Industrial Wind Turbine Construction
The first video is a time-lapse film of the construction of one industrial wind turbine, with the following specifications from excavation to completion.
- 40-100 geo-piers installed for stability
- excavate 10′ deep, 100′ wide
- rebar: up to 96,000 pounds of reinforcing steel
- up to 53 concrete trucks pour foundations
- 1,500 cubic yards of soil backfilled and leveled
- blades: 173 feet long and 27,000 pounds each
- 8 truckloads to deliver turbine components
- nacelle the size of a school bus
- hub
- base tower height 53′11″
- base tower weight 97,459 lbs
- 160 bolts around the bottom
- mid tower height 84′″
- mid tower weight 115,587 lbs
- top tower height 119′0″
- top tower weight 104,167 lbs
- nacelle weights 181,000 lbs
- rotor diameter 354 feet
- final tower height to blade tip when fully extended: 442 feet
- nacelle containes generator, gearbox, rotor shaft
Also see: : Construction of Xcel Energy’s Courtenay Wind Farm, North Dakota
Turbines in the 1 to 2 MW range typically use 130 to 240 m³ of concrete for the foundations ...
(Maine; 22 min.)
(Lewis Co., N.Y.; 21 min.)
(Meyersdale, Pa.; 26 min.)
Wind Turbine Strobe Lights and Eerie Noises
(Fenner and Wethersfield, N.Y.; 7 min.)
Industrial Wind Energy Information
(compilation from above videos and the "Truth About Industrial Wind Energy" presentations; 39 min.)
Green Madness: The Waste and Destruction Caused by One Industrial Wind Project
(Chautauqua, N.Y.; 28 min.)
The Wind Turbine Battle / Der Kampf um die Windräder
(Germany; 29 min.)
(Rhode Island; 2 videos)
Get Out While You Can! Big Wind Is Coming
(Chautauqua, N.Y.; 32 min.)
Wind Farm Issues — Compilation
(Fife, Scotland; 6 min.)
(1 hr. 32 min.)
(1 hr. 11 min.)
(1 hr. 40 min.)
THE DARK SIDE OF GREEN ENERGIES
(54 min.)
(24 min.)
(Meredith, N.Y.; 1 hr. 23 min.)
(Ontario; 42 min.)
(Ontario; 1 hr. 32 min.)
WINDBAG OF AEOLUS [Ασκός του Αιόλου]
(Greece; 1 hr. 23 min.)
Health Impacts of Industrial Wind – conference, Erie Co., New York
(6 videos)
Nextera Zoning Hearings, Clinton Co., Missouri
(9 topics; 515 videos)
La nueva conquista: Eolicos en Oaxaca
(Mexico; 10 min.)
Infrasound & Low Frequency Noise: Physics, Cells, Health and History
(Waterloo, Ont.; 2 hr. 22 min.)
Infrasound Caused by Wind Turbines / Infraschall – Unerhörter Lärm
(Germany; 28 min.)
Infrasound from Wind Turbines / Infraschall von Windkraftanlagen / Infrasons des éoliennes
(Germany; 10 min.)
Wind Turbine Syndrome, a matter of bad prevention?
(Denmark; 13 min.)
Wind Turbines and Public Health
(Australia; 7 min.)
(Prince Edward Co., Ont.; 13 min.)
(5 videos)
Presentations before the Concerned Citizens of Moore and Argyle Township
(Michigan; 3 videos)
The Falmouth Conference on Human Rights
(Falmouth, Mass.; 5 videos)
Wind Turbine Information Session
(Scituate, Mass.; 2 hr. 10 min.)
Potential Placement of Wind Turbines
(Shelburne, Mass.; 1 hr. 57 min.)
(Dekalb Co., Ill.; 1 hr. 20 min.)
(Hawaii; 4.5 min.)
(Lowell, Vt.; 1.5 min.)
(3.5 min.)
Wind Turbine Construction: Compilation
(6 min.)
(4 videos)
Concrete Pour: Wind Turbine Foundation
(Ireland; 5 min.)
(25 min.)
(Whitelee, Scotland; 3 min.)
(Vermont; 19 videos)
(6 min.)
Living Near a Windfarm: Cape Bridgewater, Victoria
(4 interviews)
Victim Impact Statements: Australia
(13 interviews)
Interviews with Wisconsin Wind Farm Residents
(5 interviews)
(Fond du Lac Co. and Lincoln Township; 1 hr. 49 min.)
(Port Rowan, Ont.; 7.5 min.)
(Barrington, R.I.; 17 min.)
(Shelburne, Ont.; 21 min.)
Amaranth Wind Turbines, Noise and Health: Barbara Ashbee Interview
(Amaranth, Ont.; 17 min.)
Pandora’s Pinwheels: The Reality of Life with Wind Turbines
(Australia and New Zealand; 1 hr. 57 min.)
Wind Turbines: The Test of Time
(7 min.)
Damage to farm fields and drainage tiles
(Iowa; 2 videos)
Wind turbines and their impacts on weather radar
(Illinois; 2 min.)
(Webster Co., Neb.; 9 videos)
Shadow Flicker in Kingston, Massachusetts
(4 videos)
(Dashwood, Huron Co., Ont.; 2 min.)
Wind Turbine Sound – Field Recording
(Denmark; 10 min.)
(Fond du Lac Co., Wis.; 2.5 min.)
Wind Turbine Noise and Shadow Flicker
(Fond du Lac Co., Wis.; 9 min.)
Noise and Strobing at Hoosac Wind
(Mass.; 9 sec.)
(Scituate, Mass.; 7 videos)
(Scituate, Mass.; 7 videos)
(Freedom, Maine; 3 videos)
(The Netherlands; 2 videos)
Foliennes — Éoliennes à tout prix?
(Québec; 7 videos)
The Truth About Industrial Wind Energy
(Kansas; 12 presentations)
Infrasound and Motion Sickness
(Ontario; 18 min.)
Lowell Mountain Soundscape Before and After Wind Turbines
(Vermont; 30 sec.)
Noise of Turbine in Aberdeenshire
(Scotland; 2 min.)
(Wales)
(Belgium; 25 sec.)
Wind Turbine Breaks Up in Storm
(Denmark; 3 videos)
(Rexville, N.Y.; 1 min.)
Wind Turbine Fire — Burning Blades Fly Off
(Portugal; 1 min.)
(Portugal; 4.5 min.)
(Indiana; 2 min.)
(Isselburg, Germany; 2 videos)
(Germany)
(Jhimpir City, Thatta District, Sindh Province; 1 min.)
Washing Wind Turbine from Helicopter
(Spain; 3 min.)
Peat slippage, Meenbog Wind Farm, Donegal
(Ireland; 1.5 min.)
See also: The Politics of Peat, RTE News footage of the bog slides caused by wind facility construction in Derrybrien and other sites in Co. Galway, Ireland, compiled by the Scottish Wind Assessment Project)
(Wales; 3 min.)
(photo collection)
Vulture Fatally Collides With Wind Turbine Blade
(Crete; 30 sec./6 min.)
A Rough Wind: The Impact of Industrial Windmill Facilities on Birds and Other Wildlife
(Pennsylvania; 20 min.)
(Norway; 6.5 min.)
More videos are available in the Documents Library.
Also see more videos at the National Wind Watch You Tube page
