The saddest wind turbine fire is when 2 workers were trapped on top. The fire blocked their escape. One man jumped to his death, the second burned to death.
(3:23) As an industrial welder, I can vouch for those "little sparks" being hot!! So hot, in fact, that they immediately stick and begin self cauterizing as they fry their way into your meat. If you ever see welders working, they are always wearing thick, long-sleeve shirts. No matter how warm the day. 2 reasons, 1) hot slag & sparks 2) sunburn (yes, the arc is so bright it will burn)
Also something to add, they were talking about it hurting your eyes. The uv rays from the arc and burn your eyes and give you something called a flash. Its like a sunburn but on your eyeballs. Much love to the Blue Collar workers!!
@@Cody10040 Yea, we called it "hot sand in the eye". Docs gave us special eyedrops but we weren't supposed to have them because it numbed the eye so well that people were blinding themselves by going back to welding right then.
The Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapse was nicknamed "Galloping Gertie". A lot more technical facts & anecdotal stories are available by looking up the nickname. That man took so long because he was trying to get his dog out of the car but the poor pooch was just too scared and impossible to reach. But WALKING back to safety is pretty strange.
I was born in Tacoma. Yeah... poor dog. My Grandfather worked on the bridge that came after the collapse. I remember him saying there were no nets to save workers, or at least where he was working at that time. He was way high and dropped a hammer and almost reached for it. He said he would have fallen had he reached for it. My Great Grandfather drowned in the narrows.
@@FEARNoMore I don't remember that, being from Tacoma even. I do remember seeing the "movie" of the bridge falling down over and over, and perhaps I saw the commercial.
@@kencreten7308 I just looked it up on youtube. It's an old Pioneer car CD player or car radio TV Ad from 1994. I also found an the original black and white Superman tv show where they used the footage. lol
I'm sure someone already mentioned this, but bridges are built to sway and twist, but not THAT much, so they don't just instantly collapse in an earthquake.
If you jump/fall from a great enough height, hitting water feels just like hitting cement or pavement. If someone had been in the swimming pool when it collapsed, hitting the floor of the garage would probably have killed them. Millie is easy to understand, with James, he even confounds the closed captioning! Very different accents!
In high winds those wind turbines typically shut down, with a brake system preventing it from spinning out of control. If the brakes don't work at all the turbine spins up to the point that it comes apart. If they work, but not enough, they can overheat and catch fire.
I drive across the Narrows Bridge every day on my way to school and I’ve heard about the original failure but have never seen it. I remember when the 3rd present bridge was constructed and how much it improved traffic flow.
Gives a new meaning to the game "the floor is lava" Most launches have a 5 mile no go zone. You can tell the distance by how lone the blast was after it actually blew up. The pool fall wouldn't kill you, but the violent water slamming you go the walls could.
A wind turbine caught fire not far from the house of one of my cousins, who happened to be the assistant fire chief of his county. When asked how they put it out seeing how high off the ground the turbines are, he said they just waited it out. Thankfully it was winter and there was plenty of snow on the ground, so they weren't worried about it spreading as was possible with the one in the video.
For the pool, just the fact that the video shows the force of the Water was able to move a Parked Car, tells me that if someone was in the pool when it 'Let Go' that person would have died.
I worked in a plant that recycled aluminum for 15 years. Luckily being around all that molten metal we only had 1 major injury due to an explosion during that time.
@@TomTom-qm4mq material that was stored outside had moisture toward the bottom of the pile. My guy had been running it all day and when the next crew came in, instead of cold loading to start they left the burners on I. The furnace, put a bucket in with a front end loader and Kaboom. Luckily my buddy survived but he had 2nd and 3rd degree burns mostly from super heated steam all on his chest arms and shoulders
@@TomTom-qm4mq we always had “minor pops and sometimes big pops but that’s the only one I’d count as an explosion. As you know Getting 3rd degree burns is different than getting covered in dust or getting some burns that burn gel will fix lol
@@TomTom-qm4mq ya we did bars but these weren’t bars that exploded these we fine turnings. If we put sows or ingots in we had a hotbox to heat them. But the other material would be in bins or sometimes just out on the yard.
