ONE Spin of this GIANT Wind Turbine Powers a Home for Two Days!!

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A few weeks ago we travelled to the port of Rotterdam to climb the Giant GE Haliade-X wind turbine and find out just how much power the world's largest turbines make. Standing at a staggering 260m tall, the Haliade-X is capable of generating 14MW of power - enough to power 16,000 homes. But how much bigger will wind turbines get and just how many will we need? We travelled to the very top to find out!
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@tymanot 2 года назад

More of this please. Car reviews can be found everywhere but other topics like this one are hard to find.

@CozyAlgorithmCave 2 года назад

and sadly too much on this topic on youtube etc. is full of misinformation and fud campaigns :(

@RoadRashSpirit 2 года назад

Absoluteley, I started watching fully charged because of Robert visiting Brit wind and looking at other technologys. Early on they did a pole that I think was 50/50 cars vs technology, the channel then heavily went into cars. I did watch a fair bit of it but to be honest in the last 2 years Ive stopped watching most of the episodes and only tune in if something like this video pops up or Rob has one of his rant..ehem news videos... but I bet ive missed half off them these days with the algoryth and such. I think its great that EV's are becoming more numerous but theres only so many videos of cars you will never afford that you want to watch.

@markfla 2 года назад

@@RoadRashSpirit Just have a Think.... another great youtube channel covers this kind of stuff.

@RoadRashSpirit 2 года назад

@@markfla funnily enough that's became my regular channel a long time back. There's 2 other channels hosted by Americans matt farrel and Joe something lol

@88njtrigg88 2 года назад

@@CozyAlgorithmCave Exactly & agreed. How much energy did it take the manufacture/produce and what is the designed life ? That way l can calculate efficiency.

@snecklifter 2 года назад

This is one of my favourite FC episodes in recent memory. Helen is a rare combination of great presenter and brilliant mind and she oozes positivity and enthusiasm. From the opening shot of the turbine to Roberts excellent footnote, wonderful. Others might enjoy the car stuff but this is what I love. Thank you.

@Dudleymiddleton 2 года назад

Yes, considering your footnote, Robert, Helen is an incredibly professional presenter, on a par with the best out there in the mainstream media, backed up with a lot of scientific knowledge. She is an absolute gem! Your other presenters are great, too! :)

@IanKath 2 года назад

Her style reminds me of the brilliant Prof Brian Cox.

@toyotaprius79 2 года назад

Seconded

@Syncronizeification 2 года назад

That's because she is a "professional presenter" she presented loads of science shows on bbc

@sadiqmohamed681 2 года назад

@@Syncronizeification She's also a real physicist who teaches at UCL and does research in climate science. She started presenting at the BBC on "Horizon".

@SWR112 2 года назад

@@IanKath just with less travel than Brian 😂

@jimmyryan5880 2 года назад

The car stuff is ok but Im here for stuff like this!

@davidsamways 2 года назад

Yes, more of this.

@tomfox2343 2 года назад

Agreed!

@Muppetkeeper 2 года назад

Me too. Cars can save some CO2, but in reality, solar, batteries and heat pumps each do much more with much less materials.

@andrewhiggins8873 2 года назад

@@Muppetkeeper yes this is the reality at the moment

@maickelwand9100 2 года назад

Agree with you

@shhhyouknowhoo3753 2 года назад

Just had to briefly pause halfway through to comment. On a really really crap news day, this is just so welcome & wonderful. Brilliantly explained, endlessly positive, totally uplifting, gorgeous to look at. Thanks all!

@fullychargedshow 2 года назад

Thank you, that is so wonderful to hear, makes all the effort worthwhile

@richardlangley90 2 года назад

What an awesome comment...and so true with regard to current news.

@trevorvanbremen4718 2 года назад

Endlessly positive??? I thought these wind turbines generated AC so it's only positive 1/2 the time!

@futureof... 2 года назад

Incredible engineering, incredible production values.

@88njtrigg88 2 года назад

How much energy did it take the manufacture/produce, what is the designed life ? That way l can calculate efficiency.

