The engineering going into these blades, to make them that long and strong enough to survive the North Sea is truly breathtaking. My hat is off to the team at GE.

They had to say "European" household since Americans use so much power... 🤣

One rotation will power a home for two days. Very impressive.

Denmark is building the world’s largest wind energy island Denmark is building two energy hubs with a potential capacity of 12 gigawatts, including one on an artificial island in the North Sea.

I work for Vestas. WE now have the world's most powerful wind turbine and also the longest blade at 115 Meters. It's a 15 Megawatt turbine!

Not going to lie wind turbines are absolutely beautiful to look at during a sunset. It’s very relaxing to me in my book

Meanwhile in the USA: "Wont you think of all the dead birdies?" " Also they cause cancer" oof

The Vestas V236-15.0 MW is a behemoth. It features three blades measuring 115.5 meters long for a total swept area of more than 43,000 square meters - that’s 10.6 acres or 4.3 hectares. Each turbine will be capable for creating 80 gigawatt-hours (GWh) of electricity per year, enough to power 20,000 homes.

7:35 Siemens 14 MW turbines are not called 'Gamesa'. The windpower division of Siemens is called Siemens Gamesa, as it's a joint venture. Pretty elementary error, I would think.

There's a lot of real technical details here, I love it

the blades are simply amazing. The sheer size of them boggles the mind and who knew so much technology goes into what seems like a very simple design.

Love gazing at the wind turbines going to Las Vegas.

smaller turbines can float higher in low vinds - float lower in high winds and even submerge completely in hurricanes/typhoons (fill/empty ballast tanks)

watching this reminds me the country Netherland..

Incredible machines! We’re in a new age of energy production

Wooohoo Blyth, Northumberland got a shout out, my home town, I'm hoping to get a job on this mega project!

12 Mega Watts, that’s almost enough power to power 800 homes

Just gotta add my 2 cents. Please everyone stop calling them wind mills; they aren't grinding grain or pumping water. Wind mills convert kinetic energy from wind into mechanical energy. Wind turbines convert that same energy into electrical energy. Same concept but very different output. It's just really hard to take people seriously when they call these things "wind mills".

First as many others has pointed out, Vestas has announced a 15 mw wind turbine a few month ago so this is already surpassed. And people asking what to do with surplus energy at night etc etc. Some companies in Denmark is planning on building a large Power to X factory in Esbjerg that will producer Ammoniak and Hydrogen to be used for fuel etc etc. Already some small rural train lines are replacing their old diesel trains with Hydrogen trains and DFDS wants to replace their Copenhagen Oslo Cruise ferries with Hydrogen driven cruise ferries by the end of the decade. So a locally located power to X factory will be very useful.

They haven't convinced the skeptics. The believers just convinced themselves even harder.

Low Efficiency for all wind turbines around the world no exception. Since 1919, German physicist Albert Betz declared that the limit for the theoretical maximum efficiency for a wind turbine is 59 % or a factor of 0.59. Today in 2021, more than 100 years later, we still cannot even reach the efficiency of 50%, even with all the powerful computation resources and sophisticated CFD models, and millions spent on building turbines. Most engineering books still tell us 0.40 as a practical efficiency of wind turbines, with the same limit being used for tidal turbines. If we continue to do the same thing over the next 100 years, Mr. Betz would come out of the grave and laugh at us. Maybe the limit is not right, but if we cannot even reach at least 50% efficiency, or figure out what is wrong, the rest of the effort would be futile. According to Appendix A Fluid Flow Power Theory Applied to Wind and Tidal Stream Power Density Calculations at page 53, EPRI North American Tidal In-Stream Power Feasibility Demonstration Project Phase: 1 - Project Definition Study Report: EPRI - TP - 001 NA Rev 2

transport at sea is rather easy as is conecting wind farms with under water cables - with aluminium honey comb blades they are low to no maintenance (the wind always blow offshore - the taller the turbine the better)

For the sake of the environment I wish them luck. I am curious if part of the contract involves GE removing these turbines when they eventually break down and if they are able to recycle these turbines.