Windmills are only designed to operate at a certain wind speed. If it gets too windy, 55MPH or so. They shut off to avoid the turbine from overheating. If it fails it blows up like that.
13:35 If people were in that pool, they would have died from the down-draft forcing them into the concrete. The wreck of the Titanic was proof of what happens when moving water is forced down onto an object
I always laugh at Bees trying to say some things. So unless you really stumble over it, say it anyway. 8:31 It may have been windy. But as soon as the problem was detected, brakes were put on all other turbines.
I've been to the Wallops island gift shop before before. Cool place. The island is named after the original purchaser back in 1692 - he bought it from the crown. You can see the launch pad and everything from across the water.
That wasn’t the worst space shuttle explosion in my book. The worst one actually killed everyone on board. It was the space shuttle Challenger in 1986 that exploded in the air. It was horrific to witness.
I watched the Bermuda triangle documentary last week and in the last 15 minutes, the dive team found what they found was a shipped wreck, it turned out it was a 15 x 15 piece of the Challengers wing and it was confirmed by NASA that it was part of the Challengers left wing.
It wasn’t even called out in the clip you guys watched but it’s insane to see that shockwave, pause, then the sound hits the camera. Reality is very unnerving compared to movies. I’m talking about the rocket launch.
14:00, anybody swimming would be dead the water spreads out too fast so by the time the swimmer reached the bottom there’s no longer water, bellyflop on concrete ain’t good for your health
Another disaster in the US is the SL-1 Nuclear Reactor that went supercritical. Kyle Hill does an awesome documentary on the SL-1, 3 Mile Island, Chernobyl, and the disaster that struck a South American town when scrappers broke open a radiation therapy machine and sold out the radioactive neutron source metal.
No worries James. I can't say Linoleum or Tsunami. When I say gazebo, it comes out gazebol. My kids try to school me all the time. I tell them that I taught them how to eat so I don't need them to teach me how to talk! Lol
My grandpa's brother, a WW2 veteran, died in an accident at a Republic Steel plant. It's a rough job. Don't take anything built up around you for granted.
Antares Rocket: Actually, there is NOBODY "near" a rocket launch, except the astronauts if it is a crewed mission. Just for the reason you saw. All the others involved in the launch are safely in the concrete-hardened facility which is still miles away. Tacoma Narrows Bridge: Sadly, the man left his dog in that automobile, the only casualty.
I actually saw the live coverage of the Wallops Island disaster on a local news station. I live a little over an hour from there. It was shocking to see things unfold in real time.
Unfortunately there was a dog inside the car that was stuck on that bridge. It was too scared to get out and attacked anyone who would try to save it :(
Man idc if my dog is trying to attack me or not I'm dragging its ass out of there any way possible lol but unfortunately i know things aren't as simple as that under stressful situations, poor pup.
@@ds--pu1tv Right but that man seemed to just casually walk off that bridge. I would take the bites or use that trench coat to cover my dog & save her. Just like I would do a child.
(6:10) How in hell did the water tower survive that kind of blast!! (to clean the saying up a tad) "*dookie brown* that was bad!!" (large, fresh, feces)
The guy on the bridge was trying to rescue a 3 legged cocker spaniel that was left in the car by the driver as they ran when the bridge swaying got more and more violent. The dog was the only death.
Even if not hit by debris, anyone under that water when it came down would have been crushed. Water weighs 8 lbs per gallon. Even a car directly under that when it let loose would have been flattened.
It looks like they were trying to avoid showing clips where people died. The Challenger is still a traumatic memory for many people who were children watching it happen on live television from their classrooms.