@jjhbhd520 2 года назад

@@88njtrigg88 Turbines have an energy and carbon payback time of approximately 6 months.

@MrArtist7777 2 года назад

Thank you, Fully Charged, for covering wind generation!! SO many people are talking EV's, which is great and all, but very few cover wind power and how it's growing and developing and impacting our energy generation. The Haliade is an AMAZING machine!!

@johndoh5182 2 года назад

Which, to power all those BEVs you need a lot more electricity. So, the scale is quite large, but it's certainly feasible.

@Boukevx 2 года назад

An amazing feel when one of your favorite youtube channels actually features a project that I am proud to have been a part of. Amazing project by GE, SIF and Pondera.

@DeepfryX 2 года назад

I work in the offshore wind industry and this is an excellent video. It describes the challenges and opportunities for offshore wind really well. People definitely don't realise how big the next generation of wind turbines are.

@dpranjko 2 года назад

Hi colleague! Where and for whom are you working? Greetings from GE onshore 😉

@dalroth10 2 года назад

What a fascinating and brilliantly presented video on an extremely important subject. Fantastic production quality and Helen Czerski presents it in a very knowledgeable and professional way. The scale of the latest generation Haliade offshore wind turbines is truly awesome and it's great to see the UK Government having committed to developing this vitally important source of energy generation. I was also struck by the way in which it is expected that power generated by offshore wind farms will be linked up as far as possible to take advantage of moving weather systems. A world where energy received by the whole planet can be shared. A very far cry from the truly awful news today from Ukraine.

@marksims5730 2 года назад

I agree with everything you have said and the only thing I can add to this is... they talked a lot about the UK experience and the UK is leading the world in this area, but how many UK companies are actually installing these amazing machines in the North Sea ?

@vintage0x 2 года назад

whoever chose the music (and of course whoever composed it) did a really great job. goosebumps!

@BitBanger41 2 года назад

Seriously excellent! The production value of this is phenomenal. Hard to believe there would come a time where content produced on a "free website"" would rival that of anything put on commercial television. Well done!

@hughmarcus1 2 года назад

This isn’t ‘free’ fully charged plus is in effect, advertorial. The companies who appear on it are there to plug their wares or do a bit of corporate PR. If you notice the line of questioning is always very soft. No doubt the scripts are agreed in advance. Helen being allowed up on that platform with a large scarf is a case in point too. These places are normally very strict on PPE & that includes clothing. There’s no way a normal visitor to the site would have been permitted to wear that.

@emily36130 2 года назад

The most insane fact is that this isn't even the largest turbine in the world. The largest one is the SG 14-222 with 222 m diameter, and soon there will be a 236 m turbine.

@unbelieveXP 2 года назад

don't forget MySE 16.0-242 with 242m diameter

@iain3713 2 года назад

It’s developing incredibly quickly

@DanielAlbrechtsen 2 года назад

and the new 15MW vesta allso

@noahbody9782 2 года назад

Of course no one ever talks about the carbon footprint resulting from the construction, maintenance and transmission infrastructure of these systems. And that it will all need to to be disposed of and rebuilt after 30 years. Not to mention the environmental damage these vast arrays do to costal sea life. As long as the gaping ignorant see spinning blades in the wind they will be happy.

@iain3713 2 года назад

@@noahbody9782 of course people do talk about it, and there is a standardised measure for measuring the environmental impact of such projects. Wind turbines will payback the carbon needed to manufacture them in typically less than a year (of course this depends on what sort of grid you're adding them to and how they were manufactured).

@thewisefool4049 2 года назад

Great stuff. Ireland's been running off >75% wind over the last week and we only have 1 offshore farm. Hoping we scale up massively and interconnect more of our grid. There is a lot of low hanging fruit that is there for the taking.

@jools2323 2 года назад

With what's happening today, we need this stuff ASAP.

@Robert-cu9bm 2 года назад

The problem is, because we are shifting to renewables we are more reliant on Putin's gas. You need to has turbines to supplement renewables We need nuclear and fracking.

