Her Majesty and I drove to Ohio yesterday from Iowa. There are certain pockets in the states of Herky Hawkeye, Illinios and Indiana where windmills dot the landscape aka farmland. I'm wagering many folks look at those things and say to themselves, "Thank the Lord for wind otherwise we'd die."
An observation from a Swedish engineer:
“The notion that a nation can run on sunshine and breezes is worse than delusional.
People might fall for the idea that we can merrily run on sunshine and breezes, alone, but with a few trillion dollars worth of mythical mega-batteries providing backup for a few minutes, when the sun sets and the wind stops blowing.
A two-megawatt w!ndmill is made up of 260 tons of steel that required 300 tons or iron ore and 170 tons of coking coal, all mined, transported and produced by hydrocarbons.
A w!ndmill could spin until it falls apart and never generate as much energy as was invested in building it.”
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