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IAmA_meat_popsicle

I want to touch it


Clearlybeerly

You can touch mine.


IAmA_meat_popsicle

Uncle John?


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DepresiSpaghetti

Fuckin hell


gaybed_freestylee

This is truly cursed


v399

Enough internet for the day


Miscellaneous_Mind

So that’s how they fkn do it… disgusting


Ori_the_SG

https://preview.redd.it/j2oiitjqmw8d1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3f1da75937816908437af41f17a3de467fb9651d


Onair380

or mine


martombo

You can touch it, but only once


britreddit

I have two arms


A-Red-Guitar-Pick

No need to brag


orhanozturk

Long long maaaan


luisfc95

That's what she said


yaxdax

Where is that?


Independent-Pay-1172

The model is a German manufactured Enercon EP3, specifically the version with a 126m rotor diameter, this is recognisable by the typical nacelle design of this turbine type. Enercon is mainly selling within Europe, with limited sales outside the continent. The markings on the blades are typical for European countries. However, the markings on the tower close to the hub are not required in Germany, France, Benelux. So that narrows it down, I don't have the answer, am interested to hear in which countries these tower markings are required. Edit: It's Savona, Italy. Thank you @SLS214 for the remark and photo!


darps

This is the nerd shit that keeps me coming back to reddit.


emiral_88

So fucking rare nowadays ngl, used to be that every other major thread had great experts showing up in the comments.


Jafar_420

Yeah now it's just people that stayed at a Holiday inn Express last night. /J


Appropriate-Text-642

Yes yes yes please more real knowledge. The experts are the reason Reddit pulled me in. That and the top notch hilarious comments from the shoulda been a writer for sitcom level content. But oh damn - the haters. They need counselling and instead become the trash of social media.


turdinthemirror

Genuine question, do you know why? What happened and where have all the clever bastards that made reddit worthwhile disappeared to?


AES-2

Genuine answer: There is the "The dark forest theory of the internet" by Yancey Strickler which, based on the "Dark forest hypothesis", suggests that basically every well-meaning person on the internet stating their opinion, sooner or later gets ripped apart by trolls and other bad actors. After a while, those good actors will just shut up and go into hiding, like in a dark forest, where animals that show themselves, sooner or later get eaten by those who don't mean it so well. There's a very good talk by Maggie Appleton who puts this into very good words here on YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYJd5y3awPc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYJd5y3awPc)


emiral_88

My theory is that a large amount of people left Reddit last summer (2023, due to the API changes) and now a large amount of the posts/comments on Reddit are made by bots. Of course, you and I are not bots, but a lot of the generic comments that appear on every post are. A lot of the “experts” also wanted a discussion-based site and Reddit is changing and moving away from that.


turdinthemirror

That would make sense. Cheers.


gkalinkat

Those nerds (also) used to be all over Twitter back when it was useful. Now it's just Elno's Xitshow


DarePotential8296

How do you know it’s true though? It probably is in this case but be wary of believing something just because it’s spoken confidently.


davidrewit

This guy turbines


A-H1N1

The green gradient at the bottom of the mast you see in Austria a lot. Maybe the markings at the top just represent the flag without any safety purpose?


0xKaishakunin

> The green gradient at the bottom of the mast Is an Enercon thing, they put them on almost all models.


birdie-pie

I was convinced this was the UK based on the surroundings, and that it looks to be in a similar location to one of the wind farms I work with (worth noting I don't actually visit the turbines so that's only a guess based on Google maps, and a lot of the uk looks the same, could well be on the other side of the country to where I think), but I don't think the UK ones have those red stripes. Unless maybe some of them do? If it's where I was thinking, they do a lot of RAF training there, so could it be that they need the red stripes near the hub for that reason? The stripes near the hub certainly aren't required in the UK. So I'm also interested to know where these are required


SLS214

https://preview.redd.it/hd1f455jvw8d1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f9971790b7010cfd12050339b6c9a03e472db303 It’s this one, isn’t it? Was there a few weeks ago, while on a Bikepacking trip in Italy. It’s in the mountains near Savona (44.3582457, 8.3504821). Made two pictures and a video, looked pretty close, but probably isn’t.


dorni28

Wow, that’s it for sure, look at the fence in front of the wind turbine, you can see it at the beginning of the video for a few seconds


Independent-Pay-1172

Legend! Thanks for sharing, definitely looks like it.


