From: Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com>
Newsgroups: alt.global-warming,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,can.politics,alt.politics.liberalism,alt.politics.democrats,alt.politics.usa.republican
Subject: Re: LOL... Can't Refute, so just snip it out!
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2025 15:56:11 -0700
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
On 2025-09-05 15:32, AlleyCat wrote:
>
> On Fri, 5 Sep 2025 12:41:16 -0700, Alan says...
>
>>> How are rural WINDMILLS any different from rural oil wells and gas
>>> wells and cell towers and powerline towers? Funny conservatives
>>> don't complain about THOSE.
>>
>> Why would I care that other people also use the language poorly
>
> YOU WERE WRONG.
>
> "Windmill" is a perfectly accepted term for them.
>
> It's no one fault you're too much an ego-maniacal narcissist to admit it.
Putting back all the refutations you snippped.
> They each consume 10'000 liters (more than 2600 gallons) of crude
> oil based lubricants per year.
No. They don't.
(And I refuted this in detail in another post)
>
> When outdated, the wind turbines are being buried deep in forests,
> out of public view, due to the high costs associated with> recycling
them.
>
> A windmill could spin until it falls apart and it will NEVER, EVER
> generate as much energy as it was used in building it.
Sorry, but that's just false.
A 2 MW wind turbine generates generates 2 MWh of electricity every hour
the wind is blowing. It takes about 3,300 - 4,100 MWh of energy to build
one.
So 1,650 - 2,050 hours of wind will pay that off.
A year has 8,766 hours.
>
> Wind turbines Don't last forever. The metal towers can be recycled
> normally, but the blades, a mixture of fiberglass, wood, and
> plastic, cannot.
Also false.
> In the US, the cheapest option is to send fiberglass blades to
> landfills, which has caused some controversy. Just
> one blade is about as long as the wingspan of a large commercial jet
> like a Boeing 747. And that's just on land. Offshore turbine
> blades can be twice as long.
And you think they're impossible to cut into pieces?
> By 2050, there could be more than 40 million metric tons of blade
> waste piling up worldwide.
"Could be"? You seem to object to the word "could" when others use it.
But for the record, there are something between 380,000 and 500,000 wind
turbines in use worldwide. If the were all using the largest turbine
blades currently made (Mingyang Smart Energy MySE 18.X-20MW) at 54
metric tonnes...
...that would still only be 27 million metric tonnes.
>
> YOUR side says it too.
I have no "side", Loser.
My only "side" is what is factual; what is reality.
Now deal the fact that your claims were BULLSHIT.