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  1. Producing lesss than a tenth of the waste of coal power plants is a scam?
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  2.  @Kang_Chakka  That does not answer the question. If you are happy with more waste and toxins in the enviroment, it is obvious who is getting scammed here.
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  3. ​ @Kang_Chakka So you think that windtubines produce the same amount of toxic ash as coal power plants. That is interesting.
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  4.  @Kang_Chakka  It helps to be informed. But feel free to live without doctors, medcine, plastics or machines.
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  5. ​ @Kang_Chakka Then listen to noone and do not use anthing that comes from somebody else and leave the world to the people who know how to inform themselves. 👍
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  6.  @Kang_Chakka  I wonder how you are typing now, if you are not dependent on others...
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  7. Solar mirrors are dangerous. They can be weaponized and can be problematic for local climate.
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  8.  @vassiliairton  One does does not do the work for one panel. One will direct the sun to a whole area, which will then heat up.
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  9. I doubt they would ignore it. They would probably tell you that these countries need better enviromental protection laws, since other countries do not have thar problem.
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  10. ​ @TheScience69  That does not happen there either...
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  11. ​ @TheScience69 But I am not talking about China... Once again, that is an issue of lacking enviromental protection laws. Look at Denmark, Finland, Germany and Austria. The European windturbine industry is actually demanding a bann on landfill disposal.
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  12.  @TheScience69  No. I meant the countries that recycle and service their blades, that they can last 20+ years.
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  13. ​ @TheScience69 But they do, inform yourself. 20+ years is ok. One has to remember that they produce electricity without burning fuel. Some designs are supposed to last 30 years.
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  14.  @TheScience69  That is not pretending. Other countries show how it is done. In the US one is inentivized with tax deductions to use wind turbines for only 10 years. It is more profitable to leave them be after that until they stop working and invest in new ones. That is not the problem of the wind turbines, but the US who cares more about money than the enviroment.
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  15. ​ @TheScience69 Wind turbines are not the entire infrastructure. Look at the age of cars and how many are built each year. Some people get new cars every 2 to 4 years. And as I wrote, the aim is for 25 years, that is what current designs are built for. A few models are alfeady designed for 30 years. Btw. gasturbines last around 20 years, 30 years with good maintenance.
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  16.  @TheScience69  You were talking about replacing infrastructure and I showed you how often stuff gets replaced without us having a problem with it. I was obviously talking about gas turbines for electricity production, not the ones for planes...
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  17. ​ @TheScience69  What are you even talking about? Running out of arguments already and trying to play the insane-card?
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  18. ​ @TheScience69 What is there to reply to? You wrote rubbish.
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  19. ​​ @TheScience69 So "do not shit your pants..." was your argument and you expected a different response than what I wrote. As I said, looks like you want to play the insane-card... 😂
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  20.  @TheScience69  I gave you an answer to that one too, but looks like you edited your post.
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  21.  @TheScience69  Then I suggest to get your eyes checked. I can still see my answer.
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  22. ​ @TheScience69 It is hardly my problem when you cannot see it. The question is why did you post, if you cannot see my answer? Do you feel so entitled to an answer, that you have to resort to insults after three hours?
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  23. Their edges dull from all the wind, dirt, rain and hail. The material loses structural strength over time, caused by the constant mechanical stress of the shifting winds.
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  24.  @siggyretburns7523  In a way, yes. They have a special coating, but the blades are supposed to run for 20+ years.
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  25. 80 to 90% of the windturbine can be recycled and they kill less than 1/100th of the birds that glass windows kill.
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  26. Coal power plants produce tentimes the waste of windturbines for every kwh produced just in ash.
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  27. The fibers include material that is not fiberglass. I doubt that is good for the quality of the cement.
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  28. Because many countries do not require recycling. That is a problem of the enviromental laws of these countries and not the windturbines.
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  29.  @Besitzt11  Considering the amount of load cycles, the blades lifetime of 20 (25) years is quite impressive. I know of only one company that offers blades with 30 year lifetime. The problem is that many countries do not have incentives to use the turbines for longer. In the US the most profitable time are the first ten years. In many european countries it is 20 years.
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  30.  @Besitzt11  I know of no design that is better. Would be nice to see a better design. The maintenance is the problem of the owner. There are many well maintained wind turbines that run longer than 20 years.
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  31. The old ones produce around tentimes the energy invested and the new ones up to fiftytimes. Fossil powered plants manage only 25 to 30 times.
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  32.  @portnuefflyer  Glad we found something that makes you happy.
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  33.  @portnuefflyer  And what works on small scale works even better on large scale. The higher the wind turbine, the faster and more stable are the winds.
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  34. It is warming...
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  35. ​ @eatMY455 The climate cycles do not last couple hunded years, but a few TENTHOUSAND to HUNDREDTHOUSAND years. There are called Milankovitch cycles and are known for a hundred years. According to them, it should get slowly colder, around 0.1 degree per 1000 years. The effect of CO2 was discoverec over 150 years ago, that is a bit BEFORE Al Gore. The oil industry knew about it since the late 50s and their studies predicted our temperatures quite accurately.
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  36.  @eatMY455  You are looking at the wrong maps. The only way to connect Antarctika to Southh America would be a massive Ice Age. That does not match with the Grapes... And thx to us cutting all the tres down, nature cannot absorb all the Co2. That is why the concentration is growing.
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  37.  @eatMY455  The map has multiple, proven inacuracies. And no, there was no ice age 500 years ago. I think we would have noticed... But funny that you believe such stuff.
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  38. The blades become cement, which in turn can be used for concrete. A couple tenthousand tons are receycled each year.
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  39.  @Rean-the-Bean  They are not explaining it correctly.
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  40. Not really...
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  41. You are right, they are net negative. They produce more than 25times the energy that is needed for their production, construction, service, demoltion and recycling.
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  42. Solar farms do not leak...
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  43. ​ @Diponty That is a different issue and mostly caused by lack of enviromental protection laws in these countries. And do not think that beheadd mountains, giant pits, pumps that run forever and changing climate zones are the better alternatives.
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  44. No. Nobody plans to remove all CO2 from the atmosphere. People would be content if we could stop the increase.
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  45. Much greater. 10 to 50times as much. Depending on power and location.
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  46. Wind and solar power can already be cheaper than fossil power plants and can be recycled, contrary to ash from coal power plants. In combination with hydro and biogas they can provide the year long coverage.
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  47. But it is. It can be used for concrete.
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  48. They can be financed without government money.
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  49. Glass fibres do not get burned. They become part of the cement... Thx to the development of recyclable blades, Vesta seems to have found a way to recycle all blades and divide them into their components.
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  50.  @Momoka7  Yes, they burn the blades, but the glass fibres remain and become part of the cement.
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