Used to fish lake St. Clair and the Canadian side is lined with them. You could tell which side was Canada vs US by the lights blinking. On a flight you can see the outline of the lake shore from them
That’s not a joke though. They do kill a lot of birds. But if you have a moment, I introduce cats. A much larger problem no one likes talking about. We are talking about 140,000 to 679,000 killed from wind turbines. Compared to 1 billion killed from cats. I’d rather keep the turbines and get rid of 1/10 of the cat population, we spade, and neutered them. No need to kill anything.
I thought that this could not be true. But you’re right. In fact, the estimate for birds killed by domestic cats is 2.4 billion. I know that wasn’t the point of your comment. But 2.4 BILLION.
From what I've heard oil land already has a ton of land that has been environmentally surveyed so it is ideal for building wind farms on . The us even passed a bill last year to reduce some regulatory barriers to doing so
Texas doesnt have any real ideology, besides money. Investment and the ability to ignore regulatory burden makes it a winner out west where the population is sparse.
Reminds me of the comedian who’s dad was a truck driver and would take him on trips during summer and loved to play pranks on him. They were driving through a massive wind farm in California and his dad told him that California had broken off during an earthquake and these giant fans were the only thing keeping it from drifting away from the continent. He believed it and when he was back in school and asked what he did that summer he told his class that he saw the giant fans that keep California from floating away
Better than destabilizing sovereign nations and killing their citizens for some bitter crude oil that will cost a lot to refine with our limited refineries
These look much better than Power Station and Oil Pumps among other energy eye sores
I like that it's clean energy but I hate how wind/solar farms look, they just take up soo much space. I want more nuclear plants or just burn our trash
We are really missing out in the states on ocean powered generators, the big mirror heating battery things, and modern nuke. Windmills and great and all but they're like everything else in america. Made out of the cheapest most un-recyclable material known to man.
Ocean generation and concentrated solar are much less efficient than PV and wind generation. Good ideas, but just not as efficient. Modern nukes might play a part until fusion becomes a reality. Lots of problems though and the cost of construction and time to complete projects just can’t compare with modern solar/wind/storage.
They’re also create great high paying jobs. You can make a full career from installation, servicing and maintenance, demolition etc. I knew a guy who would climb them to do maintenance in Norway. He loved it since he was a hobby climber.
Usually the installation and maintenance techs are different jobs but yea there's a lot of work. Installation is good as long as there are projects, work is going to dry up offshore(no pun) but onshore might be different. Maintenance techs will always be needed.
Have a look what at what a an open cut mine looks like, or an oil field covered in wells. Hell, even a field covered in solar pannels is more disruptive to look at than this.
I went to New Delhi and couldn’t see the ground from my balcony on the 12th floor of the hotel I was at… I would rather have pristine air and see turbines than the alternative…
The only thing I can think that is depressing about it is the noise affecting all the wildlife, including all the birds in such a large area + the ones who will migrate through.
EDIT: It's insane to be downvoted for the pure hard proven science. Windmills produce tons of noise that disrupt birds and other wildlife. Schools have failed you all if you think if humans can't hear something, then it doesn't exist.
It's a fair point to bring up. I think part of the backlash people get for talking about it, is that often people talking about the environmental costs seem to be doing it in bad faith, as a way to discredit them in favor of more oil/gas, while ignoring the much greater environmental costs that come with those industries.
I'm definitely in favor of addressing those issues and making development of these things more sustainable and less harmful, but when 80% of the time, the people I see addressing it are people trying to say that turbines kill birds, so therefore we should ignore the effect of carbon emissions on climate change, which are causing exponentially more harm to bird populations, it makes me immediately wary of anyone talking about the issue
Wrong crowd for facts.
My roommate when I lived on Maui worked for Maui Electric. They put windmills along a ridge there and his job was to drive under them and pick-up and log all the dead birds. He picked up dozens every day. It was so screwed up because he could only drive like 5mph on the road because it was in an endangered species area.. lol. Effing bureaucrats.
Each turbine's wake can reduce power and increase loads of the turbines downwind, typically requiring a spacing of roughly 5 times rotor diameter (10x blade length).
