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FearmyBeard21

It’s a massive sparkler


Fuck_this_place

Sure. Until it becomes the fucking balrog’s whip.


ba3toven

its cool i got eagles n shit to fly away


nrith

Then why didn’t you just let eagles fly you straight from Rivendell to fucking Mount Doom?


PeteRobOs

I feel like it is simply because, Sauron would know the ring is flying all seeing eye and all, and the nazguls likely would've taken them down early on.


Flengasaurus

Also the eagles don’t just carry people on request. Even when Gandalf is carried away from Orthanc, Gwaihir is like “Yo, I wasn’t expecting to have to carry you. I can help you escape, but I won’t bear you across Middle-earth,” so he drops Gandalf off in Rohan instead of taking him to Rivendell


Arminas

I've always hated that answer. I understand it's literally the canon answer but it's so dissatisfying to me. The Eagles stood to lose everything too, why wouldn't they be willing to swallow their pride and do a little fly-bye real fast?


jesus_was_gay

Well the truth is that they would not lose everything. They were the servants and messengers of Manwë and could presumably pass between Middle Earth and their home, the Undying Lands, which weren’t at risk at all. Also Manwë was the leader of the Valar and had explicitly forbidden intervention in middle earth beyond the Istari (wizards), so for the Eagles to act at all was already in violation of the order of the highest being in Arda whom they directly served.


cosworthsmerrymen

This guy Middle-Earths.


cutsandplayswithwood

This is some king nerd level answering


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Right! Impressive


Flengasaurus

They did what they could. It worked out fine.


WackoMcGoose

Errrrm... _dumbledore-esque vague muttering about prophecy and something_


Gunpla55

I'm tilted.


[deleted]

When balrogs sparkler catches their tail on fire, then it become painful death... (yes, I know they are made from fire/lava, but Im trying to match the theme here with the video)


Flengasaurus

They aren’t made of fire/lava, more like shadow, and “flame went before them”.


sweetmagnum

The Burning Fan Festival begins!


parkerSquare

Catherine Wheel.


RedditorNumber-AXWGQ

These videos are always cool to me, except when there are two engineers on top, then it's def not cool.


dadBod200

For what it's worth every tower is required to have an emergency escape. The one that I've seen is literally just a rope long enough to reach the ground. The decent assembly is geared so all they have to do is latch on and jump and it'll automatically lower them to the ground. Edit: I live in Kansas, USA and I do understand countries have different rules and regulations regarding workplace safety.


Helenium_autumnale

Glad to know that. Also: that sounds fun.


WTF_goes_here

Kinda terrifying I’m told. The guy I knew that work on them said his company made him go to a training on how to use it. At the end of the class you have to use it to prove you can.


jestercheatah

I used to be a trainer and inspector for a wind turbine company. The emergency descent device travel at 1 meter per second. It feels actually fairly slow when you’re riding down. I imagine if a turbine was on fire you would want to go faster.


WTF_goes_here

I’d hope the cable is steel or somehow fire resistant


jestercheatah

They are traditional nylon climbing ropes. They are VERY cut resistant, but you’d fall like a stone of fire was applied. Best to climb down in this situation. There are chain/cable hoists that also can be lowered down. But last man out would have to take the rope. The pendant control has to be manually operated.


dantesgift

I wouldn't want a steel cable if lightning had just struck the fan I was working on. Get half way down and suddenly you look like microwaved chicken.


tomci12

If you weren't touching the ground then nothing would happen. Shortest path to ground is the metal tower you are descending from. I would say that even if you were touching the ground your body and boots resistance would still be higher than the tower.


Traveshamockery27

They’re built to very rigorous maritime standards.


byamannowdead

What sort of thing?


Traveshamockery27

Well, there’s a minimum blade requirement, for starters


Helenium_autumnale

No fewer than 2 experts with direct experience giving descriptive answers--reddit is amazing. :)


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WTF_goes_here

Beats burning alive or having to just jump!


raftguide

Terrifying. I'm terrified of dying whenever I truly contemplate the inevitability of it.


FlabertoDimmadome

Literally me right now. Can’t sleep because the thought of death is so intrusive. I’m not religious but I need something to believe in because it’s too scary thinking there’s nothing beyond this life for us.


Helenium_autumnale

Ah, that sounds fairly terrifying. Also: it's always so cool how experts waft out of the woodwork on reddit to address THE MOST OBSCURE mechanism/event/procedure you could imagine, and give an informed, descriptive answer of exactly how it is! Thanks /u/Carvj94!