@alunrees313 2 года назад

Well have it on your doorstep not ours

@alunrees313 2 года назад

@@joim3480 there you have it , wind will never replace fossil fuels, you said it, China is building 13 coal fuelled energy plants, my mountains and landscape and historical sites have been destroyed for me and my grandchildren , they should go out at sea

@baronvonlimbourgh1716 2 года назад

Things are happening incredibly quickly. Both deployment and technological development.

@traianima 2 года назад

two words: nuclear energy

@Firstmanphotography 2 года назад

I would love to see these infrastructure topics covered more often. Particularly would love your take on base load and where it's going to come from for the next 10-20 years. Germany currently highlighting how huge intermittent renewable supply is still very reliant on gas turbine base load and can quickly cause problems if the gas supply is halted.

@danthevan1451 2 года назад

I'm an electrician in the UK. One thing all sparks in the UK are saying is Where's the baseload gonna come from? Coz when it's REALLY cold the wind doesn't blow. A few years from now we're gonna wish we didn't close all the coal plants.

@Tobias-ld2pv 2 года назад

Baseload is an increasingly obsolescent concept

@danthevan1451 2 года назад

@@Tobias-ld2pv No its not, and as more and more people get EVs the demand on the grid will grow and the minimum amount of electricity needed to prevent load shedding will be more. Unless every house / flat / office / factory has its own photovoltaic or wind generation with battery storage that can sustain itself in all weather's then baseload will always be a thing.

@masterbarnard 2 года назад

@@Tobias-ld2pv in some sense yes, but supply still needs to meet demand, even with demand side response and time of use tariffs etc. Having reliable and dispatchable generation is essential for grid stability. I think what was meant is that renewables require other types of generation like CCGT to fill the gaps during periods of low wind and overcast skies. As was said in the video, an energy mix is key.

@baronvonlimbourgh1716 2 года назад

@@danthevan1451 that exactly is going to be a big part of the future. Both are becomming increasingly cheap and everyone who can will provide at least partly in their own energy needs. Both business and private. It's all about economics.

@matambale 2 года назад

More reports on geothermal energy would be most welcome (nothing against wind).

@jonathantaylor1998 2 года назад

What a stunningly beautiful piece of mega-engineering. And what a beautifully stunning video - in fact, as a person not keen on heights, I actually felt a little queasy just watching it on-screen...! 😳

@SteveAkaDarktimes 2 года назад

whats incredible is that 107m long blade is a not an assembly. its a single piece of composite material. constantly exposed to salty ocean air, storms, ice and wind tearing at it. the challenges of building something like this are pushing composite material science forward rapidly.

@alstonsmith5515 2 года назад

This is incredible top to bottom. The technology, the presentation, and the education on the technology. Awe inspiring stuff and very encouraging. Thank you Fully Charged. Thank you Helen. Thank you GE Renewable Energy.

@ivveG 2 года назад

Great episode, great presenter, super positive news that UK plans for 40 GW of off-shore wind. Amazing!

@oootoob 2 года назад

We really need to massively scale up the storage side of the equation now

@PerErikKarlsson 2 года назад

Wonder if there could be any financial reason to but batteries strait in the wind turbines. Smooth out the generation from the individual windmill so you can have smaller cables going from it.

@oootoob 2 года назад

There are plenty of tech options that have been tested at scale, not just batteries, including things like liquified air, thermal storage, pumped hydro etc. The bigger problem is getting investment and facilitating the permitting and regulatory/ contractual environment to make it happen quicker - the UK is bogged down in red tape that inhibits a lot of progress.

@cyrusp100 2 года назад

Storage is not technically feasible right now to scale up to grid level. We'd get a much bigger bang for the buck by building interconnectors and eventually a global grid.

