“Each GE Haliade-X 13 MW turbine has a 220-meter (722-foot) rotor, 107-meter (351-foot) blades, and is 248 meters (814 feet) tall – roughly 2.7 times taller than the Statue of Liberty.”
And, Each Vineyard Wind WTG houses 4,887 gals of oil. pic.twitter.com/XpbYvaMex0— Barbara Durkin (@Barbarajdurkin) May 7, 2025
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March 5, 2024
Juice: Why Wind and Solar Make Our Power Grid Less Reliable: Excerpt: “Just to produce one turbine, we have to extract 900 tons of steel, 2,500 tons of concrete, and 45 tons of non-renewable plastic. Then we’ve got to transport that and burn fuel, getting it all carried across the world and put up. And none of these things that go into a turbine are renewable.”
By Ronald Stein P.E. & Dr. Cleveland M. Jones: Today, a typical EV battery for a Tesla sedan weighs 1,000 pounds and includes these minerals and metals:
- 26 pounds of lithium
- 10 pounds of cobalt
- 110 pounds of nickel
- 9 pounds of manganese
- 55 pounds of copper
- 44 pounds of aluminum
- 154 pounds of graphite
- Plus, steel, plastic, and other metals for the battery casing.
… To manufacture each EV auto battery, you must process 25,000 pounds of brine for lithium, 30,000 pounds of ore for cobalt, 6,000 pounds of ore for nickel, and 25,000 pounds of ore for copper. All told, just one Tesla EV battery requires the processing of more than 500,000 pounds of materials somewhere on the planet.