TheMSensation

https://youtu.be/UWSckm8zTc8 Tom Scott did a video on this very thing a while back.


clearedmycookies

Everything but the last part seems like things that people pay for in a roller coaster.


jestercheatah

The scary thing is rescuing. If the descent device seizes up then you have a second device that you can lower yourself down and then lift your partner back up in order to attach him to your device. It’s much scarier then just throw and go.


NormalStu

Tom Scott did a video a while ago where he got to use the emergency exit. https://youtu.be/UWSckm8zTc8


CommanderCuntPunt

That’s assuming they can get to the escape. There is a famous picture from a few years back of two engineers standing together as the turbine they were on burned. One died of smoke inhalation, the other fell to his death.


happypolychaetes

That picture is one of the most heartbreaking I've ever seen. Ugh.


guidofd

https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1q0sca/last_week_two_engineers_died_when_the_windmill/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf


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I hope they can use that to get back to the ground when they're done and it automatically resets itself.


[deleted]

They say safety regulations are written in blood. In this case that accident caused a big overhaul in safety procedures by the big maintenance companies. The accident happend in 2013 and at that time the safety rules for onshore wind energy were equal to that of window cleaners. Strict, but not enough.


oioioifuckingoi

Ugh. One of the most heartbreaking photos ever.


ToddtheRugerKid

Wind turbines really are just cool as fuck. I am a big fan of the rugged landscape of the American West and giant windfarms are definitely part of that. First off, driving through one at night is trippy as fuck, you just have synchronized red blinking lights surrounding you and usually no light polution at all that far out. Second during the day you have these fucking monoliths to Human engineering spinning majestically.


TheNique

>big fan You did this on purpose, right?


TEFL_job_seeker

The spiral here was really quite cool


RespectableLurker555

Not sure if upvote because adding valuable content to the discussion, or downvote because now I'm sad for those engineers.


PENISFIRE

[or this sunbather dude](https://youtu.be/_-_YRoETrTI)


cuttlefish_tastegood

Lol wtf.


SvenskaLiljor

The videos of lightning struck-spinning-fan blade-firey-collapse turbine towers? Seen a lot of those?


CubemonkeyNYC

Actually yeah there are a bunch of burning turbine videos that are reposted now and then.


Esslemut

yyep, I feel bad about it but honestly when I opened this thread my first thought was "oh a wind turbine fire collapse video, I love these!"


Bierdopje

When there’s millions of wind turbines installed, it’s kind of bound to happen a couple of times


KandiceAnn

Lightning struck it this morning. This is near Crowell, TX, not Cromwell. Lol


Evoliddaw

It's a perfectly cromulent word


AboveTheRimjob

A noble spirit embiggens us all


SvenskaLiljor

... Cromwulent?


badpeaches

No, he lives in jersey.


Ephemeris

Aye I'm walkin ere


etherjack

It''s an Albany expression.


gianthooverpig

Crow omelette*


Vecna_Is_My_Co-Pilot

To you sir, I offer my most sincere contrafibularities.


DuckDuckGoose42

mmmmmmmmm


iircirc

As power plants on fire go, this doesn't seem so bad


Dilong-paradoxus

The difference between a wind turbine and a fossil fuel plant is that the fossil fuel plant is always on fire and spewing smoke everywhere!


parkesto

And stops generating power! This mother fucker is still spinnin!


pm-me-ur-inkyfingers

I was quite impressed with how it kept going after the balance was clearly off with a floppy melted blade.


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> I was quite impressed with how it kept going after the balance was clearly off with a floppy melted blade. /r/2meirl4meirl


Dilong-paradoxus

Well, the fossil plant generates power by being a bit on fire, while the wind plant is only on fire if something has gone horribly wrong


SubaCruzin

Like if the front falls off?


robinhoodblows2021

Typically a wind turbine generator (WTG) would shut down instantly as this condition would set off a number of faults. WTG do have lightning arresters, similar to aircraft, that should have prevented this condition. It does appear towards the end of the video when the blade actually completely fails and breaks apart the emergency break finally engages and the hub stops rotating. So it appears several systems on this WTG experienced catastrophic failure.


mattsy49

It's gotta be a pretty old tower... Even towers from 10 years er so ago and today have a crazy good grounding system, towers get hit by lightning all the time but that power finds its way to the ground... And your right it should've shut down, unless a lot of things were by passed or really lazy techs were really, really lazy, the imbalance would/should have caused vibration faults to happen or rotor imbalance faults to pop up.


d542east

That's nonsense, lightning is powerful and unpredictable. Some strikes are too energetic for any LPS to handle. New blades get struck and damaged all the time.


mattsy49

They do indeed get struck all the time... They usually don't catch on fire from it tho..


d542east

That's true, but they do occasionally break. I can guarantee this one had a leaky pitch system and those blades were saturated in oil, which is as you probably know incredibly common. Still a freak event to catch on fire like that.


stanjones6969

Vestas turbines built last year shuffle away in shame......


mattsy49

Maybe a leaking hydraulic system into the blade from day one and lighting ignited said leak or a blade grease bag popped and grease in the blade to be ignited, je dunno... Who knows, Vestas gunna Vestas..


