Cyclist rides along a wind turbine blade for our amusement and climate change fundraising
Danny MacAskill's latest video uses bike tricks to raise awareness about renewable energy
Professional cyclist Danny MacAskill has just released a video where he heads to the top of a wind turbine and rides along one of its blades, far above the earth. While we’re accustomed to people doing this sort of thing, risking their lives so we have something to tab over to during lunch and stare blankly at while chewing like dazed cattle, MacAskill’s stunt has a greater purpose: Raising awareness about (and money for) renewable energy.
Before he touches god’s face with the top of his helmet, the video shows MacAskill warming up with some other, still very impressive bike tricks while interspersed title cards explain that he’s released the clip “to show us the scale” of our environmental problems.
Tasked with “[busting] the myth that renewables are small scale,” he heads to a wind turbine factory to launch into front flips off of pipes and perform other stunts using industrial materials, all as part of an effort to demonstrate how much of our energy currently comes from renewable sources.