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Weow! Foist? meh
Weather WIN!
Fan motor brake FAIL!
Destroyed in Seconds WIN!
Also, blade release fail. Most models will ‘drop’ the blades in hurricane/tornado weather so as not to do THAT.
maybe i’m imagining it wrong, but that sound dangerous. giant flying blades going random directions.
Sure, ’cause the “exploding” in the wind kind is so much safer
Oh holy cow, you win!
Yes it is if its several feet high.
You’ve never been Benihana.
*to*
I’ve been to Paradise but I’ve never been to me.
why would someone film the windmill in the first place?
It was running like that for a while before it exploded.
so they could photoshop it i imagine
Know thyself.
Wow, this one definitely WINS – good post.
*masturbates*
At least they are made mostly of balsa wood. to it would be like one of those cheap ass toy planes you buy but a tad more dangerous
yeah, one of those cheap toy planes traveling at 200 miles per hour into our face. that’s something i want to see on failblog
wrong, those arent made of balsa wood, those blades are about 125 foot long, and made of aluminum, i see trailers haulin those blades thru wisconsin all summer long, and they can only get 3 blades on a trailer, and maximum weight for a semi is 80,000 lbs.
It is dangerous… I thought these things were pretty sturdy and that safety regulations were quite stringent.
Might be a fake vid… (Although if it’s fake, it’s certainly well done.)
Yeah, people think that about planes, too, but they still fail occasionally. Cest la vie.
Nah, not fake. It’s a Danish mill gone bad.
Besides, Kit, about the blade-release. We never have hurricanes or tonadoes here in Denmark, so I’m sure that feature is not implemented.
Actually its quite real, I live about 10miles from where it happend in Denmark. Funny enough, about a week later a wing fell of another windmill, so the media was totally freaked :p
Don’t they also pitch the blade so they are neutral to stop the spinning?
Oh my god! Where have you been??
They’re supposed to, but the hydraulics failed in this one.
Dropping blades doesn’t happen. Rotating blades to not have any lift + brakes is what’s supposed to happen. Neither/nor, it appears.
dude. bro. those fan blades are massive. they wouldnt survive a fall if they were released, which im pretty sure they are not. im just sayin
Take that, you tree hugging, anti-fossil-fuel, non-nuclear, renewable source bastard!
Yeah! Nothing screams lame quite as loud as renewable energy resources! Lame!
it’s not so bad, the last 5 seconds before it shredded itself is must have produced enough electricity to more than make up for the rebuilding costs
No way. First, even if it could somehow produce 10,000 times the energy, whatever gets the energy from it wouldn’t be able to take the strain. Second, it couldn’t possibly have gone more than 10,000 times the speed it usually goes, and producing 50,000 seconds worth of energy isn’t that much anyhow. So, all in all, you couldn’t have been more wrong.
Bet he could if he really tried. For instance, he could let my mum take a shit in his mouth. That’s gotta be more wrong.
Nope, your wrong it’s science dude look it up.
It’s actually economics, Eplekongen just has no idea how much one of those costs to build. Those take YEARS to start realizing a profit, and there’s no way that thing was making YEARS worth of energy in it’s last seconds.
You are all wrong, IT’S A ****ING JOKE!! LIGHTEN THE **** UP!
DO NOT INSULT GHOUCK. He’s the best commenter ever. Ask his grandfather.
Oh my, I appear to have caused quite the stir
Dudes, joke
K, ignoring the horrible grammar, it’s actuall much more to do with the strain on the system. A generator can only supply as much energy as is needed in that instant. So even though the turbines were spinning much faster, the energy created was only enough to match consumption.
“Actually”! Dammit! Impaled upon my own sword.
*hands mcgorgomagan his own petard*
*hoists*
*was about to make a hoisted joke until I saw yours
*
you’re purdy petardy
lol. burn.
And you couldn’t have had a bigger stick up your ass. Way to be technical about it too.!!
…except for most of the comments on this blog
QFT!
Queen’s Film Theatre?
Quantum Field Theory?
Quantitative Feedback Theory?
(had to google, lol)
Qeynos-Freeport Travel?
<–Dork Fail
Shh! King Xorbb will hear you speaking of such travels.
