Been watching your videos for years and can't believe that the company I work for is getting a shout out and some spotlight from ya'll. I'm on the solar side but hell yeah. Get it Blattner
love the mining and dirt videos but this was a really cool video! always love learning about other jobsites and how crews are building the worlds future
I ran a Tb105 for many years! I can tell you one thing, a TB105 will certainly do a 100 yards an hour but 150 is pushing it. A pump on the other hand, a bigger one, will do 170 or 180 an hour full tilt. 50 yards an hour out of a pump is hilariously under estimated 😅
120 Yards per hours is pretty easy to get out of a pump, especially for a foundation like that where most of the placement is just dumping concrete with minimal finishing. A pump might even be able to do 150 Yards per hour if you can keep trucks backed up and feeding it.
@@andrewsmith1655 It's going to depend on the pump and what pump kit it's running. But the modern pumps with high output kits running oil to the rod side can usually push 170 an hour if it's a decent slump. Something like this is probably not any wetter than a 4" slump, so running a 5" hose you're probably going to push around 140 an hour.
Never knew Blattner was a Quanta Company. In Wyoming they put up a large transmission line and I know they were in New Mexico too. Quanta is a great company.
In Germany, a megawatt usually costs one million euros. If you calculate 3,500 megawatts through 900 wind turbines, you get just 3.8 MW and that's pretty little these days. For $11 billion, I would have expected a little more
There was two years of Geotechnical drilling/investigation by RRC Power & Energy (Austin, TX) leading to the design of those turbine foundations. There are many karsts around the project that have to be mitigated. Void assessment and grouting is an integral part before the foundation can be poured.
In Anchorage, Alaska, a 250MW gas power plant took 3 years to construct. SunZia will take 3 years for 3,500MW and provide transmission lines. I think this point to why 90%+ of new energy in the US is solar or wind..
Look out for the newly funded nuclear sector :D mostly referring to small scale reactors and micro reactors.. but great progress on passively safe reactors- and eventually plants! :)
Hello Aaron there is an error at the beginning of the video, You have for example Grand Coulee who is around 6.5GW of capacity who is an hydroelectric facility
@@tristenklein5940⬅️ you're a snowflake bitching about capitalism. This plant isn't being built to appease green activists, it's being built because it outcompetes fossil fuels in this location. Go ahead and cry conspiracy. I'm sure the plant designers will spare you a thought while they're making money hand over fist.
I built windmills for 5 years. It was fascinating putting them up but was quite the pain in the ass at times. I put at least 30 put in Iowa and 10 up in the dakotas.
I just discovered your channel, fun stuff! I’ve never understood how people can’t be as excited as I am when seeing massive undertakings such as this turbine farm!!! Ive always wondered though, why isn’t the surrounding area also a solar farm? To me it’s a matter of maximizing output. Then again, the local grid can only accept so many kilowatts. It would be an interesting to see the comparison, the difference in solar verses wind, generation ability of any given area. Bigger brains than mine determine the best outcome, based upon all the parameters presented. It would just be interesting. Knowledge Is Power!
@@davebrown4841 yeah so much coal and oil that running a 3.5GW coal plant at full output for 100 hours puts out more CO2 than building all 900 turbines in the park. if you go with a modern combined cycle gas turbine plant that outputs 3.5GW it takes 200 hours. and those numbers don't consider the CO2 released when building the coal/gas plant
@@davek9378 ah yes the old, tiny concentrations have no impact argument. The counter to which is the impact 100mg of caffeine has on 80kg (8x 10^7 mg) of human. So a concentration of 0.000125%. Or the lethal does of various opiates at even lower concentrations. Or the fact that goddamn Arrhenius got the impact of CO2 on the world average temperature right back in 1896.
Need to see them Turbines being lifted in 👍🏻 I'm surprised there no protection stone being laid over cables.... is it going to be under a high road way 🤷🏻♂️ AND was there even warning tape laid closer to surface 🤔🤔🤔
Thank god all the people who dislike clean energy are all the lazy losers of the world that don’t have any power to do more than just whine about progress, innovation and necessary action! Good for all these game changers doing the real work and making our country and world a better place, I look forward to seeing the next video like this on the next farm!! 🎉
Aaron, a little engineering homework; those are studs sticking out of the concrete and they are nuts not bolts that get tightened down. How come so may TH-cam narrators get things wrong?
