"GREEN ENERGY" MYTH BUSTED - 50,000 tons of used wind turbine blades in the landfill

That's ok, they can be changed out one at a time like the batteries...

How much electricity, oil, and coal are burned to manufacture one wind turbine?

Nuclear fission is ALWAYS happening. Everything is constantly undergoing nuclear fission. Everything is radioactive to some degree.

More h-1 visas get um ready Trump. Mexico and India need to be great again too.

Energy to do what exactly? Power cars?

It takes about 3 years for a windmill to generate more energy than what it took to build.

Though the blades might only last 15-20 years, the tower could last a hundred or more. And that's what takes most of the energy to build.

I've worked at plenty of 50-60 year old power plants with their original generators.

It's not like at the 20 year mark they have to dynamite the whole thing and start from scratch.

Yes, or toasters, or curling irons, or blenders, or durrrrrrrr

Goodbye satanic pin wheels.

No one will miss you, besides the devil.

Who may sit on it, and rotate.

saving the Earth is a Racket.

What, insert them rectally into the Power Company Executives?

Saving the earth should be left to the individual but anyone destroying the earth should be held accountable. In other terms your rights end where you infringe on my rights or the rights of my family.

Last Edited by Achduke7 on 01/13/2020 11:28 AM

The whole green energy was always about making money for specialized industries. And the entire green energy market never cared about recycling this stuff and they won't even think about it. They don't even include maintenance costs on this stuff. Much of it is largely ignored by the industry.

If you mention it, you will get boos and angry looks from the people heavily involved in that industry. It got even worse as much of the manufacturing is now done in China where these people now get huge margins for selling this crap to the US.

probably more than they will ever let on.

Anything "green", like a "Tesla" automobile, is laden with hidden costs to the earth that wipe out any gains.

in the case of electric cars, the pollution involved in making the batteries is staggering.

only to the pockets of Solyndra and Elon Mush do any benefits accrue...

OK...then what about maintenance?

What amount of energy goes into maintaining a wind turbine?

I'm trying to get a good idea of total energy returned on energy invested.

People have short memory spans. This has happened all before in the late 70's and 80's. There was a whole solar craze back then and afterwards it collapsed.

You made me spit out my water!

That is very arrogant human-centric perspective. Humans cannot destroy nor save the earth.

These large windmills requires an expensive specialized large crane and dismantling the blades, then bringing down the motor to do repairs and replace bearings. You can see this happening all the time now on a regular basis at wind farms.

They can poison the earth which affects other people, animals and the ecosystem.

only trouble is, the leftists will be judge and jury


so it is like it is today.


why do you harbor the belief that the Earth needs saving, or that you or anyone else could do that?



are you Atlas, the Greek god who holds the Earth on his shoulders ?

we really have some famous posters here!

Humans are part of the ecosystem, not an external force, and there are a large number of things much more significant than humans that can and do change the ecosystem, such as solar events, asteroids, supervolcanos, niburu, etc... That which poisons one species enables another species to thrive. Nature adapts.

Last Edited by Weyoun on 01/13/2020 11:49 AM

OP, perhaps it is still a move in the right direction. We just need to make improvements to the process, like learn how to make these turbines recyclable or permanent, etc. Clean energy is a must for the future (Kyoto Protocol).

What about maintenance of a regular power plant? It's similar. Wind power isn't going to solve our energy problems, but I just get frustrated when I see people insinuating that somehow it doesn't work.

Texas generates 17% of the power it uses with wind, the equivalent of about 4 large nuclear power plants.

my buddy drives around changing oil in these all day long.

they use a lot of oil.

I am glad that nature adapts but I could care less about the cockroaches as a whole. I care about my family and myself. After that my neighbors and sometimes about my country and the world but each in their order. if you think that is arrogant, well even though I care about the environment I am certainly no eco-martyr.

it shorely is


one the leftists have turned into a secular religion.


how many times have you heard someone say "I recycle religiously!"


there's a reason for that.
Leftism fully intends to replace God in every aspect of our lives.

O good Lord!

The Kyoto Protocol...
Another Globalist wet dream like Agenda 21/2030


..."The Kyoto Protocol is an international agreement linked
to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate
Change, which commits its Parties by setting internationally
binding emission reduction targets.

Recognizing that developed countries are principally
responsible for the current high levels of GHG emissions in
the atmosphere as a result of more than 150 years of
industrial activity, the Protocol places a heavier burden
on developed nations under the principle of "common but
differentiated responsibilities."...

[link to unfccc.int (secure)]

Just wait 10 more years

Good thread!!

for lubrication of the transmission; Like any"waste oil" it can be re-refined or just re-used as fuel oil for burning.