I'm seeing that the prototypes are putting out 2-10MW, while the production units are expected to put out 50-500MW, so that's pretty good if they can get built
for years I been scrolling scrolling reddit and never came across a video of someone filing wind turbines from a plane. I see this with my own eyes yesterday, from a plane, and this is on my feed today.
The area directly around each turbine slows down the air current and creates a lot of turbulence; in essence, if you put them too close together, the effect of one turbine on the air will significantly decrease the power generation of the one behind it
I think the one in Whitewater California is iconic and one of the "cooler" looking turbine farms. It's been used in a handful of movie scenes over the past few decades too.
A nuclear power plant can only be built in locations where there is an abundant supply of water flowing year round. That’s why nuclear power plants are located only along coastlines or near large rivers.
I know - and it wont be in a field like these 100s of windmills.
Nuclear power plants easier to recycle - Windmills are NOT good for the environment when recycled. You can even use the uran that's not fit for nuclear power for something else.
AND - Nuclear makes power even when the winds is not blowing.
And you are out of date. Windmills from 25 years ago are being decommissioned and recycled, new ones are designed to facilitate recycling. Find a new reason to moan about clean energy.
What are you even talking about? I saw another thread about this a long time ago. That location is inland in China, which means it lacks the water required for a nuclear power plant. Even if a nuclear power plant is easy to recycle, what’s the point if there’s no water?
Okay, so if we're talking about recycling turbines, let talk about decommissioning nuclear plants then. Oh lets see, the decommissioning of Hinkley in the UK has so far taken 5 years and cost billions of pounds!
Sellafield won't be finished until 2125 and shut down in the 1970s!
Look I'm all for nuclear energy, but the end of life costs are extraordinary compared to wind.
It does make economic sense, but there’s so much propaganda against it that people never even want to. Nuclear energy has come so far, and we have only closed down our plants.
The so-called problem with nuclear energy is that it works so well that it basically decimates unnecessary money raking in industry.
Nope, who traditionally didn't want oil don't want nuclear either.
It's just that nuclear power distributors have discovered how easy it is to influence public opinion via the Internet, and people have just eaten it up. Oil distributors were doing the same thing in the 20th century, propaganda for the people, money for the politicians.
Different century, same corruption and now even more toxic power source.
No its mostly exconomics. My former role involved doing viability studies for energy projects. You get NIMBYs for all energy types.
Investors just aren't as interested in high cost, long ROI projects. The plummeting cost of wind and solar further complicates this as it makes forecasting future energy pricing less accurate. So there's genuine risk that ROI gets pushed out even further.
State investors are often better poised to invest in Nuclear but most western countries have privatized models.
Raptors and bats are the main victims. Raptors fly high and don't seem to be able to see the blades from above, and bats end up with ruptured lungs due to the rapid pressure changes.
Most other birds seem to be able to steer past them ok.
Landman is an advertisement for oil companies, except without any of the pesky “false advertising” concerns. Everything that Billy Bob says is great about oil, or bad about renewables… just assume it’s a pure fabrication.
Within his fictional tv universe, he could say that “MIT scientists have proven that digging up and burning oil is actually the key to combatting climate change, and smoking cures cancer.” And maybe it’s true, in his land of make believe.
Oil companies and renewables have exactly the same owners. Look up who owns Exxon and NextEra, they are the same to the %. Blackrock, Vanguard, StateStreet and JP Morgan. It's a fake competition, they go very well together. Birdblenders are kinda useless without natural gas for a backup.
Many people have already proven these specific claims from the show wrong, have you looked any of this up critically or do you just take TV show "facts" as gospel?
Oil companies are investing in wind turbines to power remote sites instead of paying for laying hundreds of miles of electrical cable. Wind is powering increasingly all parts of oil processing because it is cheaper than the traditional electrical energy sources. This is driving down cost of manufacturing in adjacent industries.
if you fly over Texas, Colorado, California, and lot of other states, you see these all the time.
It's even better when you go over them at night. Looks something like a dystopian naval minefield with all the red lights blinking in sync.
LOL, nice.
