Comte de Sats Germain on Nostr: It wasn't. I don't need the specifics of this particular wind farm to know - none of ...
It wasn't. I don't need the specifics of this particular wind farm to know - none of them are even returning more energy than it took to build them. I investigated this years ago. 15 year lifespan is standard, and if you look at their documentation, there's a figure called "energy factor" - it means it will return more energy tgab it cost to build if the factor is greater than one. They're barely greater than one in the utopian documents from before they were built. Then we found out that the wind doesn't blow as often as anticipated. Aaaand that energy factor doesn't account for the cost of maintenance and disposal. Nope. Not worth it, and none of them ever have been.
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