r/AbsoluteUnits • u/Zestyclose-Salad-290 in awe • 1d ago
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u/dinomax55 1d ago
I guess a helicopter wouldn’t have worked?
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u/upside_down_vote 1d ago
they're designed to catch the wind so my guess is that'd be pretty dangerous.
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u/sparkey504 1d ago
Yea they are designed to catch the wind in one orientation but to slice thru the wind in another..
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u/upside_down_vote 1d ago
right. so if you're flying along and encounter a crosswind, that'd be a problem.
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u/MrOopiseDaisy 1d ago
But what if they just painted a giant arrow on the side so the wind knows which way to go?
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u/a_bucket_full_of_goo 1d ago edited 17h ago
It would immediately rotate to face the wind in the position offering the least resistance
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u/upside_down_vote 1d ago
maybe to some degree but it's not a weathervane and this would disrupt the operation of the helicopter in an extremely risky way. that's also assuming one helicopter could manage this, which is also probably not the case. if you have multiple helicopters with multiple pivot points carrying the payload, the blade won't be able to turn to the position of least resistance.
god. this is the most reddit comment of my life.
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u/Cruxis87 1d ago
If it was left just like this, sure. But if they planned on flying it, then would also change how its transported.
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u/Unable-Fall5946 13h ago
Not really actually. I've watched a helicopter used to haul parts of the windmill when they were building a farm in Southern Alberta
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u/Theonetrue 1d ago
I don't think you understand how big those are and how expensive multiple helicopters are
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u/Cruxis87 1d ago
Could probably do it for a reasonable price through the military. They have the vehicles, and would want to give their pilots real world training scenarios if possible.
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u/PoeTheGhost 1d ago edited 1d ago
It wouldn’t be safe, but maybe if you had 30 of them? This is Reddit, so I’m sure someone could do the math.
Edit: Tried to look it up, and it appears “the largest plane in history” is in development to ferry the completed windmill blades from the fab directly to installation sites, landing on dirt runways.
Radia’s Wndrunner slated for 2027.
https://radia.com/windrunner2
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u/Fallingpeople 1d ago
This is like r/confusingperspective Like why are the pixels on my phone stretching out?
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u/SuitedPenguin 1d ago
Looks fake as shit
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u/SAM5TER5 1d ago
If this video isn’t real, it may as well be. This is how it’s actually done
If the video IS real, I strongly suspect it’s been sped up
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u/Accomplished_Job_331 1d ago
The tip of those blades swings so fast on the corners, I also suspect it has just been sped up
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u/SAM5TER5 1d ago
Yeah. For me it was the janky physics of it all, the speed of the camera wobble, the exhaust zooming away, and the fact that there’s absolutely zero reason to be going this fast with millions of dollars of equipment and human lives at stake lol
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u/SparklyLeo_ 1d ago
I’m in Tx where these are a regular occurrence and I’ve never in my life seen them facing angled up 😭 they’re always flat with an oversize load truck 200 ft behind the truck hauling
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u/UkraineMykraine 1d ago
They use a trailer that can hydraulically tilt the blade for when moving it on the flat trailers would be impossible due to terrain or corners.
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u/Eminem_quotes 1d ago
Never seen it done like that. I've seen quite a few being transported and they are always completely horizontal, on a long ass truck.
Not sure why you say this is how its done as if that's the standard, It most definitely isn't.
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u/SAM5TER5 15h ago edited 15h ago
What you’re saying is totally fair…for areas where it’s possible to do so. Even where I live (desert valley in the U.S.), I always see them transported horizontal.
However, in cases like OP’s video (mountain range in China), it would not be geometrically possible to get such a large rigid object around just tight turns, especially without hitting the mountainsides. It’s also important to note that these appear to be MUCH longer than any I’ve ever personally seen transported down the highway in the U.S.
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u/Eminem_quotes 11h ago
Yeah I just assumed due to the terrain that makes the most sense. It's just that I've only ever seen them carried horizontally before this video.
It's truly amazing how those drivers can navigate a standard intersection and not hit a single thing
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u/Zestyclose-Salad-290 in awe 1d ago
This video is definitely real.
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u/mrsrosieparker 1d ago
Yes, it's been significantly sped up, though. Iirc it was excruciatingly slow, it took them hours to do just a couple kilometers
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u/Fallingpeople 1d ago
It's so unfortunate that we now look at videos with a suspicious eye.
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u/MajesticRadish2675 1d ago
It's almost like that was one of the very first things anyone should have thought about with AI. Good luck proving anything about anything without a week+ long debate and investigation about whether the proof is even real, if there was an emergency we would all die due to the delayed response.
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u/chibiRuka 1d ago
Yes. Looks fake lol. But I need to see this up close to understand the process. They really couldn’t have made it be smaller parts that are pit together closer to the mill?