QWERTY Fetish Transvestite?
Quoted for the win…?
Quit Feeding Trolls
Quantum Fail Theory.
Quarter to kill?
Queef flavored taco?
As a colemak typist and, you know, normal person, I find that deeply disturbing.
in response to you being a gamer, do you play WoW
No, I never have. I prefer single player RPGs.
Zelda FTW! Heh.
Zelda pwns. So does Metroid. And Smash Bros.
And Halo is pretty good, too.
RPG categorization fail?
I think you’re right. Good game, but I’m pretty sure it’s a FPS.
Wc3 Frozen Throne, Dota Allstars and Warlocks on US west IMO
I’m sorry, City of Heroes anyone?
“RPG categorization fail?” TRUE! xD
Legend Of Zelda: adventure
Metroid: adventure, platformer (Prime series: FPS)
Smash Bros: fighter ( + platformer mini-games, ‘adventure’ mode)
I love those games ^^
Halo is awsome!!!!!!!!!!!!
and to that, I give you a giant WIN!!!
its good just dont go to a pvp server they all act like mr sausage
Best way to avoid getting involved with epic douchebaggery is to stay away from WoW, or any other MMO for that matter. It is the single-most entertaining way to sabotage your life. Huge grinds, time sink, battlegrounds, time sink. Raids, no social life. . Rinse repeat.
Oh wait, South Park already covered this. Moving on!
ahem… you seem to know an awful lot that they didnt cover on southpark
I played the damn thing for a year of my life which I will never get back. I’d go on the road and give talks about MMORPG addiction if anyone would listen (they wouldn’t). Such a tar pit, that WoW is.
aww QQ
lol
but I realize i’m an addict i use ftw ftl and pwnd in regular conversations and i pronounce each letter
I’m like that.
Yet, I refrain from saying El Oh El or Lawl.
Some of the people I know are not so lucky ^.^
no like fuh tuh wuh
Haha, my friend once accidentally let slip a “lawl”. I’ve never laughed so hard in my life.
Quitting Full-Time?
Quips for tingles
Quazy Frickin’ Turbine
quite an effin’ tempest
Quiet, Caliban.
Quick fresh tongue …
You trying to create an epidemic?
As you like it, Admiral.
Some Like It Hot.
Quill forever treasured
Yes the wind mill failed…
but nuclear power failures are more epic…
I’d take exploding wind mills over cancerous green clouds any day
Yes. Because one windmill shredding itself is far more dangerous than a nuclear reactor exploding. How have I not seen this before? Oh what a fool I’ve been!
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! i’m to late again! but still i try my best – FYRST!!!!!!!!!
hm maybe i still have a chance, i was 9th before now 6th
You tried to get first but a lazy Talonsofpeace imposter got first instead. Dubious fact, this.
Yeah, it’s not like we can’t tell the real talon from the fake one.
Especially since the fake talks like an idiot and has a randomly
generated pattern pic.
and the real one talks like an idiot and has a creepy pic?
+1. His pic needs to change. Corky is truly upsetting.
The only chance you have is failing at life. FAIL AT LIFE WIN for you.
Not only can you not be first, you cant spell first, and even worse, you live only to try and post “FIRST”. What a sad sad person. LIFE FAIL.
Wow, the fact that you and the guy below me take time off your hands just to criticize a guy for his misspellings, when he neither wanted or deserved your criticism, is just downright deplorable. Just thinking that you two just float around on the Internet looking for people to flame on till you get wankers cramp says more about your own idiocy and quite possibly, your insecurities, than it does about this person’s misspellings, so quite frankly, I believe that you both FAIL harder than he ever could. Good day.
*golf clap*
(I’m also still snorking @ “wankers cramp”.)
uh uh Dragon, you are “the guy below me” that Blues was talking about…
*golf clap* nonetheless
Was not. He was referring to porksword. I didn’t criticize Alex or his spelling anywhere on this thread.
ohhhh sorry. I thought he meant “the person who will post next”, and I didn’t think to question the logic of that. I mean, it’s not like he knew the next one who posts is gay, or anything.
Heeeeeee…!
Here’s a *golf clap* of your very own.
Ok, ok!
