Windmill out of control in Denmark

Windmill out of control in Denmark

Windmill out of control in Denmark

The automatic brakes failed during a storm in Hornslet, causing the blades to spin too fast and shatter

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flingthecowflingthecow (634 days ago)

It's hard to tell if someone is being sarcastic with a comment sometimes. So I'm sorry Paul - I sincerely apologise from the bottom of my heart for being so stupid. I hope you can forgive me.

robbie_the_quiffrobbie_the_quiff (634 days ago)

no need to get hissy Paul - I am guessing that flingthecow wasnt being that serious either

Guest: Paul (635 days ago)

john e and flingthecow - guest who was being facetious in case u were too stupid to realise...

Guest: sceptics'r'us (396 days ago)

Lets all look on the bright side, the amount of electricity produced by the windmill going mental probably powered that camera long enough to film it happening!

Guest: George - Houston (528 days ago)

Who manufactured the wasted windmill?

Guest: Doe (592 days ago)

I second palealien's point; either they knew this was going to malfunction or caused it to and therefore had a camera in position, or they have a camera trained on each and every windmill. The latter would be expensive but possible, maybe even profitable; the viewing rights are sold to psychologists so that they can hypnotise people with the whirring blades. Unfortunately this faulty one hypnotises people to kill so the viewing rights were bought by the army.

Guest: txpkrace (631 days ago)

actually, the reason the blade exploded was because it "flexed" enough that it actually hit the "mid" section of the tower structure. Lawerence, these units are designed to enter auto shut off when wind speeds reach forty MPH or greater, and turn away from the wind. This unit malfunctioned. They are also maintenced and serviced on a regular basis.

Guest (358 days ago)

You all sound like you are American

Guest: Dane (621 days ago)

Hahaha it exploded because it reached the speed of sound. Yeah cus we all know that shit explodes when it goes that fast!

milkyMilky (632 days ago)

The reason the tip of the blade explodes is because it reaches the speed of sound

Guest: John E. (635 days ago)

fools...point is, there is going to be no more oil....

Guest: jack (391 days ago)

thats a lot of lectric

lawrancelawrance (634 days ago)

look guys oil is like a drink once you have used most of it theres not alot left so we got to be carefull on haw we use electric like use less and be eco afishant oh and yes you peaple who make wind mills can you please make those brakes better i mean god those guys dont evan do services and check them for damage i mean for e.g the movie that fan was going so fast witch makes the genorator get hot and when it gets hot it starts to expand and when it expands it will expload god why dont eny one think about stuff like this? (exept me)

Guest: Joe (576 days ago)

haha. Doe: you're an absolute idiot..

Guest (544 days ago)

"Public Service Film from British Nuclear Fuels"

Guest: E (590 days ago)

Doe: Or they realised the automatic breaks had failed and decided to film it because it doesn't take a genius to figure out what would happen.

Guest: grammarcheck (634 days ago)

Learn to structure sentences properly; butt muncher!!!

Guest (635 days ago)

cool, didnt expect to to break that ferociously.

Guest: Big Stu (484 days ago)

Actually Dane, the shockwave that forms when an object hits supersonic speeds can quite easily rip something apart like that, if its not designed to hit those sorts of speeds. I don't think this was the case here, it looks like the aerofoil was flexing to much at high speed and impacted with the tower.

Guest: Spellcheck (634 days ago)

Learn to spell butt muncher

Guest: guest who (635 days ago)

See how dangerous this kind of energy is ? Invade Iran and get their oil !

Guest: palealien (631 days ago)

How did they happen to have a camera on the one that blew unless they knew it was in failure mode and gonna explode anyway?

Guest: sexypinklion (352 days ago)

You guys take it all waaaay to seriously. Its a damn video that looks pretty cool. Who cares how it happened?

Guest: ubermensch (552 days ago)

hahahaha you were all fooled. Actually I did that ! It was an old one we didnt want any more and so I shot at it with a double-barelled shotgun and blew the propellors off and then it crashed to the ground.

Guest: Bopal (333 days ago)

The tips of the blades hit supersonic speed, this causes the air flow to tear off from the tips towards the axle, that causes an increase of velocity: the blades tear off. The same happens with helicopters when the pilots get over-ambitious.
   

Guest: Stewpid Merican (69 days ago)

Latest comment: "If you watch the clip frame by frame, you'll see that the failure begins at the tip of one of blades right after it passes by the tower. This suggests that it hit the tower and shattered. The blade doesn't not appear to tear off. "

Guest: Jim Bob, Wasilla (334 days ago)

Did it kill anyone? I like videos with a point to them.