0:22 - That's a lot - about twice the installed capacity of Hoover Dam generators. Only three nuclear power plants in the US have larger installed max power (but far greater production, of course - they work by night, too.)
Why don't they install solar panels around the unused land beneath the wind turbines? The grid tie is already there and the land is flat and ready to go.
And in 15-20 years at the end of their life ( or sooner ) they take the windmills down, but leave the rebar and concrete in the ground. You're trying to tell me this all makes sense FFS. £$?!&
... What on earth are you talking about? This plant isn't being built to satisfy some liberal activist-it's being built because it is more cost effective than building a coal-fired power plant at the same location. This is straight-up capitalism, my dude. Cry about it if you like. Personally, I'm just enjoying the badass engineering and talented people who build it.
BULLSHIT. The plants that failed in Texas were LNG. Two seconds of googling and you could check this. Stop believing what shithead politicians tell you and check for yourself
That's because everything built in Texas sucks! Texas itself sucks. Texas likes things that explode and catch on fire killing workers and forcing people to move out of their homes for miles around. Texas sucks and the people in Texas suck!!!
Direct hits from tornadoes will level pretty much any power station besides nuclear and hydropower, but it's absolutely ridiculous the sort of abuse these turbines can take. They'll shrug off 100+ mph winds like they're nothing. The same engineering that keeps turbine blades intact keeps the winds of commercial aircraft flexing at 600+mph. They're incredibly strong.
@@DanielIsaacs I'm not being sarcastic, Europe is about to enter another ice-age. I'm very serious. The gulf-stream is about to stop, ice will be here in as little as 10 years.
@@allon33 That's a possibility, but a change in the gulf stream would affect local climates, not global. the 90% of land not impacted by it will be warmer.
Only supplies less than 2% of our energy needs and only produces when the wind blows making it unreliable as it destroys the environment and isn’t recycled as fossil fuels are but plenty of politicians and their cronies are cashing in on billions of taxpayer dollars as they destroy every aspect of our lives and livelihood.
@@tristenklein5940Why spout demonstrable lies that can be debunked with a half second google search? 10.2% in 2022 alone. www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=427&t=3
@@JasonthePlumber3 million homes run without an ounce of smoke is useless 😂😂😂😂 YEAH KEEP ON DREAMIN BUBBY 😂🥴 have fun losing your investments since that’s the only fake reason to want fossils to stay around, money on the wrong side of the table!!!
What good is it if the electricity can't be stored & save it for another day . If you don't use it you loose it. That what I been told . I could be miss directed .
I know this may come as a shock, but engineers are not stupid. 🙄 They are aware that wind power only works when wind is blowing, and that solar power only works during the daytime. The turbines store surplus energy with battery banks and pumped storage hydropower. The surplus energy covers demand when wind is not blowing. If you think you may have been misdirected, why not check before making the point? It takes two seconds and you get to avoid looking foolish.
Have you never heard of batteries? How about rechargeable batteries? Before you get your panties in a bunch, I'm not saying it would be economical, just doable. I mean...11 BILLION?
@@bobwellman9717I bet they'll use pumped storage hydropower. For big stuff, it's often cheaper. 1) Build bigass pond/Small lake. 2) Put dam in the middle of it. 3) Use surplus wind power to pump up one side of the dam. 4) Generate hydropower with turbines in dam. Water = battery. Simple, very clever.
@@Dasycottus I was raised on the coast. For most of my life, I've been waiting for coastal regions to supply electricity using tide changes. Where I lived, there was close to 20 feet difference between low tide and high tide.
Aaron, which side are you on? Are you for Powder River Basin coal for electricity generation? Or those phony wind farms! Our country will always need base load electricity from coal. You will never have enough windmill and solar farms in the United States.
@@Dasycottus yeah right, do you even know what you're talking about???❓❓❓ I bid 4 & 5 million cubic yard projects in solid granite, and the entire project has to be blasted. We blast at least twice a week on each project, but often times we find ourselves having to blast 3 or 4 times a week. I don't believe you've actually ever seen a real rock project in your entire life. 🤦👎
I wasn't aware that the building materials for clean energy infrastructure magically teleported themselves to the surface of the earth. Mines and quarries aren't going anywhere. @@Control-Alt-Delete619
This project are born to doom from the start, it will never pay for it self in 30 years.....not with out a HUGE hike/spike in energy costs !!! and then we have to rebuild it or replace it, and this so called GREEN energy is not so GREEN to start, it would be smarter to build nuke power station.- as long as all goes well then it is a better choice , way better !!! But we just have to learn by our mistakes, like all the time !!!.....simple solution is to "think" before making a move, work smart not hard !!! TH
HAH! Not even close. There are thousands of working pieces that were not even touched on. Before the project can even start there’s hundreds of surveys done for: Geotechnical (the people who actually design the foundations) Avian (bird studies), Aviation, Environmental & Hydrological, Archaeological & Cultural, Civil (the terrain isn’t easy - most the project is in the mesas), and so much more.
