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Compared with conventional technologies, wind power requires vastly more raw materials for the same installed capacity. Up to 15 times more concrete. 90 times more aluminum. And around 50 times more iron, copper and glass. Each 2 MW turbine uses about 1700 tons of material: Around 1300 tons of... concrete. Nearly 300 tons of steel. Plus iron, fiberglass and copper. The foundation alone uses hundreds of tons of concrete. Concrete is one of the world's largest CO2 sources, responsible for 8% of global emissions. Then there are the rare earths. Just one ton of rare earth elements generates 2000 tons of toxic waste. Worse still, all of this ends up in landfill every 15 to 20 years, with the entire process then repeated. Wind is not the clean energy it is sold to be.show more

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It would take 3.7 trillion pounds of materials to generate half of U.S. electricity with 1,095,000 2 MW wind turbines. Each turbine requires 1,671 tons of material: 1,300 tons concrete, 295 tons steel, 48 tons iron, 24 tons fiberglass, 4 tons copper, 0.4 tons neodymium, and 0.065 tons dysprosium, replaced every 15-20 years. Mining and ore processing, is the second most polluting industry in the world, releasing acid rain and heavy metals into land, water, and air. Extracting and processing dispersed minerals consumes significant fossil fuel energy. Billions more tons of materials are needed for transmission, power plants, and utility-scale batteries, also replaced every 15-20 years. The green energy dream remains just that—a dream.

It would take 3.7 trillion pounds of materials to generate half of U.S. electricity with 1,095,000 2 MW wind turbines. Each turbine requires 1,671 tons of material: 1,300 tons concrete, 295 tons steel, 48 tons iron, 24 tons fiberglass, 4 tons copper, 0.4 tons neodymium, and 0.065 tons dysprosium, replaced every 15-20 years. Mining and ore processing, is the second most polluting industry in the world, releasing acid rain and heavy metals into land, water, and air. Extracting and processing dispersed minerals consumes significant fossil fuel energy. Billions more tons of materials are needed for transmission, power plants, and utility-scale batteries, also replaced every 15-20 years. The green energy dream remains just that—a dream.

John Lee Pettimore

91,258 views • 9 months ago

WIND TURBINES - Use more raw materials than existing energy sources. For the equivalent installed capacity they require ▪️More land ▪️destruction of local habitats ▪️15 X more concrete ▪️90 X more aluminium ▪️50 X more iron, copper and glass ▪️180 tons of steel

WIND TURBINES - Use more raw materials than existing energy sources. For the equivalent installed capacity they require ▪️More land ▪️destruction of local habitats ▪️15 X more concrete ▪️90 X more aluminium ▪️50 X more iron, copper and glass ▪️180 tons of steel

Bernie

107,452 views • 2 years ago

Wind turbine construction: The base of a wind turbine, or foundation, can weigh between 600 and 1,000 tons. Wind turbine blades are built with balsa wood which is obtained by deforestation of the Amazon rainforest. Wind turbines contain concrete, carbon fiber, steel, cast iron, copper, aluminum, boron, chromium, cobalt, manganese, molybdenum, nickel, and rare earth elements. They have an operational lifespan of up to 25 years. It is estimated that globally, around 43 million tons of wind turbine blade waste could pile up by 2050. The diametric opposite of environmentally sustainable.

Wind turbine construction: The base of a wind turbine, or foundation, can weigh between 600 and 1,000 tons. Wind turbine blades are built with balsa wood which is obtained by deforestation of the Amazon rainforest. Wind turbines contain concrete, carbon fiber, steel, cast iron, copper, aluminum, boron, chromium, cobalt, manganese, molybdenum, nickel, and rare earth elements. They have an operational lifespan of up to 25 years. It is estimated that globally, around 43 million tons of wind turbine blade waste could pile up by 2050. The diametric opposite of environmentally sustainable.

James Melville 🚜

158,955 views • 1 year ago

Securing just one ton of rare earth elements produces 2,000 tons of toxic waste. A wind turbine uses about a ton of these four rare earth elements. Neodymium, Praseodymium, Dysprosium and Terbium. There is nothing "green" about #GreenEnergy

Securing just one ton of rare earth elements produces 2,000 tons of toxic waste. A wind turbine uses about a ton of these four rare earth elements. Neodymium, Praseodymium, Dysprosium and Terbium. There is nothing "green" about #GreenEnergy

John Lee Pettimore

86,318 views • 2 years ago

Building one gigawatt of solar capacity is not 'clean'. It requires around 18.5 tons of silver, 3,400 tons of polysilicon, and more than 10,000 tons of aluminium. Producing the polysilicon alone consumes thousands of tons of quartz, coal, petroleum, coke, charcoal and wood chips. Refining the silver for one gigawatt uses roughly 4,600 megawatt hours of electricity, the annual power use of 400 US homes. Producing the aluminum consumes nearly 2 million gigajoules of energy, enough to power more than 100,000 households for a year. Solar power is built with massive fossil energy inputs. Only the output is labelled 'green'. These are the realities campaigners never want to talk about.

