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Replying to Avatar ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ

Lol. Just go read the tech specs of a solar cell. Average lifespan times average power output. Other read about how much energy it takes to grow pv voltaic crystals.

I don't think any person with competence in physics would disagree that if you don't get more energy than it costs to make the device, it's just a jumped up, unreliable and light battery.

The energy required to forge the enormous steel and fibreglass blades of wind generators, and the magnets and tower, are also very energy intensive, and the blades, being mostly polyester and glass fiber, cannot be recycled. Plastic and aluminium both take huge amounts of energy to produce, or in the case of plastic, it's made from. Dun dun dun... Oil.

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Daniel Wigton 4mo ago

But it is untrue that you don't get more out than you put in. For solar anyway. I don't follow the wind industry as closely as I follow solar because I find it uninteresting in the long run.

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