The worlds highest wind turbine FL 2500 

Interresant, ich arbeite bei Enercon daher die Aversion gegen Getriebeanlagen und Gittermasten! ;-) Vielen Dank für die nette Unterhaltung!

Suuuper filmik. Fajnie zrobiony. I oczywiscie szacun dla tych ludzi którzy pracój nad montarzem takich budowli.

Ohhhh it is so cute. Look at waving at everyone. How adorable.

That thing is friggin huge! it's amazing that with the sheer size of the thing we even have the metallurgical technology to keep it together.

I for one am glad to see that the Germans are directing their energies in more positive way lately.

Wind energy is a valuable resource to 'replace' fossil fuel use. I am sure you can agree that if we continue to emit carbon into the atmosphere at the rate we are, we will have more than merely poor aesthetics to worry about, which you seem so bent on complaining about. I think they are beautiful, and have no problem with seeing them dotting my skyline south of town. They remind me that we are making steps in the right direction.

Great vid. I used to fabricate 31M blades for NEG MICON.

as gracefully as it sits above the landscape, its still an eyesoar... even though windpower is the next step forward...

2013, 5 years later, is it still working? Or has it caught fire yet?

Hurrah! Saving the world, one turbine at a time!

I think its all about Wave, Wind, Solar and Earth these days. Dams are insanely big and expensive projects compared to others. For instance whilst a wind farm is being built it will generate energy before the full project is completed. Whereas you have to wait years for a decent size dam to be built. And at such a high cost you cant always guarantee a good flow of water.

@kosmarka Actually, according to the website the FL 2500 is a 2.5MW unit. That makes sense. 2500 = 2.5MW.

great view from the top!! Those guys must have balls of steel to do that job!!

The highest of these wind energy plants type FL 2500 is about 525 feet high. The rotors are about 330 feet long. greetz.

No, I'm not German (I'm American, if it matters). But I'll give you two words that have had an almost mystic resonance over at least two centuries: German engineering.

Awesome, We need way more of these

@Stantonwarrior24 The higher a wind turbine is located, the greater the wind speed availability to the turbine blades. If it was turning a 2.5 megawatt generator, I'd say that there is plenty of wind there? Those things are geared, of course, so when those blades are moving at what appears to be a slow pace, under a load, that generator is spinning up a lot faster than the blades.

now that is MASSIVE!!!

@brt927 wind is air moving. air has mass. a lot of air has a lots of mass. The turbine slows the air down some. the kinetic energy of the air decreases, because some is transported into the blades of the turbine, which spin with this energy. The energy of the spinning blades is converted to electricity by a generator. It doesn't affect the climate, but offsets the energy extracted from coal, which does affect the climate by releasing CO2 and other gases

@silentspringreborn The bigger the turbine, the more efficient it is, the less energy transfer wasted and being much higher than standard, can reach stronger winds. Also they produce much much less noise. Its all about meeting the strict German standards of noise.

Jop=) Als Beispiel ne gängige Anlage die von RePower entwickelt wurde und die in Lizenz auch von der Fuhrländer AG gebaut wird. Die Anlage ist 85 oder 100m hoch mit 77m Rotordurchmesser. (Getriebe / 4 poliger Drehstromasynchrongenerator 1,5MW) Bei Nennlastbetrieb kann man sich im Maschinenhaus noch normal unterhalten. (Ich arbeite bei Fuhrländer, daher die Info =) )

Yup - the world's tallest wind turbine structure on the planet - I looked it up!! 205 meters (672 feet) by 90 meters (295 feet) rotor width. But Schneebergerhof, model E-126 Wind turbine, may not be as tall but it's output is way higher - 7 GW!

I would like to have a wind turbine in my community, but I know that the Power/electric companies are NOT gonna let go of its trapped customers too easily. Iam sure they will probably own these turbines too, and continue selling us power for profit..Iam ready to get off the grid!

That thing's a monster.

and I forgot!!.. VERY AWSOME!!

OK solche Anlagen gibs also auch. Die Getriebeanlagen in meiner Gegend sind aber echte Brummer. Bei Nennlast lassen sie sich nur schwer von Flugzeugen unterscheiden!

