Guy AMAZED by the engineering of an Offshore Wind Farm | Guy Martin 

If you get a chance visit Invergordon and nearby Nigg. That’s where You’ll see the massive yellow bases all lined up and ready to go in the seabed.

Go for it. Keep safe and look out for the safety of all those working with you.

You can also have the cheapest power generation in the world and still be over-charged by the people who own the means. Ain't capitalism grand? This is why going off the grid is really the only alternative.

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It's more to do with the wind farms being privately owned and sold south of the border where they can make more money. Why would a private company sell at 5p when they can sell at market rates and generate 3-6x the revenue?

Poor gordon for not understanding how an open market works. You'll also find that on a per-capita basis your infrastructure (transmission and distribution [DNUOS and TNUOS) upkeep costs are quiter a significant portion of your bill.

Does he contain a lot of vitamins and minerals?

No, the blades can't be recycled. The rest is scrap metal, so has a value. Plus they are spending tax money to build these farms, not company money. Your wages are being funnelled off to make a lot of already rich people even richer. Reusing them would mean they lose a sale, so they make sure they have a use by date. The carbon footprint of manufacturing one wind turbine is equal to 1,701 tons of CO2-equivalent. The UK average carbon footprint is about 10 tonnes CO2 per person per year.

They're working on it @@bobeyes3284, I can't post a link as YT won't let me, but search for 'Vestas unveils circularity solution to end landfill for turbine blades'. Once finalised this will take old blades to use as raw material to make replacement blades. At the moment they are either ground up to use in concrete as reinforcement, repurposed (I've seen some as bike shelters) or sent to landfill, although bear in mind that this is typically 10 years before they need replacement. As for the carbon footprint aspect, whilst the overall figure you state (1701 tons) might be correct, it's a little disingenuous and needs to be put into context. They typically 'pay this back' within 6-9 months of operation. Comparing it with a individual human footprint is not a particularly useful metric for comparison. CO2 per kWh is a better perspective - "On average, considering its whole lifecycle, a wind turbine emits 26 grams of CO2-equivalent per kilowatt-hour. For comparison, coal emits up to 1,689 grams of CO2-equivalent per kilowatt-hour." - taken from '8 Billion Trees .com'

A lot of "end of life" turbines are reconditioned and put back in to service. RePower being one of the bigger firms to do this. The blades are moving towards being fully recycleable

How many times do they reuse the coal in the alternative?

These newer blades are recyclable, the resins are acid soluble. There is no tax money going into building these (that was true of wind in the past but not any more, they're now cheap enough to not need it). Contracts are awarded by "reverse auction". Lowest bid for power price wins. Last round of UK off shore contracts bid in at 5p/kWh (domestic electricity prices are currently 35p). Design life is 25 years for the turbines.

International power export cables (interconnectors) help smooth out local wind lulls. GB grid currently has connections to Ireland (N and republic), Belgium, France, Netherlands, and Norway. Proposals are in place for interconnectors to Iceland and even Morocco, but that's a different story.

Solar can and does generate on all but the cloudiest days.

@@MaggieInABox Yes, but the output is significantly reduced, as is the daylight during Winter months. I love solar too, it just doesn't have the benefit of 24 hour operation like wind does.

Search for ‘ windmill accident Netherlands’.. the job is not so lovely 😅

It's not as much fun as you'd think. My normal 12 hour day is a 2 hour sail each way, spending about an hour doing paperwork before we start work. Probably only actually work 4 hours a day

@@ianstewart5840 its more the experience and the job id love the opportunity to try, im currently an approved electrician with alot of industrial experience, what is involved in getting into this field?

@@Tacticuz Papers you need to start is an offshore GWO training, oguk medical, chester step, preferably BOSIET sea training. Might be a little tough to get to an offshore straight away, however with good electrical background you should give it a try! Reach out to companies like boston energy or swire energy services. Good luck!

@@Tacticuz not too much involved, just look up companies near you that are in offshore wind and apply just like any other job. I had no wind experience before, now I'm an offshore technician for orsted. Good job, good lifestyle benefits and all that, though it can be very boring with lots of down time just sitting around

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@@user-qt2wj8nl1l "Healthy, I love the ram" what does that mean?

They were at the Hornsea 2 wind farm.

It's the port of Hull on the River Humber on the east coast of England. The correct name is Kingston upon Hull but everyone calls it Hull.

Do they? Do they need one then?

Wind is pretty predictable Averaged over the UK the power is more consistent And believe me there's plenty of wine most of the time

Tidal energy is a great idea that is incredibly difficult to implement. For one, the sea tends to batter anything you put in it quite ferociously, it also produces less energy per area used than a lot of alternatives. On top of that, it's damaging to marine life.

It isn’t, to build wind farms and solar panels farms you have to clear land and level natural environments. They don’t work 24 seven and then you have the problem of what you do with them after there life cycle, besides having to clear natural environments there’s the effect they have on animals as they operate. They look ugly and instructive in nature. Everything would be a lot cheaper if we could pull energy out of the air, but sadly we can’t

True, but they're not burning oil and pumping gases in to the atmosphere

Me too. maybe someone has some dirt on him. He's definitely smart enough to know he's flogging a load of junk.

You guys are whoppers 😅

Yeh he seems to be doing a lot for the electric lovers

its not their fault, its the way its calculated using the gas price as the benchmark - its a really shit system because the utility companies that only provide electricity from renewables cannot get out of this scheme and give us the proper cheap rates.

unlike fossil fuels huh?

@@rtfazeberdee3519 If you do a little research of the term fossil fuel. You will find there is no such thing, and it's a made up word by the oil companies. Also, research what goes into making this crap and your so-called fossil fuels play a huge part in making them.

Agreed, they do look pretty hideous.

@@Jamal_Tyrone 90,000 electricity pylons across Britain and strangely no one complains about them.

@MrTimbo318 90,000 electricity pylons across the whole of Britain and strangely no one complains about them.

Don't forget to collect your paycheque at the end of your shift.

so keep doing the same then? ...Hmmmm that's a great plan...a plan to do nothing

What's your suggestion then?

Once we got more nuclear going our power production will be more secure, wind farms do make waste and it's hard to deal with because fibreglass isn't recyclable. I saw another documentary about how they basically crush it up and dump it in buildings like mobsters getting rid of dead bodies. Don't worry though, it's not going to landfill!

Its clean eenergy that will never run out, its one of the miricles weve been needing

Nope