Building $10 Million Offshore Wind Turbine in Middle of the Sea
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- čas přidán 21. 07. 2024
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Great video! I just wish you could reference metric units instead of random imperial units such as feets, NFL fields and Statues of Liberty.
A modern turbine blade is up to 80-85 meter long from root to tip
If u understand all units u can convert fast
Everyone will share vdo in wht the maker is comfortable
This is America we measure shit by seeing how many bald eagle wingspans fit.
r/MetricMasterrace
Sounds like a first world problem.
Wow,super enjoyed,this would be worlds hope of energy,moved from heat energy which full of risk,death,conflict and war into cool energy,clean energy,calm electricity❤❤
Until a hurricane comes through lol.
Amazing 🤩
Your videos are awesome..
Wow. . .🤩🤩🤩really so beautiful . . .so great . . .super amazing 🤩🤩🤩
Engineering at it's best, simple marvelous !
Cost - benefit analysis is the keyword
Very interesting
Mam no words to say great
beautiful
Cost benefit? The Cost doesn't matter, Benefit - customer just has pay no matter how expensive it becomes. 😢
You guys always come up with something interesting
Mostly lies
I agree. Nothing has changed about energy needs, we just need more of it. Also, climate change is a myth. The earth will return to mostly water at some point. It's history.
How are the foundations done on offshore wind turbines?
Generally monopiles, installed direct into the seabed with giant hydraulic piling hammers. You can see the MENCK hammer in the video @4.20 (the yellow thing on the crane with a blue M).
i have worked on the norwegian project those are floating, with 3 anchors at the bottm
The video mentioned some types, TLPs and spars.
@@alabamacoastie6924 A spar would have to be enormous to offset the sheer size and height of a wind turbine, that's insane!
Saltwater issues alone would be a major problem, and don't these turbines need blades replaced in these environments more often?
@@garysmith5025 No, the oil and gas industry has been building largely concrete structures w mass 100,000 tons for decades, immune to sea state, generating cash flow on the order of 1-5 million euros per day, justifying very large maintenance budgets. That problem has been solved.
These little 200 ton stick in the mud steel foundation turbines are a very different problem, with fast moving blades eaten up by salt spray in 10-15 years.
@@garysmith5025 Why would you imagine I’m interested in what you say is low cost for a major marine operation? I supplied an independent report. If you have contrary data, please post.
@@garysmith5025 Do you listen to yourself? Claiming some scientists are “sell outs” , with no investigation of their evidence, while you champion giant multinationals as all knowing, and you’re smug about it. Then you put words in my mouth about what “people like” me believe. Just go sod off.
@@Nill757 I have never seen a single concrete rig in the North Sea, you're thinking of the Arctic.
@@krashd Not sure what you’re talking about then. Statoil Troll A is the largest platform in N Sea, in Troll field off Norway.
, using Condeep (reinforced concrete foundation) design. There are another dozen Condeep designs out there.
“Condeep is a make of gravity-based structure for oil platforms invented and patented by engineer Olav Mo in 1972,[1] which were fabricated by Norwegian Contractors in Stavanger, Norway.[2][3][4] Condeep is an abbreviation for *concrete* deep water structure. “
HOW LONG will it take for them to breakeven
10 years and then another 15 years of operational gains.
@@paxundpeace9970 so you mean 25 years in total ?
Yea then after 25 years gotta rebuild all over again most likely , plus would be maintenance cost over its life time aswel
The oldest wind turbine farm in the UK is now 31 years old. It changed hands 20 years ago and installed 4 more turbines (doubling it's output), enough for about 7,000 homes.
Use full video use full energy⚡
Good video
It starts out showing the steam coming out of those stacks, I guess the trying to trick you into thinking is pollution…..it’s water vapor!
10 million is light - vessel alone is over 100k a day and you have to lay and bury the cable
Nice vidio..
Good 👍👍
Hard to believe these things generate more power than it takes to build and maintain them
And for being cleaner ; those fires say bullschitte
Hard to believe 1kg of uranium generates millions of time the energy of 1kg of coal, but it's the reality.
A bit like a gas, coal, biomass, or nuclear power station you mean? Except on top of the 10-15 years to build the power station, then add the rail & road connections and paying for the fuel day after day, week after week, year after year
@@TAttiusMaximvs anything that generates steam , produces more energy than a wind turbine .
I don’t have any numbers , but I’d guesstimate that wind is a tiny fraction of the electricity created by coal, gas, or nuclear .
