Excellent video! I think you meant 1.0 Megawatt–there are no 10 Megawatt WTG’s (wind turbine generators) yet, as the largest in the world is a 5 MW turbine on a 120 meter tower -in Germany
This is pretty exciting watching all of this! I like how it’s not just a video of the turbine, but of the construction and everything that goes into putting one up. Also, for me at least, it was nice to see that it’s a GE turbine
I think maybe that the Fossil Gulch facility produces a total of 10MW with all 7 turbines up…not 10MW per turbine…because that would be one huge turbine…
How much did this cost us taxpayers and ratepayers, and how much of a true difference will it make in our energy supply? BTW, GE turbines are NOT made in the US, Zitronekopf. Don’t be fooled, do some research. Industrial wind power is an expensive scam.
Lots of wind farms are selling all their output through renewable energy credits, thereby sparing those Tragedy of the Commons ratepayers who would rather get their power by spewing mercury from coal into the food supply from having to pay the slightly higher cost of wind power at the moment. So,
DJJASON47, what’s your plan for reducing foreign oil?
How about advancing clean coal technology, nuclear, horizontal drilling both offshore and such places as ANWAR, MORE hydro, oil sands, etc. There is no way to satisfy radical environmentalism, we must come together and compromise. The lie of industrial wind can easily be seen if you just run the numbers. It cannot possibly make a dent in our electric needs!
I don’t know any wind power proponents who claim wind is the only source of power we need. However, I have looked at the numbers pretty carefully and I’m impressed by the potential of wind. I’d give you references but YouTube doesn’t accept links in these replies. I don’t have a huge problem with more nukes, it’s just that a nuke plant takes ten years to build, compared to a few months for a wind farm. Wind farms can expand incrementally and that’s important.
If you have looked at the numbers carefully, you have found that it takes a huge number of wind towers to equal just one conventional or nuke plant. We could cover our countryside with those giant towers and not make a real difference. Typical power plant produces up to 2000 MW of dependable, dispatchable power. One giant wind tower produces only about 1.5 MW of 20% efficient, intermittent power that needs to be backed up by a conventional power plant anyhow. What numbers have YOU been at?
If you looked at the numbers carefully, you would have realized that nuclear power is the most expensive form of power generation, and the only reason it’s seen as cheap power is because the government pays the difference! Wind, hydro and solar power are still the best eco-friendly ways of producing power.
Indeed, the facility has a production capacity of 10.5MW actually, that is not to say that it will produce 10.5MW constantly, but depending on wind conditions it is capable of producing up to that amount.
That is just plain amazing and beautiful. If you need newly graduated engineers, I would love to work on projects like this one.
Same here, to work with windparks in the future would be very giving.
I’d recommend that you watch the documentary Life Under a Wind Plant first.
Cool, great video.
Excellent video! I think you meant 1.0 Megawatt–there are no 10 Megawatt WTG’s (wind turbine generators) yet, as the largest in the world is a 5 MW turbine on a 120 meter tower -in Germany
This is pretty exciting watching all of this! I like how it’s not just a video of the turbine, but of the construction and everything that goes into putting one up. Also, for me at least, it was nice to see that it’s a GE turbine
I think maybe that the Fossil Gulch facility produces a total of 10MW with all 7 turbines up…not 10MW per turbine…because that would be one huge turbine…
How much did this cost us taxpayers and ratepayers, and how much of a true difference will it make in our energy supply? BTW, GE turbines are NOT made in the US, Zitronekopf. Don’t be fooled, do some research. Industrial wind power is an expensive scam.
That Bragg LR-1400 is a looooooong way from home!
Lots of wind farms are selling all their output through renewable energy credits, thereby sparing those Tragedy of the Commons ratepayers who would rather get their power by spewing mercury from coal into the food supply from having to pay the slightly higher cost of wind power at the moment. So,
DJJASON47, what’s your plan for reducing foreign oil?
How about advancing clean coal technology, nuclear, horizontal drilling both offshore and such places as ANWAR, MORE hydro, oil sands, etc. There is no way to satisfy radical environmentalism, we must come together and compromise. The lie of industrial wind can easily be seen if you just run the numbers. It cannot possibly make a dent in our electric needs!
I don’t know any wind power proponents who claim wind is the only source of power we need. However, I have looked at the numbers pretty carefully and I’m impressed by the potential of wind. I’d give you references but YouTube doesn’t accept links in these replies. I don’t have a huge problem with more nukes, it’s just that a nuke plant takes ten years to build, compared to a few months for a wind farm. Wind farms can expand incrementally and that’s important.
If you have looked at the numbers carefully, you have found that it takes a huge number of wind towers to equal just one conventional or nuke plant. We could cover our countryside with those giant towers and not make a real difference. Typical power plant produces up to 2000 MW of dependable, dispatchable power. One giant wind tower produces only about 1.5 MW of 20% efficient, intermittent power that needs to be backed up by a conventional power plant anyhow. What numbers have YOU been at?
you’re right, I’m sure the people who finance it didn’t “look at the numbers carefully” they love throwing away money….retard
If you looked at the numbers carefully, you would have realized that nuclear power is the most expensive form of power generation, and the only reason it’s seen as cheap power is because the government pays the difference! Wind, hydro and solar power are still the best eco-friendly ways of producing power.
I don’t know about you, but I wouldn’t personally mind having a field of turbines next to my house, but I don’t want a nuclear plant anywhere near me!
Indeed, the facility has a production capacity of 10.5MW actually, that is not to say that it will produce 10.5MW constantly, but depending on wind conditions it is capable of producing up to that amount.
Das soll eine 10 MW Anlage sein? Da lachen ja die Hühner. Schaut euch mal die E 126 von Enercon an!
Das is ne 1.5er von uns….wie kommst du auf 10MW????
Wenn man keine Ahnung hat….
crap and hate d yanks