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Sweden’s giant wooden wind turbine promises greener future | BBC News
It’s made from the same wood as a Christmas tree and held together by glue. A company in Sweden has created the world’s tallest wind turbine made from timber.
It says this is the future of wind turbine design, promising bigger wind generators which are far greener.
Conventional wind turbines generate renewable energy but producing the huge quantities of steel they’re made from is not an environmentally friendly process.
The timber turbine tower in Sweden is far lighter than steel and takes a tiny fraction of the carbon emissions to produce, while the timber itself is a carbon store.
There could be other benefits to using wood for turbine towers. Its strength and resilience may allow the creation of bigger and taller turbines, generating more electricity.
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@LunarKn1ght
January 9, 2024 at 1:12 am
You know what’s better than these wind turbines. Nuclear, larger output less natural impact, longer lifespan, better efficiency, more money made in the long run, cheaper energy per KWh.
@tanyoivanov-personal
January 9, 2024 at 1:12 am
Sweden is my favourite country. 2014 I lived there and they were decades in front of the other nations on ecological and social plan! After that I lived 5 years London/UK and I was AMAZED how back in the times is the UK in this plan. The worst is the plastic packing for each item in the UK stores…
@VVayVVard
January 9, 2024 at 1:12 am
The problem with wood is that it burns. Which is not a great quality if you're near-neighbors (and not in particularly great relations) with Russia.
@2MeterLP
January 9, 2024 at 1:12 am
0:49 The math of "more than a hundred percent less" does not check out 😀
@HetmanLesny
January 9, 2024 at 1:12 am
So you want to protect the enviroment by cutting off the woods, and then making wooden windmills in their place? 😆
@treefarm3288
January 9, 2024 at 1:12 am
What size have they got to?
@jensstergard9380
January 9, 2024 at 1:12 am
Also in Sweden they are working on producing green steel.
@The_Unobtainium
January 9, 2024 at 1:12 am
Just remember BBC is pushing green bullshit agenda.
@tiberiudumitrescu5237
January 9, 2024 at 1:12 am
If you cut down trees to make another thing made out of wood, doesn’t that incrise the CO2 in the atmosphere creating another problem? This intreview only shows how a company reduces the spending via transport with lighter magerial, however the steel can rezist ij the nature more time than a wood with glue. It’s just basic logic behind…
@saiello2061
January 9, 2024 at 1:12 am
More BBC bullshit. The problem was never the tower, its the blades which are still made of fibreglass that have to be buried. Wind power is NOT cheap, this is a LIE, its at least 2-3 tines more expensive than traditional sources and has to be SUBSIDISED by tax pounds. Even then, it doesn't even come close to providing the energy we need NOW never mind in the future. Tired of this renewables gaslighting scam…
@moragmckay3779
January 9, 2024 at 1:12 am
Many current wind turbines already lead to the destruction of vast swathes of virgin forest because of the wooden lining of the huge blades. Carbon negative? Nonsense greenwashing! To build these, mature trees which would have gone on trapping carbon for decades will be lost, their replacements not having the same effect until the life of these turbines is over. The turbines are not "trapping carbon" any more than buying new furniture would trap carbon. The wood it was trapped in is now just not having any further carbon capturing benefits. Meanwhile, environments are damaged sourcing the wood, transport of the wood and its preparation create carbon and other pollution.
I'm not saying these are, overall, a bad product, but painting them as carbon negative negates the necessity to cut down on our use of electricity, the only real way to reduce environmental impact.
@Sjalabais
January 9, 2024 at 1:12 am
"More than a 100% less carbon emissions" by storing carbon…I'd like to see the numbers questioned by an awake journalist with a calculator. You still have to take down and transport trees, process them in a factory, glue, bend and quality control the product, transport and mount it with what was obviously not wooden bolts, and every installation like this will have a footprint where it is installed; think clearings, fillings and roads. It's probably much better than steel still, obviously, but don't just swallow and regurgitate outrageous claims, please.
@universal1755
January 9, 2024 at 1:12 am
Is using wood environment friendly?? You have to cut trees….
@user-rl7mt4gh3o
January 9, 2024 at 1:12 am
looks good but fusion is lot more sustainable & friendly too for the environment in general & these wind turbines the whole time are fossil fueled that sucks what if they were powered by fusion?
@lokesh303101
January 9, 2024 at 1:12 am
Yes! But it's unsustainable.
@glennnielsen8054
January 9, 2024 at 1:12 am
If it is to be carbon negative to use wood for wind turbine towers, new trees must be planted that capture at least the same carbon as the trees used in the wind turbine tower used to do. In addition, it is interesting and it will be exciting to follow.
@lfeb
January 9, 2024 at 1:12 am
I thought they were made from balsa wood
@danz_w
January 9, 2024 at 1:12 am
The worst impact on environment has those fiberglass turbines, not the steel in tower. You got bamboozled and focused on wrong thing.
@paulhawthorne2960
January 9, 2024 at 1:12 am
An illogical solution to an imaginary problem.
@davidhair8295
January 9, 2024 at 1:12 am
Now the tree huggers will be up set! U can not win.
@timothyortiz2222
January 9, 2024 at 1:12 am
BS, I'm seeing a crap load of metal in video.
@Dungshoveleux
January 9, 2024 at 1:12 am
It will make good fire wood when it gets recycled.
@robinfrost5561
January 9, 2024 at 1:12 am
Question: How many trees need to be felled, obviously in an eco friendly manner to make one turbine and does it even last as long as a steel one…..
Wow! What an innovation…..
P.S Pun intended.