@vincentrobinette1507 2 года назад

I agree 100%. Wind and solar are pretty well developed, and, among the least expensive generators out there. The technology is actually quite mature. What needs to happen, is to get the cost of electrical energy storage down to a point, that when combined with wind and solar, renewables as a whole, can compete with the cheapest fossil generated electricity. No matter how good the equipment, the wind doesn't always blow, and obviously, solar panels don't generate at night. Without energy storage, intermittent renewable sources cannot exceed ~20% total grid capacity, without causing fluctuations that could cause instability in the grid. Grid scale electrical energy storage is an absolute must, for a 100% renewable sourced grid.

@UCCLdIk6R5ECGtaGm7oqO-TQ 2 года назад

EVs and an appropriate inter-connect standard. There's a potentially massive storage system.

@RichardOzanne 2 года назад

I thought she would have taken the stairs up - it's only 492 feet after all. Seriously, what an amazing and huge turbine. We need these in bucket loads and soon! Great show as always. Keep up the good work.

@Ben-oy1td 2 года назад

I think wind turbines are gorgeous ! Love to see more of them

@Robert-cu9bm 2 года назад

Not me, they ruin the natural beauty of the landscape.

@baronvonlimbourgh1716 2 года назад

Awesome examples of human capability.

@FredPauling 2 года назад

Fully charged just reached the next level of quality content. Love this video. Robert miming at the end was an unexpected bonus.

@klaxoncow 2 года назад

I'm a little disappointed that Robert didn't do the "walking against a strong wind" mime. It's a classic that would have matched the video's topic, and we've all seen the "trapped in an invisible box" one too many times already.

@Mc_Blee 2 года назад

It amazes me that the bbc hasn’t snapped up this show and team. Better and more informative than anything on tv

@edmcdonagh978 2 года назад

Great episode, really interesting, and love having Helen presenting them. You know you're going to get science and facts, presented in a really accessible way. I wonder what the lifetime costs of the Dogger Bank wind farm will be compared to the new nuclear...

@marksims5730 2 года назад

From the wind point of view, the slated lifetime is 30 years, then all the infrastructure can be removed completly from the sea bed.

@CharlesHaworth 2 года назад

A good proxy answer is the electricity price which was requested to support the projects. Doggerbank ~40£/MWh and Hinkley point 90£/MWh.. more than double

@dr-k1667 2 года назад

This is the type of story that in these times, considering the emerging conflict in Europe that we must ALL PUSH FOR ENERGY INDEPENDENCE so that we can take out the need, desire, profit, loss and destruction that armed conflict costs us as a society. The sun and wind touches each nation and principality. Wave, Solar, Wind, are abundant and the ability to borrow their strength in order for us to be safe, warm, productive and happy is at our fingertips. I hope more INVESTMENT AND RESEARCH will go into all the ways we can responsibly harness and work in concert with nature because abundance is the natural way of nature. Thanks for continuing to bring stories like this Fully Charged Team. I remember when it was just Robert! This show continues to be a source of uplifting news, when I need it the most.

@edwin-1348 2 года назад

These kind of videos are truly fascinating!

@aaronstone4360 2 года назад

I work at Vestas and have just come back from Denmark after looking at our new V236. Very proud to be part of this industry for the last 8 years where I've supported the V164 show in this video grow from the 6MW prototype to the first 10MW offshore turbine.

@Muppetkeeper 2 года назад

In a increasingly crap world, stuff like this cheers me up and gives me hope. Thanks. Now let’s see Uncle Roberts heat pump, and I can die happy.

@eemsg 2 года назад

The platform on top of that thing is big enough to build a small house. Having a hidden home on top of an off-shore turbine would be very Bond villain. Enough energy to power thousands of homes, or enough energy to power one home and an unstoppable super laser?

@fullychargedshow 2 года назад

That may be the very best comment we've ever had on RU-vid.

@Gazer75 2 года назад

Hope you like using earplugs or muffs all day :P Wind turbines are not silent at all during operation.

@eemsg 2 года назад

@@Gazer75 I'm certain that any Bond villain who has the engineering resources to build an unstoppable superlaser could also figure out sound dampening.

@peterbrook6866 2 года назад

Fantastic. Really appreciate Helen's presenting approach. More of this please.