Disappointed they didn’t take you to the civil side of things. The roads and pad building on this project is insane. The concrete and collection lines are kinda 🥱
Love this video. I've always believed we need multiple sources of power in a future proof electricity grid. If your energy is green you can smelt steel, run your server farm, or your factories, and no-one can complain!
Steel melting Arc furnaces. Use about 150 MW. The larger wind turbines put out 18 megawatts each. So you would need 10+ turbines just to run the plant. That's a lot of power. Look up how much power the new Amazon data center requires. More than the local nuclear power plant total output! What I'm getting at is the resources required are vast and expensive and less reliable than what we currently have. Politicians are rushing all of this just like evs and they turned out to be quite the disaster
what if we have been using the wrong model of wind turbines? what about this new model : a vertical axis wind turbine (spinning like a carousel) this wind turbine would look exactly like a tree, I call it : e-tree, the trunk of the e-tree is brown, the spinning sails (blades) are green, and finally attached to the trunk of the e-tree are features of : wifi/mobile network, light and power outlet, to charge a car for example
$11 billion for 3.5 GW of intermitent output? Does not make much economic sense. But what really doesn't make sense is - 408 THOUSAND metric tons of steel for the foundations. Someone on your team needs to be fired for incompetency.
That is insane that there is no duct for that cable 😂 was on an £24bn off shore windfarm project at the land fall end here in Scotland (Nexans Norwegian company) and the run was 19 miles to a sub station and all cables were ducted ti the high heavens yi can never predict plant traffic on remote land so having cables in the ground like that is just fucking Insane
Très bon reportage. Des explications claires (plus des valeurs métriques) sans superflu, une musique bien dosée et des images impeccables. Du bon boulot ! Je me réjouis de voir la suite...😎 ** Very good report. Clear explanations (plus metric values) without superfluity, well-balanced music and impeccable images. Good job! I'm looking forward to seeing what happens next...😎
WHY do the people who make these excellent videos , insist on the damned irritating music ? It detracts considerably from the enjoyment of hearing about the data. First class video !
1 cubic yard of concrete requires 3GJ of energy. Let's say they need 400 cubic yards, so that's 1200GJ. A wind turbine generates, on average, 1MW. This returns the energy cost of the concrete in 1200GJ/1MW=1.2e6s, which is approx. 14 days. All in wind turbines in this range are said to be energy neutral in five months. Not a problem, but then... there are always chickens who can't do math. ;-)
Really clean energy not every time one of those motors let’s go there’s 6000 gallons of oil all over the ground not counting how many birds they kill a year. But hey ole slow joe says that’s the way to go
You realize they built this because the wind plant economics beat fossil fuels here, right? They didn't build this to make liberals happy. They built it to *make money*. This isn't activism. It's capitalism.
Or... you could have built one 1GW nuclear power plant that would have never come online because the company would have bankrupted halfway through the job. ;-)
Massive waste of money. The only ones who will benefit will be the Chinese and those who take their cut of the $11 billions. 14,000 abandoned windmill farms across America now. Luckily, we managed to stop 90 of those monsters from being put on our beautiful mountains here where I live.
please for the love of god do the math before spouting crap like this. 324m3 of concrete is some 132.8 tons of CO2. the steel in the foundation is another 13 tons of CO2. so 900 turbines is 131200 tons of CO2. a modern hard coal plant is at 742g CO2/kWh. So building this windpark puts out as much CO2 as generating 176.8GWh of electricity with a coal plant. or in other words this thing breaks even with an already existing 3.5GW coal plant 100 hours after being switched on assuming a capacity factor of 0.5 if you compare against a 3.5GW gas plant break even is after 150-200 hours.