There are far more then they have shown but that is okay. Seeing to much of that can make you a little depressing. You know a man showed how with a small repeater he cloud bring down a building no bomb needed. The things we learn from our mistakes reshaped our world many a time, and will again. Thanks
The bridge had no bracing on the underside. Anybody with a basic understanding of physics knows that was a terrible idea. It's scary an architect didn't.
I live 5 mins from the Narrows and drive on the new one almost every day.Sadly a dog died in that car that was shown in the video, he wouldn't get out because he was scared.
@@Joe_Okey Yeah but u take the bites to save your dog. The man casually walking off is kinda sad. He could have used his trench coat but the dog evidently wasn't that important to him lol smh
@@FEARNoMore I fully concur with you on taking the bites to save your pet. Also, it looks like we are a fan of the same football team. I'm wearing my Superbowl championship hat in my profile picture.
@@Joe_Okey Hey oh yeah! haha I have the parade hat myself. Too bad we took another bad loss today. 😔It almost looked possible to beat KC but the turnovers yikes!
They said someone might have died. But I don't believe it. If someone was in that pool I'm sure they would have died. Falling that distance then being slammed into concrete
Blade control failure. With that high of wind speed coming through they would have feathered that prop. In other words turn the blade edge towards the direction of the wind. When the blades are feathered it wouldn't produce lift forcing it to turn. Even if remote control failed to force the feathering of the blades, the governor which controls the speed of the generator would have feather blades to prevent damage. Therefore in my opinion the actual control mechanism that feathered the blades in normal operation failed.
Yeah I work in wind (wind blade field technician). It’s what we call a “runaway”. All turbines have wind anemometers on top of the nacelle to gauge speed and direction. It, then, sends this info to the internal controls that are built with safety protocols. Most runaways happen when there’s a failure in blade pitch and nacelle yaw controls. Once wind speeds reach 35 m/s for longer than 3-5 seconds (for most US turbines at least), the turbine will pitch and yaw out of the wind. Once those controls fail at that speed, inertia and Mother Nature essentially take over and once the secondary brakes try to apply in the gearbox, it plows straight through them. At that point, all hope is lost for that turbine.
The narrator was wrong toward the end when he said no lives were lost in any of these accidents. Although no human lives were lost, there was a dog in that car that was stuck on the bridge. The man you see walking away from the car had attempted to rescue the dog, but was not able to. The dog died when the car went down with the bridge.
I love these types of videos, please do more lol 5:46 you can see the Shockwave then at 5:54 you hear the explosion Nuclear power is the cleanest energy in the world, wind turbines are a joke lol
(Southern California here) I love you two, and I understand you perfectly! I just said the title and it's not easy to say. Lots of weird sound twists. "cata-stro-phic fail-ures caught on camera. Of course, English is confusing as it is. It should be spelled - katastrofic falee-ers kaht on kamera. I remember my teachers telling me, "sound words out." Really? Sound out "rough" How does that work? I have to say, these kinds videos drive me nuts. It takes them 10 minutes to say 5 things. They could put words on the screen and be quiet and everyone would get just as much out of them.
The bridge twist shows a man walking from his car, leaving it there to get away. If you listened to the clip with sound, you would hear a dog barking. The man left his dog in the car to get away. The dog went down with the car. I guess he was too terrified, but I think he could have at least let the dog out to make its way to safety. To me, the man is a coward. Should have given his dog a fighting chance.
#1 Kudos to the vid guy - knowing how this happened and what does actually happened sometimes needs an eye on it to see how it can be fixed. #2 Massive volatile fuels along with heavy strain on engines is enough - a weak spot or degeneration of critical parts in combination can be devastating. #3 One reason it's the only one moving is likely from the hot air produced from the flames - fires use oxygen and can produce a major draft well enough to spin a turbine #4 Tacoma wasn't built for cross-winds. Every bridge now accommodates that issue (or at least they should). #5 Structural design standards in Brazil - not so sure they hold up, but I really don't know. This looks like a support issue. In the States, that's one of the first things checked. These are bad situations on the front. But the great thing about humans is that we often learn from issues like this and not only make these better, but also learn things outside to clean things up that weren't even considered.
