This is going to sound really naive, but as a layman, I had no idea that these were so big or technologically complex inside. Thanks for sharing. GO, clean energy!
Sorry, I just got here. Please, may I ask, what did you think was inside of them? How big did you think they were? I'm just curious. Most people use technology without giving it a second thought, but I've always been curious as to how the average person thought something, like a wind turbine, worked. Thanks!
@@HangTimeDeluxe I am a fairly technical person, but more with computers 😅 I thought: The tower is empty apart from cables and a ladder. The top consists of the rotor with fixed blades attached to the generator and a motor to orientate it according to the wind. The wind direction would be measured with a simple "weathercock" connected to a microcontroller controlling the motor. It's fascinating to see some details of these machines 😁 New ones apparently communicate with each other to adjust themselves in a way that optimizes not the output of each individual turbine but the wind park as a whole 👍
These are not big! they are very small with today's standards! 250-300 meter wing tip top max height. Is not unusual in new prodjekts today. And often more than 50 units in the wind park, at least sea based installations.
I never knew these were so complex inside! I thought it would be a blade, connected to a drive-shaft and to a generator. Maybe a few regulator circuits. I had no Idea they would have a lift, and lights etc inside! Could almost live in one of them!
@Andre McGoo In super strong winds, they actually shut themselves down for safety too. The turn the pitch so that the wind will not try to rotate the turbines, and then apply a brake to the blades too, slowing them and holding them in place.
Andre McGoo they are not totally insulated. It’s is just a big lightning pole. The turbine is bonded which is completed different to insulated. Turbines are rated in m/s not miles per hour. Turbine is rated to approx 74 m/s where it will either uproot and rip out the foundations or fall over. Normally don’t write stuff on here but as you tried to berate another individual I thought I’d let you know how wrong you were.
Seeing these always gave anxiety, they're so massive and unsettling looking. I had no idea they were so complex inside but watching him go all the way to the top gave me anxiety lol
That elevator should have a secondary safety Incase it ever free falls. Probably some kind of mechanism that only moves up and down at a certain speed. A free fall would cause it to lock up like a car seatbelt. I climb cell towers and I'm always attached to the cable with a slide that only moves so fast. You can only fall 6 inches with a cable slide even climbing too fast will make it lock. It's high tech stuff
I would love to go up to one of those for once in my life,i also consider them and really beautifull as well besides the non pollution energy solution.Oh see what i did there with that rhyme? some times i amaze even my self ;)
About two years ago a friend and I were driving through California on Hwy 10 and came across a field of these wind turbines. I commented, "I wonder if there are little apartments at the top of those?. We just laughed! Now I know.
If a tornado came while you were inside that tower, the out of control spinning rotor might make a loud noise while you were in there. You should probably keep some earplugs in your tool kit.
I really loved the music very nice choice! Although there was this annoying video of some guy going up somewhere and was kind of distracting the epic music I came here to listen to. Anyway thanks!
Great video! Can't imagine what it would be like to see one of these from the top of the tower. One question, do you know what the power consumption (oil heater, deicers, lights, etc.) of a typical wind turbine such as this is when there is no wind? Thanks for any information on that.
Music a little over dramatic. In the US they call them eagle choppers. Maybe they need to do a Steve Miller song, Fly Like An Eagle... As I was watching the video I was wondering where are the trees? Did they chop them up too?
At the end this guy said that these are directly hooked up to a National Grid, so one thing I don't understand is this: let's say we don't have National Grid and a farm of these turbines should power a city which needs "X" MW to be powered up, however farm of turbines producing "X+Y" MW, so what happens with "Y" excessive energy produced by a farm of turbines?
It looks a little too comfortable in there. Wind is competing well for cost with fossil fuels today, but it looks likes some cost could be taken out with a more spartan interior. Put the money into reliability and up-time, so workers don't need to make the climb often.
I can guarantee it doesn't. Why? If the turbines aren't turning then you're stuck at the bottom, batteries won't be the source either as that'll involve maintenance and a fairly large capacity bank. I'd put good money on saying that it's powered via the local area network.
How do you synch to the grid and stay syched with varying wind speeds? Are these all run in island mode, droop etc...? Very clean looking rig, beats the gas turbine in that area. I also thought Walter Carlos' "Timesteps" would have been a nice soundtrack here... Nice video, love the lift.
That's a pretty cushy work environment really. Damn near impossible to get hurt if you follow the protocols. I'm sure they insist on to man work teams. The crews that erected the turbine are the real workers.
These are small turbines in comparison to the industrial 300m ones they want to erect around the Galloway hills and indeed most of Scotland but we’re fighting them.
The maintaining of wind turbines costs 4 times as much as a steam turbine. As soon as wind and solar power give the uk the majority of energy the public will be paying the BILL.