You should see the oil drill sites with flares at night that go for miles
Used to fish lake St. Clair and the Canadian side is lined with them. You could tell which side was Canada vs US by the lights blinking. On a flight you can see the outline of the lake shore from them
Indiana too. I didn't realize they had such vast wind farms until I visited recently.
Renssalaer, IN was so cool to drive through at night due to all the wind turbines blinking at almost the same rate.
One day I hope Ohio will look the same.
Driving to Palm springs, you see hundreds to thousands of these scattered throughout the mountains
Iowa is 2nd in windmills. Even on the license plate.
I love seeing these large propellers outside. I guess you could say I'm a big fan.
where are all the piles & piles of dead birds that somebody keeps speaking about?
That’s not a joke though. They do kill a lot of birds. But if you have a moment, I introduce cats. A much larger problem no one likes talking about. We are talking about 140,000 to 679,000 killed from wind turbines. Compared to 1 billion killed from cats. I’d rather keep the turbines and get rid of 1/10 of the cat population, we spade, and neutered them. No need to kill anything.
*Spayed
Dankey
And windows!
First Copilot, now bird murdering. I'm starting to not like that OS.
I thought that this could not be true. But you’re right. In fact, the estimate for birds killed by domestic cats is 2.4 billion. I know that wasn’t the point of your comment. But 2.4 BILLION.
and How much fish and chicken does human kill to eat?
Chicken is very different from wild birds.
And Kansas especially
Only the East side of CO and CA. Kansas has more than both states.
Driving through Kansas at sundown….blinking red lights in every direction. It was so discombobulating. Poor wildlife.
Texas...? Interesting. With the oil lobby?
From what I've heard oil land already has a ton of land that has been environmentally surveyed so it is ideal for building wind farms on . The us even passed a bill last year to reduce some regulatory barriers to doing so
Texas produces more wind renewable energy than any other state in the USA.
Texas doesnt have any real ideology, besides money. Investment and the ability to ignore regulatory burden makes it a winner out west where the population is sparse.
There are quite a few winds farms scattered all over the state. Even to the northwest of DFW, the panhandle, out west where it's flatter, etc.
Texas overtook California to become the number one state for large-scale solar farms.
The end of evangelion
3rd Impact
Exactly what came to mind lol
Where is this?
Outside somewhere
I hope to visit there someday.
Too windy.
Can't we turn them off for the day?
You can turn off the windmills but you can’t turn off the windmill cancer, pal
Says you!
Nuh uh
Oh, so the birds were dying of cancer, got it.
All of them. Like, there are no birds who don’t have cancer anymore, all because of the windmills.
No, they are just drones r/birdsarentreal
Where can I donate to alleviate the drones with cancer 😫 lol
Reminds me of the comedian who’s dad was a truck driver and would take him on trips during summer and loved to play pranks on him. They were driving through a massive wind farm in California and his dad told him that California had broken off during an earthquake and these giant fans were the only thing keeping it from drifting away from the continent. He believed it and when he was back in school and asked what he did that summer he told his class that he saw the giant fans that keep California from floating away
WINDMILLS DO NOT WORK THAT WAY!!! GOODNIGHT!!
Definitely maybe
Oh, I thought it was somewhere else.
Somebody get that geoguesser homie, he could tell you the location, date, and flight number of the plane the photographer is on
Earth
Thought i was in the storkworks sub haha
Rare Stormworks reference
Look at all the dead whales
Lol
But the whales!!
You are saying this as a joke but these slicers were installed as safety measures against another Sharknado or Sharkmagadon.
Land whales must be saved!
Whales aren't real, they are a democratic hoax! Just like Dinosaurs and Pleasurable Sex
Are we sure this is not the third impact?
Theres a boy named Shinji somewhere whose about to have a very traumatic experience.
So thats where they farm the wind that the airplane flies on?
Yes
What happens if you put a wind turbine on a treadmill? THE INTERNET DEMANDS ANSWERS
Must construct additional pylons!
Eyesore. A few nuclear plants are a lot easier on the eyes.
This 1,000,000%
Oddly, that's probably the same number of years for the radioactive decay rate.
Why don't you care about the environment?
"A few"? That's not even 1 nuclear power plant worth of wind turbines ...
