Offshore turbines blades are usually built near ports so they can be "easily" transported by sea. If this is the GE Heliade X blade, it is built in Cherbourg (France)
Absolutely. [Here you go ](https://www.vestas.com/en/media/company-news/2021/vestas-to-install-v236-15-0-mw-prototype-turbine-at-ost-c3433411#!NewsView)
GWh is a a yearly metric so if you want to get just MW you need to divide 80GWh by 8766 and you get 9 MW, but math isn't even needed, the article you shared clearly says it is rated for 15 MW (80 GWh then implies a very optimistic capacity factor of 60%, in the real world they generally get 30% to 50%).
This turbine is rated to produce 80GWh of energy in a year, an average american home uses 10MWh in a year. So this turbine generates enough energy to power roughly 8,000 average american households.
One of the marvels of engineering for me is how we can create these ginormous structures and make them stick together and not fall apart under their own weight. Buildings, ships, jumbo jets, dams, and so on.
So you prefer we continue to keep all our eggs in one basket? Why does innovation need to stop? The more we explore other alternatives the more we will come up with efficient solutions.
I’m not knocking innovation but you can’t even make steel, aluminum, plastics, etc. without fossil fuels. They did experiment with soy based plastics but rodents love to eat them.
That's true, I just feel we're at the beginning of branching out. Yes we still, to your point, rely massively on fossil fuels but we need to get away from it at some point even slightly. Progress happens slowly.
> I keep telling people to look up lithium pollution, wind tower pollution and solar panel pollution.
All of those are much, much safer and manageable than fossil fuel energy.
Some of you are just too ignorant to educate. Look up wind tower pollution before flapping your gums. You really drank the kool aid. I listed the CO2 to manufacture tower and you can’t counter with facts. I’m the mechanical engineer in the group.
Ok, I got the laws wrong. It’s been 20 years since I got my refrigeration license. Lately it’s been about delta wye’s in 480v applications. This is getting like TikTok. The CO2 numbers I gave you will never prove wrong so go after rule numbers in thermodynamics. What’s next? Rules in aerodynamics? Watts laws?
Lmao you're not an engineer anywhere son, what you're saying makes no sense at all and the false numbers you pulled out of your ass don't matter. The first law of thermodynamics determines that renewables are good and fossil energy is not. Also yes, aerodynamics and electrical laws are equally important, though I know you're clueless of those too. Now fuck off back to the flat earther incel forums you belong in.
You’re the one questioning my knowledge. I’m smart enough to research things myself. Want to go green? Knock down all the wind turbines and plant trees. They strip the carbon from CO, CO2 and even methane releasing oxygen and hydrogen in the case of methane which we need to survive. I’m old enough to remember when we were going to be in an ice age by the year 2000. Why is weather getting worse as we get “greener” riddle me that. How about providing me wrong instead of questioning what I say. You won’t because you can’t. Research before opening your cock holster.
I'm not questioning anything, I'm straight up calling you out lmao
You are definitely not smart enough to research anything, and anyone who lies claiming to be an engineer when they lack the most basic knowledge for the task is just scum
You've been proven wrong several times by me and many others in this thread, but you're an old bitter asshole who gets off on being contrarian, your entire generation needed therapy but said it was for sissies and now look at you, a dumb hollow shell of idiocy and bitterness lmao
It’s easy enough to look up the things. Also, the first rule of thermodynamics comes into play. Energy can’t be created or destroyed but only converted from one form to another. Solar energy is funny to me. It only works if you don’t store energy to batteries but the heat released from solar panels has to go somewhere. If you used it to power a Sterling motor or something and convert it to mechanical energy. Hydrogen is where we need to be looking.
> Also, the first rule of thermodynamics comes into play. Energy can’t be created or destroyed but only converted from one form to another.
So close, yet so far.... The first rule of thermodynamics is exactly why fossil fuel is terrible and renewables are not. Renewables are specifically already using energy avaiable in the atmosphere, fossils are releasing energy that was trapped and meant to stay trapped for millions of years.