You should react to "Surviving D Day or "The Nazi Castle battle" both by Mrspherical. He animates different battles through countryballs in a really cool goofy way.
There is a park across the Indian river from the launch pad. It’s about 3 miles away but you can feel the rockets shockwave and hear the deafening sound even at that distance. Wind Turbines are awful. They never pay for themselves, they destroy bird populations and are not biodegradable.
The last vid is essentially the same thing that happened to a condo building in Miami causing it to collapse last year I think. Very infuriating situation as both look to be human error.
unless the parking garage is smaller then the pool hurt isn't the right word... dead is... They would be dead if they were in the pool or even under it. Water doesn't seem heavy but 13,500 gallons for the average pool...that looked bigger then average... but average we can math is 112,439.887 pounds or just over 51,000 kgs. Everyone who was under or in that pool would be dead end of story.
The saddest wind turbine fire is when 2 workers were trapped on top. The fire blocked their escape. One man jumped to his death, the second burned to death.
I remember that one your talking about. I don't know why they didn't have a ladder to get down. I ain't no engineer
@@TomTom-qm4mq The ladder is on the inside because the top will rotate so it always faces the wind.
@@TomTom-qm4mq Or at least base jumping parachutes right?
Oof
@@FEARNoMore makes sense
(3:23) As an industrial welder, I can vouch for those "little sparks" being hot!! So hot, in fact, that they immediately stick and begin self cauterizing as they fry their way into your meat. If you ever see welders working, they are always wearing thick, long-sleeve shirts. No matter how warm the day. 2 reasons, 1) hot slag & sparks 2) sunburn (yes, the arc is so bright it will burn)
Also something to add, they were talking about it hurting your eyes. The uv rays from the arc and burn your eyes and give you something called a flash. Its like a sunburn but on your eyeballs. Much love to the Blue Collar workers!!
@@Cody10040 Yea, we called it "hot sand in the eye". Docs gave us special eyedrops but we weren't supposed to have them because it numbed the eye so well that people were blinding themselves by going back to welding right then.
It's pretty amazing how much that bridge went through and how much it bent before it finally gave up and had a catastrophic failure.
The Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapse was nicknamed "Galloping Gertie". A lot more technical facts & anecdotal stories are available by looking up the nickname. That man took so long because he was trying to get his dog out of the car but the poor pooch was just too scared and impossible to reach. But WALKING back to safety is pretty strange.
I was born in Tacoma. Yeah... poor dog. My Grandfather worked on the bridge that came after the collapse. I remember him saying there were no nets to save workers, or at least where he was working at that time. He was way high and dropped a hammer and almost reached for it. He said he would have fallen had he reached for it. My Great Grandfather drowned in the narrows.
Years ago I remember a tv commercial using that bridge footage to sell something or some type of sale event.
@@FEARNoMore I don't remember that, being from Tacoma even. I do remember seeing the "movie" of the bridge falling down over and over, and perhaps I saw the commercial.
@@kencreten7308 I just looked it up on youtube. It's an old Pioneer car CD player or car radio TV Ad from 1994. I also found an the original black and white Superman tv show where they used the footage. lol
@@FEARNoMore Cool! Thank you!
I'm sure someone already mentioned this, but bridges are built to sway and twist, but not THAT much, so they don't just instantly collapse in an earthquake.
That shockwave at 5:47 and the delay for the boom to reach the camera is awesome
If you jump/fall from a great enough height, hitting water feels just like hitting cement or pavement. If someone had been in the swimming pool when it collapsed, hitting the floor of the garage would probably have killed them. Millie is easy to understand, with James, he even confounds the closed captioning! Very different accents!
In high winds those wind turbines typically shut down, with a brake system preventing it from spinning out of control. If the brakes don't work at all the turbine spins up to the point that it comes apart. If they work, but not enough, they can overheat and catch fire.