But, that’s what Failblog is all about right? Floating around the internet looking for people’s mistakes to point out?
So, technically you’re guilty of what you’re accusing him of right this second by your very act of perusing failblog.
Uh-oez.
Iz da gramma poleez.
ruuuuuunz!
Nuns?!
Nuns with guns?
Nuns with bad puns
Scaring nuns is fun.
Scaring nuns is easy.
Nuns are heaven on earth girls.
But they don’t like that earth girls are easy.
such nuns should perhaps learn a tantrika or two.
*nunsuch*
exquisitely apt …
nonesuch equals “has no equals”… and the tantrikas I’ve known personally are absolutely unparalled when it comes to being transpersonally parallel
I thought it might be…
I understand salvia must be smoked?
What a bunch of nunsense.
Water pipe
‘Easy girls are fun’
…_strictly obligatory_.
I would venture to guess that this may not always be true.
I would venture to guess that you may always be a girl.
Nunz with da ruuuuuuunz!
At the diarrhetic diocese?
to the person who said the windmills drop their blades in severe weather… have u seen the size of them?!?! if one dropped it would do the same thing on impact with the ground. just sayin
oh fug, porksword iz da wordpigs!
(an’ hiz red penis mightier)
I’ll take “Anal Bumcover” for $1,000. . .
The woolly mammoth had a flap of hairy skin covering its anus to keep the heat in.
Needs more…. Crisco…
Don’t you mean, What is the woolly mammoth had a flap of hairy skin covering its anus to keep the heat in, Alex?
“You win this time, Trebek!”
Kebert Xela.
AAAAAAAAAARGH!
Getting him to say his name backwards was the only way to get him back to the fifth dimension where he belongs.
Family guy reference WIN
I had a nightmare like that, once.
Do tell!
Not a chance. It was disturbing, to say the least.
Awww…. I like disturbing stuff…..
Eh why not? Just a few vivid details can really explain a dream. No need to write some tome about a nightmare, a simple sentence would suffice.
Six-of-eleven, meet Talons. If disturbing is your thing, he should be right up your alley.
Talon’s right. Short is fine but midgets aren’t natural.
hmmm . . . i had a date like that last night
Who is your Mom?
Who is the woman I slept with last night, Trebek?
And Thay is correct!
MOO!
You’re missing a comma.
you’re missing a coma.
a common missing function misfunction
I am Marlena Evans, and I resent that.
I’m not paying attention and I resemble that comment.
Hmmmm……perhaps if you look again, you will notice he is referring to multiple people, therefore; justifying the choice of grammar.
wrong
Title fail this is/was a wind turbine
*masturbates* who wants white manjuce
Go green!
the most bestest best thing in the world!!1
Haha..
BOOOOM
what an esplosion! XD
thing must have been going over 9000 rpm.
Alternative energy FAIL.
Well, you have to admit, it still was pretty cool to watch. At least no one was hurt, and because that happened, the flaw was probably fixed!
It was freakin’ awesome to watch. The first time, I said, “Wait… what
happened?”
And then it did slo-mo and I figured it out.
It asploded.
Awesome
The wind caused one of ‘propellers’ of the windmill to break apart, which knocked it off balance, causing it to crumple like it did.
didn’t the whole of texas city once explode? i think that’s worse. wind can’t catch fire, you know.
If it’s the explosion I’m thinking of it was due to the unfortunate combination of fire and pure ammonium nitrate fertilizer in a large container ship. As I recall it was the largest non-nuclear, man-made explosion ever.
that was the initial explosion, but iirc it started fires at the surrounding oil refineries.
(premature posting fail) …causing a devastating chain reaction.
That is so sweet!
Haha
New russian ammo 
In Soviet Russia, wind mill makes wind spin.
Huh? What happened there?
Mother Nature WIN
The slow-mo looked like the spar of one of the blades failed. Hard. The whole blade could just have shredded, though. They’re just fiberglass; not really made for tornadoes/hurricanes. It’s the mast and generator that are going to be expensive to replace.
It was going too fast and it got itself all ripped to shit. those things work best at right around 13mph. it was under too much stress.
