Ecotricity – Bristol Port – Wind Turbine Construction Video
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Just launched! Watch our stunning new time-lapse video of the construction of 3 wind turbines at Bristol Port. The turbines will produce over 15 million units of new green electricity annually, enough to save around 13,000 tonnes of carbon emissions every year for the next 30 years!
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January 19th, 2009 at 11:57 am
Noone is saying that wind turbines are the answer. It’s just part of the answer. I also admit that there are problems with it like ‘scudlington’ said. In fact the turbines actually use a small amount of energy when there isn’t any wind. However wind turbines recover the energy used to manufacture, install, and run them after only 4 or 5 months. Coal plants never achieve this. So, WTs have flaws but they are greatly overshadowed by the benefits of putting them up.
January 19th, 2009 at 8:21 pm
Excellent! I look forward to it.
January 20th, 2009 at 4:14 pm
Scudlington – your lenses seem to be peculiarly tinted
I will respond in detail later – but for now I have removed all comments with profanity – so that minors and corporate users can view the page/video….
January 22nd, 2009 at 10:27 am
Jeskao I have to say that you are right. It is ‘just a sign’ some would even say symbolic. National grids, all essentially work to the same principal of balance…demand/supply. These ‘green’ techs do not and cannot address this issue because they have no control over the power source. The largest of WTs will supply less power than the battery in my watch when the wind isn’t blowing and therefore must be backed up at all times. You must think about these issues minus green tinted lenses.
January 22nd, 2009 at 11:50 pm
this is one sign of how amazing the world is going to coming together to bring new energy resources in to power lines, to help off set our carbon output. Just as much fuel is used to bring all that smelly coal with it needs to go to produce power, stop thinking so far inside the box, invest in something that will last for longer than the short sighted foreseeable future we all like to live in
January 23rd, 2009 at 5:33 pm
Just one more thing before I get off me soap box. I’m not ‘anti environment’ or do I like to be labelled a ‘denier’ (as if we were somehow back in the days of the Spanish inquisition.) Nothing depresses me more than the destruction of our natural habitat, (particularly the great rainforests) but if you really believe that building windmills will somehow help the polar bears or prevent New York being 20ft under then you really are living in cloud cuckoo land.
January 25th, 2009 at 6:54 am
(Renewables obligation). This states that each provider must generate a certain percentage of their electricity mainly by the above means. They can’t, because even though we are now in charge of the weather we still can’t make the wind blow when we need it, consequently they are fined (taxed) and dutifully pass this on in full to us mugs…marvellous. This is all now set to get far worse. A couple of months ago Gordo triumphantly announced that he was going to save the world by spending…
January 27th, 2009 at 1:41 pm
…sorry to go on…because the ‘consensus’ is that everyone agrees that we are now somehow in charge of the worlds weather. Clearly bananas but to governments and certain sectors of private enterprise a money making opportunity made in heaven. That old chestnut ‘they’ll tax us for the air we breathe’ is already with us. My families last electricity bill was 30% higher than it should have been. 30% on top of excessive profiteering on a necessity by a nifty little EU directive called the RO
January 29th, 2009 at 2:59 am
The interesting thing is that our government knows this but because the debate about ‘climate change’ is now apparently over, our great Scottish leader and his henchmen now feel they have a vote winning opportunity to commit the country to what will eventually prove to be a catastrophically expensive act of vandalism to our beautiful countryside. Most do not realise that this is one of the main factors behind our ever increasing energy bills. It is never reported by the BBC or seldomly discussed
January 30th, 2009 at 3:17 pm
Saving 13000 tons of evil carbon every year…Sounds impressive and scary at the same time. What? 13000 tons of gas? that must be like half the worlds atmosphere or something. In reality though it is utterly insignificant. Human breath alone accounts for approx’ 6 MILLION tons every DAY. We are not told the truth about windmills and most other supposedly ‘green’ methods of power generation. They are products of a new political agenda that is going to cost us way more than we can afford…
February 2nd, 2009 at 6:46 am
I see trucks hauling blades alot lately down the roads.
February 5th, 2009 at 4:07 pm
Nope – not if we were to use electricity generated from existing turbines rather than oil
February 8th, 2009 at 7:43 am
Look at this process and ask yourself how much diesel fuel was REQUIRED for the transportation, construction of the footings, and ******** of the turbine.
Now imagine how difficult it would be if it were all done by hand without diesel powered machinery.
We’d better start using the oil we have left for installation of renewable energy infrastructure because when oil is $1000 per barrel (and that day will come within 20 years), these turbines will be VERY EXPENSIVE to install!
February 10th, 2009 at 6:25 am
According to who you believe the world has reached “peak oil” or will reach it within our lifetimes, energy, goods and services are going to increase in cost unless we bite the bullet and follow a much more aggressive renewable energy policy here in the UK.
February 10th, 2009 at 11:18 am
those things are HUGE! wouldn’t it be better to put up more smaller types, at a similar cost?
February 12th, 2009 at 9:35 am
look how they try to build huge turbines so they can hoard and sell the electricity.
Build a smaller one in your garden and you can have electricity of your own for FREE!
February 15th, 2009 at 7:42 pm
check out my wind power vids…
February 17th, 2009 at 12:15 pm
outstanding//
February 18th, 2009 at 12:59 am
The guys worked realy hard to get these turbines built in tough conditions, Windcon Energy Services is presently erecting turbines in the UK, USA and Canada. We are constantly recruiting experienced technicians worldwide who like to travel around the world and will be part of the team to erect over 2000MW of clean energy by next year.
February 21st, 2009 at 2:54 am
those are so big, its almost scary. it almost entrances you to watch them standing tall and spinning slowly..it creeps me out and awes me at the same time!
February 24th, 2009 at 6:30 am
that’s cool i stacked out suzlons. Yout next vid should show the guy calling it in. especially the nacelle and rotor.
February 26th, 2009 at 8:14 am
Hi – thanks for the comments all!
In answer to the question about the music:
Dreamtime – Uberzone (from the album called “Faith in the Future”)
Cheers
February 28th, 2009 at 1:42 pm
My wind videos are a funny response to those who opppose wind power…
March 3rd, 2009 at 1:51 am
Ya I know. You never really realize just how big they are until you see some cranes and people working with them to put things into perspective!
March 6th, 2009 at 1:43 am
I could see those from my flat when I lived in Bristol the one on the way to London is amazing aswell I think it runs the “green park”