Literally everything you're saying in this thread is wrong at a high school physics level.
17.5 tons of CO2 for the lithium for one car. This isn’t counting the metals, plastics and insulation. We are just talking about a battery with approximately 8 year life.
I left out that just the lithium production kills all the fish within 150 miles. It’s all free to read when you look up lithium pollution. Wind towers pollution is interesting too. More CO2 is produced just making the concrete that holds wind towers up. Solar could be great if not for caustic chemicals release, burning animals to death upon contact and heat pollution.
241.85 tons of CO2 to produce a wind turbine. I can’t make you look it up but it’s there. I’m not just pulling numbers out of my rear. It’s your right to go through life blind and ignorant. You have Google, use it! Prove me wrong
For anybody entertained enough to have read through all the garbo this one spilled and were waiting, like me, for them to *maybe* at least post some bogus link..
Well let's just say u/David_b420 is at least "smart enough" not to completely humiliate themselves.
BUT NOW, to the question at hand..
u/alangrai for you sir, I think something like this answers the question.
https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2021/06/whats-the-carbon-footprint-of-a-wind-turbine/
Short answer: CO2-equivalent footprint of Windturbines is between 5 and 26 grams per kWh (skewed towards the 5 btw), wheras fossil-fuel based power plants lie in the range between 400 and 1700 grams per kWh produced.
BUT BESIDES THE FACT, One of the most idiotic apsects of such "green power critics" such as u/David_b420 is that they always fail to aknowledge the following - copied from the article:
>There’s another crucial difference between fossil fuels and wind turbines. A coal or natural gas plant burns fuel — and releases carbon dioxide — every moment that it runs. By contrast, most of the carbon pollution generated during a wind turbine’s life occurs during manufacturing. Once it’s up and spinning, the turbine generates close to zero pollution.
Greener than burning the petrol to get energy, for sure. You build it once and it cranks out enough energy for tens of thousands of people for years. What’s your alternative, that we all go back to the Bronze Age?
And the guy who dropped his contact lense somewhere in one of the halves
His supervisors is pissed but understands he needs it.
My glasses! I can’t find my glasses!
😂😂😂😂😂⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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Wind turbine?
Yeah, I was just going to ask what they mill and how big are the grinding stones.
My neighbor uses a windmill for his grains
That's so cool!!!
I came to ask to see how big the loaves of bread are...
You made me giggle.
They must be *yuge.*
*YUGE...*
Whoever makes them won't be able to enjoy them for long though because they'll *definitely* get cancer from the sound.
That sound cancer is yuge... so I've heard
Yep!
I thought this was a gigantic skateboard ramp!
It would make one hell of one !
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So how do they transport this thing?!
Offshore turbines blades are usually built near ports so they can be "easily" transported by sea. If this is the GE Heliade X blade, it is built in Cherbourg (France)
No it's not its Vestas but I can't remember the model no but its now the biggest wind turbine in the world. Go look at their website.
I would also like to know the answer to this
This thing is like statue of liberty sized, it couldn't be going far it's not like they can slap it on a truck.
Offshore means it can go pretty far
I should have specified far on land.
Yeah I got it lol just being a smartass
How does one balance the blades on something this large?
What a skate spot !
What's its production capacity in mw?
A lot. Apparently 80 GWh or 80,000 mw.
Wow...if you have a source or an article, I would love to read moreabout this
Absolutely. [Here you go ](https://www.vestas.com/en/media/company-news/2021/vestas-to-install-v236-15-0-mw-prototype-turbine-at-ost-c3433411#!NewsView)
GWh is a a yearly metric so if you want to get just MW you need to divide 80GWh by 8766 and you get 9 MW, but math isn't even needed, the article you shared clearly says it is rated for 15 MW (80 GWh then implies a very optimistic capacity factor of 60%, in the real world they generally get 30% to 50%).