BUT , you have shifted me into defending those fuel sources . My original question is how much energy does it take to build a wind turbine farm ? And how much do they actually create ? Also do they all eventually fail and burn up ?
@@psychiatry-is-eugenics I think what sells these is FREE power
Nice video
It seems like putting solar panels on homes and parking lots is much easier than building massive offshore wind farms. I'm all for offshore wind, but there should also be much more emphasis on putting solar panels on buildings.
thats nothing rly new, if u were to ever drive through germany villages here are plastered with solar pannels everywhere but it still wont be enough..
Solar panels are not enough. They can generate too little energy.
Solar panels cannot produce enough power for a whole house most of the time. Wind farms are the absolute most eco friendly source of energy.
Solar panels are cheaper then windfarms but we need both.
Solarpanels should only be on homes but on the ground too.
@@bigKARTOFFEL- Germany does have solar on many buildings but still they haven't utilized their maximum capacity. They could get a lot more from rooftop solar as well as solar on parking lots and agrovotaics.
I’ve seen the turbine blades up close and it’s astonishing as to how big they are. They were being manufactured at a plant not far from my home and every now and then you would see one on a very long flatbed.
The funny thing.
The damage they do to the earth.
Most you can’t reuse.
Land based. 30000 tones of cement. Over 60 plus truck loads.
And some bigger ones use much more.
So ? Is. Can a wind turbine work long enough without any issue to offset the fuel. Cement. CO2 from cement etc.
the answer is simply no.
Here’s the really funny thing.
There are systems out there that are better but big companies don’t want them. The little guy has zero chance unless they sell it.
I made a system at my house that catches moisture in the air. I water all plants etc free. I can even use it for the house if I wanted.
Solar has many issues also.
Our tech just isn’t there yet for most uses.
Still by far nuclear is the best way to go. Short of long term storage being a issue.
I personally think the sun is the best best. But on a grand scale.
Pick a nice flat area. Utah. Nevada.
100 sq miles. Solar.
Even if we’re not running 100% on it
That amount would be a large dent in power use.
Sadly government won’t just go that way yet. Why. Power. Greed. Corruption.
@@mikek3951 Yes solar is better than wind but useless in places where not sunny all year, like the UK, where it is really windy most of the year and only sunny in the summer! And many places when wet and cloudy is very often windy, or windy overnight, so solar and wind can complement each other.
And compared to coal wind is just so much better!
The 3.6GW Dogger bank wind farm off the UK east coast will have 277 wind turbines each weighing 2800 tons of materials, plus infrastructure, so around 2 million tons to be installed, yes you would say, very bad for the environment!
Now compare to a 1 GW coal power station.
0.6 million tons to build (mainly cement) yes better less to construct you would say.
BUT the coal power station will need 9000 tons of coal per day!!!!
which have to be mined somewhere else in the world: massive open cast mining machines, trucks, trains, ships, conveyor belts etc, all-consuming massive amounts of energy and resources.
To sum up, the coal power station would consume over 30 years:
Around 1 million tons of resources to build the power station and infrastructure to supply the coal and freshwater.
100 million tons of coal
Use hundreds of millions of gallons of oil (to mine and process the coal and freshwater)
Use 1 trillion gallons of fresh water in the cooling towers (globally 1/6 of all freshwater is used by fossil and nuclear power generation)
Produce 6 million tons of highly toxic cancerogenic slag to landfill
Produce 0.5 million tons of infrastructure to landfill
Produce 300 million tons of CO2 gasses and numerous other toxic gasses.
Now the offshore wind farm:
About 2 million tons of resources to construct
Requires No fuel
No Freshwater
No Oil to produce the above
Produce no CO2 gasses or other toxic emissions
Produce around 0.3 million tons to landfill
Only need maintenance, but no more manpower than needed to run and maintain the massive coal infrastructure.
Basically over its life, a wind farm will generate 1000th of the pollution and damage to the environment compared to a coal power station!
So yes a wind farm does get its environmental construction damage back compared with fossil fuels, in a matter of months!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@mikek3951 even power plants uses cement for construction.
@@kasperkjrsgaard1447
And?? I know this.
When people say go wind. Go solar. It’s free. Zero footprint. It’s a dam lie
@@mikek3951 nothing is for free, but when the windturbine has been erected there’s only the regular maintenance to take care of. The power is free.
Interesting video, would really enjoyed a more technical depth look at overall mechanical / electrical.
Check out The Engineering Mindset video on wind turbines
How many MW of that terbine?
I worked in the offshore wind turbine industry from 2008 to 2016. I loved the job but hated the hours. I now work in a hydro power station.
