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Someone told me once that building and maintaining a wind turbine takes more (or same amount of) energy then produced by that same wind turbine in its lifetime.
by Gys 7y ago
Someone told me once that building and maintaining a wind turbine takes more (or same amount of) energy then produced by that same wind turbine in its lifetime. I failed to find research to back that up. Maybe anyone here knows more?
- lancewiggs 7y agoI’d look on the climate changer denier debunking websites. That’s the sort of trope that gets rolled out by the fossil fuel “think tanks” and denier troll farms. Example: https://www.desmogblog.com/institute-energy-research-admits-it-was-behind-anti-wind-study https://www.desmogblog.com/institute-energy-research-admits-...
- imtringued 7y agoIf that were true then you would expect countries with wind turbines to produce more CO2 emissions than countries that didn't.
- stallmanite 7y agoOnly if they’re being manufactured in the country where they’re used.
- jamez1 7y agoTaking the subsidies out and examining the profitability of all the companies on the supply chain tends to add up to a loss. Given there isn't much labor involved, energy costs are a good candidate for the lack of profitability. If the input energy costs more than the money the turbine makes, there's a good chance that the turbine doesn't make enough energy to produce itself.