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  1. talonsofpeace says:

    Weow! Foist? meh

  2. mr. mime says:

    the most bestest best thing in the world!!1

  3. Jpoel says:

    Haha..

    BOOOOM

  4. Syn says:

    what an esplosion! XD

  5. alternative says:

    Alternative energy FAIL.

    • Shana says:

      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!

      • Mike says:

        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 :)

        • Shana says:

          The wind caused one of ‘propellers’ of the windmill to break apart, which knocked it off balance, causing it to crumple like it did.

    • david says:

      didn’t the whole of texas city once explode? i think that’s worse. wind can’t catch fire, you know.

      • gryphon says:

        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.

  6. Zudduz says:

    That is so sweet!

  7. Buck says:

    Haha :D New russian ammo :D

  8. wimple says:

    Huh? What happened there?

  9. jesus christ says:

    mendzel pendzel cicho pierdzi mocno smierdzi
    jego matka glosno pierdzi lecz nie smierdzi

  10. jluve82 says:

    You know some city is pissed about no power now, but DAMN! That was awesome!

  11. Morbo says:

    Windmills do not work that way! I will destroy you!

  12. aegis3d says:

    wow.. thats like.. mega-lethal.. O_o”

  13. LOLFACE says:

    wtf were they recording it for in the first place O.o

    But whatever. Pretty damn awesome. I anticipate some white shrapnel crushings.

  14. dmat says:

    Or perhaps destruction testing?

    Hmm. Witty contribution to failblog comments FAIL.

    • Jego says:

      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.

      • QUAB says:

        FAIL. I watched it on the news and it wasn’t a test. it was real, real, real!

      • Janni says:

        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.

  15. Thewinging says:

    This was in Denmark and the city had power :)

  16. Brian says:

    Ha ha, nice.

  17. Guy Over Yonder says:

    “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…”

  18. abstract says:

    12th again, i need to move up in the ranks.

  19. Cloral says:

    I seem to recall seeing this clip in the ad for “Destroyed In Seconds”, that new Discovery Channel show.

  20. Alan Douchowitz says:

    That was an inside job if I’ve ever seen one…I bet the Jews were behind it too.

  21. Eplekongen says:

    When you get winds like this you are supposed to shut the it down. The owner failed at shutting it down.

  22. MrJuul says:

    Finally a danish fail! yaaaaay!!!.. may?.. say..

  23. [dangeruss] says:

    wow, that blows.

  24. Mediego says:

    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.

  25. blackshoe says:

    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!

  26. Perceptive in Parry Sound says:

    damn, and those turbines are expensive…

  27. Bratenboy says:

    GNARLY

  28. Bardsfingertips says:

    Un-edited dailies from the movie Twister.

  29. Rachel says:

    Fossil Fuel win. Take that Al Gore.

  30. fuzz on the concept says:

    Wind blows, wind wins.
    Windmill fails, windmill blows.

  31. Gubban says:

    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.

  32. Filthy says:

    Alternative Energy FAIL

    Oil Company WIN

  33. Lol says:

    It must have taken in too much energy. Its power levels were…OVER 9000!

  34. esta says:

    That was sad ;(

  35. Anomnom says:

    Well, that windmill won’t be keeping anyone cool anymore.

  36. Jen says:

    Old but still somewhat entertaining. Some engineer somewhere is going “I knew that leftover screw went somewhere”.

  37. Braddigan says:

    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.

    • ghouck says:

      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.

  38. postie says:

    I think someone shot it… Ah! I’m hit!

  39. Gamercatz says:

    That’s not a fail, that’s a destruction win.

  40. Sm0k3y says:

    Where is a Bird when you need one? That would have made this fail spectacular!

  41. jocelyn says:

    Why was someone video taping their windmill?

    • NosyWanker says:

      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?

  42. Rawr says:

    Head shot.

  43. Gn0 says:

    Anyone curious as to why someone would be videotaping a windmill?
    Is it a windmill fail or sabotage?

  44. Divided by zero says:

    Oh, crap, that giant bunny was right.>_<

  45. frod says:

    Fail fail, or american humour fail – second degree.

  46. KT says:

    Isn’t it a liiiiiiittle suspicious it was being filmed before it crapped itself?

    • ghouck says:

      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.

  47. Mateo says:

    This windmill not taller than 2 metters .. Obviously.

    Big windmill are not working that fast.

    • matt says:

      Next time read the comments
      before commenting PLEASE
      You make my brain hurt

      • Mateo says:

        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 !

        • dilettante says:

          Mateo, I would advise you…

        • matt says:

          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.

  48. BJD says:

    The shit hit the fan.

  49. someguy says:

    How Quixotic!!!

  50. saru says:

    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

  51. corey says:

    dragon don’t bother translating this it’s dirty est-ce que je peux mange ton vagin?

  52. nameless says:

    hello everyone
    look at 0:16-0:17 of the video
    its easy to tell that a tree branch flies up and wrecks it

  53. Elvira says:

    Holy crap, homicidal windmill must have taken out every bird and squirrel in a half-mile radius!

  54. Shame Faced says:

    I saw a thing about this on tv. It had a faulty breaking system.

  55. stepo says:

    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.

  56. konal says:

    oooow maaaa gaaaaad !!!!

  57. KaylaKaze says:

    Well, now these people can build a much more efficient vertical axis windmill to replace that outdated relic.

  58. Bron says:

    “take THAT renewable energy” Mother Nature

  59. Aaron Hong says:

    That right there is some of the most beautiful destruction I have ever seen.

  60. Maglore says:

    is it me, or the the the tree touched the windmill and made the windmill break in pieces ?

  61. missionpants says:

    Still needs the Benny Hill theme…

  62. tahu says:

    wtf????how???

  63. hotfuzz459 says:

    it is shattered into teeny tiny pieces, but before it does, it produces a SHIT LOAD of electricity

  64. Jebus101 says:

    At first I was like wow maximum power!! Then at the end I was like dang…overall . =FAIL!

  65. Treemonisha says:

    Now I want to see a cargo helicopter fly a suspended tree into a windmill

  66. mr.BASS says:

    “she cant take much more captain!”
    -windmill fail-
    “told ya…”

  67. knuti says:

    why is it that all of the videos are ‘no longer available due to terms of use violation’?

  68. WTF says:

    How does a wind turbine blowing up violate terms of use? YOU TUBE SUCKS.

  69. mike182 says:

    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

  70. JonnoJ says:

    Wtf happened there? I’m assuming that it went too fast and ‘sploded itself?

  71. VaNiLLa JuN says:

    ecoligic-ENERGY to the max !!!!!

  72. janis says:

    wind win

  73. yah thats where i seen it lol

  74. Themias says:

    fossil fuels WIN

  75. GregoryGordon says:

    and how was this recorded?

  76. THEdragon says:

    WhooshwhooshwhooshwhooshwhooshwhooshwhooshwhooshwhooshwhooshwhooshwhooshwhooshwhooshwhooshwhooshwhooshwhooshwhooshwhooshwhooshwhooshwhooshBOOOOOMMMM!!!!!

  77. theguy says:

    out of control


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