@GreatCreative 2 года назад

In a world seemingly rife with turmoil and indecision, just listening to Dr. Czerski's optimism and enthusiasm is not only entertaining, but comforting. She brought a sense of hope to the conversation when she wrapped up her presentation by stating it "seems like a solvable challenge".

@eaaeeeea 2 года назад

The scale of that thing is absolutely bonkers! I also found big wind turbines beautiful when I traveled past a wind farm on a train. Something majestic in their relatively slow looking movement.

@simon7790 2 года назад

Excellent presentation, content, and production. Really good to see!

@thankyouforyourcompliance7386 2 года назад

The world is crazy. It is a relief that there are still people like Helen around who do the right stuff

@chazzyb8660 2 года назад

There was a very smug woman on Radio 4's Question Time the other evening saying wind was a no hope-er because the wind didn't blow on one day last year. I hope she is watching this. Great news.

@slash196 2 года назад

People who complain about wind turbines being ugly...I just have no words. Majestic, elegant, gorgeous testaments to human ingenuity. Also, Helen doesn't get NEARLY enough of these. She's brilliant.

@Robert-cu9bm 2 года назад

Natural beauty is better

@notenrique666 2 года назад

WHOA! That turbine is HUGE! I see it’s got a GE logo on the side too!

@stevewhite791 2 года назад

Love it. Wind makes so much sense. Really enjoy your presentations.

@richard8031 2 года назад

Bird blenders..!!!!

@stjepangorera941 2 года назад

Great video about energy. Pozdrav iz Hrvatske 🇪🇺🇭🇷🌍🌎🌏😄😁🤪❤🦋🐉🦕🐋🐠🐘🦙🐄🦚🐒🌺🍁

@CoolAsFreya 2 года назад

I wanna hear what it sounds like when spinning! I've been around much smaller on-shore turbines and they're not quiet, so I can only imagine how loud a massive off-shore turbine would be!

@undead890 2 года назад

They can be pretty loud, but because they are offshore, it's not too distracting.

@aaronsmith5433 Год назад

" says you! " - Moby Dick

@rogermckenzie2711 2 года назад

I always love Helen's presentations, such a delight!

@pinkelephants1421 2 года назад

Fabulous. Helen was so excited on top of the turbine, I half expected to see her start bouncing up and down, producing enough kinetic energy of her own to compete with that of the turbine itself. 😁😋

@andrewfowler8265 2 года назад

Great presentation- my only comment is that the wind doesn't push on the blade to make it turn (like a windmill)- rather the wind flowing past creates lift (like an aeroplane wing) which makes the blades turn - which is alot more effective.

@Robert-cu9bm 2 года назад

It actually does both. Lift is created by pushing on the blade and the low pressure. Same with planes That's why the blade can pivot depending on the wind speed.

@NiklasAuinger 2 года назад

Gotta love offshore wind 🌬

@SequoiaElisabeth 2 года назад

Excellent production! Thanks for all you do.

@markiliff 2 года назад

1:20 Huge thumbs-up for that drone shot with tiny Helen on the platform for scale

@ChrisMacG060 2 года назад

Great episode. A difficult subject for most of us but just so well explained by the brilliant Helen. Thanks so much and just keep these really interesting/fascinating subjects/topics coming.

@LouieGrind 2 года назад

I f-ing love wind turbines! They look and feel so Sci-Fi!

@kuriakos 2 года назад

Do the blades have to be replaced periodically like with the smaller ones? If so, what is the plan for dealing with that waste.

@hooloovooloo Год назад

Love Helen’s enthusiasm. 😊

@georgedaville4662 2 года назад

Brilliant video, simple explanations to relate to the scale of this wind turbine. As a retired CivilEngineer, I love these technical videos about large scale infrastructure. I would be interested in the design life and planned maintenance of these turbines to ensure longevity. 👍

@dylankeppler3542 2 года назад

I love this. I also love the car review stuff but I would love to see way more of this stuff, maybe even a separate channel, one for EVs and one for renewable energy. Love it!

