a locomotive engine is not a mill. "Engine" used to mean pretty much any complicated thingumabob - eg, Babbage's "analytical engine".
+kkknotcool Just thought id help clear this up. A turbine IS a machine FOR producing continuous power. It does not have to be producing continuous power. A turbine engine is still a turbine engine even when its not turned on.