+Alexandre Esquenet nuclear is the way to go.

+Alexandre Esquenet Are you an idiot? It is physically impossible to blow up a nuclear power plant. They're not blowing up bombs in there, the Uranium is a particular ratio of unreactive 238 to reactive 235. The ratio makes it physically impossible for a nuclear power plant to explode. There's a reason they are called *melt downs*.

Fukushima plant did explode due to over pressure of vapors. It is not a nuclear explosion, but the radiations and side effect is the killer.

+Alexandre Esquenet oh yeah because we have constant tsunamis in the USA, we should definitly abandon nuclear power

"Nuclear plant explosions" - like the ones we're always hearing about in France where over 70% of their electricity is currently generated - up from 50% in the early 1970s. Oh, you didn't hear about them? Gee, I wonder why? LMAO

+Gem Guy You're so wrong they catch fire like hot oil!

+joshua felty lol

In the early stages of the video, it looked like a VW engine had been fitted........

+Gem Guy The pollution starts in China with their magnets and goes on for the steel(made with coal)and the huge loads of reinforced concrete in their foundations that also takes shit loads of energy to make. Windmills pollute more than coal fired powerplants! before they even run!

You were lied to...

sorry man my bad

+Paul Zigouras Most likely damage to the insulation in the windings got it started, then started burning. Remember these things do produce a lot of energy in a small space, and the melting (and vaporised) copper, steel and aluminium will make everything around it burn. Oil, floor, anything plastic, aluminium when it's hot enough, glassfibre reinforced plastic, paint. The only stuff left will be things like framework and piping exposed to cooling air flow.

It's hooked up to an electrical grid. The circuit breakers will let through the same current whether it's outbound or inbound, so shorted windings just become a huge electrical heater. The smoke and stuff is burning plastic, but the heat and sparks are from the electricity.

So why is fire such a problem in wind turbines, but you never seem to hear of it in steam turbines?

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It might run but not work. Those propellers have ‘ emergency breaks in case the wind goes above the speed limit the generator can handle, just disengage the breaks and the blades will turn, then every thing would go out of wack and the whole tower would be coming down. So, let’s not rush things.

Wtf no

johannes pettersson x

It did not fall of

Richard P. Nathhorst Micheal Moore would disagree. Check out his film “Planet of the Humans”. In a nutshell, Green energy is a scam and in some ways dirtier then fossil fuels. The burning windmill for instance is built mostly of fiberglass. Hard if not impossible to recycle after its relatively short lifespan. Solar panels, electric cars, bio fuel generators all are filthy and energy intensive when it comes to their manufacture. Not my words. Those are the findings of far left Michel Moore.

in the netherlands!!!

Yea i remember hearing that

yes

Punta Surf Good for you America is so great!! You can keep it and stay on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean along with your 5 liter V12 detroit muscle oil-burning machines for all i care. And your dollar bills that are worth the paper and the ink they're printed on. FYI that turbine was mounted and maintained by the Spanish, it's not ours. What do we do when there's no wind? There is always wind, that's why it works all year round!!

I got your point. But you could have been a bit more polite on your previous comment, explain yourself differently, less agressive/offensive. You just started a country war for no reason. They do catch fire. How many and for how long to pollute as much as oil rigs that also catch fire? They kill birds. How many, compared to the fish and hundreds of other animals that dams and sea oil rigs kill? How many ecosystems are destroyed by oil infrastructures built on sea and land? How about oil spills? How about all the acres these take, compared to a wind turbine? I'm building my own wind turbine. Most of the videos i watch on youtube are from Americans trying to go offgrid. The largest wind and solar companies are American, for what i've learned. Wind and solar are feasable and sustainable in the U.S.. Why isn't it happening? Lack of political/corporate will because oil plays a big role. They don't want it to happen, it would ruin their business. This is my point of view. Relax and ease your mind buddy. Have a nice week :-)

Valter Lopes Dont worry about the trolls, they just want attention. But the bird thing is an interesting problem, minor compared to dam's and minor compared to knock on effects from air pollution/green house gas emission caused by fossil fuel plants. Unfortunately troll brains are not designed for multilayered problems. I live in Kansas USA and wind turbines are becoming a quite nice secondary source of income on a lot of our farms, with thought (something else that trolls don't bring to the table) it is quite possible to have effective wind farms and our signature wheat fields. I suspect you noticed that the troll didnt mention the oil spill that BP created in the gulf of Mexico, as far as environmental damage goes that event alone overwhelms all the problems caused by all the wind mills in all the world (some 200 million gallons - 760 million liters!! of crude oil) And you are certainly right about our problems getting anything done over in this country. We have a tremendous problem with the wealthy having WAY to much influence on our government. In an incredible fit of stupidity our courts have removed any restraint to the amount of money that corporations can spend to elect politicians (the legal case is referred to as "Citizens United"), this does not bode well for us in general and specially in the environmental field where pay offs (better air, cleaner water, improved balance of payments) are slow to see, expensive in the beginning and generally take more smarts than trolls even realize can exist. Glad to hear Portugal is doing so well with alternative energy. Everything I hear out of Europe is showing that you guys are doing great. Saw where Norway has 20% of new car sales all electric vehicles, you guys have tons of things to take well earned pride in Oh and do keep in mind that these comment things really do attract generally the worst of the citizens of the USA. I suppose you have some Portugues trolls to, right? take care

Thanks for the positive input. Most of the EU and Asian car manufacturers are producing large scale and selling great. The only con so far for electric vehicles is autonomy. They go around 150 miles at full capacity (some more and some less). Good for short distances or city traffic. Eco laws are strict around here. About the trolls... they're everywhere!!