(5 MW turbine * 8760 hours in the year * 0.25 capacity factor = 10GWh/year. 1 NPP = 10TWh/year)
Yep. The ones off the coast of rhode island absolutely destroy the view out to the ocean, sad to see
Archeologists of the future will find thousands of huge concrete chunks burried in the fertile soil and scratch their heads what was this about.
Cancer rates must be sky rocketing!
I'm sorry, I thought you guys would know I was being sarcastic...
You must be confused, wind generators cause circumcision and autism.
it also kills all the nearby whales as evidenced on the video... no whale spotted. check... mate.
True and if you zoom in, you can see the mountain size piles of dead bald eagles.
You joke, but I used to live in Ohio and I swear half of all rural houses had a "windmills cause cancer" sign out front 🤦
Better than destabilizing sovereign nations and killing their citizens for some bitter crude oil that will cost a lot to refine with our limited refineries
These look much better than Power Station and Oil Pumps among other energy eye sores
Here we go again
War over oil hasn’t stopped
I like that it's clean energy but I hate how wind/solar farms look, they just take up soo much space. I want more nuclear plants or just burn our trash
We are really missing out in the states on ocean powered generators, the big mirror heating battery things, and modern nuke. Windmills and great and all but they're like everything else in america. Made out of the cheapest most un-recyclable material known to man.
Those are wind turbines, not windmills. Windmills use wind power to grind wheat into flour, hence the name - milling.
Ocean generation and concentrated solar are much less efficient than PV and wind generation. Good ideas, but just not as efficient. Modern nukes might play a part until fusion becomes a reality. Lots of problems though and the cost of construction and time to complete projects just can’t compare with modern solar/wind/storage.
Would rather see these than oil pumps.
This looks so pretty, honestly there are few engineering projects I like more than fields full of wind turbines, it's so frutiger aero coded
They’re also create great high paying jobs. You can make a full career from installation, servicing and maintenance, demolition etc. I knew a guy who would climb them to do maintenance in Norway. He loved it since he was a hobby climber.
Usually the installation and maintenance techs are different jobs but yea there's a lot of work. Installation is good as long as there are projects, work is going to dry up offshore(no pun) but onshore might be different. Maintenance techs will always be needed.
Yeah, I was attempting to list the different jobs. Maybe I didn’t make that clear.
The people who think wind turbines are ugly think dilapidated farms are pretty.
Must be American to find this pretty. Any sense of taste surgically removed at birth.
I'm a Spaniard
This looks absolutely terrible to me, you must be kidding right?
Have a look what at what a an open cut mine looks like, or an oil field covered in wells. Hell, even a field covered in solar pannels is more disruptive to look at than this.
I went to New Delhi and couldn’t see the ground from my balcony on the 12th floor of the hotel I was at… I would rather have pristine air and see turbines than the alternative…
No, honestly I can't understand how anyone would find this ugly, but I guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder
The only thing I can think that is depressing about it is the noise affecting all the wildlife, including all the birds in such a large area + the ones who will migrate through.
EDIT: It's insane to be downvoted for the pure hard proven science. Windmills produce tons of noise that disrupt birds and other wildlife. Schools have failed you all if you think if humans can't hear something, then it doesn't exist.
One of many many sources:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364032122006852
Basically everything we do in our modern world affects wildlife. Wind farms are by far one of the lesser of the possible evils.
Noise doesn't travel well from air to water, also have you ever been under a windmill? They really aren't that noisy.
It's a fair point to bring up. I think part of the backlash people get for talking about it, is that often people talking about the environmental costs seem to be doing it in bad faith, as a way to discredit them in favor of more oil/gas, while ignoring the much greater environmental costs that come with those industries.
I'm definitely in favor of addressing those issues and making development of these things more sustainable and less harmful, but when 80% of the time, the people I see addressing it are people trying to say that turbines kill birds, so therefore we should ignore the effect of carbon emissions on climate change, which are causing exponentially more harm to bird populations, it makes me immediately wary of anyone talking about the issue
Cool story.
Have you got any evidence?