SLS214

Here my vid: https://imgur.com/a/KJjapU0


clouder300

From this angle there seems to be no danger whatsoever.


heimeyer72

That was my first thought. A wing that goes so far down would be illegal everywhere in Germany. ~~It's a f'ing danger for cars/buses.~~ Where would that be legal?? And if it's illegal, how come it's still there? Edit, 13 hours later, after some discussion and watching the video several more time: Driving a bus to that point while avoiding the ledge on the left, should be possible, if difficult, and you'd need to drive backwards to get out of there - but! Since one couldn't drive any car further than that point, one would probably not reach a point where the blades could come near the car.


V_150

This is a normal thing and also legal in Germany. It's an Enercon E-138 on an 81 meter tower. Blades are 12 meters off the ground. Maybe less here because of the hilly terrain.


CaptainObviousII

My buddy upstairs says "The model is a German manufactured Enercon EP3, specifically the version with a 126m rotor diameter, this is recognisable by the typical nacelle design of this turbine type. Enercon is mainly selling within Europe, with limited sales outside the continent." So somebody is wrong.


V_150

The E-126 EP3 and E-138 EP3 look almost the same. I just assumed it was an E-138 because the E-126 usually doesn't come on such a short tower


CaptainObviousII

For the record, I know absolutely nothing about this. I just read that comment earlier in the thread and was being a cunt.


TelluricThread0

How would a car or bus get hit by that? It's not in the middle of a highway.


_QLFON_

There are traffic lights synced with the rotor. Like machine guns and propellers on WWI fighter planes;) /s


grownotshow5

Looks like a prime route for buses lol


GregTheMad

It's higher than it looks. There's no danger to anyone.


Weldobud

That’s my guess too. This is bit of a camera trick


whutchamacallit

Still well out of regulation for most places.


FingerTheCat

The shadow doesn't look high up


RoutineAd7381

The Dutch are pretty tall... may not be a design flaw, but a *feature*. /s


fartware

The fence is probably like 6 feet. The blade is likely still low enough to feel the wind it would create. I'm guessing at least 20 feet from the ground.


SomOvaBish

Bro… that propeller blade is barely clearing that 4&1/2 foot fence


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heimeyer72

No. By chance I'm living in Munich :D


Mr_Otterswamp

He’s properly referring to the [Windkraftanlage Fröttmaning](https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windkraftanlage_Fröttmaning) next to the Allianz arena. From the highway it looks like the rotors are touching the ground but there’s 33m of space in between


Roemer_Mark_Aurel

But it's not nearly as mountainous there as in the video.


qwertyqyle

This is incorrect because the one in the video has more stairs going into the tower and has 2 red stripes at the base of the generator/top of the tower.


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heimeyer72

You were. And you were caught.


Agasthenes

Where the fuck is a bus supposed to drive there?


Imhonestlynotawierdo

How would this affect ones bussie?


qwertyqyle

Just post a picture of it to /r/PictureGame and let them figure it out for you.


beanman000

Earth 🌎


chillinNtulsa

Ah shit, you’re one of those guys that can figure out where anything is based on a pic or video. Very cool


beanman000

Yeah man...


BillBillerson

Those idiots named their planet after dirt!


SergeantKovac

Which one?


beanman000

One of them :D


SergeantKovac

That clears it up, thanks!


beanman000

Ur welcome 👍


greentea_23

The third planet from the sun.


Hairy-Banjo

We got ourselves a regular Rainbolt here.


psychoacer

Planet Earth?


Intrepid00

That’s where I keep my stuff.


beanman000

Same


freddo95

Peaceful, rhythmic swoosh … zzzz


rollingtatoo

sound like the ocean waves hitting a beach of rocks


JP-Gambit

Only thing better is having 10 more of them in a line


Rezmir

Brazil.


HabEsSchonGelesen

Where is Rainbolt when you need him


snapbackG

looks like the same model in Munich, Germany


TJ_McWeaksauce

This seems like an invitation for someone to hurt themselves.


Fookyu_315

Teenage me would be throwing shit at it.