Millie, falling into water, or having it fall on you, is like hitting concrete. That's what really kills those who jump from bridges.
Reactors: Hurray we watching horrific deaths of people and loss of machinery. So gawd damn funny!!!
Me: ...
I drive across the Narrows Bridge every day on my way to school and I’ve heard about the original failure but have never seen it. I remember when the 3rd present bridge was constructed and how much it improved traffic flow.
James: "Budgie smuggler."
Millie: "[A small will be plenty."]
Gives a new meaning to the game "the floor is lava"
Most launches have a 5 mile no go zone. You can tell the distance by how lone the blast was after it actually blew up.
The pool fall wouldn't kill you, but the violent water slamming you go the walls could.
A wind turbine caught fire not far from the house of one of my cousins, who happened to be the assistant fire chief of his county. When asked how they put it out seeing how high off the ground the turbines are, he said they just waited it out. Thankfully it was winter and there was plenty of snow on the ground, so they weren't worried about it spreading as was possible with the one in the video.
For the pool, just the fact that the video shows the force of the Water was able to move a Parked Car, tells me that if someone was in the pool when it 'Let Go' that person would have died.
I worked in a plant that recycled aluminum for 15 years. Luckily being around all that molten metal we only had 1 major injury due to an explosion during that time.
I worked in the same industry as you. How did the explosion happen. Water in the metal. Soda can ect.
@@TomTom-qm4mq material that was stored outside had moisture toward the bottom of the pile. My guy had been running it all day and when the next crew came in, instead of cold loading to start they left the burners on I. The furnace, put a bucket in with a front end loader and Kaboom. Luckily my buddy survived but he had 2nd and 3rd degree burns mostly from super heated steam all on his chest arms and shoulders
@@TomTom-qm4mq we always had “minor pops and sometimes big pops but that’s the only one I’d count as an explosion. As you know Getting 3rd degree burns is different than getting covered in dust or getting some burns that burn gel will fix lol
@@TreyM1609 we always pre heated the bars to avoid moisture
@@TomTom-qm4mq ya we did bars but these weren’t bars that exploded these we fine turnings. If we put sows or ingots in we had a hotbox to heat them. But the other material would be in bins or sometimes just out on the yard.
Windmills are only designed to operate at a certain wind speed. If it gets too windy, 55MPH or so. They shut off to avoid the turbine from overheating. If it fails it blows up like that.
I used to drive over tacoma narrows everyday. It could get quite sketchy when high winds were present, but they fixed the galloping aspect.
13:35 If people were in that pool, they would have died from the down-draft forcing them into the concrete. The wreck of the Titanic was proof of what happens when moving water is forced down onto an object
I would have made a new door getting out of that steel factory!!!
Love y’all’s shows!!!!! 🎉❤
As a Georgia boy I love to see other people saying "yall" :)
I always laugh at Bees trying to say some things. So unless you really stumble over it, say it anyway. 8:31 It may have been windy. But as soon as the problem was detected, brakes were put on all other turbines.
I've been to the Wallops island gift shop before before. Cool place. The island is named after the original purchaser back in 1692 - he bought it from the crown. You can see the launch pad and everything from across the water.
Also when they do a rocket launch no one is near it because that cloud is dangerous as heck.
I vaguely remember hearing about that swimming pool disaster. What a mess. At least nobody was hurt from their skimping out on the rods.
I have to go over the Tacoma Narrows every once in a while. I love the view from it.
those hanging bridges get checked from top to bottom every few months now steal cables nuts and bolts get replaced quiet often
That wasn’t the worst space shuttle explosion in my book. The worst one actually killed everyone on board. It was the space shuttle Challenger in 1986 that exploded in the air. It was horrific to witness.
Yes, it brought back the memory. The video didn't show any that cost lives. It would have been very sad video if those were included.
