50,000 tons of CO2 everyday forever is emitted manufacturing wind turbines. That CO2 can never be compensated for. It is released into the atmosphere, period.
Your own source (the blatantly biased and unreliable Stop These Things at
How Much CO2 Gets Emitted to Build a Wind Turbine?) calculated
241.85 tons of CO2 to manufacture a wind turbine of unspecified size. In 2022, the world added 78 GW of wind turbine capacity with an average of 3 MW/turbine. That indicates the construction of 26,000 wind turbines worldwide along with a total, unreliably estimated
6,288,100 tons or 12,576,200,000 pounds of CO2 emitted by their construction.
NOW, how much CO2 would be produced using fossil fuels to produce 78 GW for one year?
The EIA provides this handy table. You should probably print it out and tape it to the top of your monitor.
U.S. electricity net generation and resulting CO2 emissions by fuel in 2021
One year is 8,760 hours.
78 GW years x 8,760 hrs/yr is therefore 683,280 GWh
One GW is one million kW, so 683,280 GWh = 683,280,000,000 kWh.
Using that last column: pounds of CO2 produced per kWh for the three listed fuels
For coal: 683,280,000,000 kWh x 2.26 lb/kWh = 1,544,212,800,000 pounds of CO2 produced
For natural gas: 683,280,000,000 kWh x 0.97 lb/kWh = 662,781,600,000 pounds of CO2
For petroleum: 683,280,000,000 kWh x 2.44 lb/kWh = 1,667,203,200,000 pounds of CO2
Now let's divide those two yearly amounts and see what portion of a year's wind turbine output the construction CO2 represents
For coal: 12,576,200,000 pounds CO2 / 1,544,212,800,000 pounds CO2/yr = 0.00814 years or 2.97 days
For natural gas: 12,576,200,000 pounds CO2 / 662,781,600,000 pounds CO2/yr = 0.01897 years or 6.93 days
For petroleum: 12,576,200,000 pounds CO2 / 1,667,203,200,000 pounds CO2/yr = 0.00754 years or 2.75 days
Aside from STT's garbage numbers, I'll lowball wind turbine effectiveness and say it only produces electricity 25% of the time. Worst case, then, all the wind turbines built on Earth in 2022 make up for all the CO2 produced by their manufacture in
27.72 days.
You let me know when you're ready to give this up.
Crick wishes for us to accept the false premise that Wind Turbines pay for themselves and are a good investment in our future.
See above
Crick, wind turbines are subsidized because they do not produce enough electricity to pay for themselves. If wind turbines paid for themselves, then why do governments pay for them?
See above
Crick, the government has changed the rules and regulations governing utilities and what they pay and charge for electricity to create a government controlled market for wind turbines which nobody will buy or pay for if they have a choice.
Is the idea of evidence utterly foreign to you?
Wind Turbines do not produce electricity 24 hours a day, yet the claim is they replace electricity that is produced 24 hours a day by fossil fuels.
I took that into account, generously. See above.
Wind and Solar do not replace fossil fuels.
They
are replacing fossil fuels. Denying reality is not a viable option.
And, as I said, let me know when you're ready to give this up. You can do it by PM if you like.
DOES ANYONE HERE BESIDES POSTER ELEKTRA BELIEVE I HAVE FAILED TO DEMONSTRATE MY POINT?