Been watching your videos for years and can't believe that the company I work for is getting a shout out and some spotlight from ya'll. I'm on the solar side but hell yeah. Get it Blattner
Why not plan gir beams connecting the pillars to hold solar panels?
love the mining and dirt videos but this was a really cool video! always love learning about other jobsites and how crews are building the worlds future
Hopefully you can get a video of them lifting and placing the columns
I ran a Tb105 for many years! I can tell you one thing, a TB105 will certainly do a 100 yards an hour but 150 is pushing it. A pump on the other hand, a bigger one, will do 170 or 180 an hour full tilt. 50 yards an hour out of a pump is hilariously under estimated 😅
120 Yards per hours is pretty easy to get out of a pump, especially for a foundation like that where most of the placement is just dumping concrete with minimal finishing. A pump might even be able to do 150 Yards per hour if you can keep trucks backed up and feeding it.
@@andrewsmith1655 It's going to depend on the pump and what pump kit it's running. But the modern pumps with high output kits running oil to the rod side can usually push 170 an hour if it's a decent slump. Something like this is probably not any wetter than a 4" slump, so running a 5" hose you're probably going to push around 140 an hour.
Never knew Blattner was a Quanta Company. In Wyoming they put up a large transmission line and I know they were in New Mexico too. Quanta is a great company.
Where at in Wyoming?
In Germany, a megawatt usually costs one million euros. If you calculate 3,500 megawatts through 900 wind turbines, you get just 3.8 MW and that's pretty little these days. For $11 billion, I would have expected a little more
You're right I think there's something fishy going on, it's costing $4.5 million dollars per MW which is a lot
There was two years of Geotechnical drilling/investigation by RRC Power & Energy (Austin, TX) leading to the design of those turbine foundations.
There are many karsts around the project that have to be mitigated. Void assessment and grouting is an integral part before the foundation can be poured.
Been working this job for 9 months producing all the aggregate, pretty neat town outta come see how we are making sand
In Anchorage, Alaska, a 250MW gas power plant took 3 years to construct. SunZia will take 3 years for 3,500MW and provide transmission lines. I think this point to why 90%+ of new energy in the US is solar or wind..
Look out for the newly funded nuclear sector :D mostly referring to small scale reactors and micro reactors.. but great progress on passively safe reactors- and eventually plants! :)
It's just a shame that all those tax dollars are wasted on inefficient and ineffective power generation schemes like wind and solar.
@@michaelputnam2532 Did you hit your head. 90% of all new energy in America is renewable.
@@MM-sf3rl Yup. Dollars going to the most cost efficient option
@@michaelputnam2532 So inefficient that billions are made out of it. You should take your head out of the ground.
Hello Aaron there is an error at the beginning of the video, You have for example Grand Coulee who is around 6.5GW of capacity who is an hydroelectric facility
Ha! Made it here before any idiots were complaining about green energy 💪
Only Serfs believe everything these radical politicians say and push even when it is destroying every aspect of their lives and livelihoods!👆👆
CRY ME A RIVER
You mean individuals with common sense and believes in liberty and freedom not political tyranny and serfdom! Do your research on CC and GE.
@@tristenklein5940⬅️ you're a snowflake bitching about capitalism. This plant isn't being built to appease green activists, it's being built because it outcompetes fossil fuels in this location.
Go ahead and cry conspiracy. I'm sure the plant designers will spare you a thought while they're making money hand over fist.
Buncha of tree hugers
add some pumps and a dam, then you have stored power for less windy times or when the base load needs a boost, well done team
I built windmills for 5 years. It was fascinating putting them up but was quite the pain in the ass at times. I put at least 30 put in Iowa and 10 up in the dakotas.
When you go back for the assembly, please make it at least 25 minutes. We will salute you sir. 👍🤙
Renewable energy is the future, and projects like SunZia are leading the way. The scale and ambition of this project are truly impressive.🔋
nice vide thanks for posting.😊😊👍👍
Looks Great in a desert. Not in my Local Forest!
Please do some crawler crane stuff!
Always so good!
I just discovered your channel, fun stuff!
I’ve never understood how people can’t be as excited as I am when seeing massive undertakings such as this turbine farm!!!
Ive always wondered though, why isn’t the surrounding area also a solar farm?
To me it’s a matter of maximizing output. Then again, the local grid can only accept so many kilowatts. It would be an interesting to see the comparison, the difference in solar verses wind, generation ability of any given area. Bigger brains than mine determine the best outcome, based upon all the parameters presented. It would just be interesting.
Knowledge Is Power!
The way he says Turbine
At least he didn't call it a wind mill, lol
Thanks for showing us this. That's a new spind on dirt also. Maybe next time you can show about solar farms.
