I've heard the turbines aren't recyclable and end up getting buried in a landfill.
The embodied energy in wind and solar is quite high (and only make sense for decentralized setups, not on a larger utility scale)
⚡️🇺🇸 WATCH - Donald Trump: "These poor fools talk about global warming... It's going to global warm to a point where the oceans will rise 1/8 of an inch in 355 years... And in the meantime we're spending our wealth on this foolish stuff."
"The wind doesn't work. It's very expensive, kills the birds, destroys everything around it... It's the most expensive energy. And then every nine years, you have to replace the turbines."
Regardless of your views on Donald Trump, do you think he's right about this? #asknostr
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Nah not true a wind turning including tower is like more than 90% metal. The problem are the blades only because they are made of glass and especially carbon fiber reinforced plastics nobody wants carbon fiber in a recycling facility.
Embodied energy does not matter much. It is like capex and opex. Capex does not matter as long as the life time and opex are low enough. I any case from an energy perspective wind and solar win, just because there is no energy need for fuel and transporting fuel.
The actual problem is that wind and solar is often worthless. Aka electricity is produced when no buyer needs it. Especially with high shares of renewable it is impossible/hard to make money. Think glass of water in a desert analogy.
To compensate for that wind turbines are usually heavily subsidised. When the subsidies run out the maintenance and running cost is too high for it to make any kind of sense to operate them, and they're being scrapped after 9-10, 15 years depending on the funding scheme and laboratory cost and energy prices.
