Some more math and metrics. And after all the wind is built, you still need coal, natural gas and nuke back up power for when the wind doesn't blow and the sun doesn't shine.
https://vaclavsmil.com/wp-content/uploads/15.WINDTURBINE.pdf
To make the steel required for wind turbines that might operate by 2030, you’d
need fossil fuels equivalent to more than
600 million metric tons of coal.[/b]
A 5-MW turbine has three roughly
60-meter-long airfoils, each weighing
about 15 metric tons. They have light balsa
or foam cores and outer laminations made
mostly from glass-fiber-reinforced epoxy
or polyester resins. The glass is made by
melting silicon dioxide and other mineral
oxides in furnaces fired by natural gas. The
resins begin with ethylene derived from
light hydrocarbons, most commonly the
products of naphtha cracking, liquefied
petroleum gas, or the ethane in natural gas.
The final fiber-reinforced composite embodies on the order of 170 GJ/t. Therefore,
to get 2.5 TW of installed wind power by
2030, we would need an aggregate rotor
mass of about 23 million metric tons, incorporating the equivalent of about 90 million
metric tons of crude oil.[/b] And when all is in
place, the entire structure must be waterproofed with resins whose synthesis starts
with ethylene.
Decades of illegal immigration and the takeover of the public school systems, social media and the MSM including TV and movies by the hard left. There isn't one leftard on this board that has any basic understanding of science, math, history or economics. What they do have is strong feelings that they can't back up with actual facts. Dems say they want cheap, green renewable energy and its the mean conservatives that just want the land raped by an oil derrick that produces more useable energy than a 50 turbine wind farm. For a 5-megawatt turbine, say 350 feet tall, the steel alone averages 150 metric tons for the reinforced concrete foundations, 250 metric tons for the rotor hubs and nacelles (which house the gearbox and generator), and 500 metric tons for the towers. Toss in 500 metric tons of concrete base. Sweet. And that's not considering the new transmission to get the power from nowhere to somewhere.
Until the woke faggots start voting against this shit its hard to feel sorry for them
Seriously, what the fuck happened to that state? The same shit that happened to the once right leaning California.
Seriously, what the fuck happened to that state? The same shit that happened to the once right leaning California.[/b]
Just today I saw 3 caravans of windmill blades crossing the Glenn Jackson headed up the Columbia G. They are pretty incredible to see close up.