Posted on 08/20/2022 9:26:34 AM PDT by rktman
New York, along with other states, is moving forward with massive wind turbine projects.
The push for "9,000 megawatts of offshore wind energy" comes at a high price, not only for families who are left dependent on expensive and unreliable energy, but for the planet.
Wind turbines require massive amounts of rare earths for their generators and motors. A single wind turbine eats up tons of rare earth metals. Rare earth mining carried out in China is horrifyingly destructive to people and the environment. One story described radioactive lakes, high cancer rates and villagers whose "teeth began to fall out" and "hair turned white at unusually young ages". "Children were born with soft bones and cancer rates rocketed."
A recent Associated Press story about rare earth mining operations in Burma told of a world where "birds no longer sing, and the herbs no longer grow. The fish no longer swim in rivers that have turned a murky brown."
An offshore wind turbine can produce somewhere between 9 and 14 megawatts depending on its size. New York's goal would require a thousand offshore wind turbines. Fiberglass wind turbine blades can’t be recycled and end up in massive landfills where they remain, according to one executive, “forever”. But within the fiberglass sheath is balsa wood that can be recycled.
Balsa wood is light, airy and popular for everything from model airplanes to planes. The obsession with green energy has created a massive demand for balsa wood to use in wind turbines. While a story from 2020 about how 14 million trees had been cut down in Scotland to make way for wind farms recently went viral, far more trees are cut down to make turbines.
Billions of trees.
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Are people such as Al Gore and Greta Thunberg aware of this?
They love it , destroying the Planet to be Green
When it’s time to replace all the solar panels and turbines they won’t care because they’ll have to another scam
Because the sensible people are easily scammed to their own destruction. This world is just easily overwhelmed by fools and snake-oil salesmen, whether in Congress or WH.
Same-sex marriage putting their organs in places where they don’t belong while the rest of the world watches in approval. This world deserves every calamity coming to it, and more.
Why yes. They are full on idiots.
How much seabed, and land is being PERMANENTLY DESTROYED as it is covered in thick concrete? This goes for Solar farms as well as Turbines. I wonder what the Carbon footprint of concrete manufacturing, transportation and the steel needed within the concrete? Hey future farmer, dig these “stones” up and plow that field.
Well, it has been said that concrete is a YUGE environmental offender. 😳
How much energy is needed to do what you propose? 1 years worth of carbon energy, per blade?
Unless you count the guys trying to sell them on FB as blank advertising signs?
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Paint “MAGA” on each blade.
The Dems would vanish all signs of them in an instant.
But somehow all the rest of us would pay.
Not sure how you define a years worth of carbon energy?
First step would for the blades to be ground up.
Which is probably what needs to be done with them in any case.
The process reverts the fiberglass back to oil, which can be further refined of used on-site to power the process.
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