Any “thinking adult” that considers, seriously, the various methods of generating electricity will come down STRONGLY in favor of nuclear. Frankly, it will take a transition to that before EV’s will be practical on any large scale.
When Spider-man can swing from coast to coast on wind turbines it will be amazing ,LOL
there’s a reason why we bypassed windmills and electric cars as we grew...we found something better. now the goverment wants to go backwards....to prove again...why we need fossil fuels going forward.
Yes.
We drove through Texas a year back, and saw large piles and larger piles of discarded wind turbine blades. Many. Looking up details as to how they would be disposed of demonstrated to me the folly of this. Recycle? Hardy-haw.
Not knowing this about turbines is on par with not having known that masks were shown to be useless for a respiratory virus way back in 2015. Geesh, both WHO and CDC funded studies that dumped on masks.
Base load providers (e.g., dams, nukes, coal, gas, etc) have been warning about the total waste associated with turbines since the ‘80’s. PG&E actually had a humongous turbine operating out thisaway back then and paid huge sums of money getting rid of the structure. Way out of proportion compared to electricity generated and getting rid of a baseload plant.
It is a niche tech only. Kinda a vanity project.
The standard metrics assert that they have a 20 year operational life and a 21 year payback period.
Actual data shows the average operational life is closer to 10 years.
Additionally, the "payback" calculations ignore the cost of tax incentives, do not include disposal cost, and ignore the inability to store energy, and overestimate the reliability and availability of the energy.
Did I forget to mention they have their own, significant environmental impact and are ugly?
Wind turbines already cost more energy to produce than they will generate in their lifetimes and then they produce waste that cannot be recycled. The mind numbed brain dead robots of the left have difficulty recognizing a fictitious unicorn when it appears in a mirage.
Great article, thanks.
đ§ but thatâs oil!
One solution to the problem of old blades is to make every liberal scumbag store them in their yards.
" If the vessel is fiberglass, it's hauled, towed, scrapped of valuable parts, and â with no other options â dumped in a landfill. The cross-linked polyester and fiberglass composites of the fiberglass hull, ideal for strength and durability for a lifetime on the water, are not biodegradable and will sit in the landfill for centuries."
they dont care
the goal is to make electricity scarce
under the climate emergency
who is allowed to survive
will depend on your social credit score
“In addition, Swedenâs new government has abolished state subsidies for electric cars and plug-in hybrids.”
Swedenâs auto market saw plugin electric vehicle share continue to grow strongly in December, reaching a record 74.6%, up from 60.7% year on year. Full electrics alone took a record 51.3% share of the market.
https://cleantechnica.com/2023/01/03/plugin-evs-take-record-75-share-of-swedens-auto-market/
Is this a rhetorical question?
