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NoOneMan

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3. I think you missed the point (or I am)

Reply to exboyfil (Reply #2)

Fri Nov 9, 2012, 03:50 PM

Nov 2012

If the egg is a turbine, oil is the chicken.

PRIOR to being able to process a single gram of steel with wind energy, we must first build wind turbines by consuming vast amounts of oil and steel.

It will take decades to mitigate the expenditure and reach carbon neutrality. I guess it might be "worth" it to you if you think we have decades to fidget around on the problem.

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Linking wind energy with production of steel [View all] exboyfil Nov 2012 OP

I read it took 300 tons of steel to stand up a 300-foot turbine tower. phantom power Nov 2012 #1

That would be a side benefit exboyfil Nov 2012 #2

I think you missed the point (or I am) NoOneMan Nov 2012 #3

My thinking was closer to yours, although... phantom power Nov 2012 #4

That definitely would free up some amount of energy NoOneMan Nov 2012 #6

Not wind by itself. You would need a stable grid. FBaggins Nov 2012 #5

Thats what the enormous oil-powered bellow is for NoOneMan Nov 2012 #7