I watched the Bermuda triangle documentary last week and in the last 15 minutes, the dive team found what they found was a shipped wreck, it turned out it was a 15 x 15 piece of the Challengers wing and it was confirmed by NASA that it was part of the Challengers left wing.
I once drove over the replacement of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge.
It wasn’t even called out in the clip you guys watched but it’s insane to see that shockwave, pause, then the sound hits the camera. Reality is very unnerving compared to movies.
I’m talking about the rocket launch.
Those windmills are huge. It takes a semi truck to move one blade.
Wind turbine blades can be locked when the wind is expected to be excessive. That is why the other turbines were not moving.
When I was a kid we always took that bridge when we went to the dentist, every time I would just think about how it collapsed lol
Great video! That first one in the Russian factory was terrifying!
14:00, anybody swimming would be dead the water spreads out too fast so by the time the swimmer reached the bottom there’s no longer water, bellyflop on concrete ain’t good for your health
Another disaster in the US is the SL-1 Nuclear Reactor that went supercritical. Kyle Hill does an awesome documentary on the SL-1, 3 Mile Island, Chernobyl, and the disaster that struck a South American town when scrappers broke open a radiation therapy machine and sold out the radioactive neutron source metal.
No worries James. I can't say Linoleum or Tsunami. When I say gazebo, it comes out gazebol. My kids try to school me all the time. I tell them that I taught them how to eat so I don't need them to teach me how to talk! Lol
My grandpa's brother, a WW2 veteran, died in an accident at a Republic Steel plant. It's a rough job. Don't take anything built up around you for granted.
I would like to see you all react to Home Free, a singing group, especially Take me home country roads..
Antares Rocket: Actually, there is NOBODY "near" a rocket launch, except the astronauts if it is a crewed mission. Just for the reason you saw. All the others involved in the launch are safely in the concrete-hardened facility which is still miles away.
Tacoma Narrows Bridge: Sadly, the man left his dog in that automobile, the only casualty.
I actually saw the live coverage of the Wallops Island disaster on a local news station. I live a little over an hour from there. It was shocking to see things unfold in real time.
My grandfather worked in a steel mill in Georgia USA. There was more than one man that fell to his death into the molten steal.
Unfortunately there was a dog inside the car that was stuck on that bridge. It was too scared to get out and attacked anyone who would try to save it :(
Man idc if my dog is trying to attack me or not I'm dragging its ass out of there any way possible lol but unfortunately i know things aren't as simple as that under stressful situations, poor pup.
@@ds--pu1tv Right but that man seemed to just casually walk off that bridge. I would take the bites or use that trench coat to cover my dog & save her. Just like I would do a child.
Never did this kind of work but i think the fellow yelling was saying "Every man for himself".
Check out the "Johnstown Flood". Photos of the aftermath of both Johnstown and St Francis Dam Disasters.
You guys should get a earphone spliter for pretty cheap that way you guys can both listen with your own headphone sets 😉
(6:10) How in hell did the water tower survive that kind of blast!! (to clean the saying up a tad) "*dookie brown* that was bad!!" (large, fresh, feces)
The guy on the bridge was trying to rescue a 3 legged cocker spaniel that was left in the car by the driver as they ran when the bridge swaying got more and more violent. The dog was the only death.
Even if not hit by debris, anyone under that water when it came down would have been crushed. Water weighs 8 lbs per gallon. Even a car directly under that when it let loose would have been flattened.
the last one people would’ve gotten hurt (and I think someone cut costs on the pool)
I'm surprised the unmanned rocket explosion made the list but not the Challenger explosion that took human lives.
It looks like they were trying to avoid showing clips where people died. The Challenger is still a traumatic memory for many people who were children watching it happen on live television from their classrooms.
@@HermanVonPetri You know what u may be right. That makes a lot of sense, didn't think of it that way. Thanks.
