US, India, Russia, Japan are building out wind power much too slowly for climate change, report says
US, India, Russia, Japan are building out wind power much too slowly for climate change, report says
The world is falling well short of a promise signed at global climate talks last year to triple the amount of wind power, according to research by an energy think tank released Thursday.
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I talked with a mechanic for the ultra big wind turbines once. He said they use tons of oil and are constantly leaking.
Tons of oil compared to what
The whole thing has oil lines running through it. So think of how massive these turbines are and imagine how much oil that can hold
If you burn that oil instead you would run out in about 10 hours assuming you were going for the same energy output. A lot oi oil is in them for sure, but compared to a oil burned for power it is nothing.
Why are you "imagining" you know the answer to this question lmao
I talked with a a mechanic once who said that the tiny amount leaked is minuscule compared to emissions from non-renewables.
That sounds positive to me. However, we cannot tout these as being such a great source of clean energy, especially one to aid in the challenges of eliminating fossil fuels when they use plenty of those.
Oh but we can, these overall are great sources of clean energy.
What's your alternative?
You're assuming "oil" and "crude oil" are the same thing.
Even if they were using crude in one of these it would be a considerable carbon cost saving over the lifetime.