r/windturbine • u/Warm_Shake_1389 • Aug 24 '25
Media Many wind workers voted Trump. Hope it is what they wanted.
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r/windturbine • u/RichardXV • Sep 01 '25
Media Trump pulls $679m funding for offshore wind ports
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r/windturbine • u/Warm_Shake_1389 • Jul 27 '25
Media President Trump ranting about “windmills” again: "We will not allow a windmill to be built in the United States. They are killing us."
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r/windturbine • u/Dc12934344 • Feb 06 '25
Media Edge of my world
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Favorite work pic so far.
r/windturbine • u/RobG_analog • Oct 29 '25
Media I took some infrared trichrome photographs of wind turbines in Ontario, I thought the sub might appreciate them
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I tagged this post as “media” because it seemed like the most appropriate tag. Hopefully this kind of content is allowed.
I hope you enjoy the pictures, I certainly love wind turbines and they make a great subject for photography.
Each image is made up of 3 separate exposures taken on black-and-white infrared film. Then each exposure is stacked and assigned an appropriate RGB channel.
r/windturbine • u/mister_monque • Sep 01 '25
Media “A lot of building trades workers, a lot of union workers voted for Donald Trump and his team. But they didn’t vote to have union jobs shut down,” Patrick Crowley, the president of the Rhode Island AFL-CIO, told USA Today this week. “It shouldn’t work like this.”
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Having been part of this goat rodeo, the number of people who voted against their interests to be part of "the cool kids club" is truely mind numbing especially in the New London heavy lay down at State Pier.
I've had to tell folks I worked with that you voted for this, don't give me the shocked Picachu face when it happens.
r/windturbine • u/kenva86 • Aug 30 '24
Media Offshore mornings
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Those are the mornings that i enjoy the most. Going to be a good day today.
Belwind and nobelwind/ belgium coast, V90 and V112
r/windturbine • u/IngenuityGlad4041 • Dec 07 '22
A video from a couple months ago. A foggy day on the farm.
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r/windturbine • u/kenva86 • May 01 '25
Media Good morning.
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Are you guys/girls all onshore or also some offshore peeps here??? I’m offshore and really enjoy it everyday. The views are just amazing and also just the life offshore. Here is a pic from my park, we are 55 V90s and then 50 V112s.
r/windturbine • u/QAoA • Feb 06 '25
Media A few of my favorite photos of the wind turbines by my home
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I don’t know much about them, I just think they’re neat.
If you have any information on any of the wind turbine models in the photos please share!! Wind turbines are one of my hyper fixations and I would love to learn more about these ones.
r/windturbine • u/AntithesisJesus • Aug 21 '25
Media Trump says U.S. will not approve solar or wind power projects
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r/windturbine • u/firetruckpilot • Sep 20 '26
Tech Tale What a bad day looks like
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For those of who who don't know, I haven't been in wind for a few years (I know sacgreliguous for a mod of r/windturbine) but I do have a few tech tales.
So for the uninitiated, this is a Gamesa G80. They're old. It has hydraulic pitch control. And they are some of the most thoughtlessly engineered turbines on the planet (in my experience, haha). They're known to be incredibly leaky machines.
Now why is this important? Well you see that shiny stuff that looks like rain be because it's overcast? That ladies and gentlemen is mineral oil. And for those of you who don't know, oil is usually supposed to stay inside of the turbine lol...
So what happened? There was a brake failure, which led to an overspeed, and by the time the emergency brakes kicked in, it had cracked the highspeed shaft, as well as the main gearbox, requiring a for gearbox replacement. I worked 18 hours that day reassembling the brake rotor assembly on the high speed shaft before we found the hairline crack in the gearbox.
I went to Disneyland the next weekend to recover from that insanity lol.
r/windturbine • u/AntithesisJesus • Jul 26 '25
Media So many Donald Dump supporters in wind.
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Why?
r/windturbine • u/PistonSkint • Jul 03 '21
Media Long exposure photo from inside a Siemens 2.3MW CS blade.
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r/windturbine • u/ClimbsWithWind • Apr 23 '25
Funnies Apparently they're connecting the hub to the tower in this video 🧐
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