Is that the cable or the HDPE ducts that it will be placed in?
looks like a plastic conduit that they can pull the fiber through later
Cool stuff I thought when you were in Australia not long ago, you would have checked out the wind farms getting built everywhere
How many steel piles (and how deep) below the concrete pedestal?
0 steel piles. the block of concrete, the steel skeleton of which can be seen at 1:19, is all that's needed.
Very cool
I am interested to know why the 144 bolts were left hand thread.
How far do they have to truck all the aggregate, concrete and sand to the batch plant.
This is " GREEN ENERGY " but it takes lots of coal and oil to produce. 😂😂😂😂😂
@@davebrown4841 yeah so much coal and oil that running a 3.5GW coal plant at full output for 100 hours puts out more CO2 than building all 900 turbines in the park.
if you go with a modern combined cycle gas turbine plant that outputs 3.5GW it takes 200 hours.
and those numbers don't consider the CO2 released when building the coal/gas plant
@@anonym3017my trees love CO2! CO2 makes up 0.039% of our atmosphere.
@@davek9378 ah yes the old, tiny concentrations have no impact argument.
The counter to which is the impact 100mg of caffeine has on 80kg (8x 10^7 mg) of human. So a concentration of 0.000125%.
Or the lethal does of various opiates at even lower concentrations.
Or the fact that goddamn Arrhenius got the impact of CO2 on the world average temperature right back in 1896.
Need to see them Turbines being lifted in 👍🏻 I'm surprised there no protection stone being laid over cables.... is it going to be under a high road way 🤷🏻♂️ AND was there even warning tape laid closer to surface 🤔🤔🤔
My local concrete company has a belt installed on the 10 yd. truck, much smaller though.
No one is Building Large VAWTs Yet.
I Wonder Why ?.
Good Video.
Great project! Love to see more solar and wind!,
Say combine
Say turbine
Say wind turbine
Thank god all the people who dislike clean energy are all the lazy losers of the world that don’t have any power to do more than just whine about progress, innovation and necessary action! Good for all these game changers doing the real work and making our country and world a better place, I look forward to seeing the next video like this on the next farm!! 🎉
There called Anchor Bolts
Aaron, a little engineering homework; those are studs sticking out of the concrete and they are nuts not bolts that get tightened down. How come so may TH-cam narrators get things wrong?
4:36
i see youve entered west texas , get out now, i was almost certain then i seen the buildings from midland "tall City" and i knew then
The old lie ?
0:22 - That's a lot - about twice the installed capacity of Hoover Dam generators. Only three nuclear power plants in the US have larger installed max power (but far greater production, of course - they work by night, too.)
Why don't they install solar panels around the unused land beneath the wind turbines? The grid tie is already there and the land is flat and ready to go.
Because they need big equipement near for when maintenance is needed
"wind turban"
What’s the bird kill per hour rate?
There's always one 😅
Hopefully 2-3 an hour! Be fun to see then get killed mid flight 😂
Turbines do kill many birds of prey. I've seen it happen because I've serviced wind turbines. Nuclear energy is the way to go
Music👎.
And in 15-20 years at the end of their life ( or sooner ) they take the windmills down, but leave the rebar and concrete in the ground. You're trying to tell me this all makes sense FFS. £$?!&
You know it's possible to reuse the foundation for a new turbine? It's called repowering.
They need to paint the blades so they will deter bird strikes.
Each turbine foundation takes 483 tons of steel and 580 cu yards of concrete.
Also, get rid of your pet cat.
Another subsidy farm going up.
Your tax dollars at waste for the power system of a Third World country.
Warren for real what are you talking about? You have too much beer again there bub?
3,500 Megawatts...when the wind is blowing.
When the wind is not blowing the sun is shining. It's all good. ;-)
The wind does push on them non stop, until the wind stops. We could have had 20 to 30 new nuclear power plants, which are very safe.
You just proved you are an uneducated moron
Thread nuts, not bolts come on guy🤫🤫
what exactly is "renewable" about solar modules and wind mills? that stuff wears out and gets dumped & replaced just like EVs.
Get educated moron
The fuel is renewable and free. There will always be wind and sun light. Oil and coal’s eventually will be all consumed.
Hey oil and gas are renewable...Just wait a few million years!😮
Insane amount of CO2 just in the foundation
Nobody is claiming that wind turbine assembly is a zero-emission process. Cope.
How much CO2 do you think is produced making a new coal fired power plant?