I was hoping to get a look into the blades, gearbox, generator and switchgear of this turbine. Instead we get a lot of wide views of wind farms and lots of statistics and size comparisons.

We now need a cheap battery storage to match the gigantic amount of energy produced by this masterpiece of green technology...

Not mentioned is the cost and environmental impact of decommissioning. Check out the wind turbines installed in the US in the 80's-90's. It's a poor state of affairs.

0:47 This is why I have a problem with these kinds of propaganda. It's true in the strict sense: it's theoretical maximum output is 67 GW. And that is often used to compare it with other energysources, such as nuclear plants. And then it goes: 10 of these equal 1 nuclear plant of 670 GW. Which is FALSE. The truth is, each and all windmills only deliver between 30-40% of their maximum capacity on average during the year. So, in cost-benefit terms, you need to multiply everything by 3. Comes with it, that windmills only last for about 20 years, while modern nuclear plants go up to 50-60 years. Thus, to compare, the costs need to be multiplied by 3 once again. So actually, it's nine times as expensive than what the greens let you believe is the equivalent of a nuclear power plant. This truth is never mentioned by any Green or proponent of windmills... why? It gets even worse: because windmills are intermittent, you need much more backup to level out the peaks and valleys of energy-production and consumption, and that backup is done by gas, petrol, or coal.

Aww i hoped it was V236-15.0 MW from Vestas its even more impressive.

Vastas now making an 15MWH V265

Peace.. Shalom.. Salam.. Namaste and Thank You for All your efforts to support Wind Power 🙏🏻 😊 🌈 ✌ 🌷 ☮️ ❤️

I work for Siemens Gamesa. Great company. Solid machines.

7:25 there is an error MV instead of MW

$$ a maintenance nightmare $$

We’ve destroyed our land enough! We must reach out into the oceans and plant our electric trees!! We shall disturb ocean currents and migration paths and drape our green energy extension cords across miles of habitat! Yay for the environment!

2040: what’s this coal thing you speak of?

this guy did not know what he talked about . the Max limit is 59.3% , in the current engineering book suggest using 0.45 Betz's law shows that as air flows through a certain area, and as wind speed slows from losing energy to extraction from a turbine, the airflow must distribute to a wider area. As a result, geometry limits any turbine efficiency to a maximum of 59.3%.

Soooo? No fossil fuels were used to manufacture and construct the turbine? How many yards of concrete need to be transported to build the foundation? Do the concrete trucks burn fairy dust and unicorn farts?

I'm told non of these units are recyclable?? Now that's not very green is it??

Great work and vision by GE

wind turbines on the water are twice as expensive as those on land

Wind turbines are great for putting in at sea - but no-one wants to live within a KM of a wind turbine on land - the noise will drive you crazy. We have around 10,000 wind turbines installed in the UK, the Labour Party wants to put in 7,000 more on land and 2,000 at sea, borrowing around £400 BILLION to start the ball rolling. What it fails to say is who will own these 9,000 wind turbines.

This is good news! 🙋🏻‍♂️👍🙂

That Apple track pad shot 😂😂🤣

That's really a game changer! Good luck ... from egypt

Massive!! On the right track for sure!!📈📈📈

It's nearly a Danish windmill, GE acquires LM Wind Power in denmark in 2017, they made the 107m blade

and still, all wind and solar generators need conventional power generation backup because they can not ramp up / down the power output as required to control the grid. The more wind and solar there is on the grid, the more conventional power stations must be on standby or on partial load operation, which decreased their efficiency.