It looked like a tree-branch hit it, actually.
upon reviewing, i would agree. but to save face ( attempt anyway ) the branch wouldnt be in the way without the high wind haha.
Uh… no. Ever seen one installed anywhere near a tree? There’s a reason for that. They need ‘clean’ wind so they are installed far from other structures which may disrupt the wind flow. Also, the difference in time between when you see it fail and when you hear it fail indicates that it is some distance from the camera. The tree is much closer to the camera – unless that was a tiny wind turbine.
He meant a branch that was caught by the wind and hit it
Being that there is a tree in the foreground of the video, I would argue that it was installed near a tree…
In the absence of any evidence that show there’s more than one tree in the vicinity of the mill I’m going to conclude you’re a very ‘pecial person.
I personally don’t think it was a tree branch but, if it were it would be because it was caught on the clearly very strong winds. Maybe even from a tree that ISN’T in shot
:O
A tree branch did hit it
i’d hit it. with my penis.
All new meaning to a blow job.
… and to head asplodes.
It could also be a handy way to get a cheap circumcision.
Via the raw destructive power of breaking wind? Who do you think you are, Goldmember?
Why do you know about its ideal wind speed?
it’s called the internets.
WTF is the internets?
Serious business.
tubes
Not something that you can just dump something on.
Internet was sent by my staff at 10 o’clock in the morning on Friday — I got it yesterday!
keep on series of truckin’, dude
I think you mean angular velocity
i think you mean RPM
I think you’re wrong.
Burn
“No it isn’t. It’s just contradiction.”
“I came here for a good argument”.
No you didn’t!
*hug*
Heh. It seems I have my own personal huggy guy.
*hug*
YAY I HAZ A SUCCESS
hehe.. kinda hard to post “no you didn’t! you came here for a good argument!” after the huggies. *hug*
*hand on hip, wagging finger* –
No you didn’t just say ‘kinda hard’ after the huggies!
Huggies? Now all Dragowriter needs is a guy who Pampers her!
That’ll put her over the deep ends.
I thought I spied some Calming Lavender ™ wipes over here in the Romper Room.
awww.. Do we really have to go there? Do we really have to put sexual innuendos into everything now?
That’s what happens when the comments about the fail
start to run out of steam. That and really, really, bad puns.
Proceed at your own risk.
[To fluffy] You want to complain! Look at these shoes. I’ve only had them three weeks and the heels are worn right through.
*facepalm*
“This isn’t an argument, this is abuse!”
Is a squable with sarcastic and witty comments.
isn’t rpm a measure of angular velocity. innit? (winking smiling face)
I thought RPM were the guys who sang “Losing My Religion”. By the way, I’m pretty sure I started that meme way back on the “Balloon Penetration” fail.
*Hands Rogue a plank with engraved Fail Song lyrics*
I’d like to thank the Academy.
Get back in your corner.
The windmill broke.
*sics Admiral Apparent on bobby*
Ah! There’s an admiral after me!
*runs*
*cowers*
*starts drinking, increases courage*
*chases admiral*
*has ass handed to him*
The bobby’s ass broke.
It was torqued off with a moment arm attached to a rubber fist.
Yes, it was certainly a pivotal moment.
What’s your vector, Victor?
About 9 inches, to the right.
What’s your clearnace, Clarence?
So exciting to see an Airplane! reference.
The red zone is for loading and unloading only.
Zappa zapped! Win!
Technically it’s not a wind mill it’s a wind turbine. The old fashioned buildings that moved around and used wind generated power to grind corn are windmills. They are milling the corn and the millner (sp?) works inside. This is a wind turbine. Called this because it’s blades are turned by the wind, which turns the turbine which does some magical physics and converts the energy so wankers who think they’re being “green” can use it. Wind Turbines really aren’t as great as environmentalists think they are. They should be turned off if the wind is too weak or too strong (as seen above!) and take huge amounts of energy to get started. So considering the useable energy provided by a wind turbine over a long period of time it’s not very efficient. Making this a Physics Fail. Someone else pointed out it was an Economic Fail. Oh and this particular video is also a Name Fail. That’s a lot of fail.
I’m gonna call you a prat regardless of whether you are or aren’t. I surmise you’re neither but am applying an offensive label regardless because you remind me of one. I’m keeping the word ‘wanker’ in reserve.
