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To: DUMBGRUNT
"Building one wind turbine requires 900 tons of steel, 2,500 tons of concrete and 45 tons of plastic."

Huh? You mean they have to make them somewhere? They didn't tell me that in Socialism class....

8 posted on 08/06/2019 9:16:13 AM PDT by Psalm 73 ("I will now proceed to entangle the entire area".)
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To: Psalm 73

Plus the thousands of miles of copper wire to connect them to the electrical grid, which has to be dug out of the ground requiring fossil fuels


17 posted on 08/06/2019 10:27:42 AM PDT by kaktuskid
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