What a massive waste of money and time.
... What on earth are you talking about?
This plant isn't being built to satisfy some liberal activist-it's being built because it is more cost effective than building a coal-fired power plant at the same location. This is straight-up capitalism, my dude.
Cry about it if you like. Personally, I'm just enjoying the badass engineering and talented people who build it.
Cope
how are the "green" "sustainable" carbon epoxy blades recycled?
You can research that on the exact same internet you asked that question on.
Approximately 95% of the blade material can currently be recycled.
Turbine blade recycling is a 5 billion dollar industry. Look it up.
This is one of the most useless type of energy producers that has ever been done. We had a freeze in Texas and none of them worked.
BULLSHIT. The plants that failed in Texas were LNG.
Two seconds of googling and you could check this. Stop believing what shithead politicians tell you and check for yourself
they are working fine here in the winters in the midwest.
That's because everything built in Texas sucks! Texas itself sucks. Texas likes things that explode and catch on fire killing workers and forcing people to move out of their homes for miles around. Texas sucks and the people in Texas suck!!!
You mean the freeze where 25% of natural gas plants shut down?
LIAR
No match for a tornado tho 😅
Neither are all those wood and cardboard houses but that doesnt seem to matter in the US
Direct hits from tornadoes will level pretty much any power station besides nuclear and hydropower, but it's absolutely ridiculous the sort of abuse these turbines can take. They'll shrug off 100+ mph winds like they're nothing.
The same engineering that keeps turbine blades intact keeps the winds of commercial aircraft flexing at 600+mph. They're incredibly strong.
Tac credits makes these projects financially viable.
This project is privately funded and expected to make significant profits. Why are you lying about something so easy to disprove?
the earth is cooling not heating, we need to build more coal power stations, like yesterday
Hahahaha! Good one! Should include the /s tag so ppl know you're being sarcastic, and aren't actually severely misinformed.
@@DanielIsaacs I'm not being sarcastic, Europe is about to enter another ice-age. I'm very serious.
The gulf-stream is about to stop, ice will be here in as little as 10 years.
@@allon33 Have you been garnishing your food with lead paint chips?
@@Dasycottus Personal attacks, are not as good as having the facts. 😎
@@allon33 That's a possibility, but a change in the gulf stream would affect local climates, not global. the 90% of land not impacted by it will be warmer.
Wind power is useless
Only supplies less than 2% of our energy needs and only produces when the wind blows making it unreliable as it destroys the environment and isn’t recycled as fossil fuels are but plenty of politicians and their cronies are cashing in on billions of taxpayer dollars as they destroy every aspect of our lives and livelihood.
"This will power 3 million homes" (but jason the plumber says NO)
@@tristenklein5940Why spout demonstrable lies that can be debunked with a half second google search?
10.2% in 2022 alone.
www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=427&t=3
@@MADEINNSW That's correct 👍🏼
@@JasonthePlumber3 million homes run without an ounce of smoke is useless 😂😂😂😂 YEAH KEEP ON DREAMIN BUBBY 😂🥴 have fun losing your investments since that’s the only fake reason to want fossils to stay around, money on the wrong side of the table!!!
What good is it if the electricity can't be stored & save it for another day . If you don't use it you loose it. That what I been told . I could be miss directed .
I know this may come as a shock, but engineers are not stupid. 🙄
They are aware that wind power only works when wind is blowing, and that solar power only works during the daytime.
The turbines store surplus energy with battery banks and pumped storage hydropower. The surplus energy covers demand when wind is not blowing.
If you think you may have been misdirected, why not check before making the point? It takes two seconds and you get to avoid looking foolish.
Have you never heard of batteries? How about rechargeable batteries? Before you get your panties in a bunch, I'm not saying it would be economical, just doable. I mean...11 BILLION?
@@bobwellman9717I bet they'll use pumped storage hydropower. For big stuff, it's often cheaper.
1) Build bigass pond/Small lake.
2) Put dam in the middle of it.
3) Use surplus wind power to pump up one side of the dam.
4) Generate hydropower with turbines in dam.
Water = battery. Simple, very clever.
@@Dasycottus I was raised on the coast. For most of my life, I've been waiting for coastal regions to supply electricity using tide changes. Where I lived, there was close to 20 feet difference between low tide and high tide.
Aaron, which side are you on? Are you for Powder River Basin coal for electricity generation? Or those phony wind farms! Our country will always need base load electricity from coal. You will never have enough windmill and solar farms in the United States.