Good Video and Music

Hi! Amazing, I love green technology... Can anyone tell me why we are not doing more hydropower as well? The rivers usually always flow. A large amount of dams are being breached as they are old.

Cheeses Christ! that thing is BIG! my testicles climbed up to my throat when I watched those guy working that high!

Das seh ich anderst, gittermasten haben jede menge ecken an den der Wind verwirbelt wird und dadurch rauscht. Desweiteren sind Getriebeanlagen dafür bekannt das die wie ein Flugzeug brummen (nicht nur bei Nennlast) und den Blattspitzen fehlt der Tip der ebenfalls zu Geräuschreduzierung beitragen würde! MfG

@Yellow: Von einer Anlage mit 160m Höhe und einer so langsamen Rotordrehzahl (12-14 1/min bei Nennleistung) hört man unten nahezu garnichts mehr =)

sick video!

Winds are stronger the higher up you go. Greater height = greater winds = greater energy produced.

awesome....

How High is the tower? How long are the blades? How much did the whole thing cost? How much out put?

Well, we've had quite a few storms since wind turbines started going up. They shut down if it's too violent. Weatherproof? Are you simple?

@bigBadSweed It's 524 feet tall. 2500 refers to the model, not height :)

@Nobsi1982 Thanks for the information

Even the smaller ones are too intrusive on the landscape (and seascape) to honestly be called "clean" energy. The word "clean" should include ALL factors for quality of life and minimal disruption of the environment. Too many compromises are being made for these monsters. I see major hypocrisy in the turbine industry, which has a mindset much like gas and oil wildcatting. "We need the energy; the rest is collateral damage" (the usual sales pitch).

it's absolutely amazing!

@ChrisLuxembourg Uranium is as free as Wind power is. They're both natural resources available for use. And Nuclear Power Plant's won't explode either.

@MarsMoonEuropa What do you call the situation that happened in Japan then?

@diegodaudt Actually he said FL2500 which is 250,000 feet...

@bigBadSweed Still pretty tall though, 160m. 524ft. Huge. Gigantic.

much props to those people working that hi w/o a parachute but prolly a full body harness. a nice safety device. regardless. i dont know bout anyone else but id freeze up for a while, like a couple of hours as they try to pry my deth grip from the ladder to force me to ascend. believe me, i would try to leave grip marks, my knuckles would be white from sheer terror. and that would just be at 10ft up. imagine the rest of the way to the top=) much respect=)

Parts machined on a Kuraki Horizontal Boring Mill.

@GlassWalrus, that's an unrealistic question, but coal plants do use a lot less land per watt of power generated. I've seen turbine pushers comment that they'd put them on every possible acre to "reduce our carbon footprint." Very ironic land-rape mentality. No, I don't buy into "clean coal" or mountaintop removal. I'd like to see people using more birth control to reduce total energy demand, no matter what the source. The idea that "growing needs" MUST be met is the most obvious problem.

Feel free to move anytime!

it costs a lot for the first few years. past that...maintenance, and supervision costs...past that the wind farm pays itself off in spades.. it keeps working, the energy company makes a shitton of money in the longrun.

Maybe you should consider that what we build is as natural as anthills or beaver dams. Just because buildings and windmills don't grow doesn't mean they aren't nature also. Besides how can you complain that these aren't "green" from behind a computer inside a warm, electrically lit house?

We're supposed to be impressed that these skyscrapers keep getting larger and blighting ever more landscapes under a dubious "green" banner, merely because they don't burn fossil fuels in usage? Their construction and installation burns plenty of fossil fuels, of course.

Do you have any alternative solution?

How tall is it - looks like about 400 feet ?

The biggest problem I have with wind turbines is if the wind doesn't blow fast enough to move the blades the generator works as a motor and CONSUMES electricity to move the prop to keep the prop shaft from warping due to the amount of weight on it. Wind turbines are nothing more than a waste of consumer's money that only exist because of government subsidies.

Ach was! Bei den Windgeschwindigkeiten, bei denen die Anlage im Arbeitsbereich liegt, hört man von Verwirbelungen am Turm überhaupt nichts, genauso wenig wie vom Getriebe. Was die Blattspitzen angeht geb ich dir Recht, obwohl man das Geräusch das man am Boden hört, auch nicht als laut bezeichnen kann. Aber es ließe sich sicher noch reduzieren das stimmt. Aber was das Getriebe angeht ist es schlicht falsch, dass es irgendwelche am Boden hörbaren Geräusche produziert.

