Holy crap!!

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

Whoa. Pretty ballsy effort from whoever took that video.

Yea for the cameraman!

Wow, it kind of exploded.

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.

lol thats turbo gone wrong

Fake? You dickhead, Cheezburgerz.

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

Ej browncoat!!! WTF???

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

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

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.

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

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.

Wild!

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/

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.

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.

Great. And Wyoming is getting rows and rows of these. They kill birds too. Getting energy from underground sounds a little bit better, and so does nuclear energy.

i dont wanna be around that when it does that

I don t want one on my roof anymore.
Even if the video can be great

WOW! Never saw that coming!!

before it broke down, it made enough power to light the city :p

Energy overdose, it is!

#20 this only happened because the break system on this one failed.

Cheezburgerz is going around declaring every Video is fake. Ban Him!!

Pure bending!!!!!!

id pay too see that

Watch this video clip eating cheezburgerz and you'll enjoy it

wooshwooshwooshWiichWiichWiichWiichWiichWiichWIICHWIICH LOOK AT ME GO! LOOK AT ME **CRUUASH** .. oh

Interesting that the first part to fail is not the hub, nor the blades' mounting point on the hub. The first part to fail is the very tip of one of the blades! Wind speed and centrifugal forces are highest there...

1. Wing tip fails.
2. Entire wing breaks apart and no longer provides a counterbalance.
3. The hub moves toward the other blades and _push_ them to destruction before they are ripped off of the hub.
4. In retaliation for this unprovoked attack, one of the blades hits the tower.
5. The dented tower has no structural integrity and bends over - just like a dented drinking straw.
6. The tower separates at a section assembly point, and only the lower section remains standing.

This happens when winds are too strong..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqEccgR0q-o

with the current strength of storms in 2022...hmmm..