5 Wind Turbines Which Failed (Environmentally Friendly?) 

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_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

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

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 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 ?

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?

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.

1:53 or no

he gone hyper drive too far

For like 10 minutes nice

died trying

FBI OPEN UP

(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.

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!

*because

@@rolfpoelman3486 grammar Nazi

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

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

Salguine the true power you can make oil disappear. Stop wearing shoes buying tires boats wiring

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.

Hydro Solar Nuclear*

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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?!

"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.

You hear that a lot he

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".

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.

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

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 :)

@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 RU-vid without em

@Sharkzer jummijammi emppu :D

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Roblox Plays I am not liking your comment.

It’s at 1:50

Still not.

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.

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.

1:36

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!!!

You are exactly right, for now. There is only a finite amount of fossil fuels available, and when they get to a point that it's no longer economical, it's going to be a much easier transition if we have a good head start.

Except they don't supplement, they mostly generate power when it's not needed.

@@Jon-hx7pe That's one of the major problems, They're considered "negative load", for just the reasons you described. The random intermittent output is why they can never exceed about 20% of our power portfolio without becoming problematic to grid stability. I'm a big advocate of grid scale energy storage, to level all this out. That's the one technology that just hasn't developed yet, but it's the most urgent. Energy storage would allow the storage of energy when available, and supply it to the grid during periods of high demand. Then, anything that puts power onto the grid, becomes generating capacity.

some years back, they discovered an enzyme in the feces of zebras that can turn an oil barrel of grass clippings from mowin the lawn, into a barel of biofuel in less than a month. why it hasnt been exploited, is beyond me.

We designed things like engines to run on oil ...oil was already here not hurting anyone...we have made the problem we create pollution not the oil...oil = money...its about money nothing else...

Nah, windmills are great & nostalgic, wind turbines suck though.

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.

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 RU-vid'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

Well it's for a good cause a least, right?

@@Scrod117 i forgot i even commented this what is this video

Um... yea you are an expert like many others on this forum/page..

that is what we call natural selection, mah boy

Same

agreed

Yes

A bird brain, if you will

FiloClip or oil spills, or fracking, or refinery fires, or tanker explosions, or pipe ruptures or oil feild fires, or coal mine explosions/collapses. It's fucking laughable comparing a wind turbines failure to any other energy production except solar, geothermal, and hydroelelctric.

All nuclear power plants fail because they have no way of dealing with the waste by-product from nuclear power plants so every one of them FAIL. Every one of them are an environmental disaster in slow motion until they explode like in Japan and then they contaminate every bit of the planet. That is the biggest fail of all.

just stfu nuclear energy is safe

Yes, "NUCLER" it is safe...until it goes HORRIBLY WRONG.

+John Harrison Except nobody's comparing wind to oil and coal, and when you do compare wind to solar, geothermal, and hydroelectric, wind is laughably bad. Pointing to dirty energy sources doesn't excuse wind from being the shittiest out of all the clean energy sources.

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

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

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

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 😭😭😭😭😭 😢😢😢😢:(

What is the price of mining iron ore what is the price of transporting the ore and smelting the ore most of which is not mined locallly but shipped half way round the world as is a lot of components that go into the making of these white elephants and the threat to wild life and the visual impact.They are the most inefficient of generating electricity.

They tried renewable energy in Australia the result during high winds power cuts because these eye sores do not work in high winds.

True story

When the wind turbines can at the least, power the mining, the processing of raw materials, the manufacturing of the product, the shipping, the destination + set up and maintenance for their usable life, then they will become 'Sustainable'. As they presently function, they Consume far more energy, including prodigious fossil fuels. More 'Energy' than they produce, translates into un-sustainable.... and in Total negative effects placed onto the planet earth, anything but 'Green'. Massively tax Payer subsidized 'Green'. Like building the ancient Pyramids. Kept countless thousands of people busy at every stage of construction and logistics, while leaving monuments to man. Difference is the Pyramids last a lot longer and generate tourism that Really generates shared wealth.

The fart with un-sustainable is just wrong if they are set up in the right place. Where on earth did you do some math???

Just look at the first one =) another failure

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

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

In Holland two people WERE inside, and they got burned alive!

@@bluebird5361 What woh, that's insane lol

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 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-4ySwVDRKCns.html Are you sure?

Nope. Some are quite the selective environmental activists.

The statistics of fatal car crashes do put gun death statistics to shame.

#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.

OpenGL4ever Nicely put!

Very well said.

YoloMcSwagton In Bavaria, Germany 50 % of all hunted boars where samples are taken and measured are harzardous waste because of the chernobyl accident and this will be the case for the next 400 years. Chernobyl was only one reactor but contaminated half of Europe. Take a look at this map: bp2 blogger com/_oYCy5HXaKpo/R62KD9no8II/AAAAAAAACy8/PueEsazwKsc/s1600-h/chernobyl_fallout.jpg

YoloMcSwagton You do not understand that nuclear power plants can destroy land area and food supply for generations. It's not that one day where a nuclear power plant explodes it's the next 400 years every day where such a plant will lead to cancer and other ilnesses that impacts the whole society. No other tech does do that.

YoloMcSwagton In Fukushima did not only blow up one reactor but 4. The counting numbers where worse, not better. The only difference was because Chernobyl was a graphite moderated reactor while those in Fukushima were water moderated. And in Fukushima they try to fill all the contaminated dirt into plastic bags to somehow get back the land but it costs Japan billions of US Dollars. You really do not see the big picture.

you know your stuff ? you working on the turbines ?

I have read a lot on the subject. If I can get a job with windmills, I am doing what I can to see it through.

They cost too much.

+Dave Micolichek Precisely. They're designed to turn at a constant speed, and they control speed primarily by changing blade pitch. To do this the pitch has to change when the windspeed changes, or the output electrical load changes. Conceptually it's pretty simple. A RPM counter is used to speed of rotation. If the RPM drops, change the pitch to make it turn faster. If the RPM rises, change the pitch to make it turn slower. Simple negative feedback. If the wind gets to high, turn the blade pitch to "neutral" (you can see the successfully stopped windmills with full neutral pitch) and put on a brake to make sure it stays stopped. If the generator overheats (bearings or windings failing), do the same thing. You wouldn't use the brakes for normal speed control, because they'd burn out. They're intended to lock the hub AFTER the pitch change has brought the thing to a stop (or very near to a stop). It would use the same shutdown procedure, whether the wind was too high, or the generator caught fire etc. etc. etc. When you see a windmill freewheeling overspeed, that means either the mechanicals in the blade hub for changing pitch, or the speed/pitch control electronics have failed. There's probably some situations where the pitch management has failed, and the control circuitry slammed on the brakes in a desperate attempt to stop it. In some cases, that would work. In others, the brake assembly would catch fire and potentially take the rest of the generator hub with it. For emphasis: You literally CANNOT dump the electricity to the ground. Waste or otherwise, it's tantamount to dropping live high voltage lines on the ground. You could not approach the windmill to fix anything, because the ground will have a significant voltage differential on it. It would potentially electrify all metal in the vicinity, including wire fences, phone lines and the like. You need to stop the generator generating power. The least-damaging way is to stop the blades rotating.

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.

That was informative ! Thank you for your feedback !

And Happy New Yeah ;)

Too informative

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 :)

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?