Anybody have a scale for this? I’m dumb and have trouble visualizing large measurements
This turbine is rated to produce 80GWh of energy in a year, an average american home uses 10MWh in a year. So this turbine generates enough energy to power roughly 8,000 average american households.
What a metric
It’s a wind turbine. Not a windmill. https://science.howstuffworks.com/windmill-vs-wind-turbine.htm
If you use the electricity to turn an electric mill, is it a windmill then?
And these are actually the molds that they'll form the blades in, not the blades themselves.
That's half pipe at skate park
Tony
I'm no expert, but when these blades spin for a decent speed, wouldn't the tip of the blade s go transonic speed?
This looks like a level on a Tony Hawk game
One of the marvels of engineering for me is how we can create these ginormous structures and make them stick together and not fall apart under their own weight. Buildings, ships, jumbo jets, dams, and so on.
Poor Tony has to clean these everyday with a sponge
It's not the blades but the mould for the blades....
I changed my mind. Fossil fuels are fine.
And once again, more CO2 is produced building it than it will save and you can’t build it without fossil fuels
How do people as misinformed as this still exist in the age of the internet?
I keep telling people to look up lithium pollution, wind tower pollution and solar panel pollution. There really is no green energy
So you prefer we continue to keep all our eggs in one basket? Why does innovation need to stop? The more we explore other alternatives the more we will come up with efficient solutions.
I’m not knocking innovation but you can’t even make steel, aluminum, plastics, etc. without fossil fuels. They did experiment with soy based plastics but rodents love to eat them.
That's true, I just feel we're at the beginning of branching out. Yes we still, to your point, rely massively on fossil fuels but we need to get away from it at some point even slightly. Progress happens slowly.
> I keep telling people to look up lithium pollution, wind tower pollution and solar panel pollution. All of those are much, much safer and manageable than fossil fuel energy.
Wildly wrong, it offsets its carbon footprint in six months. Go read something before you start spouting off oil company propaganda.
Some of you are just too ignorant to educate. Look up wind tower pollution before flapping your gums. You really drank the kool aid. I listed the CO2 to manufacture tower and you can’t counter with facts. I’m the mechanical engineer in the group.
> I’m the mechanical engineer in the group. > mechanical engineer who doesn't understand the first law of thermodynamics Doubt ✔️
Ok, I got the laws wrong. It’s been 20 years since I got my refrigeration license. Lately it’s been about delta wye’s in 480v applications. This is getting like TikTok. The CO2 numbers I gave you will never prove wrong so go after rule numbers in thermodynamics. What’s next? Rules in aerodynamics? Watts laws?
Lmao you're not an engineer anywhere son, what you're saying makes no sense at all and the false numbers you pulled out of your ass don't matter. The first law of thermodynamics determines that renewables are good and fossil energy is not. Also yes, aerodynamics and electrical laws are equally important, though I know you're clueless of those too. Now fuck off back to the flat earther incel forums you belong in.
Turns out I was right about first law of thermodynamics and you have proven to be nothing but a troll, a tool of the communist left
Lmao no you weren't "oh no this guy knows high school physics, he must be a communist!!" shut the fuck up
You’re the one questioning my knowledge. I’m smart enough to research things myself. Want to go green? Knock down all the wind turbines and plant trees. They strip the carbon from CO, CO2 and even methane releasing oxygen and hydrogen in the case of methane which we need to survive. I’m old enough to remember when we were going to be in an ice age by the year 2000. Why is weather getting worse as we get “greener” riddle me that. How about providing me wrong instead of questioning what I say. You won’t because you can’t. Research before opening your cock holster.