Your comment was well thought out and coherent but I feel you FAILed to appreciate the spirit in which this fail was posted.
Is funny coz goes kaPLOOey!!
I was only threatening to call you a wanker. Then I realize you call yourself one. Completely disarmed.
how do you figure a wind turbine, turned by wind in case you didn’t notice, takes “huge amounts of energy to get started”? back up your argument, wanker
The original video of that (this has been cropped at top and bottom) has a guy saying that the brakes failed on his windmill, and he had no way to slow it down.
He apparently knew it was going to fail, so he was filming it.
I’m also guessing this wasn’t one of those turbines that can release the blades in case of brake fail too? If there was some sort of mechanic right there, you’d think he’d save it if it were at all possible. Sometimes the greatest fails are accidental.
Might have been going too fast to safely drop the blades at that point.
You’re right, but…
That could have been even funnier to watch!
That is very, very darn true. To release them at that speed would mean somewhere, a farmer’s barn has been shiska-bob’d. As well as his cows. But now instead, sharp, pointy pieces of fiber glass bomb exploded and rained down on anything unfortuante enough to be in it’s area. Either way, it wouldn’t have been good.
Wouldn’t ALL fails be accidentals? I mean, if they were planned, then they are not fails, and if they were not planned, they’re accidental.
VISION FAIL! It broke apart. Go back and watch the video again. You’ll notice that the windmill looks much different at the end of the video than it did at the start. This is because it broke.
I know its difficult to spot, so watch closely.
Weird. For me, at the end of the video, it looks like the word “Replay.” Is anyone else seeing that?
thats why he said it looked different, duh.
OMG LOL
+10
All windmills have an overspeed braking system to prevent this sort of thing. However, if it fails, then this is what can happen. The stress from the force rips the sucker apart.
Those types of windmills are not supposed to spin anywhere close to that fast.
Yeah, but just THINK of the electricity it was generating! Well, before it blew it’s brains out that is…
Totally, it probably had enough to power twice as many toaster as under normal load. That’s like 4 pieces of toast for nothing. Who says there no such thing as a free lunch. No question, Fail!
mendzel pendzel cicho pierdzi mocno smierdzi
jego matka glosno pierdzi lecz nie smierdzi
Bork bork bork!
That’s what SHE said!
You know some city is pissed about no power now, but DAMN! That was awesome!
and that noise it makes….
must be a small city to be powered by one windmill
Yeah… uh… one windmill isn’t going to take down power to that many people. Those things dont make a lot of juice. You need huge fields of them.
Those size turbines are usually rated at around 2 to 3 MILLION WATTS. Damn, that’s a lot of toast!
Windmills do not work that way! I will destroy you!
wow.. thats like.. mega-lethal.. O_o”
wtf were they recording it for in the first place O.o
But whatever. Pretty damn awesome. I anticipate some white shrapnel crushings.
maybe they were recording it to see if it would splode.
Most likely to watch for vandalism and such. Happens more than you think.
How Quixotic.
*ponders* Your arm’s off!
It’s just a flesh wound.
Look, you stupid Bastard. You’ve got no arms left.
It’s just a flesh wound!
Repetition win!
Dammit. Observation fail on me!
You should read more obcervantesly next time.
*panchos fuzz on the arm*
I will.
I delight to your dulcineat touch.
*looks at talons*
*brain tilts*
____
(not to be confused with “lits”)
Now did you mean “lits”? Or is life long enough to indulge comments that satisfy your literary mind?
Hmm. Been a while since you’ve seen any, hasn’-tit?
Oooh … again with the titty teasing anticip
-ation.
Touch-a touch-a touch-a touch me, I wanna be dirty!
oooh, baby, you good for relievin’ my … mmm …
… tension!
I’m sensing some sexual tension.
Oh, you beat me to it
*massages fuzz intensionally*
*warps to the beat*
Do moobs count?
*tilt*
This was on a disaster show on the discovery channel. This turbine was in the Netherlands. They were filming it because of the high speed at which it was turning. Normally the speed is regulated by the motor.