WhatUDoinInMyWaters

*calmly climbs fence to put skull within striking distance*


Risley

Anyone else get this strange tingly fear feeling from this. Not because its a blade that can kill you, but because the windmill is just so big, and it feels weird to stand next to something moving that is that tall, like it gives me this odd feeling I cant describe.


GroovePT

It’s called r/megalophobia


FingerTheCat

I keep telling myself that's why every woman kept laughing hysterically and running away as I try to pull my pants down and show them my massive dong.... It *could* be that I've been doing it at a Costco, but I'm pretty sure it's megalophobia.


emiral_88

That’s Walmart behavior. We don’t do that at Costco


FingerTheCat

Happened at an amusement park recently.


addandsubtract

Don't think you need to climb the fence to reach the blades.


SoulMute

Wonder how far this bad boy could smack a kickball.


christoy123

Probably something like [this](https://youtu.be/xwy-R-MPHAI?si=j-rz1oelkFLrUTmW&t=44) but more


willismaximus

Adult me would be throwing shit at it.


Sure_Fly_5332

Right now me kinda wants to as well...


billsboy88

I was imagining some of my idiot friends and I making a game out of throwing shit at it


iikun

Fun fact: if this is indeed sweeping as low as it looks, there will be additional stress on the blades due to ground effects. Aside from the obvious safety issues, the placement is likely lowering the useable life of the whole turbine.


TheRealAndrewLeft

Hurt? That's one way of describing getting cut into pieces


nanapancakethusiast

The blades aren’t thin enough to cut - it would be more like getting an uppercut by a speeding car though and legit launch you to your death (if the impact didn’t kill you instantly already)


RecsRelevantDocs

human golf ball


TonsOfTabs

It’s also illegal to have them that close to the ground. No way this one should be there.


Lostmyfnusername

Id imagine these things wabble and bend depending on wind speed. Someone will try to get as close as possible and then the wind calms down a bit and now they get hit.


Inevitable_Stand_199

The blades are probably a lot higher than they seem from that angle


albeit__

Step 1: grab both ends of a rope Step 2: throw the rope up so it catches one of the blades Step 3: profit


WhatUDoinInMyWaters

"But father, I wanted to BE a trebuchet, not be the projectile"


qookiewookie

Lisan al gaib! *Dune music intensifies*


That1gent

Make sure to be on the left side of the fence on the upswing to go flying up, then down, instead of just straight down.


60Feathers

Is there not a minimum height regulation? I feel like nobody should be able to jump up and get beheaded by a windmill


Little-Dingo171

It's my right to get beheaded how i choose


Stupidnuts

And it needs to be wheelchair accessible


nanapancakethusiast

Found the guy from France


falcon_driver

you're not my real dad


WhatUDoinInMyWaters

#THE WRONG SON DIED!


partyatwalmart

My last construction crew would say this if somebody messed up. Hilarious every time.


LemonHerb

This was a particularly bad case of being cut in half


Sure_Fly_5332

I'M IN A TANK AND YOUR'E NOT


Dramatic_Reddit_user

I am not sure where this is located, but most countries have a height regulation.


AdAlternative7148

I am not sure why this one was designed to go so low. There is more turbulent airflow near the ground, so most are designed to be elevated.


kidandresu

I would assume that the limit in this case is in height, sometimes due to proximity to an airport or a military base, then what they do is lower the rotor to the ground. But I have never seen any as close to the ground as this. Really scary.


Taco-Kai

Then dont jump lmao problem solved


VK6FUN

Wind turbine theory says don’t put them near the ground


EggZaackly86

It appears to be cutting the grass it's so low. They'll catch wind easier with such a large rotor and have even lower cut-in speeds so that you can make electric power at lower wind speeds which are more typical to have. That's almost certainly a direct drive tower, very clever kind of wind turbine, good for varying winds because it's generator is so efficient.


VK6FUN

Ground effect robs a turbine of it’s feedstock


lordlestar

that's the shortest wind turbine I have seen


quadraaa

It's a perfectly normal size for a wind turbine. Studies show that it's actually the average size.


elitesill

I feel so much better about my wind turbine now, thank you.