Is it hard to get a job out there doing that mate ? What was the hours like ? And what was the money ?
@@ribena9585 If you have a trade electrician or fitter from a maintenance background you have a good chance of getting in. I would pay to do my gwo offshore qualifications before applying just to boost my application. Hours wise if you are offshore it's 12 hours a day minimum on rotations of anything from 7 on 7 off,14 on 14 off,10 on 5 off,21 on 7 off, it just depends on the project you are on and the site you are working at. Working onshore wind farms has better working hours but as a result lower wages. Pay varies however I earned over 50k a year back then however that included working lots of overtime you generally worked all the time.
Wow
I think that using the old technology to charge the old clocks at the bottom of the turbine in producing energy from the tides in the sea to support the air fan, i.e. from the bottom to the top, i.e. the energy production will be double. It will achieve a leap in development and the optimal and effective use of the turbine energy production. Greetings, I only ask you to pray Your brother from Mesopotamia, thank you
How are they installed at sea
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Hello Sister Nice
What fantastic machines. We need many more.
Phil,
on the contrary, we don't need any of them.
They destabilise the grid with their uncontrolled and variable power, and while people seem to be impressed by their size, their output is miserly and that is why so many are required.
@@iareid8255 don't be so sour.
Blades cannot be recycled, full of toxic glues etc. The huge amounts of balsa comes from the rain forests. It all ends up in landfill. The enormous amount of concrete and steel is left in the ground. A wind turbine can never save as much carbon as it takes to make it.
They are ugly, completely destroy the beauty of the environment and require the burning of the same fossil fuels they claim to eliminate in the entire manufacturing process. Most environmentalist are blind to the reality of what it takes to manufacture "green" products. Truth be told, there is only one way to solve the worlds problems..all of them. Eliminate the source of the problem.
Putins troll army is strong in any video with the words "Offshore Wind Farm".
More power in those waves than that stupid wind turbine.
Are you about 5? Calling it stupid because it is easier to build?
no wind - no electricity = green energy
Go buy yourself some brain cells then use them to acquire knowledge and understanding.
الله اكبر
is power gen return this much back?
We have these in California not far where I live ,you can see them along the base and top of the hills here in the high desert area of Rosamond and Tehachapi mountains they are massive, but are they doing a project to put in the gulf of mexico now.a friend told me he was doing this project from the mars b oil rig .I just would like to know if this is true.
It must be true. This video tells me that your country is technologically advanced
@@jiawei6777 thank you
@@charlenemartin5899 It's very kind of you.
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Using what God gave us for free to benefit people for a price. Gotta love engineering .Better than burning coal .
Want to invest in wind farms offshore or in Land. Any Information where I can contact.
Somewhat loose with details. Confuses fixed bottom with floating at one point. I appreciate the great video shots and general overview of the process.
I don't get it. If the sea levels are rising, then why are these things in the sea?
If you believe that you must also believe in Santa Claus and the Easter bunny.
Ending with "there are a lot of reasons to be optimistic about the future" Without naming ONE. Because what i have seen here doesn't make me optimistic! 😂
Why not supply wind from sea to turbines to generate more electricity
inside main land from pipe line from sea. to turbines blades .
How wind is form and create it and supply to turbines .
7:46 WHAAAAATTTT.... trucking a giant blade, angled. Holy...
This reminds me of the ocean windmill scene in Tenet something about watching them is calming
much better wind turbine design out there.....The old propeller version is not the most efficient.
Tibial? You can set your watch by it, 24/7.
Man… I’m just thinking of the maintenance on those things.
لا اله الا الله
What are the plans to deal with the turbines when they have out lived there life span??
Blades cannot be recycled, full of toxic glues etc. The huge amounts of balsa comes from the rain forests. It all ends up in landfill. The enormous amount of concrete and steel is left in the ground. A wind turbine can never save as much carbon as it takes to make it.
@@garysmith5025 “expected …25 years”
Data is in. After 10-15 years, generation falls below maintenance costs. If this can be hidden, industry can still get a pay day by continuing to install new wind farms and walking away later when nobody is looking, and expensive gas must be used to pick up the shortfall. Wind developers love gas, esp imported, and vice versa.
“Far from falling, the operating costs per MW of new capacity have increased significantly for both onshore and offshore wind farms over the last two decades [maintenance of newer larger turbines grows exponentially] “
From:The Costs of Offshore Wind Power: Blindness and Insight
@@garysmith5025 What matters is the energy output over time vs wind speed, which *always* goes down over time, sharply after 10 yrs, not some hand waiving story about a an old turbine someone saw down the road.
