<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>jimmysiewert wrote:</div>
Just like another fact: you cannot reverse the “human” contribution to climate change unless you do 1 single thing – that isn’t being preached or done near enough. You can only slow it down with current bull (wind turbines, EV, etc.). Suppose I’m wrong on this too..
What about all the waste with wind turbines, EV batteries (thankfully Tesla is trying to develop a way to recycle them) and their precious metals required to create them? I mean, mining for those metals is far from a clean process. Wind turbines typically last around 10 years and end up in the landfill and when you drive by a big farm of them nearly 1/3 dont work at any given time. Its hardly reliable. I will pass by hundreds of these on our trip to TX starting tomorrow and its astounding how many dont work.
Saying wind turbines last 10 years is false.
The blades have a short lifespan but that lifespan can be lengthened drastically with a good maintenance plan.
In 1999 I worked for a company that put up 255 turbines by Storm Lake Iowa. Technology back then on the turbines is nothing what it is today. Those turbines are still running today.
The company I work for owns 2 wind farms. Every turbine is operational and one farm came online in 2013 the other was 2018. 99% of the time our turbines are not running is due to being curtailed (power company pays to have turbines not run) by the power companies. Before the wind farms were built a PPA (power purchase agreement) was signed.
Well in todays age fossil fuel plants are selling power cheaper.
Now after being apart of the design and construction of thousands of turbines in our country. I can tell you they have a life span of 30 years plus.
Now the negatives I have seen through out the years. You would be amazed at the amount of trees that have been cut down for a wind farm to be built.
The amount of fly ash (from coal fired power plants) that goes into the concrete mix design is insane.
I wish our government would get smart and build more Nukes.
Nuclear technology today is light years ahead of what it was the last time we built a Nuclear plant.