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Must Watch: Danny MacAskill rides along Wind Turbine Blade in Climate Games

Written by Jessie-May Morgan
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In the run up to COP26, taking place in Glasgow from October 31st to November 12th, Danny MacAskill is getting in on the action, releasing “Taking to the Skies for Climate Change”. In his latest edit, Danny tricks his way around a wind turbine factory on his custom Santa Cruz trials bike, finishing up riding the blade of a (stationary) turbine high in the sky. Danny shows us just how much of the World’s energy is currently produced from renewable sources; 1 Trick = 1%.

Danny MacAskill Takes to the Skies in Climate Games

…and never to be missed, the great behind-the-scenes of how they made this happen. We’re especially amazed by the skinniest of skinnies – riding along the sharp edge of that blade!

…plus, the wild sliding around on top of that massive turbine!

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Jessie-May Morgan
Jessie-May Morgan
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Jessie-May Morgan is the UK & Ireland Tech Editor of Bikerumor. She has been writing about Mountain Bike Riding and Racing, and all its weird and wonderful technology for 4 years. Prior to that, she was an Intern at the Mountain Bike Center of Scotland, and a Mountain Bike Coach and Leader in the Tweed Valley.

Based in Innerleithen, Scotland, Jessie-May can often be seen riding the Glentress Trail Center, and its neighboring Enduro and Downhill Tracks. She regularly competes in Enduro at a national level, and has recently competed on the World Stage at a handful of Enduro World Series events.

For Bikerumor, Jessie-May is testing the latest mountain bikes, equipment and kit, letting readers know what’s hot and what’s not.

For context, she weighs 60kg and stands at 5ft 4″ tall (163cm).

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ccj
ccj
3 years ago

Just to let you know that the damaged blades are non-recyclable and requires quite a lot of landfill space to bury.

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Energy guy who bikes
Energy guy who bikes
3 years ago

Didn’t look like any blades were damaged. Plus, they are recyclable. Some blades went to landfills in the US because they hadn’t started the recycling program yet. It has started now.

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Funkster
Funkster
3 years ago

Blades are now recycled, but even if they weren’t it would still be better than dumping tons of fossil CO2 into the atmosphere!

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Vissile
Vissile
3 years ago

@ccj
So we just should just keep burning fossil fuels instead?
The mining of oil, coal and other fossil fuels probably produces more waste in a single day than the decommissioning of windmills will in our lifetime.
No solution is perfect – we need to take every opportunity possible to make choices that are better for our planet, even if they’re incremental improvements.

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Pete
Pete
3 years ago

ANYTHING to get folks focused on progressively weaning away from fossil fuels is a good thing.
Unfortunately governments have given global oil companies way, way too much subsidies and politcal power.

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R Gregg
R Gregg
3 years ago

Electricity generation and energy generation are two different things. You should really have shown the stats relative to the latter as this is what is important really and highlights the huge challenge we are all facing (percentage would probably drop to less than 10%). At least we got to see more amazing tricks!

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blahnblahblah
blahnblahblah
3 years ago

nuclear is were its at

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Karl Schwab
Karl Schwab
3 years ago

To each his own. Nothing will ever satisfy man. What’s good for me may not be good for you. Find your group, join it, enjoy life and stop the bitching!

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Jac
Jac
3 years ago

Net loss of carbon…with wind turbine ..after construction is what %,?

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David Simpson
David Simpson
3 years ago

Turbine blades can be re-purposed, they don’t need to be buried. They can provide structural material for industrial or large commercial buildings. It’s all down to imagination.

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Cryogenii
Cryogenii
3 years ago

Failing that we can chuck them in the holes left from open-cast coal mining!

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