I’m pretty sure this happened in Denmark. Somewhere in Jutland
I’m pretty sure it wasn’t in Normalway.
it happened just outside of Aarhus, the biggest city in jutland.
Cause it was going super fast with no brakes. Thats why they recorded it…
“Place vehicle in wind park.”
No wonder it broke! You used your foot on the handbrake!
*facesole!*
A guy in my year at school was able to kick himself in the head repeatedly. He even entered the talent show with that as his ‘talent’.
-Loz’s anecdote of the day.
He should be dancer on sole train.
Maybe there was a bad storm and they wanted to see what would happen to it. Well they found out.
I think I was a farmer that noticed it was going way faster then all of the others.
I read that the brake that the mill has was not working, so they created a safe perimeter and… waited for the FAIL. Schweeeet.
Emergency handbrake fail.
And yes, I mean someone should’ve gone up to the thing and stuck their hand in there to stop it.
I would like to volunteer mr. s.a.u.s.a.g.e. for that job. Him or talons.
Talons
Talons. Definitely.
WOOT! ok, answer my question, oh great BondFan
A perfect nomination. My talons are my fortune, great spade-like things. They can stop propellers, fans, propeller fans, windmills and can even stop the act of writing in mid senten
you’re a good sport, thanks
We can only hope.
Both..
At the same time.
Please :]
I second that!
Sure! Brandt can’t watch though, or he has to pay $100.
I vote Talons. mr. s.a.u.s.a.g.e. needs his hands to masturbate.
thanks:* *masturbates*
I volunteer you Cloral
negative, she is asking for volunteers, would you like to do it?
She? She who?
That’s what he said.
Or perhaps destruction testing?
Hmm. Witty contribution to failblog comments FAIL.
Yes, it was a destruction test.
There is also a longer version of this video online, there you see engineers and professional recorders at a distance after the windmill fell.
FAIL. I watched it on the news and it wasn’t a test. it was real, real, real!
Nopes, it was not. The windmill was indeed FAILing. Happened in Denmark, where I live. Was all over the news. The farmer who owns the windmill created a safe perimeter and recorded it all.
This was in Denmark and the city had power
Ha ha, nice.
“Are you sure it’s made of secure materials?”
“I’m positive! Nothing could break this cheap plastic easily!”
“… I’m at a loss of words…”
“Your missing a torso, too!”
“CURSE YOU, SHRAPNEL-MAN”
12th again, i need to move up in the ranks.
it just couldn’t harness all the wind energy comming it’s way
I seem to recall seeing this clip in the ad for “Destroyed In Seconds”, that new Discovery Channel show.
That was an inside job if I’ve ever seen one…I bet the Jews were behind it too.
am I first?
um,. no. maybe next time love
When you get winds like this you are supposed to shut the it down. The owner failed at shutting it down.
I think the only thing that would’ve been more interesting to see done to this wind turbine is having a tornado hit it.
Well, they were filming it, so it was probably a high wind speed test of some sort
I could swear this was on Discovery channel the other night. The other ones were working fine, but this one suffered some kind of malfunction on a particularly windy day.
It was an accident – some people saw the windmill go balistic and stopped to film it.
this was not a windmill test…
it was in Denmark last year and it happened during a huricane.. the huricane got the windmill to spin faster and faster and faster and faster and it would never stop until it broke
Exactly….these things have a “cut out speed” where the engine break is supposed to turn on and the blades are rotated so they’re perpendicular to the wind so there’s less torque on the turbine.
Thank you, , too many people FAIL to realize what happened.
ghouck, please explain why they happened to be filming this at the opportune moment?
They had it coming?
“Engine break” is exactly what it did.
Finally a danish fail! yaaaaay!!!.. may?.. say..
K, J.
old!
That’s Piny the Elder old!
Okay…that actually made me tingle….
… and you just know the good Admiral has pliny more where that came from.
Free honey? Nom nom.
You betcha, hunny.
wow, that blows.
lol!! literally
I think I saw this on that show “destroyed in seconds”.
I love how you can hear it speeding up and then it looks like the catastrophic failure is in slow motion.
