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Accident in Sweden revealed huge oil consumption and environmental damage from wind turbines
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Last weekend a windmill collapsed in northern Sweden; so far, it’s banal, one would think — especially since no one was injured. However, there was a disturbing picture at the scene of the accident: plastic debris lay in the middle of a huge pool of oil, which caused some stunned questions from parts of the press and the public. The authorities locked down the entire facility; allegedly for further “investigations”. In fact, the damage to the image should probably be repaired. Because the case once again focuses on the sham of green energy.
The collapsed wind turbine was part of the Nysäter project, which is set to be of central importance for the expansion of renewable energy production in Sweden and was launched only last month with a great deal of media attention. It is one of the largest plants in Europe — and one of the most modern. The green-polished public in “Climate Gretel” Thunberg’s home country is therefore all the more irritated by the incident.
Up to 800 liters of oil consumption
In fact, the collapse is likely to make more people in Sweden aware than the green energy lobbyists would like that wind energy is by no means the long-awaited “clean” power generation source that it is politically and is always presented in the media. Because there is a reason for the oil leaks at the site of the incident: According to various studies, which were published in specialist articles on MDPI, a wind turbine requires between 200 and 800 liters of oil per year.
Dangerous oil guzzlers
An expert from Pitsel & Associates Ltd. estimates that an average wind turbine farm consists of 150 wind turbines, each of which requires 80 gallons of oil (about 364 liters) as lubrication. In total, a wind farm needs about 45,000 liters of oil to be operated at all. The oil needs to be replaced once a year. To fully power a city the size of New York with wind power would require over a million gallons of refined oil.
In addition, the number of wind turbine accidents increases with the number of installed systems. The collapse in Sweden was not the first. In Germany, too, a wind turbine collapsed in North Rhine-Westphalia last September. The fact that there were no injuries, in a much more densely populated area, was sheer luck.
According to the manufacturer Nordex, the damage was in the “mid-single-digit million range.” With the lowering of the minimum distance between new wind turbines and residential areas decided by the “traffic lights”*, it will only be a matter of time before in addition to myriads of birds, bats and insects, humans are also victims of this cult-glorified technology.
Here are some examples of wind turbine accidents: https://youtu.be/nemy4TD4I3A