+Punta Surf You unintelligent person. You know what also catches fire, kill birds, cause noise pollution and take up hundreds of acres of land? Cars and planes. Stop complaining about something that is doing the world good, just because you happen to dislike it.

What in the hell are you talking about?

a way to escape the fire, workers died in such a fire , one jumped other burned , l was thinking of a way out for workers. one way is to use the blades , travel down them using chlothes as rope , twised with torniquet to be tight , but then need a way to hang the body to that . l thought of arm under clothes rope but that is not healthy for the arm.

fire prewented going that way l think

+Adam Caulfield One car uses more carbon in a year than that whole fire.

+Luca Fuoco haha 911 was such a inside job everyone knws it

agreed taledarkside

yes

+Rainer Lampatzer Schlag mal Förderhöhen, Kavitation und Lageenergie nach. Davon kannst du deine Antwort ableiten. Aber ich versuch's mal: damit die Anlage funktionieren könnte, müsste das Löschwasser oben bei der Turbine in einem Tank bzw. Basin gelagert werden. Insbesondere, wenn es sich um eine klassische Sprinkleranlage handelt, bei der eine Glasmembran durch Hitze zerspringt und das Wasser nur durch Eigengewicht durch die Düsen gedrückt wird. Eine Löschanlage mit Pumpen wäre viel zu aufwändig und würde sich wohl aus ökonomischen Gründen nicht lohnen. Kosten-Nutzen-Rechnung. Da saß nicht nur ein einziger Ingenieur bei, der gepennt hat - das ist etablierte Technik. Ich bin zwar kein Ingenieur, weiß; aber, dass eine Löschanlage verbaut worden wäre, wenn sie Sinn ergeben hätte. So eine Turbine kostet ja bekanntlich eine Menge Geld, da haben sich einige Menschen den Kopf zerbrochen, wie man die Investition zu schützen hat.

Also: So wie das racuht kann das nur Öl sein. Zu der Menge Geld hätte man mit ein bisschen mehr noch das ölgeschmierte Getriebe durch ein ölloses Getriebe ersetzen können. Oder gleich einen getriebelosen Generator und einen luftgekühlten Transformator. Ohne Löscheinrichtungen sind in Deutschland solche Brandlasten nicht zulässig. In Protugal vermutlich auch nicht, aber dort interessiert ich eher niemand für solche Kleinigkeiten. Imerhin ist ja niemand zu (Personen)Schaden gekommen.

Rainer Lampatzer Hast absolut recht mit dem Ölbrand, da muss kohlenwasserstoffbasierte Schmiere verwendet worden sein. Sehr interessant, dass sowas in Deutschland nicht zulässig ist. Wieder was gelernt.

+Rainer Lampatzer Die meisten WEAs brennen ab, weil die Bremse nach Stoerung der Steueranlage ueberlastet wird. Getriebelose Generatoren finden sich in den meisten Enercon WEAs, wae;hrend Vestas, Siemens und einige andere Hersteller weiterhin mit Getrieben arbeiten. Edit: KZfaq hatte ein Problem mit den Umlauten, deswegen die seltsame Schreibweise.

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It's either a vestas V90 or V80

Sort of like when nuclear plants malfunction. And when oil rigs explode.

+Panama warehouse I like them but the reason that some people dont is because inside they have break and if the wind is blowing too fast and the break is on the brake can heat up and catch fire then the windmill starts spinning too fast and burning parts fly hundreds of feet into the woods and start forest fires and sometimes when they are way out in the forest no one will know for days. Thats why a lot of people dont like them.

they are known to cause cancer

Yeah in california

+Lowered 7th Gen F150 Sounds to me like a bad design. There is no intelligent reason to hate the entire technology.

+Lowered 7th Gen F150 what? how can a wind turbine cause cancer?

+Pedro Pascoal comentário desnecessário...

In Portugal, they speak Portuguese, which to the untrained ear, sound very much alike. They are both Latin languages, and use similar sentence structure.

Yep totally

Is portugal

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+antonio angel porque esse merdinhas brasileiro nao falou mais podia plomenos pedir desculpas !

+antonio angel fdx quem fala assim n é gago. mt bem respondido

+Celso Gomes LOL otario.

+Celso Gomes Seu bosta tupiniquim, vai lá ver o povo primitivo e depois compara com o teu!!

+CL_PRO Can you tell me what language they speak in Madeira Island?

+CL_PRO They are actually speaking Castagian/Spanish

+MadeiraIslands Sounded like Portuguese to me. Either that , or it must be a really, really strange version of Spanish!

Paul Langford Can you tell me what language they speak in Madeira Island?

+CL_PRO GFY