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To: MNDude

So on to finish my post... A large utility scale wind turbine is 1 megawatt. Using the same formula for PV of avg. 5-6 hours a day of generation 1 large turbine will save 154.8 million trees in 5 years.


15 posted on 08/08/2017 7:04:15 PM PDT by 1FreeAmerican
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To: 1FreeAmerican
#15: "1 large turbine will save 154.8 million trees in 5 years."

Remember GIGO: garbage in, garbage out. Something does not seem right with those numbers. In any case, CO2 is a harmless non-toxic gas. It is natural and not a pollutant.

One thing rarely considered is the amount of copper that goes into a wind turbine. Probably over a thousand miles of copper wire, who knows how many pounds of copper. A half ton? One ton?

Copper mining is not a "clean" environmentally friendly endeavor. Nor is the smelting of ore and manufacture of wire. There are many deadly toxic byproducts of copper mining. Copper is essential to modern society but why mine it needlessly to appease the Global Warming Gods?

There is no global warming, just variable weather patterns and sun spot activity.
 

21 posted on 08/08/2017 8:30:23 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie
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