Windmill out of control

Runaway windmill collapses during a storm in Denmark on February 22, 2008.

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1 Posted 636 days ago by gavblade85

Holy crap!!

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2 Posted 636 days ago by skodder

Yes luckily nothing happened, they had cleared the area.
Something about the bracing system went out of order :(

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3 Posted 636 days ago by wtfysc

Whoa. Pretty ballsy effort from whoever took that video.

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4 Posted 636 days ago by maximumgrunt

Yea for the cameraman! :O

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5 Posted 636 days ago by BombDiggady (moderator)

Wow, it kind of exploded.

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6 Posted 635 days ago by Cheezburgerz

fake

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7 Posted 635 days ago by browncoat

A windmill in Denmark collapsed during a storm in Denmark on Feb 22, 2008. The braking system failed while two technicians worked in the turret at the top. The technicians were able to get out before the collapse. A 19 meter piece of the blade was thrown 20 meters away; Smaller pieces were sent more than 500 meters away.

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8 Posted 635 days ago by zerorain

lol thats turbo gone wrong >:) >:) >:)

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9 Posted 635 days ago by Fergus_Thedog

Fake? You dickhead, Cheezburgerz.

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10 Posted 635 days ago by Dex11

Cheeseburger how can it be fake idiot???
Must be a very strong storm to collapse this. Holly crap!! :(

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11 Posted 635 days ago by Dex11

Ej browncoat!!! WTF??? :O :O

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12 Posted 635 days ago by DJKovu

This is not fake, its an Vestas Windmill and i did collaps for real, Vestas the buillder of teh windmills have had 6 Accednets within teh last cupel of mouths and last where and am wing that brow of an mill more in Denmark last night, the found pices of teh windmill 700 Meters away from teh collapsted win mill, and i know i live around the area

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13 Posted 635 days ago by DJKovu

here is 2 Links to the News with teh colapsing windmills


http://nyhederne.tv2.dk/video/index.php/nodeId-10565507.html


http://nyhederne.tv2.dk/video/index.php/nodeId-10546306.html

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14 Posted 625 days ago by TeeZee

At a predetermined speed the blades are designed to automatically adjust the pitch straight in to the wind to stop the prop from turning. Otherwise, critical failure.

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15 Posted 624 days ago by pleidian

I wish they'd all fucking collapse.

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16 Posted 619 days ago by jamesnw

Must have put out some nice power before it flew apart! :D

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17 Posted 619 days ago by Williams

Fake, Wind turbines are manufactured with steel.The video shows fibreglass flapping in the wind.

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18 Posted 618 days ago by visit-the-world

Williams....You say that it is a fake video because "the video shows fibre glass flapping in the wind"!
Your ignorance is truly amazing. The TOWERS are made from steel, but turbine blades are made from GLASS FIBRE. It is a piece of a huge blade that you see in the video at the end.
That video is not a fake. The turbine would have been spinning out of control for quite a while before it disintegrated. This gave time for people with cameras to gather,because the out-of-control turbine would have been visible for miles. That turbine looks like a small one, only about 150 feet in total height. Now they want to put hundreds across the beautiful hills of Wales,UK, that will be 400 feet in height ie almost TREBLE the height and width of that turbine. Spanish wind turbine company Gamesa, even wants to construct 600 feet high monsters in South Wales. They will EASILY be visible from a fifty mile radius. Wind turbines gain next to nothing in terms of CO2 savings , because the back-up fossil fuel power stations can never be switched off due to the vagaries of the wind.Wind energy is a DUPLICATION ,not a REPLACEMENT,far too often.
Wind speed drops far too frequently , without warning. Check www.metoffice.com/education/archive/uk for evidence of UK wind speeds , which are often too weak [below 9 knots] or too strong [ above 48knots] to generate electricity.. This turbine failed to brake and spun far too fast. The vibration then knocked the fibre glass blade into the column. This shattered all three blades.

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19 Posted 596 days ago by drexenor

Wild! :D

If anyone still wont believe this is real.. Here are some articles about this very incident..

http://ing.dk/artikel/85906
http://www.bt.dk/article/20080222/nyheder/802220354/
http://www.bt.dk/article/20080326/nyheder/80326067/

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20 Posted 576 days ago by SpikedSilver

Wow. I think normaly the bearing would collaps earlier. Must be a nice piece of engeneering there. It would be perfect if it did not explode.

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21 Posted 385 days ago by Smork

Something like this happened to a windmill on the island Samsoe in the Kattegat several years ago. The windmills are definitely not storm proof! The fragments were spread within a radius of 150 meters. Fortunately the windmill had been built on a large field.