@pjaclarke 2 года назад

This is excellent. Thanks for creating quality content like this - a real inspiration

@davetester100 2 года назад

Been a follower of the Channel for many years and we used to get a lot of unique like this. Unfortunately, more recently it’s turned into a boring blokes car show that is just competing with others. Can we have more of this kind of content please as buying an EV won’t save the planet

@ArneVanhove 2 года назад

The closing dialogue of this episode started with "the thing that struck me today...." : Well, I hope it wasn't one of those blades 😅

@_-martin-_ 2 года назад

Come to Denmark, the birthplace of modern Windmill technology, and see Vestas 15MW windmill!

@terencereeder9830 2 года назад

When it's Helen you know it's going to be a great episode!!

@dfishpool7052 2 года назад

An excellent informative presentation - well done Helen and thank you - you're very brave to go to the top of the turbine - I wouldn't be able to do that - scared of heights!!!

@peterlittlejohn8933 2 года назад

I was getting giddy sitting in my chair. I prefer good old Terra Firma (ground level).... More Firma, Less Terra!

@philipmelling 2 года назад

Fascinating. Excellent video. Helen is your best presenter - and you have a few! Thanks to GE for sharing too.

@insAneTunA 2 года назад

Imagine 400 meter diameter turbines. Not everything in Texas is the biggest. So I want to friendly challenge the people in Texas to build an even bigger one😉 Big thumbs up for this episode 👍

@akyhne 2 года назад

GE is an American company...

@ALMX5DP 2 года назад

@@akyhne what does that have to do with Texas?

@alanmay7929 2 года назад

@@ALMX5DP GE is an American company end of story!

@ALMX5DP 2 года назад

@@alanmay7929 is it a Texas company?

@akyhne 2 года назад

@@ALMX5DP Just as little as to say the Texans should build bigger.

@tiaretsnyheter6026 2 года назад

"The wind speed goes higher as it goes higher". I love the precision language of an engineer.

@thinktoomuchb4028 2 года назад

Would love to see you do a piece on Exergyn's shape memory alloy technology. Thanks for this one!

@eamonstack4139 2 года назад

Excellent and beautiful presentation. This is wind-power at the scale for out time - our mostly clean power. Thanks

@filipg9950 2 года назад

Great, great episode. Very interesting. Energy harvesting topics is such a vast area. Colosal structure.

@Alex-tj1zo 2 года назад

Thank you so much Helen 🙂

@John.0z 2 года назад

The aerodynamics of those blades is worth a show! Unfortunately I am sure the GE would not want to talk about them in detail, just as they would not want to talk about the generator itself in detail.

@AndySnap 2 года назад

What a fabulous story of amazing technology, presented by the lovely Helen too, winner winner. Superbly filmed too. I get the gut feeling I'm really looking at the future with these huge and elegant windmills of electricity, as the way everything will be powered, post and/or replacing fossil fuels. And such beautiful structures, almost calming to see...

@Pottery4Life 2 года назад

Helen is a wonderful interviewer/presenter. Please visit a wind turbine that you can film and discuss all the components of of the nacelle. Thank you.

@v795619 2 года назад

Brilliant video, well presented, well shot and left me feeling hopeful for the future, thank you. I cannot wait for the all electric clean future and the UK being way more self sufficient with power.

@andyroid7339 2 года назад

I agree - an all electric clean future, but "self-sufficiency" of sorts will only be achievable through interconnection with Ireland, Europe and possibly N. Africa. We sell the electricity when we're making it and buy it when we're not. This will be more practicable than a lot of battery storage.

@Robert-cu9bm 2 года назад

Need to frack so as not to be reliant on other countries gas. It's a cleaner future not a clean future.

@garethedwards2883 2 года назад

Helen is very clever which comes across in her presentations therefore making them interesting good to watch

@itekani 2 года назад

When you talk of amount of energy needed for a house, how much is that? Because that varies greatly if you for instance heat with electricity or gas...

