Concrete requires high heat to produce. It takes 2,775 MJ to manufacture one cubic meter of concrete, equivalent to the energy ~1/3 barrel of oil. Therefore, you need 200 barrels of oil (equivalence) just to manufacture the base of the turbine. That's just the base, and that's not factoring in the joules (ie, oil) you need to spend to build it. That also does not factor the CO2 that's emitted in the process of burning that oil for concrete production. How many joules do you need to spend to build these things, and how many joules do you get out of the turbine with its ~20 year lifespan?
Solar panels return joules spent within two years of operation. Do you even break even with these turbines?
Fun fact: Concrete is 8% of man-made CO2 emissions. Yet, leftists insist on building the one energy source that takes more concrete per capita than any other source of energy.
Concrete requires high heat to produce. It takes 2,775 MJ to manufacture one cubic meter of concrete, equivalent to the energy ~1/3 barrel of oil. Therefore, you need 200 barrels of oil (equivalence) just to manufacture the base of the turbine. That's just the base, and that's not factoring in the joules (ie, oil) you need to spend to build it. That also does not factor the CO2 that's emitted in the process of burning that oil for concrete production. How many joules do you need to spend to build these things, and how many joules do you get out of the turbine with its ~20 year lifespan?
Solar panels return joules spent within two years of operation. Do you even break even with these turbines?
Fun fact: Concrete is 8% of man-made CO2 emissions. Yet, leftists insist on building the one energy source that takes more concrete per capita than any other source of energy.