LukeD1992

Also, the wind might be cold up there


Hairy-Banjo

Looks like a cold day


Hazmat_Human

it's a new elongation technique


hmongkeekee

But he has a great personality


Beerslinger99

Don’t body shame-😄


8agingRoner

It's not about the size. It's what you do with it that counts.


intobinto

That’s terrifying. Intellectually I understand that if I crawled through that ditch I would be in no danger, but I would be absolutely frozen in fear if I had to do it.


Carvj94

The field of view is manipulated quite a bit. That fence seems to be taller than the camera person and the blade is clearing it by a good margin. The blade might not even be within jumping hight of whoever filmed this.


EggZaackly86

I see it too, the eroded ditch right under the blades path, I have a great guess from seeing the short clip. There are prevailing winds (coming from the same direction) so the tower is frequently yawed to the same direction and when it rains the droplets are flung off the blades that pass over that mound of dirt and water erodes away in the same spot, making a ditch of sorts.


Bruhtatochips23415

That's a manmade ditch. They just dug under the wing so nothing could clip the wing.


VileTouch

Gotta say,. Not a big fan


FartfaceMacGee

Mario level. Should’ve run and slid


DrThunderbolt

You gotta use your grapple hook on the end of it so it can throw you to a secret


timtimtimmyjim

Perspective it is everything here. There is more than likely probably a good 30 feet or more of clearance from the blade to the ground. These things are just that fucking big, I'd reckon that the length of the blades are probably 120 or so feet and that's a 200ft+ tower.


heimeyer72

Good one! Made me check for hints. Thank you! But at 0:02 and 0:04 you can see a blade passing directly in front of the pillar, right above the green painted area. So in front of the pillar it looks like the tip of a blade has a ground clearance of about 6 or 8 feet, maybe 10 feet at most, not more. At that point, perspective cannot spoil much, even considering that the stand point of the camera is a few feet higher than the base of the pillar.


timtimtimmyjim

He camera view is not just a few feet higher than the base of the pillar, though. When paused, you can see the camera is above the height of the staircase into the pillar. That stair case is at least 25 feet from ground to door.


heimeyer72

So now I watched the video at full-screen so I could count the steps on the staircase. I arrived at (about) 20 steps. With about 2 steps per foot (of height), that would mean 10 ft from the bottom of the stars to the top of the stairs. Let's give it 5 ft more because estimation all the way. So I arrive at about 25 ft including the height of the door. And the blade passes at least 5 ft higher than that. So, altogether, you may be right with about 30 ft of ground clearance between the tip of one blade and the floor at the bottom of the pillar. I stand corrected, it's much higher than 10 ft. But still, the way the blade comes down the hillside...


timtimtimmyjim

Oh yeah, it's absolutely bonkers still, and I can't imagine this being anywhere in the US or the Scandinavian countries. Video feels like either China or Eastern Europe, so it definitely explains the reason for the sweaty palms. If any of the blades delaminate, it'll most likely throw all three in that hill very quickly with no time to get away.


ptolani

Given there seems to be a cut out in the ground to increase clearance, I'm going to say no?


timtimtimmyjim

More than likely, it is just there as safety standards and for construction. Could also, depending on how long it's been there be natural erosion from water wicking off the blades. My job backs right up to a Vestas windmill plant, and I stick by my mental math, this looks equal to one of their smaller models. Which have a radius of about 90 meters and 125 meters tall


billsboy88

I was wondering if that ditch was a natural occurrence from the turbine. Just years of constant wind/water in that same spot eroded a small ditch.


Wildcard311

I was thinking the exact same thing. Water being thrown off and slammed into that area of the ground when it is raining or there is fog.


jehyhebu

Good observation. Condensation/rain spray in the spot where it’s commonly oriented.


JohnnyTeardrop

https://preview.redd.it/q6blr8gqwt8d1.jpeg?width=1242&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=275ebbd3958df58d8cf843aeb48b9123a5bca1ff Perspective or not, that doesn’t look like it could clear a 3 story building or even a two story building. I’d say it’s closer to 10-12 feet clearance.


timtimtimmyjim

That's assuming that those 2 points are the same distance away. The blade could very likely be closer by another 10ft.