@richiecow7877 2 года назад

When you see them in the distance you really don’t get a grasp of just how big they are. Absolutely fascinating

@adrianus13 2 года назад

Echoing everyone else. SO much more of these kinds of videos, please. I almost wish the car reviews were their own channel. Also, Robert's bit at the end only has righ-channel audio

@rchatte100 2 года назад

Let's hope it survives a windy day.... unlike some other turbines!

@knowledgebyte 2 года назад

Great episode. Thanks Helen for bringing home the massive scale of these wind turbines. Do you know how Scotlands tidal projects are coming on? And are there any other cave or well based water generator’s kicking off in the UK?

@MrQwerty3000 2 года назад

Great to see wind turbines evolving into being a real part of the transition to sustainable energy. But, anyone else find the comments here focus too much on a review of the presenter rather than the presentation :)

@timberthewolf733 2 года назад

This was just beautiful, almost like a short film.

@benbocc1549 2 года назад

Absolutely amazing! Great production also

@BenMillen 2 года назад

I don't know how people can ever complain about these things, so beautiful and majestic, I love seeing them

@SteveAkaDarktimes 2 года назад

the cinematography is amazing and can rival documentaries.

@afz902k 2 года назад

How are the maintenance and upkeep costs for these? I heard a lot of arguments against wind turbines related to that

@fullychargedshow 2 года назад

It's a perfectly reasonable question but I have to say before I explain what I know, there are huge, wealthy and now very anxious vested interests ranged against this kind of technology, massive corporations and indeed nations (Russia) that hire large dedicated teams of lobbyists and PR firms to spread as much fear, uncertainty and doubt as possible. Interestingly these same teams don't advertise the fact that gas, coal and nuclear generation systems all need massive levels of maintenance taking any individual plant off line sometimes for many months, at costs of many millions, that are passed on to use, the suckers that pay for electricity. So maintenance costs are hugel reduced per kilowatt hour generated in comparison to coal, oil, gas or nuclear. I do't have figures to hand but I will find some and do an update.

@RA-uj3nm 2 года назад

Outstanding info & presentation.

@drewcipher896 2 года назад

Helen always hosts the coolest videos!

@calebracey 2 года назад

Thanks for that, great presentation and has made me feel all optimistic

@QALibrary 2 года назад

Are you going to film the China wind turbine which is meant to be 16 MW?

@RyanEmmett 2 года назад

Brilliant video. Stunning visuals, excellently presented.

@WolfClinton1 2 года назад

Thanks Helen, you put across the scale of this so well.

@willm5814 2 года назад

Did my mech eng thesis on windpower for residential use back in ‘81 - this, is unreal 😊

@kiwiskiz 2 года назад

There isn't a big enough 'Like' button for this. Brilliant.

@PoeticJusticeSC 2 года назад

This was a great video. Informative and entertaining. Even the comments section was a refreshingly passive read.

@PAD058 2 года назад

Well done Helen. Great episode

@peterlarsen7779 2 года назад

Thank you for a very interesting clip! 👍👍

@Spooms1961 2 года назад

I live in a ‘wind alley’ in Victoria, Australia. There are wind farms using very large units close to this size, dotted all around this large area and they are being added to constantly at the moment. I think they look magnificent and make me feel that one aspect of the future is here. I just hope there is a change from the conservative government that we have right now, as they are blocking so much change because they are in the pocket of big oil and coal business.

@richardlangley90 2 года назад

It feels the same here in Canada...and our current government is Liberal. Our Provinces seem to be the decision makers when it comes to Electricity and although we have four different Parties running our Provinces only one stands out as being green. It's truly a sad state of affairs.

@DeepCreekTV 2 года назад

Great comment.....sad to think that if you shared these thoughts on any platform in Australia you would be attacked by pro coal, oil and gas.

@CausticLemons7 2 года назад

Interesting, informative, and I bet it was awesome going up in that massive turbine!

@mattdavies3023 2 года назад

You guys mentioned the first wind turbines in the uk being 1991 in the video but I remember doing a project in school in 1989 on the wind turbines stationed down near Pembrey. Fascinated me ever since - amazing how much they have changed in that 30 year period. 👍