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How long till that is usable land? What will leach out, into the water that percolates through? How long until they discovered this is a bad idea?
At least nuclear waste is known to be dangerous. If you have been reading the things I say, I'm not a nuke supporter. I'm all in with natural gas, coal, stuff that works and doesn't go all Fukushima on us. Nothing is perfect, but the alleged Green stuff is not even up to the job. The investment, energy, not dollars, energy to build, maintain, connect to the grid, put out the fires, deice the blades, it's a screwup, a fantasy, and eyesores, GodAwful eyesores. Wanna know what else is stupid?
Raising a crop to make alcohol. The water, fuel,energy to cook it, and we Lose all those acres that could be used for food crops.
More lefty genius.

You ever take the time to look at the mining operations where they get the stuff for the magnets they use? You have any idea how much oil they use?

Right now, the average wind farm contains about 150 turbines. Each wind turbine needs 80 gallons of oil as a lubricant, and we’re not talking about vegetable oil, this is a PAO synthetic oil based on crude. 12,000 gallons of it for 150 turbines, and that oil needs to be replaced once a year.
Windmill Facts - Hunt For Liberty
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It's Not worth it. The efforts to develop these monstrosities ,if they had spent that time and money on developing better scrubbers for the coal plant, well, yeehaa.

I think an honest analysis of the requirements in energy, natural resources that require moving tons of dirt to get enough ore to make the batteries, and you wanna talk about how Oil is gonna run out? How many years of the rare earth minerals are there? And, if you look at the mining operations it takes, it's Not like coal. The huge open pit mining operations for those precious green batteries? Really? It's like every other lefty answer. Disaster .
Everything operating under lefty control sux. You can find an outlier, occasionally, I guess. I'm sure you can name a Blue city that is still liveable.
And the Same People who scream at employers, demanding they pay a living wage
Support that SpongeBrainShitPants while he sends BILLIONS to the Ukrainians
Aaand tells Our Military to get on food stamps.

Of Course I respect the left. Why would I not?
Hell, I was really impressed when Obama, king of the immigrants and supporter of safe places for immigrants opened his estate to them.
Ohh,wait, that didn't happen.

Would have Sworn I said
Nothing is perfect..
I'm pretty sure I was pretty hard on several things.

You don't Want to defend them, I don't blame you. Like Biden telling our military to get on food stamps. Hard to defend that. Seeing as how he's The Head of the
Pay People a Living Wage bunch.

 To be fair "Biden" never said to use SNAP (food stamps) to combat inflation, Michael Grinston did.

 As for the windmills JoG is correct when you look at the output a wind turbine has in it's useable lifetime compared to other more traditional energies.  I currently am trying to figure out the best way to dismantle and dispose of a section of solar paneling on my property.  The interior of the panels are toxic and should not be in a standard landfill.  

 I got a lot less power in their lifetime that I would have using energy on the grid.  But on the other end, I prefer to use solar to generate backup power, then primary power.

Great idea! If windmills are so good,run windmill manufacturers off of them.

I can't find it again,... but I saw a new system of wind collection that uses flat panels with rows of turbines to collect wind, said to be more efficient.
Point is, it's an evolving technology.
We'll get past the problems.

justin_o_guy2 wrote on 09/18/22 at 10:59:26:


Why don't they use it for the wall?  

Sometimes I'm impressed by my own ideas....

Here, this guy said it perfectly.

The right path forward would increase oil and natural gas production in the short and medium terms, and increase nuclear production in the medium to long terms. The U.S. government is, by extending and expanding heavy subsidies for renewables, expanding control over energy markets, but without a clear vision for the role of oil, gas, and nuclear.

We should seek a significant expansion of natural gas and oil production, pipelines, and refineries to provide greater energy security for ourselves, and to produce in sufficient quantities for our allies. We should seek a significant expansion of nuclear power to increase energy abundance and security, produce hydrogen, and one day phase out the use of all fossil fuels. While the latter shouldn’t be our main focus, particularly now, radical decarbonization can and should be a medium- to long-term objective within the context of creating abundant, secure, and low-cost energy supplies to power our remarkable nation and civilization.