Rinaldi wrote:
Facts about renewable energy, even when there is more than abundant oil available, will confuse and mystify the low intellects who can only see what the maga pundits and politicians want them too.
Perhaps the 'rightwing' leaders in this country should take a fact finding tour to Norway, instead of a trump golf resort.
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2023/01/06/norway-npd-wind-shallow-water/9681673027129/
So called renewable energies often use more fossile fuels than would be used when using the fossile fuels directly for energy utilizing tens of thousands of gallons of oil per year. Wind turbines for unstance use 80 gallons of oil a year for each turbine. Wind farms have hundreds of turbines. Now add what was used in manufacturing them, replacing each every 7 years, and the damage they do to the environment. The damage includes leaking oil, k*****g California Condors and other birds, disposal of inoperable windmills, and the damage from installing them and replacing them. Offshore windmills are especially damaging. Just installing them destroys great swaths of sealife environment, silts up the water for many square miles which k**l marine life, and then leaks oil into the sea dong perpetual ongoing harm. Their manufacture creates large amounts of dangerous toxic wastes. Then their is their lack of efficiency. a wind turbine will never be able to be more than 59.3% efficient according Betz’s Law. Betz’s law states that the wind which passes through the blades of a wind turbine can never be captured to more than a 59.3% efficiency because of the physical laws of moving parcels of air. And they are easily damaged in storms and susceptable to stoppage in freezing weather.
The use of wind farms and electric cars are both far more harmful to the environment than the use of fossile fuels. It takes more than twice as much energy to manufacture and electric car than a gasoline powered car, the mining of rare earths ands lithium is extremely toxic to the environment, generating the electricity to power them comes mostly from burning coal or oil, and disposal is another threat to the environment. Solar panel manufacturing is also harmful and uses both coal, oil, and rare earths in the process. But far less than in the manufacturing of wind turbines and EVs.
Another renewable energy source which deserves a deeper look is biomass energy. Can anyone who is in favor of replacing f****l f**ls with alternatives explain how burning biomass is more environmentally friendly? Why is logging for building materials bad, even when done without clear cutting, but clear cutting forests for biomass okay?
https://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/renewable/wind/big-winds-dirty-little-secret-rare-earth-minerals/#:~:text=Manufacturing%20wind%20turbines%20is%20a%20resource-intensive%20process.%20A,of%20the%20world%E2%80%99s%20supply%20of%20rare%20earth%20minerals.
https://honuaolabioenergy.com/environmental-impact-of-solar-panel-manufacturing/#:~:text=Environmental%20Impact%20of%20Solar%20Panel%20Manufacturing%201%20Solar,4%20Habitat%20Loss%20%26%20Concerns%20in%20Hawaii%20
https://visionlaunch.com/biomass-environmental-impact/#:~:text=Biomass%20Environmental%20Impact%201%201.%20Harvesting%20biomass%20materials,5%205.%20Emissions%20from%20biomass%20are%20significant.%20
By the way, there are many pollutants released in the use of "green" energy. But the oft touted pollutant in the use of f****l f**ls is NOT a pollutant. I am referring to CO2. It is both natural and required by plant life. Compared to most of Earth's history, we are in a CO2 drought.