It’s an age old story for long term suppliers of this or that to arrange terms so they get paid mostly up front when dealing with naive or kick back receiving clients, and then the supplier walks later. So, stories of new installs don’t necessarily mean industry knows what’s best for all.
I earlier supplied an independent report on the numbers, which you dismissed in favor of industry like they were the church. Yes fossil fuel is a big grasping industry, but make no mistake so is big wind, now $100B revenue per year globally.
@@garysmith5025 Lol. Of course you’re funded by big wind, and think your BS doesn’t stink.
@@anglosaxonmike8325 Wrong, they get recycled.
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Isn't the sea breeze and water corrosive to the turbine machines. And and also the humidity attack the electronics
Tell me something why do they onley turn when the winds not blowing
How long do these blades last? Its seems not too long.
Turbines near me in southeast of Ireland have lasted over 20 years and they have recently been granted a 20 year extension. So they probably last as long as convention fossil fuel plants.
@@brendancooney9401 Blades cannot be recycled, full of toxic glues etc. The huge amounts of balsa comes from the rain forests. It all ends up in landfill. The enormous amount of concrete and steel is left in the ground. A wind turbine can never save as much carbon as it takes to make it.
@@anglosaxonmike8325 not true, they are running 20 plus years and easily give more power than they need to be build.
As for coal, gas or oil power generation, well they never stop giving off carbon during their lifetimes. Never!!!!!! Ever!!!
@@anglosaxonmike8325 actually, it takes only 6 months to compensate the carbon needed to manufacture and build it.
@@anglosaxonmike8325 It only takes a few months of opertation to compensate all of this.
"blades the size of an NFL field"
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Tell me you are American without telling me you are American.
The Future is in local mini-nuclear plans something like Submarine Uuclear Reactors, they had a Range of about 5 years It's got to be the Future!..
Bro talk faster man I fell asleep watching this video 💀💀🤝
How about put some internet servers in the tower of these turbines since there are power and cooling water.
Those would take up all the power 😅
I blade is 300ft? Is that a mistake?
The small one land one that got struck by lightning recently burnt down cost eight million dollars to fix😳
I suppose power stations are immune from expensive lightning strikes, yes?
@@TAttiusMaximvs Yes, they are, because they aren't sticking up out of the ground for hundreds of feet. You do realize that lightning strikes the highest point, and takes the path of least resistance.
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I am work in this company
Betz limit has been smashed and debunked by the gyro wind turbine regards Graham Flowers
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Cost more on maintaining !
Nowadays the turbine will be pre assembled onshore and ship to offshore
3:25 video starts here, save your time.
yet we have no way of dealing with the turbine wastes. ie what happens when it is replaced.
Yeah and there’s another program out there that outlines what a servicing nightmare these things are too.
How about the people that make these machines htf do you even start thinking about what materials are needed and where they go etc bind blowing
a 10 million dollar wind turbine 🤔🤔🤔
Was für eine Grütze!
These need to be added to the "Greatest Wonders of the World", list. I knight you #8
They're floating??
Around 6:00-6:30
Just wait for the maintenance cost for off shore wind mills
Wow! How could the huge corporations that fund these giant things all over the world, employing the best accountants and designers, have not thought of that! :)
What about the newer designed Savonious blade design which rotates vertically around the shaft like a fidget spinner.
Simply not as efficient.
Storing the windenergy is still not solved: Can it be hydrogen or methane or any other chemical energy?
Best storage solution we have to date is pumped hydroelectric. There are emerging technologies like power to gas and liquid air storage. We need to do more on balancing the grid via dynamic pricing to encourage a new generation of smart appliances which can tune their loading to the grid state. It will also incentivise consumer level storage of heat and cold to allow AC systems to take advantage of super cheap off peak electricity.
Batteries, Batteries, Batteries.
thoese wind farm can generating up to 3 Killo Wáts
Is the cost of cables and additional infrastructure included in that cost? I mean, building a 10$ million windturbine can't deliver anything if it isn't hooked up to a electric grid somewhere and that cost alot and for seabased alot more of money, 10× or even 20× more than landbased and it's the consumer that has to pay for it!
How dare anyone invest anything in green energy!? I don't understand why you kids try to just complain about green energy and giving off vibes that you're in distress over it.