A capacity factor of 63% is not trivial. Offshore wind turbines usually make up to 40%. That would be a plus of 50%. Yet no explanation in the video how they achieve this. Strange.

and they still do not know what to do to wind turbine blades after 20-25 years of use, they just dig them down, but they are toxic, it is glass fiber and epoxy

I bet Elon Musk could design and build a one piece blade using some special formula, strong but lightweight, stainless steel. They could be built in a shipyard and loaded onto a special ship/barge that has some type of built-in Godzilla crane. Enough blades could be loaded onboard for any size offshore windfarm.

Why is it that everyone seems to think that putting wind turbines everywhere is gonna fix the problem?

Here in British Columbia which has a huge Pacific Ocean coast, what did they pick for more energy generation. They went for damming yet another river, this will include drowning 60 miles of arable land mostly to feed energy to a non existent but, hoped for LNG industry. Costing at least $12 billion all fresh debt. Russia’s Arctic LNG will kill this stupid plan before the debt is spent. The stupid decisions are astounding.

Saw a sea eagle cut in 2 near a wind mill in Denmark

Let's see if they hold together

*wonders that the feasibility of putting loads of those in the Great Lakes in North America*

1:51 offset 9,000 cars per year. Does that mean in the first year it offsets 9,000 cars, the second year it offsets 18,000 cars, finally offsetting 180,000 cars in its 20th year? If true, then one turbine could replace all cars worldwide given enough time? That does not make sense to me.

Can you do a video on technology used by Terrapower for power generation. Backed by Bill gates

I would like to know how much of Environmental Impact review goes into the production a Wind Turbine in comparison to the end purpose of renewable energy that it would produce. And if you use solar panels/electric batteries as part of your reasoning then I want full details on the Environmental Impact that goes into said production of those as well. Out of Sight does NOT make it renewable energy if you move the issue to a country like China who doesn’t actually care about the long term affects.

I am NOT knocking wind turbines, and I do not care about the payback in terms of money, The real question to ask is simply this; after its operational life, say 20 years, was the amount of energy/pollution that went into producing, and maintaining that Wind turbine, did the wind turbine generate more, than it cost in terms of pollution?

2:36 that how you know its an American channel

Real awesome !!⚡️🔌

Wind energy conversion. In layman's terms, I will explain why 'renewables' are not going to solve the energy needs of a society that takes for granted that turning on a light is a simple process. Wind is not something we 'farm'. Wind is a result of the rotation of the earth at the speed of 1000 Kph at the equator. A wind harnessing device called a wind mill uses this force to push huge aerofoils in one direction that are mounted on a central shaft that has a generator comprising of metallic elements, mostly copper, central to producing the power they are designed for, that requires no fossil fuel to operate. But what it takes to get this machine upright and positioned in such a way and in a place that will cause this physical reaction to take place is something that people are not made aware of, for fear of a concerted back lash by those who have every right to be wary and concerned of the detrimental impact they have on the surrounding countryside and those who live close by . What is involved to get it to that stage and the energy and materials needed to create these machines in it's self is, in no way, is a simple process. Unlike the explanations our governments give us to have us blindly accept there is no other alternative, other than nuclear power, and that is their scare the shit out of us gun. Starting with the mines that all the raw materials come from, then the transportation of this raw material to where they are converted into the millions of individual items such as nuts and bolts and washers to stop them from falling apart requires huge amounts of fossil fuels to power the tractors and trucks and locomotives and ships to get it to the first stage of their production. Using the energy created by coal burning power generators to produce not only the steel needed but for every single item required to have the finished product that will end up cluttering up our skyline and oceans, will take thousands of tons of coal and gas to produce the type of energy required to produce the steel these machines are made of, and that means carbon emissions. Getting all the components to the site needed for the assembly is a major logistical effort that takes thousands of people to perform, all depending on the machinery called cars. boats. and planes to do so. All consuming power that is not produced by coal, but is a vital element in the so called reduction of our dependency on carbon producing fuels for humans and industry to survive. As soon as these machines are on the ground, they start deteriorating and have what is called 'A use by date' after which there will be the requirement to replace them with new ones, and that will end up being thousands at any one time, and very little if anything of them can or will be recycled due to the nature of some of the materials used in their construction, such as the aerofoil blades that are made of synthetics that are not biodegradable. Taking into consideration the average cost to have these machines operating is up to fifty million dollars at a time, it is usually the governments who will subsidize these projects. Believing there will be a return on the money invested in these projects, assisting the multi national companies who control all the natural resources and the extraction of the elements required for the manufacture of all things associated with the renewable energy market.. Solar panels included demanding funds to prop up a process that is flawed. Everything produced for the renewable energy market has to be replaced every five to seven years, and when they are replaced, it will be at twice the cost of the original, due to the depletion of all the natural resources being used becoming more expensive to mine and process. It is self a defeating exercise to keep thinking that 'renewables' can replace our growing thirst for our electronic device driven society to bare. Carbon reduction. ? That went out the door the second they thought that creating millions of tons of carbon in the production of all these devices by burning whats left of our fossil fuels was a good idea. Clueless. The whole lot of them.