There are far more then they have shown but that is okay. Seeing to much of that can make you a little depressing. You know a man showed how with a small repeater he cloud bring down a building no bomb needed. The things we learn from our mistakes reshaped our world many a time, and will again. Thanks
The Italian wind turbine was hell-bent on powering the whole town all by itself.
There are two epic failures you should really check out and are readily available on YT. Deep Fry Turkey Failures and the Exploding Whale.
The whale is classic.
6:23 no shit lol
Wow…didn’t see a lot of these coming
Millie has more trouble teaching James than she does her students!
I haven't gone swimming since 1989...that streak *will* continue...
Wind turbines are locked up electronically when the wind speed gets too high
The bridge had no bracing on the underside. Anybody with a basic understanding of physics knows that was a terrible idea. It's scary an architect didn't.
That steel might give you a small blister
I live 5 mins from the Narrows and drive on the new one almost every day.Sadly a dog died in that car that was shown in the video, he wouldn't get out because he was scared.
I heard that he bit the people who were trying to help him.
@@Joe_Okey Yup he did, poor dog.
@@Joe_Okey Yeah but u take the bites to save your dog. The man casually walking off is kinda sad. He could have used his trench coat but the dog evidently wasn't that important to him lol smh
@@FEARNoMore I fully concur with you on taking the bites to save your pet. Also, it looks like we are a fan of the same football team. I'm wearing my Superbowl championship hat in my profile picture.
@@Joe_Okey Hey oh yeah! haha I have the parade hat myself. Too bad we took another bad loss today. 😔It almost looked possible to beat KC but the turnovers yikes!
If you were in the pool, swimming along the top of the water, it would have been like a fall from that distance. Bottom of the pool? Dead.
They said someone might have died. But I don't believe it. If someone was in that pool I'm sure they would have died. Falling that distance then being slammed into concrete
@@TomTom-qm4mq On top the water protects you, on bottom the mass of water above you kills you. Standard fluid dynamics.
Blade control failure. With that high of wind speed coming through they would have feathered that prop. In other words turn the blade edge towards the direction of the wind. When the blades are feathered it wouldn't produce lift forcing it to turn. Even if remote control failed to force the feathering of the blades, the governor which controls the speed of the generator would have feather blades to prevent damage. Therefore in my opinion the actual control mechanism that feathered the blades in normal operation failed.
Yeah I work in wind (wind blade field technician). It’s what we call a “runaway”. All turbines have wind anemometers on top of the nacelle to gauge speed and direction. It, then, sends this info to the internal controls that are built with safety protocols. Most runaways happen when there’s a failure in blade pitch and nacelle yaw controls. Once wind speeds reach 35 m/s for longer than 3-5 seconds (for most US turbines at least), the turbine will pitch and yaw out of the wind. Once those controls fail at that speed, inertia and Mother Nature essentially take over and once the secondary brakes try to apply in the gearbox, it plows straight through them. At that point, all hope is lost for that turbine.
Tacoma Narrows Bridge AKA Galloping Gert.
How is the space shuttle challenger not even on the video? lol
The narrator was wrong toward the end when he said no lives were lost in any of these accidents. Although no human lives were lost, there was a dog in that car that was stuck on the bridge. The man you see walking away from the car had attempted to rescue the dog, but was not able to. The dog died when the car went down with the bridge.
*They didn't show that video* The wind turbine video is absolutely heartbreaking. One man jumped, the other stayed. 💔💔
I hope you guys are reacting to the Michigan vs Ohio State game this year 🍻
How's a pool collapsing worse than a bridge collapsing? 🤔 Go figure.