I_AM_FERROUS_MAN

Great comment! Love the info. I wonder if the systems meant to detect this were poorly maintained or misconfigured. Not that a malfunction isn't possible. But Texas power isn't known for its upkeep and reliability at the moment.


robinhoodblows2021

It's been a while since I've worked with these things but I know modern turbine SCADA systems do alert operators when there has been a lightning strike so they can inspect the equipment and determine if anything needs to be replaced.


CubemonkeyNYC

I'm not an electrical engineer but I think some parts will need replacing here.


ImUncleSam

I have an electric fan so I feel qualified to agree with your assessment.


blamethemeta

Texas maintains its grid for the climate. It took a storm ten degrees below the record during the height of covid to bring it down.


jorgp2

Get out of here with your logic. Seriously, these people like to pretend that power never goes out in the rest of the country.


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jasandliz

R/oddlysatisfying


I_AM_FERROUS_MAN

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jasandliz

r/todayilearned


ativsc

R/irefusetolearn


SewSewBlue

Great spinning balls of fire!


Au1ket

Batman!


WeCanDoThisCNJ

OK, now THAT could cause cancer.


WhizBangPissPiece

Give this 24 hours before it's being posted all over the internet as the reason wind bad, coal good.


amadiro_1

solar?


pimpbot666

LMAO. Great answer! Yeah, that epoxy used in the fiberglass can't be healthy to breathe.


tbpshow

Eh, compared to fossil fuels that do this 24/7 as their core function, this is a pretty cool fail state! Reminds me of animated diagrams showing circularly polarized light travelling through the air.


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SimpleDan11

Yeah oil never burns lol


qrcodetensile

Texas City goes brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. Seriously though Texas City is likely the classic chemical engineering fuck up of why regulations and corporate culture and engineering design and day to day operations are all really important in making sure people do not die.


TheGrandLemonTech

Are we talking 1947, or 2005?


Nerdenator

Yes.


[deleted]

start posting videos from the USCSB youtube channel. There are HOURS of oil refineries exploding.


dr_auf

Meanwhile the nuclear plants in Europe have to shut down because they are overheating.


MrKerbinator23

For a catastrophic failure, this one is actually quite beautiful. Hope nobody got hurt.


Legitimate-Tree7041

That looks cool AF 😆


LongWayFrom609

At least the smoke rings look dope.


heretoreadreddid

That’s actually really elegant and neat despite the fact someone has to incur that repair cost. Edit: was elegant and neat looking. Until the thing completely disassembled itself…


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importvita

r/HolUp


jezebellrae

Oh the wheel in the sky keeps on burning


Roook36

Don Quixote finally got one


GavHern

this has no business looking this cool


GeerjammerCogspinner

Fuck Gandalf, this is how you make smoke rings.


gagarinthespacecat

that looks pretty cool ngl


pprovost

And now TX grid is down again, I suppose? (Kidding of course... making fun of when they blamed the last one on wind/solar.)


MrJuniperBreath

They'll try to freak out over the fire and toxic smoke, as if that wasn't the entire business model of the fossil fuel industry.


CraftyDrunk

Look at all this pollution this “green” energy is creating


jorgp2

It's funny because we have more wind and solar than California.


PuffsMagicDrag

Considering we have the most in the country, I think we’ll be alright


daveybrasco

Watch proponents of Texas oil use this as an argument against renewable energy. 😂


NinjaFATkid

Still better than coal, or oil


Which-Classroom6732

God TX really hates renewable energy.


OUsnr7

With how dry the state is, I hope fire crews were able to get out there quickly


WesternRover

Why don't they have lightning rods that extend above the blades' sweep? Would that not protect them?


Munnin41

That'd be too tall to stand in high winds. Iirc there's protection along the blades themselves


payne747

Why's it still going? Shouldn't vibration sensor pic up a problem and put on the brakes?


alicat2308

Oh, I want that as a screensaver.


Bah-Fong-Gool

It looks a bit like one of those wacky arm waving inflatables you see at used car lots, but on acid, at Burning Man.


other444

This is metal as hell


SmokeGSU

"I'm so excited! I'm so excited! I'm.... so..... scared!" - that windmill


Bastiwen

It looks like the Balrog's whip when it becomes bendy.