@@TheFramer38 except I'm not a kid and haven't been for 30years. And I agree, how does anyone dare to invest in, well I call it brown energy, cause it kills everything living near it. And the metals that is required are very expensive and hard to come by, like neodymium for the magnets comes from China and no one is talking about it.
@@jimmyandersson4599 you do know the metal is good for wildlife right? Why do you think underwater creatures make giant living mansions from sunken ships. The iron also helps enrich the waters so even microscopic living things benefit from them. But go on and cry that we are generating energy freely.
As you said you're not a kid so I'm sure you won't be alive be the time the wind turbines have to be dismantled. It doesn't affect you so I honestly don't see why you're inconvenienced by it.
Thats a desaster waiting to happen the socalled tects cant keep the ones on the ground running
power the world? I think only if the human consumption of electricity was 20% of what it is now. IMO.
Поще выйте в космос набрать энергии вернуться и продать
amazing
10 millions de dollars, vous êtes de Marseille
Cheeto45 doesn't want the turbines because he doesn't like the view. What a self-centred baby.
Potrebbero farne centinaia piu piccole piu' facili da manutenere ,voglio vedere quando si guasta una turbina del genere, e prima che abbia prodotto l'energia per pagarsi e gia' distrutta
What a job
My question is how are they protected from a potential enemy in time of war. In this uncertain times a foe could blow up all these turbines which would cause major problem for our energy supplies and could potentially bring a country to its knees without a shot being fired.
They don’t think that far. Politicians have limited brain power and huge bank accounts.
10000 Windturbines are better than 50 Nuclear Power plants. Because if 100 are destroyed it dont matter and they can replaced fast. Trust me many green Power plants make the energy Supply safer.
@@danielstau6592 Also a wind turbine being bombed doesn't risk a radioactive emergency. Nuclear is a part of the solution too, but honestly should be built like a fortress to withstand bombings without causing an unsafe situation.
I'm not sure a more American question could be found within this comment section.
They are the way forward and interconnected grids they are proving they can compete very competitively against coal or gas power plants. And then they produce no GHG emissions during their operation
Since when have windmills proven they can compete economically with fossil fuels?
@@bryanbarnard4094 Around 2018.
Is this a joke?
$10 Million Offshore Wind Turbine, is that only 3 Wind Turbine in the middle of the sea.
maybe 10m each
En español por favor
@7:24 “Norway has committed itself to RE”
Yes, Norway has the largest share of hydro in Europe. So the story here is, what kind of racket is underway that would have it investing in hard to maintain offshore wind turbines, with marine power cables landing here and there, with blades that go in landfills, with non dispatch-able power, unlike its hydro.
Norway is currently the largest exporter of fossil fuels in Europe, making a massive income, Norway will lose all this income when the world stops using fossil fuels. So is planning on replacing that lost revenue by selling renewable energy, and plans to become the largest exporter of renewable energy in Europe (many central European counties without coastal water or winter sun are going to struggle to be energy independent on renewables and make good customers for Norway.)
Basically, Norway plans to make a lot of income from renewables including wind farms, which are very profitable!
@@stevetaylor2818 Offshore unsubsidized wind has become increasingly not profitable. Yet much of the EU will continue to install subsidized wind, onshore and off, with generation peaking at similar times, severely reducing value as everyone tries to export the excess simultaneously.
“Far from falling, the actual capital costs per MW of capacity to build new wind farms increased substantially from 2002 to about 2015 and have, at best, remained constant since then”
“Far from falling, the operating costs per MW of new capacity have increased significantly for both onshore and offshore wind farms over the last two decades [maintenance of newer larger turbines grows exponentially] “
From:The Costs of Offshore Wind Power: Blindness and Insight
@@Nill757 This is absolutely nonsensical if not outright lies. The two gentlemen behind this article are politicians not scientists.
@@larshansen5533 One author, Hughes, is a UK economics professor and long time energy advisor to the World Bank. Do you have any evidence they’re lying as you say, or that they’re “politicians”? Or are you pushing a a story?
@@stevetaylor2818
"...when the world stops using fossil fuels"
Dream on -not in your lifetime pal.
"El mundo está cambiando..." Sí, tía. Desde que el mundo es mundo, cambia. El cambio es la constante más persistente de la historia humana, geológica, y cósmica.
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Oh yeah windmills are the answers. As long as you don’t mind dead birds and sea life. As long as you don’t mind never achieving anything close to “carbon neutrality”. What it takes in terms of energy to mine the materials needed, move these gigantic parts across the world, keep them running, and then dismantle, move, and hopefully recycle them makes it a certainty they will never be “carbon neutral” or a wise investment.