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how much power does that thing generate

wtf? It looks great!

@UnowMe00 solid masts become progressively quite unstable above the 100m height. If you were to build a 160 solid mast steel tower you would have to highly increase the diameter in order to have a stable structure. The amounts of steel needed to manufacture it would exponentially increase along with the manufacturing costs ..I wouldn't want to pay for those kilowatts ;) We are trying to produce cheaper energy not more expensive!

You da man, Fernando.

what series crane was used in this video-?

@GlassWalrus, it's not a matter of one or the other. Removing mountaintops to mine coal isn't all that different than desecrating them with skyscrapers. You have scarred the natural element either way. Above all else, people need to use more birth control and end the mindless agenda of "meeting growing needs" no matter what the side-effects. I don't get turbine-pushers who talk of reducing the "carbon footprint" while ignoring the net physical footprint. I think the latter is very important.

you gotta have some brass balls to do this kinda work!!

mas me sorprende la grua que usaron...

just how high is that thing? (in FEET please)

@CjGaughan @ChrisLuxembourg Fukushima and Chernobyl accidents are in the past. And besides, the Soviet Union didn't care too much for the reactors let alone human life. And even then, they didn't explode, just had partial meltdown.

@Borotech when has wind power killed anybody ?

Was that Forrest Gump or the Geico Caveman @ about 3:40 into the video?

WOW 7Mw, forget the homes it would power , think about the proffffittt, that thing in my back garden would make me about 1,500,000 GBP a year for 20 years with all the subsidy at 30% rolling capacity . Someones takin us all for a ride at our own expence.

Now how does this wind fan help cool the earth? I bet it uses 500,000,000 watts of power to make all that wind to cool the place down. I bet a giant coal electric plant is powering this giant fan.

corbet, The ironworkers Balls are carburized, slow cooled, re-heated and squeeze-quenched. Don't you know ANYTHING?

Correction: That's 7 MW, pardon me.

I just find them so cool to look at which is probably wired um

@kate5134 too much weight with the blades... and don't forget... they are in a high wind area, you lift a frame 300 feet wide with no stabilization? ugh!

@UnowMe00 agreed

what mt is long this turbine ?

Do you mean the worlds tallest? as its in Germany I imagine there are higher versions.

isnt the enercon e-126 the largest wind turbine?

I thought FL 2500 is equal to 250000 FT. Obviously, it's not that tall. But impressive nonetheless!

Because of the need for backup, a net total of zero usable energy is produced.

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@diegodaudt I know lol, I was just correcting you and telling you how what he said is actually a lot worse lol.

OMG HUGE!

Its agood job

You are profoundly ignorant of the German energy scene where these are being put up. They do help the envirnment considering the amount of displaced fossil fuel.

And now we have 12 MW with hights of 260 meters ...

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now thats high ! :O

the Power companies would be out of business though...

The word "clean" belies what they are doing to landscapes and soundscapes where they're installed. "Clean," along with "green" are shallow buzzwords that trivialize priceless rural quality of life factors, with the tunnel-visioned goal being electricity generation. I think aesthetic arguments alone are quite adequate to stop the proliferation of these monster towers, and it's working in many locales as people get wise to the sheer size & scale of these things. See "The Darmstadt Manifesto."

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Why do you need an alternative to something THAT DOES NOT WORK?

May be sthe strongest, but not always the largest (particularly offshore).

But it really is!!! :) I was at one few weeks ago!

sky horse very smart solution

To: NoEcologyNoEconomy So instead of being a huge nay-sayer, what do you actually propose? How would you suggest we get sustainable electricity if not from renewables?

@k0ffiesh0p or vestas...?

I wonder how much oil that thing consumes to lub the gear box? Also what is the bird kill rate? And how do you supplement its power when the wind isn't blowing? Would it exist without subsidies? Why did Ireland ban wind power into their grid....and next Spain? Germany certainly removed subsidies and the market crashed over night. Power mgrs. hate wind as it means conventional base load must be increased to take care of business when the wind doesn't blow. Wind BAD! COAL good!