r/oddlysatisfying • u/Majestic-Pay-4615 • 5h ago

Lightning hits a windmill

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u/heart-murmur 5h ago

Gondor calls for aid.

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u/Axe-of-Kindness 5h ago

Now all of China knows you're here

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u/stirling_s 5h ago

Oh, wait, no it's gon-OH WAIT no they call for aid, we shou-nope. False alarm. No beaco-OH MY GOD

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u/Majestic-Pay-4615 5h ago

Warning beacons across mountains can be heard

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u/BinkRaccoon6 5h ago

Light the beacons! Though i think this beacon is doing a bit too much spinning to be official.

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u/PatrickGoesEast 5h ago

Looks expensive.

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u/Go_Loud762 5h ago

Cheaper now.

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u/TheFrenchSavage 1h ago

And this windmill is now emitting CO2 so that's kind of a self-own on planet earth here.

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u/Can_of_Sounds 5h ago

'Windmill'?

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u/rhunter99 4h ago

Thank you

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u/Torkin 5h ago

“Lightning protection system fails on a wind turbine”

Not a windmill. They get hit by lightning all the time; they are designed to handle it. Here the protection system failed and the blade caught fire.

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u/Sir_Scribble_Lot 5h ago

Not so much oddly satisfying, more like mildly interesting.

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u/Secret-Bag9562 5h ago

Or mildly mesmerizing.  

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u/FennelMirth 5h ago

Nah the way it draws clean smoke circles in the air while spinning is peak satisfaction. Definitely belongs here IMO, even if it looks catastrophic at the same time.

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u/Majestic-Pay-4615 5h ago

You're right there but looing it it in person was calming haha

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u/ThodaDaruVichPyar 5h ago

This happened in Crowell, Texas in 2022. Video captured by Brent Havins

https://youtu.be/qdbxR1p20FA

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u/Another_smart_ass 5h ago

Music choice was spot on.

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u/LogicalMeerkat 1h ago

I watched without sound, saw this comment, knew exactly what song it was.

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u/Greenking73 5h ago

Looks like the way our solar system travels through space.

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u/WarhammerRyan 5h ago

TARRIF THEM!! TARRIF THE CLOUDS FOR GENERATING SMOKE

/s

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u/RoyalMaidsForLife 5h ago

Finally found the one wind turbine that causes cancer

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u/Majestic-Pay-4615 5h ago

Send em out of the country

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u/One_Major201 5h ago

Firemill

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u/Majestic-Pay-4615 5h ago

One way to put it

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u/WaySavvyD 4h ago

Not a windmill, a wind turbine!

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u/ByWillAlone 3h ago

A windmill is a wind powered machine that harnesses the wind to spin a shaft to perform some kind of mechanical work. In the case of a wind turbine, that mechanical work drives a turbine to produce electricity. Arguably, wind turbines are just specialized types of windmills.

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u/CompactAvocado 5h ago

this some devil summoning ritual

https://giphy.com/gifs/EX3WTn0d3EuA0

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u/UpstairsInjury_55 5h ago

When earth needs a smoke break.

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u/Famous_Secret_5174 5h ago

Poor wind turbine 😔

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u/Majestic-Pay-4615 5h ago

This tur-bine is on fire Sings in Alicia keys

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u/Safe_Air_3999 5h ago

Im still not sure what would make a windmill catch fire like that. I would understand it if the fire was located on the actual engine

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u/Go_Loud762 5h ago

The blades are fiberglass and composite. Get it hot enough and it will burn.

I assume lightning struck the blade and started the fire.

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u/mildly_Agressive 3h ago

You don't see the smoke Circles...

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u/Disastrous-Data-3299 5h ago

"Windmill"?

There is no milling involved, wind turbine is what you meant to say.

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u/tmckearney 5h ago

Can't wait to hear what Trump says about this

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u/jarednards 5h ago

Why would sleepy joe biden do this?

Thanks obama.

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u/Majestic-Pay-4615 5h ago

He's busy posing for a picture with the Spanish football team

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u/Nettkitten 5h ago

That they’ll rightfully photoshop him out of.

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u/[deleted] 5h ago

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u/mountaindewisamazing 5h ago

They already did lmao

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u/MtnMoose307 5h ago

Wow, awesome catch--and with the right music!

