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Surely those stats depend on the prevalence or absence of wind turbines. So if we had as many turbines as buildings they may well be a greater cause of bird dea
by paulryanrogers 4y ago
Surely those stats depend on the prevalence or absence of wind turbines. So if we had as many turbines as buildings they may well be a greater cause of bird deaths.
- pakitan 4y agoWind power is responsible for something like 5% of generated electricity in the world. If we scale it 1000x, to reach the cat level, we'll have enough electricity to power 50 Earths :)
- deleted 4y ago[deleted]
- Someone 4y agoMore like 20 earths. “5% of generated electricity” isn’t “5% of energy use”, by a decent margin. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_power https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_power: “In 2021, wind supplied over 1800 TWh of electricity, which was over 6% of world electricity and about 2% of world energy”
- kitkat_new 4y agoyou neglect inefficiencies of converting primary energy sources to actually used energy
- stephen_g 4y agoYes. In most applications, literally 45-70% of the fossil fuel is burned just to generate waste heat. This is a huge advantage for renewables, where it doesn't matter that you're not capturing all the energy in the wind going past, because it's not being consumed or generating waste.