Not All That Green

Is burying windmill blades that are used for green energy which have become worn out really effective?  Because these blades need to be disposed of and there is presently no way to recycle them.

That’s how green energy works! Who knew? Maybe the people that make them knew. Why, would they let the cat out of the bag? After all, they are government subsidized with taxpayer money. It’s all about the money. Also, politicians do not want those huge eyesores in their backyards.

Right now the average wind farm is about 150 turbines. Each wind turbine needs 80 gallons of oil as a lubricant, and we’re not talking about vegetable oil. This is PAO synthetic oil based on crude… 12,000 gallons of it. That oil needs to be replaced once a year. It is estimated that a little over 3,800 turbines would be needed to power a city the size of New York. That’s 304,000 gallons of refined oil just for one large city. Now you have to calculate every city across the nation, large and small, to find the grand total of yearly oil consumption from “clean energy.”

Where do you think all that oil is coming from? Well, thanks to President Biden, it now comes from our enemies in the Mideast. Not to mention the fact that the large equipment needed to build these wind farms run on petroleum, as well as the equipment required for installation, service, maintenance, and eventual removal.

 

And just how friendly is wind energy anyway? Each turbine requires a footprint of 1.5 acres. So, a wind farm of 150 turbines needs 225 acres. In order to power a city the size of New York you would need 57,000 acres, and who knows the astronomical amount of land needed to power the entire United States. All of which would have to be clear-cut land because trees create a barrier and turbulence that interferes with the 20 mph sustained wind velocity necessary for the turbine to operate properly. Also keep in mind that not all states are suitable for such sustained winds. And, cutting down all those trees is going to really anger a lot of people.

Now lets talk about disposal of inoperable wind turbines. The life span of a modern, top quality, highly efficient wind turbine is 20 years. After that, then what? What happens to those gigantic fiber composite blades? They cannot economically be reused, refurbished, reduced, repurposed, or recycled. Guess what? It’s off to the landfills they go.

And guess what else? They’re already running out of these special landfill spaces for these blades that have already exceeded their usefulness. Those blades are anywhere from 120 ft. to over 200 ft. long and there are three of these blades per turbine. And that is only with 7% of the nation currently being supplied with wind energy. Imagine if we had the other 93% of the nation on the wind grid. 20 years from now you’d have all those unusable blades with no place to dispose of them… then, 20 years after that, and 20 years after that, etc.

Hello, just how green is that? Isn’t it wonderful how wind energy people are looking out for the world?

And this isn’t even reflecting upon electric cars. The electric grid in this country can’t even handle the use of air conditioners during a heat wave and they’re going to be able to handle the daily charging of everyone’s electric car?

 And what happens to the inoperable used batteries that can’t be recycled or put into landfills because of the chemicals in the batteries? No one ever mentions that.

Ah, green energy is such a wonderful thing.