Electrical generation WIN! Think about how much electricity that thing must have cranked out before the blade shredded! Probably a couple of years worth of normal operation!
eh, an extra week or two at most. those things harness the smallest ammount of energy.
damn, and those turbines are expensive…
GNARLY
Un-edited dailies from the movie Twister.
“Right foot blue.”
(Un-edited copy and paste from the Hand Brake Fail.)
___
*shouts out to Loz*
The Flying Spaghetti Monster also approves. He is pleased with your noodly shenanigans.
Don’t forget to talk like a pirate on September 19.
Long live Pastafarianism!!
Fossil Fuel win. Take that Al Gore.
Wind blows, wind wins.
Windmill fails, windmill blows.
rofl!! love it, I love it!
*golf clap* Well played.
Whis happened during a storm in Denmark. The brake in the windmill was broken, so it oculdn’t stop the wings. Tv -crews arrived at the scene just minutes before it crashed.
Alternative Energy FAIL
Oil Company WIN
*nods*
It must have taken in too much energy. Its power levels were…OVER 9000!
no.
That was sad ;(
that was a clown <*:oDX
that f*cking funny comment made me cry, here’s a cuss word on a stick:
@&$^#%*&!–>–>—
oo
v
( )
a penguin…sort of
noo .. oo
v
( )
hold your formatting
did not work, it works in word doc. oh well
i gotta say, that’s one sad abstract penguin … looks like it was drawn by someone screaming with tears pouring down their face at work
or John Wayne Gacy.
Here’s a hot Cindy Crawford pic. :.)8<–<
ROFL screaming and tears pouring down face. and i’m at work right now
you guys are going to get me fired, but i love you for it
I would worry about the same thing but my boss generally reads all this anyways.
Well, that windmill won’t be keeping anyone cool anymore.
WINDMILLS DO NOT WORK THAT WAY! GOOD NIGHT!
They do if the electricity they produce is used to run an air conditioner.
Burn of the week!!
hmmm a burn by talking about cooling methods….
let me ponder that…..
lol! nice come back…
Morbo quote win!
neither do wind turbines!
ROFL!!! I really hope you are joking, really
good job
Yes, I was setting that joke up.
I tried to do it on the Youtube video itself but some failure didn’t get it and made himself look retarded.
Old but still somewhat entertaining. Some engineer somewhere is going “I knew that leftover screw went somewhere”.
It actually stopped generating electricity, the brakes that it uses to convert the speed broke. They have another video of it will all of them in view and this is the only one going crazy, with the brakes gone and no energy being made from it, all it could do is speed up in the wind.
I don’t think so, , the initial failure was the blade hitting the upright, that blade was BENDING from the wind, not from spinning too fast. If it were spinning SLOWER, it would have bent MORE, and hit the upright much sooner.
http://failblog.org/2008/05/18/alternative-energy-fail/
Here you can see where the blade enters the hub of the windmill, it is round because the blade PITCHES there. They pitch to neutral in high winds to stop spinning and to stop the stress on the blade. This one didn’t pitch to neutral.
wow nice one on linking your argument to an old post lol
I think someone shot it… Ah! I’m hit!
That’s not a fail, that’s a destruction win.
Where is a Bird when you need one? That would have made this fail spectacular!
Why was someone video taping their windmill?
I spend many nights awake hoping and wishing for a storm so I can race out with my video camera and film a seriously expensive and majorly flawed piece of equipment breaking itself apart. Why, doesn’t everyone?
Head shot.
Anyone curious as to why someone would be videotaping a windmill?
Is it a windmill fail or sabotage?
Oh, crap, that giant bunny was right.>_<
Fail fail, or american humour fail – second degree.
Isn’t it a liiiiiiittle suspicious it was being filmed before it crapped itself?
I would guess there was something wrong they KNEW about, and were just hoping for no strong wind before getting at fixing it, which didn’t work out. You have to think that if something was wrong, even if they knew, they wouldn’t dare enter it ti fix it once the wind started. Nothing they could do once the wind picked up, so might as well film it, the guys at Lloyds probably want the video for the file if they were insured by Lloyds.
This windmill not taller than 2 metters .. Obviously.
Big windmill are not working that fast.
Next time read the comments
before commenting PLEASE
You make my brain hurt
Yeah sure I’ll read 300 comments everytime I want to write something.
