“Strip-mining for the raw materials for batteries is a thousand times more harmful to the environment than fracking, and most all the electricity used to charge them comes from burning carbon, “
Sixty percent in the U.S.. In some areas almost none is carbon based. When did. you. become a rabid environmentalist?
I am sick to death of you fake environmental fanboys destroying the environment with huge solar farms and bird-killing wind turbines that require far more carbon energy than they produce.
https://www.wind-watch.org/news/2010/04/08/wind-power-is-a-complete-disaster/
There is no evidence that industrial wind power is likely to have a significant impact on carbon emissions. The European experience is instructive. Denmark, the world’s most wind-intensive nation, with more than 6,000 turbines generating 19% of its electricity, has yet to close a single fossil-fuel plant. It requires 50% more coal-generated electricity to cover wind power’s unpredictability, and pollution and carbon dioxide emissions have risen (by 36% in 2006 alone).
Flemming Nissen, the head of development at West Danish generating company ELSAM (one of Denmark’s largest energy utilities) tells us that “wind turbines do not reduce carbon dioxide emissions.” The German experience is no different. Der Spiegel reports that “Germany’s CO2 emissions haven’t been reduced by even a single gram,” and additional coal- and gas-fired plants have been constructed to ensure reliable delivery.