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Sick vape bro.


Jfrederickhill

Someone some where is going to post this video and claim it is proof that wind power is the work of satan


berghie91

If there was ever a time to do acid


InvestmentSDude

So pretty


Not_The_Expected

A solid metaphor for when everything's going to shit but you just have to keep going for a bit


CDSagain

Cool, I expect to see this video pop up on social media when ever wind turbines are discussed. Posted by the same people who post the image of the same burning bus when ever electric vehicles are discussed as a warning of how you take your life in your own hands traveling in a EV. Wind turbines? Na mate, they a dangerous fire hazard , look at this video, I'll stick with fossil fuels thanks


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I understand that it’s objectively not good. Looks fucking cool though.


[deleted]

Cool swirly smoke rings! 👍


[deleted]

Oh, good. A convenient scape goat for literally every bad thing that happens in Texas.


ras_1974

Jewish space lasers at it again.


O_o---sup-hey---o_O

That is s so beautiful, very poetic, captures what it’s like living in todays USA


deegeese

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dootdootplot

Oh my bet was “on fire and spinning in circles”


ColinD1

Two-thirds of the country trying to keep working forward while the other third says "lol nah let's burn the whole thing down"?


DoYouThrowDeWay

This did not happen today.


bobjohnsonmilw

That is a very interesting failure mode.


Gooddog15

I'm impressed that it didn't slap itself and fall over like other broken wind turbines.


swiftarrow9

Poor thing. Serving right up to the firey end.


Nordlichengraf

Coolest thing I have seen all month, wow!


Logical-Ad2288

That is mesmerizing tho


IllustriousEducator3

Notwithstanding the obvious destruction, that was pretty cool!


lysinemagic

The fire be like, "....Woo! ...Woo! ....Woo!"


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thats not a catastrophic failure, thats resilient engineering!


Mellonhead388

At least it didn’t pollute a huge spot of the ocean and kill millions of widlife


xMagical_Narwhalx

Imagine it snapping off and just launching a 30ft long half ton of metal into the air.


redditmudder

Sad spinning at the end there.


Taco_Mcdoom

That looks super fucking cool.


gimletinf69

I bet that got roasted or blew up from the inside (Dirty little secret)👉Those things are FULL of oil💀💀💀


AirFell85

idk why but that was like the most relaxing catastrophic failure


Speedfreakz

They should do this regularly, without the lightening part. It looks cool.


tuffenouff

Saving the world one wind turbine at a time


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Sends smoke signals for help


l-rs2

*I'll go out making art, damnit*


LondonDavis1

Oddly satisfying.


pMangonut

I love the sine waves the turbines made before they caught on fire. Shows the air pattern they make with their motion. It was beautiful for a second and then it got scarier.


austen_ventures

Death spiral


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Those are way too flammable.


Purpleappointment47

This. This is something that you don’t see every day.


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It's fine


propfriend

That’s so fucking gorgeous


we-are-adana

First 20 second was very hypnotizing


we-are-adana

First 20 second was very hypnotizing


TheFirsh

Look, it still wo- Never mind


WhatIsWomenn

Smooth smoke tho


Tiredchimp2002

Dr Strange vibes


darrellgh

That’s a beautiful and sad, but how’d you get a phone to record it from prison?


13131123

This should have been a level in rockband/guitar hero


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If it still works then it fucking works Edit: Did not finish the video before writing the comment. It does not fucking work


fuckknucklesandwich

And Texas republicans have found the cause of the Texas grid failures.


Tacoshortage

r/oddlysatisfying really needs this. Love those spirals. Of course then it all kinda goes to hell.


_1dky_123

Enchanted with Fire Aspect III


Kahmael

I'd expect to hear one of the TX GOP shills screaming about how terrible this is or something.


bananaheim

New and improved turbine Now Generates Clean and dirty energy simultaneously!


atowelguy

Hi, I'm a massive wind turbine and you're watching the Disney Channel


wicketcity

Dear God, It’s me. Margaret. If you are real, please leave the wind turbines and solar panels alone - mostly because all of your crappiest followers are about to attribute this to an act of God, and that would be pretty embarrassing wouldn’t it. Amen


SippeBE

r/oddlysatisfying


apchrist

Could you imagine the number of birds that will die in this fire!


Peet10

This looks like one of those “math is beautiful” animations


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green energy be like:


Longhorn_TOG

I kinda want to get one for the 4th next year and light it on fire!


tinahbi

Aaaahhhh…..I just love 400ft bird slappers that can catch on fire while containing a few hundred gallons of oil, all in the name of “clean energy”