Category: Media

  • Transporting wind turbine blades: when something goes wrong

    Transporting wind turbine blades: when something goes wrong

    A collection of videos featuring the transportation of wind turbine blades – some truly impressive.

  • Have a look inside: wind turbine blades

    Have you ever wondered what a wind turbine blade looks like seen from the inside? This video answers your curiosity. Wind turbine blades are typically made by layering glass fibers in a matrix of epoxy resin (“fiberglass”). This composite material is lightweight, strong, and has good resistance to corrosion. Sometimes there is also a foam…

  • Wind Turbines controlled demolition

    Wind Turbines controlled demolition

    I have always felt a strange fascination for videos in which you see huge turbines falling. Browsing around on YouTube, I came across the Loizeaux family, who seem to have an extremely interesting life: they specialise in demolishing structures (LinkedIn). The Loizeauxs, with their company Controlled Demolition, Incorporated (CDI) have demolished dozens of turbines. Here…

  • El Cabrito repowering

    In this video you can see the repowering of a wind farm in one of the most beautiful (and windy) areas in the world.It is El Cabrito, in the south of Andalucia (in Spain), halfway between Tarifa and Algeciras. I would love to go and live there one day.It is a park I have visited…

  • Raki wind farm, Cile

      A spectacular video of Raki wind farm, a beautiful project I’ve worked at. Owned by Rame Energy (formerly Seawind) It is a 15 MW wind farm in the Bio Bio region (more or less in the middle of Chile). WTGs are 5x V112 3MW turbines, and civil works have been developed by CJR. The…