Okay, note to self: in case of tornado, don't hide behind the wind turbines.

[dwilliams35]

https://youtu.be/BFXN3X4e5sE?si=7l71iDbOEl1wZ2PO

[Buzzfish]

Reed Timmer is absolutely obsessed with getting up close and personal with tornados. His livestreams when there are tornado producing storms are crazy. This is what he chases in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufG_G0-bhVQ

[bassguitarman]

If that was posted by anybody but Reed Timmer, I'd say the first part of it looks like CGI. Scary stuff

[dwilliams35]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/photos-deadly-tornadoes-sweep-through-iowa-leaving-homes-and-businesses-in-greenfield-destroyed/ar-BB1mREfO

[Mrsh978]

Just wait when the next hurricane hits our coast below corpus ….

[Cubera]

Is it real, or is it AI?

[DEXTER]

That's what I was wondering. Looks like AI to me

[Slabmaster]

I shared that video with a friend and he sent this screenshot back......just awful

[wfishtx]

Kind of ironic that the wind is strong enough to topple the turbines over, but yet the blades aren't even spinning....LOL

[dwilliams35]

Kind of ironic that the wind is strong enough to topple the turbines over, but yet the blades aren't even spinning....LOL

They're locked. They put the brakes on to keep them from spinning themselves into oblivion in high winds. Sometimes even that doesn't help from making that oblivion trip.

[KWeber]

feathered blades, too

[wfishtx]

They're locked. They put the brakes on to keep them from spinning themselves into oblivion in high winds. Sometimes even that doesn't help from making that oblivion trip.

That makes sense. Didn't even know that was an option.

[Unknownstrohsfan]

Huh, I'm thinking big winds big energy production, they are wind turbines right? Maybe I'm reading this wrong, So if you have no wind, or too much wind, delivered to a generator that produces energy by wind, you have no energy, and if you have energy that is generated by the sun, and the sun don't shine, you have no energy, but if you have energy that is generated by a fuel scource, lets call it coal, as long as someone puts coal in the fuel scource, you still have power. I think I am for that.

[dwilliams35]

Now let us know where to get free gas and coal.

[Slabmaster]

I guess you would get free coal and gas the same place you get free wind energy?

[dwilliams35]

We do get free wind energy. We also get free sunlight. It just costs money to utilize it, just like it costs money to utilize coal and gas: that's likely a wash, although the wind and solar probably has an edge on actual capital cost there as well: it's just cheaper than a power plant.. Cost of the fuel is the key here, though..

[Newtron]

Anybody been to Europe and seen what coal did for their Industrial Revolution?? It was a beautiful thing
for sure!
maybe?
probably?
depends….

[jimk]

Incredible video of nature's strength...small spirals around the big one(s)...scary and awesome.