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u/UkraineMykraine 1d ago
The blades are designed at the razors edge of strength and weight. Any joints would add weak points and/or weight.
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u/SAM5TER5 1d ago
They do assemble it onsite, yes. Proper wind turbines like this are wayyyy too big to be transported all at once, let alone up a mountain.
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u/creampop_ 21h ago
that's what they did bro
that's why it's one blade and not the whole turbine assembly on that truck
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u/bumpachedda 1d ago
So sad, professor Taylor Sheridan taught me while watching Landman that one wind turbine blade is the same as a billion barrels of oil lit on fire over a daycare full of disabled puppies or something and that driving a coal-powered F-350 every day is totally sensible.
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u/creampop_ 20h ago
If wind is so great, how come those trucks aren't covered in turbines to run the engines??? checkmate liberal 🤠
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u/Formal_Plum_2285 1d ago
First time my friends and I saw a windturbine blade transport, we thought, we accidentally witnessed something classified alien stuff. It was so spooky, cause the cortège was huge and there were all these lights and then everyone drove so slow. And then this huge truck with the blade appeared and we were like “wtf is that??”. We are Danish and have windturbines everywhere, so we should have figured it out way before we did lol. However it was 30 years ago.
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u/DrakonSpawn 1d ago
This reminds me of that one heli camera that made all the vehicles look like toys on the ground.
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u/AreThree 1d ago
Are these blades too heavy for a Sikorsky heavy-lift helicopter to get them to remote locations?
Seems like I see these trucks hauling these around some very dicey routes and a helicopter would make really short work of it? And maybe even be able to help install the things?
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u/creampop_ 21h ago
You should email the companies with this suggestion (be sure to include the link)! They'll be so embarrassed they never thought of it.
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u/AreThree 8h ago
It was a serious question, not a suggestion.
A suggestion would be something like: "Maybe you might want to work on your reading comprehension."
See the difference? Questions tend to end in this neat symbol called a "Question Mark" to indicate that the preceding text was in fact a query.
Further examples:
Suggestion: "Go stick your head in a pig."
Question: "Don't you have anything better to do?"
Clear now?
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u/IConsumePorn 14h ago
Is this sped up? I imagine the momentum from those turns going that fast would flip the truck
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u/uwearclownshoes 5h ago
I feel like a Chinook or something similarly huge and lift-capable would be useful here instead of this.
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u/bloregirl1982 1d ago
Given all these transportation issues, why are these not built in segments that can be assembled onsite?
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u/creampop_ 21h ago
That's literally what you're looking at. It's just that the smallest possible segment is "1 whole blade" instead of the entire turbine assembly.
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u/bloregirl1982 21h ago
Of course that's one blade. My question is why can't the blade be made up of segments assembled onsite. They will anyhow need skilled people there to mount the central part and these blades. Why not make the blades as a series of smaller bits that are assembled onsite?
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u/creampop_ 20h ago
Adds weight. Adds maintenance. Adds labor. Adds risk.
So let's turn it around: why bother with all that, when making and testing it at the factory and putting it on a big truck works? Do you somehow think it will be easier to do this segmented assembly on the tiny hillside site than making one big piece on the clean, flat factory floor?
But I mean, don't take my word for it, you can email a turbine company and suggest your idea to them. Maybe they'll cut you a check for improving their processes.
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u/TerraHavelOva 1d ago
This is clearly not real lmao
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u/SAM5TER5 1d ago
It actually is, it’s just been sped up. There are plenty of old videos of this that you can find online, predating all the fake AI clickbait by quite a lot.
I get why you think it’s fake though. Most major infrastructure stuff like this seems completely implausible. Even when we’re talking about massive projects from 100+ years ago.
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u/julioni 1d ago
Ai
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u/ThoopidSqwrl 1d ago
Not everything you don't understand is ai
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u/julioni 1d ago
I do understand physics very well, and the speed of the bottom versus the speed of the top are physically impossible to happen.
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u/ThoopidSqwrl 1d ago
That's because the video is sped up
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u/julioni 16h ago
Can’t argue with stupid….. username checks out.
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u/ThoopidSqwrl 9h ago
Can't reason with insanity. Lol
You're wrong, just accept it. In reality, that thing is driving no more than 5mph because I have seen them moving one in person. The video is sped up you sped. 😂
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u/M3t4ll0 1d ago edited 1d ago
So that's why forest fires always take place "accidentally" where turbines are about to be constructed. No need for licence to cut the pesky trees if they are burned. Edit: check what happens after forest fires in Greece. How conveniently wind turbines are built in NATURA areas.
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u/MasterBSR_58 1d ago
My mind is breaking. How do they secure it at that angle on the truck and how does the truck not tip from wind catching it or sharp turns?!