OK, this whole sharkfin antenna thing is out of control

[іди на хуй Влад - formerly known as Distraxi]

I bet they were holding their breath and hoping the wind stayed down.

67m long wind turbine blade being transported in Germany.

[frinesi2]

@distraxi dang

[Nauraushaun]

surely fake

[ClassicDatsunDebate]

@frinesi2 said in OK, this whole sharkfin antenna thing is out of control:

@distraxi dang

Dong

[TheBarber]

@distraxi Really cool perspective. It's just hard to comprehend something 200' long going down the road. Humans look tiny!

[facw]

@nauraushaun Modern wind turbines are absurdly huge.

[SamV8]

@facw never seen them transported like that though, usually like this

[facw]

@samv8 Yep, but at a certain point, they get too long to ship like that.

Here's Jalopnik's story: Watching A Truck Hauling Wind Turbine Blades Kinda Hurts Your Brain

And for bonus hugeness:
A Monster Wind Turbine Is Upending an Industry

[Nauraushaun]

@facw said in OK, this whole sharkfin antenna thing is out of control:

@nauraushaun Modern wind turbines are absurdly huge.

I believe that part, but I find it hard to believe it was actually on that truck! It looks way too big and heavy to be any kind of stable.

[іди на хуй Влад - formerly known as Distraxi]

@nauraushaun Nope. Saw it posted on LinkedIn by P. Adams Schwertransporte, a European trucking firm specialising in ridiculously oversized loads, whose truck is down at the bottom of that thing. LinkedIn's not the sort of place you post fakes of your own work if you want to stay in business, unless it's April 1 already.

[EngineerWithTools]

@distraxi
If this condition persists for 6 hours or more, call your doctor.

[Highlander]

@distraxi Imagine if it got windy, they would be screwed.

[іди на хуй Влад - formerly known as Distraxi]

@engineerwithtools said in OK, this whole sharkfin antenna thing is out of control:

@distraxi
If this condition persists for 6 hours or more, call your doctor.

Or a porn production company.

[Roadkilled]

@nauraushaun Here is a video showing the mounting and movement of the blade. It sure looks real to me.

[BritsnSwedes was MINIGTI]

@roadkilled wow. Just wow.

[TheBarber]

@facw Ups for the Haliade-X! I want to see one of these bad boys in person. Pretty cool they've been selected for offshore in the states. I've been following the development of it on GE's LinkedIn. I'm sad I won't see any offshore turbines on the West coast for a while though.

[Eric]

The weirder bit is that when they get damaged/broken in the field, they're so large that they're usually just littered near the turbines, because it is expensive and impractical to dispose of them.

Go north west and south east of here to see a bunch of damaged blades on the ground near the working turbines (which you can confirm by the shadows): https://goo.gl/maps/o38zLovLA7bp4v6U6

Here's another bunch at a different wind farm: https://goo.gl/maps/gwvVn9FRWPHwprSq9

Pieces of at least 7 of them just a little south of that: https://goo.gl/maps/HWGDSRcBSSH3wGBC8

This farm apparently piles the broken ones up: https://goo.gl/maps/ru3HYLG8CWNnGbXy8

[TheBarber]

@eric This is an unfortunate side of the business. Hopefully the recent decision by GE to start recycling blades will make other manufactures follow suit.

[BJ]

If you like this kind of stuff, you'll probably enjoy Facebook groups like Convoi Exceptionnel and Convoi Exceptionnel Europe.