Thanks for the advise, why I didn’t think about it before ! Damn me !
Mateo, I would advise you…
mateo gets check from matt,
dilettante offers matt a mateo check mate
OH how shall I fail the Mateo.
At first I thought english was your second language
but now i think your just an idiot.
This is a wind turbine from somewhere in the area of the netherlands?
so im pretty sure its taller than two METERS.
Big windmill be working fast, due to the high wind.
if you had read the other comments you would know this.
Also I have to advise you that its spelt advice.
How shall I fail thee?
English *
you’re *
The Netherlands *
I’m *
it’s *
it’s *
The corrector is corrected. And the world is right again.
grammer shammor
you’re just being pedantic
Also i was on my iphone at the time
anyone know how hard it is to be grammatically correct on those things?
The shit hit the fan.
+1
simple & effineffective
How Quixotic!!!
Stolen! You’re tilting at windmills.
It kinda looked to me as if it was in a bit of fast motion?
Still awesome, though. Did everyone see the part where it totally blew apart? That was the best bit
You’re kidding. Right?
dragon don’t bother translating this it’s dirty est-ce que je peux mange ton vagin?
i was jk
*slaps corey HARD*
No more hugs for you.
*cry* i said jk *cry*
I am but a young man (I’m over intelligent too)
Pick something else to give up.
*gives up herring*
over intelligent? Like Doogie Howser?
oh lordy … a surgical strike … lol
no like 14 and having the intellectual power of a 30- 40 year old
If you’re so intelligent, why did you fail in your knowledge of the appropriate tense of the French word ‘manger’?
because french lessons are boring
Ah, are we playing Mad Libs?
no like 14 and having the intellectual power of a 30- 40 year old ____________ .
Jr. Whopper with cheese
hello everyone
look at 0:16-0:17 of the video
its easy to tell that a tree branch flies up and wrecks it
Holy crap, homicidal windmill must have taken out every bird and squirrel in a half-mile radius!
I love you, Douglas Adams.
I saw a thing about this on tv. It had a faulty breaking system.
not its breaking system was fine
its was the braking system that was faulty
-1 for syntactical presentation +2 for content = +1 lol
Meh, either way you’re still a douche.
The “blades” are supposed to be in an angle where the wind doesn’t push them that fast. There needs to be an automated system, that adjusts the angle according to the current wind speed. At least in Europe they all have that build in.
Well maybe this was a test to demonstrate what would happen if you don’t build it
oooow maaaa gaaaaad !!!!
Well, now these people can build a much more efficient vertical axis windmill to replace that outdated relic.
“take THAT renewable energy” Mother Nature
That right there is some of the most beautiful destruction I have ever seen.
is it me, or the the the tree touched the windmill and made the windmill break in pieces ?
it is is is just you.
Still needs the Benny Hill theme…
lol
The exploding turbine explained:
http://earth2tech.com/2008/02/26/vestas-wind-turbine-explodes-with-power/
Thats awesome!
wtf????how???
it is shattered into teeny tiny pieces, but before it does, it produces a SHIT LOAD of electricity
At first I was like wow maximum power!! Then at the end I was like dang…overall . =FAIL!
Now I want to see a cargo helicopter fly a suspended tree into a windmill
“she cant take much more captain!”
-windmill fail-
“told ya…”
why is it that all of the videos are ‘no longer available due to terms of use violation’?
How does a wind turbine blowing up violate terms of use? YOU TUBE SUCKS.
jeez, man wtf happened there. did someone blow it up? or a tree collided into it? I don’t think wind alone makes a windmill go like that by itself =S
Wtf happened there? I’m assuming that it went too fast and ‘sploded itself?
ecoligic-ENERGY to the max !!!!!
wind win
0:16
yah thats where i seen it lol
fossil fuels WIN
and how was this recorded?
Oh … I don’t know … could it be … SATAN!!
WhooshwhooshwhooshwhooshwhooshwhooshwhooshwhooshwhooshwhooshwhooshwhooshwhooshwhooshwhooshwhooshwhooshwhooshwhooshwhooshwhooshwhooshwhooshBOOOOOMMMM!!!!!
out of control