The biggest stuff being manufactured today does increase the use of fossil fuels.
How much do wind turbines weigh?
In the GE 1.5-megawatt model, the nacelle alone weighs more than 56 tons, the blade assembly weighs more than 36 tons, and the tower itself weighs about 71 tons — a total weight of 164 tons. The corresponding weights for the Vestas V90 are 75, 40, and 152, total 267 tons; and for the Gamesa G87 72, 42, and 220, total 334 tons.
FAQ: Industrial Wind Turbine Sizes
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o A very large wind turbine weighs
334 tons
o An aircraft carrier weighs
over 100,000 tons (or 220,462,280 pounds!). The airplanes they land there typically weigh 32,080 pounds each. The 6,000 people on an aircraft carrier weigh a total of about 900,000 pounds.
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Did you catch that third sentence. The people onboard an aircraft carrier weigh more than a big-ass wind turbine.
o These shipping economies have produced the largest ships in the world, appropriately named supertankers and have two classes—very large crude carriers (VLCC) of a size range from
160,000 to 320,000 dead weight tons (dwt) and ultra large crude carriers (ULCC) of a size range from
320,000 to 550,000 dwt.
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o So: How much do buildings weigh? A typical house might weigh 70 tons and stand 25 feet high. The Empire State Building is 50 times higher so it should weigh 50 times as much -- around 3500 tons, right? Wrong.
It weighs 350,000 tons!
Today, we reinvent foundations. The University of Houston's College of Engineering presents this series about the machines that make our civilization run, and the people whose ingenuity created them. So: How much do buildings weigh? A typical house might weigh 70 tons and stand 25 feet high. The...
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o Weight of the Golden Gate Bridge, excluding anchorages and approaches, and including the suspended structure, main towers, piers and fenders, bottom lateral system and orthotropic redecking (1986) is
419,800 tons (380,800,000 kg *).
o In 2022,
85.4 million motor vehicles were produced around the world, an increase of 5.7% compared to 2021. In this infographic you will find the number of motor vehicles produced in 2021 and 2022, per world region.
According to EPA's (Environmental Protection Agency) data, the average weight of an automobile in 2022 was around
4,094 pounds, which is only a slight increase compared to 2018's 4,000 pounds.
85,400,000 x 4,094 = 349,627,600,000 lbs or
174,813,800 tons
In 2022, 85.4 million motor vehicles were produced around the world, an increase of 5.7% compared to 2021. In this infographic you will find the number of motor vehicles produced in 2021 and 2022, per world region.
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How could you possibly have made that ridiculous claim; that wind turbines and solar farms are the biggest things being built on the planet, as many times as you've made it,
WITHOUT CHECKING???
Takes a hard headed moron not to admit that.
Thesis? Building big and more consumes more than building small.
Common sense
That's not how I'd characterize it, you fucking hard headed moron.