Building one gigawatt of solar capacity is not 'clean'. It requires around 18.5 tons of silver, 3,400 tons of polysilicon, and more than 10,000 tons of aluminium. Producing the polysilicon alone consumes thousands of tons of quartz, coal, petroleum, coke, charcoal and wood chips. Refining the silver for one gigawatt uses roughly 4,600 megawatt hours of electricity, the annual power use of 400 US homes. Producing the aluminum consumes nearly 2 million gigajoules of energy, enough to power more than 100,000 households for a year. Solar power is built with massive fossil energy inputs. Only the output is labelled 'green'. These are the realities campaigners never want to talk about.

Electroverse

86,915 views • 5 months ago

Trillions of dollars are being poured into wind and solar. But these technologies are far from green. Each turbine requires hundreds of tons of steel, concrete, and rare earths. Each solar panel relies on energy-intensive mining and toxic chemical processing. Scaling this up to replace fossil fuels would mean billions of tons of new mining, scarred landscapes, and enormous fossil energy inputs just to manufacture the equipment. At the current pace, even with the trillions invested, the world wouldn't hit 100% renewables until the year 2392. In reality, the 'renewable revolution' is astronomically expensive, painfully slow, and environmentally destructive.

Trillions of dollars are being poured into wind and solar. But these technologies are far from green. Each turbine requires hundreds of tons of steel, concrete, and rare earths. Each solar panel relies on energy-intensive mining and toxic chemical processing. Scaling this up to replace fossil fuels would mean billions of tons of new mining, scarred landscapes, and enormous fossil energy inputs just to manufacture the equipment. At the current pace, even with the trillions invested, the world wouldn't hit 100% renewables until the year 2392. In reality, the 'renewable revolution' is astronomically expensive, painfully slow, and environmentally destructive.

Electroverse

33,161 views • 4 months ago

WIND TURBINES - The truth isn’t clean or green. This was once to be a beautiful lake, now it’s just hundreds of km of toxic sludge … after mining rare earth Neodymium. A 2 MW wind turbine is made up of: ▪️260 tons of steel requiring ▪️300 tons of iron ore ▪️170 tons of coking coal ▪️ rare earths including Praseodymium (Pr), Neodymium (Nd), Terbium (Tb), and Dysprosium (Dy) ▪️fibre glass ▪️resin ▪️plastic ▪️aluminium …. all mined & produced using hydrocarbons. And all leaving a trail of destruction as they are mined, extracted and manufactured. So we can pretend we’ve saved the planet 🤡

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Bernie

143,279 views • 1 year ago

NET ZERO - The world must increase mining by up to 2000% … to save the planet 🤡 ▪️4,575,523,674 tons of copper ▪️940,578,114 tons of Nickel ▪️8,973,640,257 tons of Graphite ▪️4,163,162 tons of Germanium ▪️1,300,000 tons of lithium ▪️plus 3 BILLION tons of rare earth Needs to be mined in just 10 years. At current this capacity it would take 1000 years and DESTROY the environments the globalists are pretending to care about. They are lying to you 🔥

NET ZERO - The world must increase mining by up to 2000% … to save the planet 🤡 ▪️4,575,523,674 tons of copper ▪️940,578,114 tons of Nickel ▪️8,973,640,257 tons of Graphite ▪️4,163,162 tons of Germanium ▪️1,300,000 tons of lithium ▪️plus 3 BILLION tons of rare earth Needs to be mined in just 10 years. At current this capacity it would take 1000 years and DESTROY the environments the globalists are pretending to care about. They are lying to you 🔥

Bernie

16,931 views • 2 years ago

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Dan Davis

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Hey Grok please can you explain why there is no visible plane in the frames leading up to the collision? Then explain how the nose of the plane goes from one side of the tower to the other, cutting through thousands of tons of steel and reinforced concrete, like a knife through butter?

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Concerned Citizen

205,759 views • 4 months ago

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Mario Nawfal

125,942 views • 1 year ago

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Camus

275,163 views • 10 months ago

GREEN POWER - Welcome to Baotou, in Mongolia. This used to be a lake, now it’s just Kilometres of millions of tons of filthy sludge, made up of toxic chemicals & radioactive waste! This is where they mine Neodymium! The main component in Wind turbines, for ‘clean’ energy 🤡

GREEN POWER - Welcome to Baotou, in Mongolia. This used to be a lake, now it’s just Kilometres of millions of tons of filthy sludge, made up of toxic chemicals & radioactive waste! This is where they mine Neodymium! The main component in Wind turbines, for ‘clean’ energy 🤡

Bernie

67,568 views • 2 years ago

We opened the largest steel plant to date today. This mega project, with an investment of more than $300 million and a capacity of 700K tons, will create hundreds of jobs for Kurdistanis and help meet regional demand.

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Masrour Barzani

43,545 views • 2 years ago

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Electroverse

43,598 views • 1 month ago

Privately hired construction companies in the Pacific Palisades are finding tons of concrete buried and hidden on properties certified to be cleared of foundations and footings by the Army Corps of Engineers

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Kevin Dalton

371,644 views • 1 year ago

This was a lake, but now its just kilometers of millions of tons of bubbling sludge, made up of toxic chemicals & radioactive waste! This is where they mine Neodymium! The main component in Wind turbines, for ‘clean’ energy!

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Camus

322,435 views • 11 months ago