Who said anything about completely replacing fossil fuels? Calm down, Jesus
I think he only says nice things about coal when he's reporting on coal mining. It would make sense that he's reciting talking points
@@Dasycottus Then tell me why the OPEC needs to exist. (yes, petrol dollar and all that, but still)
They are steal studs and nuts thread on them. Not pieces of steal with thread that get bolted. 🤦🏼♂️
Blattner used to bid large scale rock projects, and now all they dip their hands in is renewable energy. 🪨🤦👎🍻🇺🇲
... You're aware that renewable energy infrastructure also requires large-scale rock projects, right? 🤣
@@Dasycottus yeah right, do you even know what you're talking about???❓❓❓ I bid 4 & 5 million cubic yard projects in solid granite, and the entire project has to be blasted. We blast at least twice a week on each project, but often times we find ourselves having to blast 3 or 4 times a week. I don't believe you've actually ever seen a real rock project in your entire life. 🤦👎
I wasn't aware that the building materials for clean energy infrastructure magically teleported themselves to the surface of the earth.
Mines and quarries aren't going anywhere.
@@Control-Alt-Delete619
Aaron, how deep down do they build the foundations?
the steel structure, once filled in with concrete, visible at 1:19 is the entire foundation. there are no piles required.
This project are born to doom from the start, it will never pay for it self in 30 years.....not with out a HUGE hike/spike in energy costs !!! and then we have to rebuild it or replace it, and this so called GREEN energy is not so GREEN to start, it would be smarter to build nuke power station.- as long as all goes well then it is a better choice , way better !!! But we just have to learn by our mistakes, like all the time !!!.....simple solution is to "think" before making a move, work smart not hard !!! TH
Democrat fools
wow. you really did try to get all the aspects of this project. I could just watch that trenching machine for dayzzzzzz
HAH! Not even close. There are thousands of working pieces that were not even touched on.
Before the project can even start there’s hundreds of surveys done for: Geotechnical (the people who actually design the foundations) Avian (bird studies), Aviation, Environmental & Hydrological, Archaeological & Cultural, Civil (the terrain isn’t easy - most the project is in the mesas), and so much more.
Disappointed they didn’t take you to the civil side of things. The roads and pad building on this project is insane. The concrete and collection lines are kinda 🥱
Love this video. I've always believed we need multiple sources of power in a future proof electricity grid. If your energy is green you can smelt steel, run your server farm, or your factories, and no-one can complain!
Steel melting Arc furnaces. Use about 150 MW. The larger wind turbines put out 18 megawatts each. So you would need 10+ turbines just to run the plant.
That's a lot of power.
Look up how much power the new Amazon data center requires. More than the local nuclear power plant total output!
What I'm getting at is the resources required are vast and expensive and less reliable than what we currently have. Politicians are rushing all of this just like evs and they turned out to be quite the disaster
what if we have been using the wrong model of wind turbines?
what about this new model :
a vertical axis wind turbine (spinning like a carousel)
this wind turbine would look exactly like a tree, I call it : e-tree,
the trunk of the e-tree is brown, the spinning sails (blades) are green,
and finally attached to the trunk of the e-tree are features of : wifi/mobile network, light and power outlet, to charge a car for example
$11 billion for 3.5 GW of intermitent output? Does not make much economic sense.
But what really doesn't make sense is - 408 THOUSAND metric tons of steel for the foundations.
Someone on your team needs to be fired for incompetency.
That is insane that there is no duct for that cable 😂 was on an £24bn off shore windfarm project at the land fall end here in Scotland (Nexans Norwegian company) and the run was 19 miles to a sub station and all cables were ducted ti the high heavens yi can never predict plant traffic on remote land so having cables in the ground like that is just fucking Insane
What area of New Mexico is this?
Corona
Très bon reportage.
Des explications claires (plus des valeurs métriques) sans superflu, une musique bien dosée et des images impeccables.
Du bon boulot !
Je me réjouis de voir la suite...😎
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Very good report.
Clear explanations (plus metric values) without superfluity, well-balanced music and impeccable images.
Good job!
I'm looking forward to seeing what happens next...😎
Wow nice 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 im sanjay
WHY do the people who make these excellent videos , insist on the damned irritating music ? It detracts considerably from the enjoyment of hearing about the data. First class video !
What about cobbecting afjacent pillars with beams and install dar panels?