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u/Fishu4TokenBTDLover 5h ago

Mildly scary

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u/Zestyclose-Review867 5h ago

Would prefer a sound track of "You Spin Me Round".

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u/dadbodwhey 5h ago

Me rn at work

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u/plenty-o 5h ago

Nature has shown us the way. We should be building this mesmerizing effect into all of our windmills. We could repurpose all the smoke/fog machines from the 80’s

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u/Adorable_Chair7661 5h ago

Akshually that’s a wind turbine.

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u/Outrageous-Poem-4965 4h ago

how well you can see turbulence, which can be several kilometers across and disrupts birds' ability to navigate

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u/valiente93 4h ago

Aint that shit metal? Why is it burning

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u/mildly_Agressive 3h ago

Paint, it has paint on it, and lightning is like everything in nature ridiculously overpowered

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u/JohnStern42 3h ago

Aluminum burns very easily actually

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u/W7ENK 3h ago

Those blades are made of balsa wood and coated with a fiberglass shell.

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u/FireBreathingNun 3h ago

These are all around my parents property. Pretty nice passive income because in the contract agreement if the shadow touches their land they get money for it. Which happens a lot. But fucking terrifying in a storm.

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u/Own_Cantaloupe9011 3h ago

Oh no. The whales.

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u/benmar111 3h ago

Oh the humanity

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u/benmar111 3h ago

Donald did that

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u/davidscheiber28 3h ago

We gotta figure out how to make these things less flammable. I have driven past so many burnt out ones it's crazy.

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u/MLSurfcasting 2h ago

You should see when lightening hits one at sea. One blade creates a debris field of foam particles about 8 miles wide. You see whales and dolphins come up to breathe and feed with foam particles stuck on their backs. Once it hits the beaches they all get shut down. You wont see cleanup by the involved companies.

You see children picking up the debris. They're the only ones naive enough to believe ocean pollution is control-able. What a shame, and what a societal low; like when asbestos was a great idea.

Someone ask Vineyard Wind if lightening hits the same blade twice. (It does)

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u/epSos-DE 2h ago

Must be old one !

Modern Windmills have BREAKS if they detect any irregularity in rotation !

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u/Splendid_Carpark 1h ago

Score one for Quixote

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u/Arctic-charm 1h ago

It's a giant sparkler

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u/Beginning_Being2552 1h ago

Wind *turbine.

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u/allursnakes 1h ago

Don't see a lot of milling going on here.

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u/Lt_Si1entSi1ver_SSJB 1h ago

Right now we're trying to figure out unlimited candle light.

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u/AssumeaVirtue 19m ago

That’s so pretty! Love the extra 🎶

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u/AssumeaVirtue 16m ago

How many pedantic A-holes are going to comment about windmills vs wind turbines? 🙄

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u/jeandaniel143 8m ago

If you show this to Donald Trump, he would post it on Truth Social saying this is how Windmills cause Pollution and hence should be banned.

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u/PathSlight392 5h ago

This is actually oddly satisfying! I didn’t expect a flaming turbine belching black smoke to look so strangely *aesthetic*

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u/Majestic-Pay-4615 5h ago

Ikr. It was almost- flawless

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u/MostlyMTG 5h ago

Not a windmill. Nice try, AI

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u/ARobertNotABob 5h ago

Wrong. 2022, Oklahoma : https://www.nbcmiami.com/video/news/national-international/lightning-strike-causes-wind-turbine-to-catch-fire/2816633/

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u/MostlyMTG 2h ago

I stand corrected. But not on the windmill part. It’s not a windmill, and that’s why I suspected AI just generated a title/caption

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u/ARobertNotABob 2h ago

It's a common term amongst uneducated Yanks.

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u/Majestic-Pay-4615 5h ago

Unfortunately it's not

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u/SimioConCultura 5h ago

No lighting, Reddit is so full of fake news even this sub lol

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u/W7ENK 3h ago

You can literally see lightning flashing periodically in the background. 🤦🏼‍♂️

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u/SimioConCultura 1h ago

Those are thunders genius

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u/ToasterBathTester 5h ago

Expected some Metallica music, received mariachi

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u/Majestic-Pay-4615 5h ago

You don't sound disappointed