• News
    • Tech News
    • AI
  • Gadgets
    • Apple
    • iPhone
  • Gaming
    • Playstation
    • Xbox
  • Science
    • News
    • Space
  • Streaming
    • Netflix
  • Vehicles
    • Car News
  • Social Media
    • WhatsApp
    • YouTube
  • Advertise
  • Terms
  • Privacy & Cookies
  • LADbible Group
  • LADbible
  • UNILAD
  • SPORTbible
  • GAMINGbible
  • Tyla
  • FOODbible
  • License Our Content
  • About Us & Contact
  • Jobs
  • Latest
  • Topics A-Z
  • Authors
Facebook
Instagram
X
TikTok
Snapchat
WhatsApp
Submit Your Content
Video showing huge wind turbine on the move has everybody pointing out the same detail

Home> News

Published 12:57 8 Apr 2024 GMT+1

Video showing huge wind turbine on the move has everybody pointing out the same detail

It's a pretty trippy video to watch.

Kerri-Ann Roper

Kerri-Ann Roper

A viral Reddit post has left people in awe this week, despite only being around 25 seconds long.

The video shows the transport of a single blade of a wind turbine, lashed to the back of a truck and slowly moving through what seem to be the streets of a town in the UK.

There are multiple amazing parts of the video, not the least of which is the sheer scale of that single blade, which can barely be captured from a single angle, but there's one amusing detail that has captured the imaginations of many commenters on the post.



Advert

They've all noticed that behind the truck, which is moving at a snail's pace for safety reasons, there's a single member of staff walking directly under the massive wing, in safety gear.

The top comment under the post, which has over 1.6 thousand upvotes alone, said: "Props to the guy walking directly underneath it."

This isn't the only response being impressed by the composure evident in the willingness to walk directly under such a huge object, either, with another observer saying: "That person walking behind the truck must be really confident in their Hard Hat."

As people have replied to that comment to point out, the situation probably means that a hard hat wouldn't do much if something went wrong here, so there must just be a lot of confidence in the logistics of the operation.

Advert

Even aside from this individual's everyday approach to what seems like a risky situation, other commenters are amazed at the mechanics of how the blade is being moved.

One person wrote: "Never really thought about it before, but those things must be seriously bottom-heavy to balance all that weight being thrown around by the blades."

This is a great point - the way that the blade sticks up and away from the truck really underlines how its weight must be distributed, but also shows that it must be far less heavy than a layperson might assume.


Advert

After all, there's just a single truck moving this freight, even if it's a pretty big one with a powerful engine, so you can tell the blade is carefully designed to weigh as little as possible, which presumably helps with its efficiency when being moved by the wind, too.

Another canny commenter has worked out where this is all happening, and it might be a more regular sight than you'd think in that area: "It's in Hull. There's a Siemens factory here where they make the blades."

So, it shouldn't come as a surprise that the location of a factory designed to build and then move these enormous pieces would be pretty used to seeing them shipped away to wherever they're going to be fitted as actual turbines.

We've also recently seen plans for a new, truly enormous plane that would be designed entirely to transport wind turbine blades like these.

Featured Image Credit: Justin Paget/Getty / jpc4stro/reddit
Science
Tech News

Advert

Advert

Advert

Choose your content:

7 hours ago
8 hours ago
  • 7 hours ago

    Officials confirm plans to rebuild world's largest plane set to cost $3,000,000,000

    The aircraft was destroyed when Russia invaded Ukraine

    News
  • 8 hours ago

    Stunning 2019 Bitcoin graph shows how much money it would have made you compared to normal stocks and shares

    A $1,000 investment in Bitcoin made in 2019 has outperformed every major traditional asset

    News
  • 8 hours ago

    This $70,000,000,000 Trump move just propelled AI stocks to historic highs

    The AI sector just got its biggest boost yet from the Trump administration

    News
  • 8 hours ago

    Tesla slammed after launching 'dystopian' diner in the middle of Hollywood

    Elon Musk has described the diner as 'one of the coolest spots in LA'

    News
  • Professional hacker with over 30 years experience shares the scariest things he’s come across on the dark web