Don’t let the kiwi’s near those threaded bolts when it’s time for maintenance 😂😂 (NZJoke)
Yeah, nothing screams more renewable like worn out blades piling up in landfills.
Definitely need to go back, to show the assembly of the turbines
Cubic yards, not yards. These are not the same thing.
Long overdue sction, a global inspiration
You Lost Me At.......
"They Put Bolts On The
Ends Of These Threaded Reinforcing Steel Bars!"
Meanwhile, China is building a 400 GW project. Over 100x the size of this. The US can do way better.
have you found any details on this project. I just saw an announcement only.
If US paid workers with rice it could put up communist numbers as well
You can say anything actually having that’s completely different
Yeah, but politics and politicians get in the way. 😢
This is only 1/4 of the project 😂
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣green energy is dogshit
Look out everybody, Geoff dropping truth bombs /S
@@DasycottusYeah he's just converted me back
Can they reuse the pedestal? Seems like a lot more concrete/ twh than a nuclear plant.
That's because you have never seen the basement of a nuclear power plant. ;-)
is it just me or is he saying Tur"bine" Tur"ban"
Either pronunciation is correct. One is more common with British English
Yup. And just think , all the pollution they create doing all this bs. Lots of info out there , check it . More harm then good . Period.
Right, let’s just go back to burning good clean coal!
How much pollution do you create in your lifetime? So turn off your lights. You are part of the problem you know.
wonder how long it would take each turbine to offset the emissions from it being built
It varies from turbine to turbine, but not very long.
@@Dasycottus Depending on the location, 5-12 months
Yeah that's green power with the concrete, re-bars, tons of concrete trucks and all that. Green as possible.
1 cubic yard of concrete requires 3GJ of energy. Let's say they need 400 cubic yards, so that's 1200GJ. A wind turbine generates, on average, 1MW. This returns the energy cost of the concrete in 1200GJ/1MW=1.2e6s, which is approx. 14 days. All in wind turbines in this range are said to be energy neutral in five months. Not a problem, but then... there are always chickens who can't do math. ;-)
Really clean energy not every time one of those motors let’s go there’s 6000 gallons of oil all over the ground not counting how many birds they kill a year. But hey ole slow joe says that’s the way to go
So much better to use those magic oil-free turbines in coal power plants, right?
Awh, you are so cute when you are begging for attention. ;-)
I'll stick with oil and natural gas. Thank you.
You realize they built this because the wind plant economics beat fossil fuels here, right?
They didn't build this to make liberals happy. They built it to *make money*.
This isn't activism. It's capitalism.
huge waste of money. These things dont last two decades
Yep because you are an uneducated moron
Now thats confidence as a expert in this field i can conform we will be needing some fuels ⛽️ 😅
so 900 wind mills will give 3 million folks power 24/7.
SO how many windmills are need for 360 million Americans to have power.?
Energy spent to build this probably went way over of what this thing will generate...
how far would this project proceed without diesel?
One could easily build it with electric trucks. They are just not available, yet. ;-)
That will be $11 billion dollars down the toilet!
Or... you could have built one 1GW nuclear power plant that would have never come online because the company would have bankrupted halfway through the job. ;-)
Massive waste of money. The only ones who will benefit will be the Chinese and those who take their cut of the $11 billions. 14,000 abandoned windmill farms across America now. Luckily, we managed to stop 90 of those monsters from being put on our beautiful mountains here where I live.
used a lot ot fossil fuel to make steel and other
please for the love of god do the math before spouting crap like this.
324m3 of concrete is some 132.8 tons of CO2. the steel in the foundation is another 13 tons of CO2.
so 900 turbines is 131200 tons of CO2.
a modern hard coal plant is at 742g CO2/kWh. So building this windpark puts out as much CO2 as generating 176.8GWh of electricity with a coal plant. or in other words this thing breaks even with an already existing 3.5GW coal plant 100 hours after being switched on assuming a capacity factor of 0.5
if you compare against a 3.5GW gas plant break even is after 150-200 hours.
And...? The world isn't perfect, man. Go find something to be happy about.
great observation peter. You now know how building things works. Have a cookie!
@@StevenRidesI'm not sure he survived to finish his sentence
Please read little bit don’t absorb BS spew by low IQ that sounds smart
Stupid bird choppers not green at all.
They actually don't kill birds. It's been proven that birds adapt to the presence of wind turbines.
Now just imagine micro nuclear power plants. Wind Turbines is one of the least clean by carbon foot print.