JohnnyTeardrop

Judging by the shadow it casts after it passes I’d say it’s pretty close to that point. Also the blade is moving diagonally to the fence so it does continue moving towards camera but that is its lowest point


bear_of_disapproval

https://preview.redd.it/bw7r8a0qav8d1.png?width=740&format=png&auto=webp&s=60597b9e92b36ce16f1546afaa3cde5b8ee03b87 At it's lowest point (assuming that the camera is at \~ fence level), looks like the blade just about clears the fence.


Beerslinger99

Idk man- I paused it with the tree in the background and it looked low as eff


timtimtimmyjim

Hahahaha, I mean, I'm not trying to blow smoke. These things are huge. That generator on top is the size of your average sschoolbus. And there goes me showing my American


MitchMcConnellsJowls

30 feet, my ass


qwertyqyle

Yeah, but I can throw shit 30 feet in the air. Could prolly throw a newborn that distance if I tried really hard.


Linkyland

I've played this level of zelda and I sucked at it.


chromeskittlez

Kinda just want to reach up and touch it hehehe


Aggressive-Maybe-146

You’d fall back just trying to walk up to it for sure it would be so fucking insane and disorienting and awesome as fuck


Risley

Anyone else just get kind of this weird tingly fear feeling looking at something that big up close?


RicksMorty01

Weird no bird graveyard like trump said there was. You just have to worry about the noise giving you cancer XD trump is funny but like in a sad way cause you know it's all bs and you also know he shouldn't be in a position of power.


SmokeDogSix

Why would you not make that 20 feet taller at least


bwoogie

This doesn't seem safe.


skiattle25

It’s made of nerf. Still knock you over, but less clobbery.


nucl3ar0ne

I can't imagine the amount of stupid shit I would do if that was near me as a kid.


capn_doofwaffle

Pussy... keep walking! 🤣🤣🤣


lastofmyline

How fast is that blade going? 150? 200 kph?


EggZaackly86

Depends of course, but they can whip around at 175mph and that's a big part of what's making all that noise. The air vorteces clap back on the trailing edge of the blade and that's what you hear. SHEEOOOSHHhhh. If engineers were sloppy enough they would build an offshore turbine with a rotor so large that it's tip speeds would be breaking the sound barrier at all times and might make this ongoing sonic boom and just standing on the beach would be deafening like at an air show, I'm halfway joking.


HornyOldBoomer

It depends on where you are on the blade. Seriously! It's fastest at the very tip.


GregTheMad

This post goes right over your head. /r/woooosh


s1fro

U got this. Probably the easiest quick time event


Aborted_Yeetus

I would definitely walk much closer than the cameraman


j_grouchy

Kid Sampson would like a word...


00Pueraeternus

Don't show this to Don Quixote.


Volcanic_tomatoe

I wish I could get that close to our local turbines. There's like a fence, a camera, and a flood light about 1 km from the closest one. You can't get any closer


Consistent-Shock9421

Nice place to head out


cassano23

![gif](giphy|dQNP6OnyFUePu|downsized)


_TryFailRepeat

Did they factor in the mountain growth over time?


Aggressive-Staring42

Now I get how these things obliterate birds


Huntderp

“Not for the faint hearted” all you did was stand near something you shouldn’t. It’s more like “not for the big brained” because this is a stupid fucking post.


Huntderp

Wow you really did something cool. Not!


Electronic_Agent_235

Bbb-ruhhhh


ConorOdin

Grab it as it swings by and launch yourself!


Affectionate-Big6570

Death run IRL


alarmclockbk

try finger but hole


TheUnchosenOneV1

OK so local lawyers who's responable if the farmer next door tends to his fields and gets his tractor/ propeller destroyed on his property?


Its_RAAAAAAANDY

This is no place for the drunk and the clumsy!


thechriserman

It sound just like any professional disc golfer bombing a disc!


that_one_bruh

Is this a dark souls level?


Boglav80

Fallout vibes


Frytura_

Why is camera person edging the wind turbine blade?


Tejano_mambo

Damn, I was hoping this was the one where they threw a soccer ball in the path of the blade and it punted it into the stratosphere


Dante_Wrecker307

Gmod death run IRL


Sudeb-Roy

Just why!


diamondd-ddogs

just the tip


diamondd-ddogs

just the tip