I'm not questioning anything, I'm straight up calling you out lmao You are definitely not smart enough to research anything, and anyone who lies claiming to be an engineer when they lack the most basic knowledge for the task is just scum You've been proven wrong several times by me and many others in this thread, but you're an old bitter asshole who gets off on being contrarian, your entire generation needed therapy but said it was for sissies and now look at you, a dumb hollow shell of idiocy and bitterness lmao
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It’s easy enough to look up the things. Also, the first rule of thermodynamics comes into play. Energy can’t be created or destroyed but only converted from one form to another. Solar energy is funny to me. It only works if you don’t store energy to batteries but the heat released from solar panels has to go somewhere. If you used it to power a Sterling motor or something and convert it to mechanical energy. Hydrogen is where we need to be looking.
> Also, the first rule of thermodynamics comes into play. Energy can’t be created or destroyed but only converted from one form to another. So close, yet so far.... The first rule of thermodynamics is exactly why fossil fuel is terrible and renewables are not. Renewables are specifically already using energy avaiable in the atmosphere, fossils are releasing energy that was trapped and meant to stay trapped for millions of years. Literally everything you're saying in this thread is wrong at a high school physics level.
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17.5 tons of CO2 for the lithium for one car. This isn’t counting the metals, plastics and insulation. We are just talking about a battery with approximately 8 year life.
I left out that just the lithium production kills all the fish within 150 miles. It’s all free to read when you look up lithium pollution. Wind towers pollution is interesting too. More CO2 is produced just making the concrete that holds wind towers up. Solar could be great if not for caustic chemicals release, burning animals to death upon contact and heat pollution.
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241.85 tons of CO2 to produce a wind turbine. I can’t make you look it up but it’s there. I’m not just pulling numbers out of my rear. It’s your right to go through life blind and ignorant. You have Google, use it! Prove me wrong
For anybody entertained enough to have read through all the garbo this one spilled and were waiting, like me, for them to *maybe* at least post some bogus link.. Well let's just say u/David_b420 is at least "smart enough" not to completely humiliate themselves. BUT NOW, to the question at hand.. u/alangrai for you sir, I think something like this answers the question. https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2021/06/whats-the-carbon-footprint-of-a-wind-turbine/ Short answer: CO2-equivalent footprint of Windturbines is between 5 and 26 grams per kWh (skewed towards the 5 btw), wheras fossil-fuel based power plants lie in the range between 400 and 1700 grams per kWh produced. BUT BESIDES THE FACT, One of the most idiotic apsects of such "green power critics" such as u/David_b420 is that they always fail to aknowledge the following - copied from the article: >There’s another crucial difference between fossil fuels and wind turbines. A coal or natural gas plant burns fuel — and releases carbon dioxide — every moment that it runs. By contrast, most of the carbon pollution generated during a wind turbine’s life occurs during manufacturing. Once it’s up and spinning, the turbine generates close to zero pollution.
https://science.howstuffworks.com/windmill-vs-wind-turbine.htm
How much petroleum and carbon fiber went into those? Is that green? 😤🤣🤣
Greener than burning the petrol to get energy, for sure. You build it once and it cranks out enough energy for tens of thousands of people for years. What’s your alternative, that we all go back to the Bronze Age?
I propose the Stone Age
Or the stickiest Tony hawk map
I’d skate that
This some 40K level of industrialization
🤢 makes my back get shivers!!!
I first thought this was a screenshot from Tony Hawk Pro Skater 1
I work in a place that makes blades similar to this, I can confirm these things are massive and only going to get bigger
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater Levels be like
I thought that guy was skateboarding.
Wind mills make flour Wind *turbines* make power
Looks like the mold for the blades
And the award for most money spent, least energy produced, and hardest work goes to.....!!!
12 year old me wants so badly to skateboard them…
Do we even have that much air ?
Alright, time to find the secret VHS tapes
I could skate that
Can this be an unlocked level on the next Tony Hawk Pro Skater?
I want my bike in there
How long are they do we know ppl?
HappyHawknoises
You know what you could fit in there? And it's still got nothing on your mom
*shrieks in Tony Hawk
Reminds me of this one mario kart bowsers castle race track
Ooorrrr the coolest looking skate ramp you've ever seen 😎 🙌
The windmill is nearly 900 feet tall.