Fake news, Denmark is building a 15 megawatt turbine by Vestas Offshore. I myself build it.

Damn how much steel is needed?

A little arithmetic at 2:36 converts that to 9.5 acres. WoW

Whats the carbon footprint of making one of those?

La respuesta de General Electric a la crisis energética de Europa

4:41 is that the crane that spaceX is using for super heavy ?

Nice video.

There is an even bigger one now made my SiemensGamesa also it produces 14 MW and 15 MW if you add the power booster option

Is there sombody chasing the speaker in this video?

UK vs US battle here. Africa is the most efficient using one 1400 mAh solar charged battery / day.

Can someone please explain to me, (my brain is hurting) just how is the outer portion of the blades travelling faster than the prevailing wind actually assist with the power? I’m thinking if part of the blade travels faster than the wind it’s having to be pushed therefore hindering the process ? What am I missing ?

What type of fire suppression systems installed in it ?

“Eeeerr-Eeeeerr-Eeeeeeerr,..” - Trump. The 45th President of the USA.

I'm pretty sure that solar energy would've been a bettet investment

I think windmills are pretty neat but it seems like there are still a lot of obstacles they need to get over before we can put all our hopes on them. Things like the infrastructure required to put them in efficient spaces or the disposal of the fiberglass blades. I’ll be curious to see what the engineers behind them will do.

American share holders, French technology.

Vestas!!

lots of non-believers who have no ability to do maths and common sense, point to old turbines in some junk yard and say, "so much for being environmental". 42000 tons of carbon emissions is nearly the equivalent weight of an Iowa class battleship.

Right so if they are spinning 180 mph right now and they look very slow. Then how fast are the turbines that go rouge spinning stupid fast

China's Dongfang Electric has developed a 13 MW

15 minutes could save you 15% on car insurance.

GE builds actually very bad turbines, and this is an animation, while a bigger turbine is already errected. Sorry fake news!

So satisfying video 😌😌😌

too much mass moving too quickly. It makes me feel small. This has to be some sort of phobia.

Hello. Can I get the address of the company that manufactures air fans clean energy. Thanks.

Excellent

I hope this turns into a fruit full investment! but we got a long was to go in 50 yrs people will be like wtf why did they do it like that lol

Its Grazy !!!!

what's the maintenance look like: what needs to be done, how often and how much that cost. and then how long does it last.

We need hundreds of these in Bangladesh.

Wow humans (when not building military technology and arguing) can build some amazing things

Amazing!

It’s killing the bald eagle and putting them back in to extinction.

typical UK household *Shows a palace* 🤣

Yeah and this Halaide X isn't on the market yet. Plus GE are newcomers to offshore wind. Both SGRE and Vestas have more powerful turbines in the works

how much in carbon emission's created to design, build & dispose of these things?

what happens when the sea get really rough with gale force winds do they shut them down.?

India wind power project full contract to tata +suzlon provides