Wind Turbine in Texas Causes--You Guessed It--Global Warming

My question is: how much concrete does it take to pour the foundation one of those things? Concrete is hauled in by diesel trucks. I wonder how long it takes for a wind turbine to break even on emissions?

 

It isn't like other forms of power plants don't use concrete or have carbon costs to their construction or extraction and transportation of fuel. Break-even compared to what?

 

Beaver just needs a cleaver

 

or a well set trap

 

cow burps are worse problem. methane is longer term and bigger problem that is not discussed nearly enough. custom food and even genetic engineering is working on it though. Dairies, etc need much tighter controls on methane production from settling ponds used to treat cow manure

Numbers below are reflective of accepted data.

12 - 15% of total global warmign from livestock production'

40 - 50% of global methane emissions from livestock production

it can't cost that much to add just a small amount of seaweed to feed

attack methane as it is lowest hanging fruit, tighten up wellfield methane leaks and livestock production and cut total greenhouse emissions by 20% +/-

Cow burps are a major contributor to climate change — can scientists change that? | PBS News Weekend

Livestock production—primarily cows—produce 14.5 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. The majority of that is in the form of methane, a potent greenhouse gas that is a natural byproduct of how some livestock process food. But as Christopher Booker reports, scientists are hoping that small tweaks in what cows eat can dramatically reduce a big source of climate emissions.
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Globally, cows and other livestock animals are responsible for about 40 percent of methane emissions – a potent greenhouse gas. In digesting their high fiber diet, cows emit methane as a byproduct, making them one of the least climate friendly sources of food on the planet.
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Kebreab's research has shown that it doesn't take a lot to dramatically alter the amount of methane burped out. In a study that was published last year, his lab found that adding just 3 ounces of seaweed each day reduced methane emissions by 82 percent.

 

Beano (dietary supplement) - Wikipedia

 

Don't forget cow farts. BRB, have to tend to that tire fire outside.....

 

burps produce the overwhelming majority of methane, jsut not as much humor

 

Break even on clean energy vs. the dirty energy it took to create it. It wasn’t a criticism of wind, or any other clean energy form, I was just wondering.

 

Listening to Henry Grabar. Great metaphor on the inadequacy of our infrastructure built for a different time of rain and flooding, and wholly inadequate for what we have coming up now on a regular basis.

He said that you don't put airbags in the car to protect the driver from getting hit by a train. Said that our existing flood water infrastructure is roughly equivalent to that inadequacy, with a train coming

 

Listening to this interview further, I am already imagining the next war on science, which may be bipartisan. Apparently the Biden administration has directed that the FEMA 100-year flood pain maps be updated. Everyone knows they're wrong. They are based upon historical patterns which no longer can be dependent upon, with rainfall added to coastal flooding and River flooding.

But cities, starting with New York City, are already starting to resist. The updated maps will require mandatory flood insurance for federally insured mortgages in far more neighborhoods, and may also violate certain development standards. So it looks like there will be a battle to maintain the fiction that we're not going to flood in neighborhoods where we clearly are.

 

In NZ

 

On the other hand.
Want to save the whales? Build wind turbines | Editorial

There is zero evidence that any pre-construction activity on offshore wind turbines has caused harm to the humpbacks that migrate to our coastline. Such suspicion began as earnest concern for these magnificent creatures, but it has since been hijacked by political demagogues who oppose wind energy and want to shut down construction.

And here’s what we’ve known for decades: Climate change has had devastating impact on ocean waters, altering the ecosystem and ultimately causing changes in the behavior of whales – all because we have converted this planet into a cosmic hothouse. And since they feed, play, mate, nurse, and socialize near our coastline, whales are also at great risk from ship strikes.​

 

The carbon cost through the entire manufacturing and operational supply chain of each energy alternatives would blow people’s minds.

“Good news: amortizing the carbon cost over the decades-long lifespan of the equipment, Bernstein determined that wind power has a carbon footprint 99% less than coal-fired power plants, 98% less than natural gas, and a surprise 75% less than solar.

More specifically, they figure that wind turbines average just 11 grams of CO2 emission per kilowatthour of electricity generated. That compares with 44 g/kwh for solar, 450 g for natural gas, and a whopping 1,000 g for coal.”


https://www.forbes.com/sites/christ...tallies-up-the-carbon-cost-of-renewables/amp/