Renewable energy... The ELEPHANT noone wants to talk about!
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Windmills also create a huge amount of pollution to produce. The specialty materials used in the production and their install (special steel, special aluminum, special rubbers, special wiring, ridiculously thick concrete, special machinery to transport, special machinery to lift and install, special machinery to maintain) take MASSIVELY more coal and oil than the equal amount of electricity they produce in terms of a coal factory, and not from a drawback of the technology but from a drawback of PHYSICS. The absolutes of the windmill system, assuming 100% efficiency, still fall worlds short of a simple coal factory by current standards.
not to mention the disposal of the windmill, which essentially creates a huge uninhabitable bio-hazard area, and isn't recyclable
I actually got to tour the inside of a coal fired boiler in college, it was amazing. It obviously was shut down for maintenance and scaffolding was installed inside. I forget the megawattage but it was a full sized power plant with 3 boilers, not a tiny supplemental boiler. Got to see their other boiler in action as well, and see the coal powder injecting live.