I love these types of videos, please do more lol
5:46 you can see the Shockwave then at 5:54 you hear the explosion
Nuclear power is the cleanest energy in the world, wind turbines are a joke lol
(Southern California here) I love you two, and I understand you perfectly! I just said the title and it's not easy to say. Lots of weird sound twists. "cata-stro-phic fail-ures caught on camera. Of course, English is confusing as it is. It should be spelled - katastrofic falee-ers kaht on kamera. I remember my teachers telling me, "sound words out." Really? Sound out "rough" How does that work? I have to say, these kinds videos drive me nuts. It takes them 10 minutes to say 5 things. They could put words on the screen and be quiet and everyone would get just as much out of them.
good seeing wind turbine fail, eyesore and so many great landscapes littered by them
Some guy in America a few weeks ago fell into a vat of molten steel.
At the Caterpillar plant. Instantly incinerated. Hadn't been on the job very long. Was the firat thing I thought of with that video
Wind turbines aren't loud at all.
LoL people think they go wweeroog wweerroog 😅
Windmills can’t be used in high winds.
My aunt and uncle were going to cross the narrows bridge just befor it went down
I think somebody would have been really hurt or died if in that pool. Because you wouldnt be falling into water you would falling with it
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Can you guys do some KDA music video? I think it will be a new and fun experience for you guys ❤️❤️
The bridge twist shows a man walking from his car, leaving it there to get away. If you listened to the clip with sound, you would hear a dog barking. The man left his dog in the car to get away. The dog went down with the car. I guess he was too terrified, but I think he could have at least let the dog out to make its way to safety. To me, the man is a coward. Should have given his dog a fighting chance.
#1 Kudos to the vid guy - knowing how this happened and what does actually happened sometimes needs an eye on it to see how it can be fixed.
#2 Massive volatile fuels along with heavy strain on engines is enough - a weak spot or degeneration of critical parts in combination can be devastating.
#3 One reason it's the only one moving is likely from the hot air produced from the flames - fires use oxygen and can produce a major draft well enough to spin a turbine
#4 Tacoma wasn't built for cross-winds. Every bridge now accommodates that issue (or at least they should).
#5 Structural design standards in Brazil - not so sure they hold up, but I really don't know. This looks like a support issue. In the States, that's one of the first things checked.
These are bad situations on the front. But the great thing about humans is that we often learn from issues like this and not only make these better, but also learn things outside to clean things up that weren't even considered.
As James is an architect I hope he's taking notes.
You should react to "Surviving D Day or "The Nazi Castle battle" both by Mrspherical. He animates different battles through countryballs in a really cool goofy way.
There is a park across the Indian river from the launch pad. It’s about 3 miles away but you can feel the rockets shockwave and hear the deafening sound even at that distance. Wind Turbines are awful. They never pay for themselves, they destroy bird populations and are not biodegradable.
The guys dog was in that car on the bridge
Thats weird, didn't see my birthday on this list?
The last vid is essentially the same thing that happened to a condo building in Miami causing it to collapse last year I think. Very infuriating situation as both look to be human error.
Surfside not Miami,. North of Miami Beach same county different city. Yes, June 2021
You should react to the Michigan vs Ohio State 2022 game!
Yes Millie. It would hurt. A lot!
$200,000,000 = a mental amount of tacos...
Not on camera, but worse by far. "The St Francis Dam Disaster | A Short Documentary | Fascinating Horror" (11:19)
You should react to Michigan Vs ohio state
The Beasleys VS catastrophic accidents!!! Who will win??
Omg I won a trip to Hawaii?! Oh this is fabulous!
Got it
2700mdegree spill.
Liquid rocket fuels are very touchy. If you're not careful this is the end result.
unless the parking garage is smaller then the pool hurt isn't the right word... dead is... They would be dead if they were in the pool or even under it. Water doesn't seem heavy but 13,500 gallons for the average pool...that looked bigger then average... but average we can math is 112,439.887 pounds or just over 51,000 kgs. Everyone who was under or in that pool would be dead end of story.
If you really want to see a horrible disaster watch the Challenger disasters from 1986.
You’re not going to react to this years edition of THE GAME? Between Michigan and Ohio State?
Wasn't really a close game but ok.
Who reported no injuries or deaths for that first video though? W know how good Russia are at reporting accurately.