- Joined
- May 2, 2019
- Messages
- 2,650
- Points
- 288
I consider wind to be used only in ultra marginal cases. Austria and Hungary have quite a few of them in the plains of Pannonia...I think Austria is moderately happy about them. As you say the thing is is that so much energy is needed to build and maintain one that I doubt it makes any real sense.Agreed on nuclear energy, Telmar. But wind turbines are S**t, and cause lots of damage to the environment. And I''m not talking about the poor little birdies sliced off by the rotating turbines either. One needs but to look at such pictures. The 1st one is the metal cage which will be filled with concrete to anchor the turbine : I guess you need to use quite a bit of fossil energy to melt and shape all this metal. The second one is the concrete base itself : the - fossil-energy powered! - crane gives the scale. And of course, producing concrete is also a fossil energy consuming process.
I am on the fence for solar. If you can put some panels on a roof, I don' t see how it can hurt.