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364032122006852
https://conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cobi.14188
https://docs.nrel.gov/docs/fy02osti/30844.pdf
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jjo/62/2/62_135/_article
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/389292418_Sensitivity_of_birds_to_wind_turbine_noise_a_pilot_study_in_black-tailed_gullsfengchesaoyinniduisuruniaoleinoganshouxinguminekodenojichudejiantao
https://theconversation.com/robin-hushed-wind-turbines-are-making-songbirds-change-their-tune-109136
https://tethys.pnnl.gov/publications/noise-pollution-wind-turbines-its-effects-wildlife-cross-national-analysis-current
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-05159-1
More?
Sure shut u/PJozi up...
Wait until you read about the oil and gas industry
What a funny comment. It's almost as if discussing nuance is illegal nowadays.
Wrong crowd for facts.
My roommate when I lived on Maui worked for Maui Electric. They put windmills along a ridge there and his job was to drive under them and pick-up and log all the dead birds. He picked up dozens every day. It was so screwed up because he could only drive like 5mph on the road because it was in an endangered species area.. lol. Effing bureaucrats.
the beauty of renewable resources.
Then don't look at them 🤷
Yeah, it looks like shit, sounds like shit, and unlike solar panels you can see this eyesore from miles away on the ground.
Why not put them in rows or closer together? They look spread out without reason
Each turbine's wake can reduce power and increase loads of the turbines downwind, typically requiring a spacing of roughly 5 times rotor diameter (10x blade length).
Amazing green energy
Brilliant. A free fuel, spatially disbursed energy system that allows existing land uses (crops, cattle, natural, water etc)
Terrible. These are the reason Jackalopes are nearly extinct!
How many thorium reactors could have fit on that land instead?
The largest operational thorium reactor is producing 2MW. So roughly one reactor per wind turbine.
Is there a minimum distance that needs to be between them?
Nahhh .. just jam them all together
Currently only one on earth producing that much power. It is a research reactor, so won't be deployed commercially.
I'm seeing that the prototypes are putting out 2-10MW, while the production units are expected to put out 50-500MW, so that's pretty good if they can get built
There is nothing putting out anything more than 2MW currently.
Anyone know where this is at? Looks like it was taken along a nice coastline area.
Colorado and Kansas have quite a few, very to drive through KS at night near Ellsworth
More power is always needed.
for years I been scrolling scrolling reddit and never came across a video of someone filing wind turbines from a plane. I see this with my own eyes yesterday, from a plane, and this is on my feed today.
nothing is reallll
The USA windfarms vs the Chinese solar panel mountains
Why so far apart? Why not get same amount of power out of less land?
The area directly around each turbine slows down the air current and creates a lot of turbulence; in essence, if you put them too close together, the effect of one turbine on the air will significantly decrease the power generation of the one behind it
I think the one in Whitewater California is iconic and one of the "cooler" looking turbine farms. It's been used in a handful of movie scenes over the past few decades too.
Straight up looks like your right click scrolling around the map on old school Sim city 2000.
Iowa? You ought to see all the blinking lights at night.
That is definitely not similar to that particular scene in the The End on Evangelion
Anyone else think this was Project zomboid custom map preview at first? just me?
They are working hard to blow your plane along!
that's how they create wind, and THEY want us to believe the oposite, LOL!
China?
Unintentional Evangelion LOL
Beautiful
But hey, at least the AI has enough power for their servers
I mean, those are generators right? Attached to a propeller... wires wrapped around spinning magnets. How does that work? What happens when it rains?
I thought it was a cemetery at first.
SHINJI, GET IN THE EVA!!!!!
How are they flying mover those massive radar disrupters!? /s
Grotesque. Big eye sores and non-bio degradable blades.
Just make nuclear power plants instead. Needs less space, and generates power forever.
A nuclear power plant can only be built in locations where there is an abundant supply of water flowing year round. That’s why nuclear power plants are located only along coastlines or near large rivers.
The second biggest nuclear power plant in the US is located in the Sonoran Desert.
I know - and it wont be in a field like these 100s of windmills.
Nuclear power plants easier to recycle - Windmills are NOT good for the environment when recycled. You can even use the uran that's not fit for nuclear power for something else.
AND - Nuclear makes power even when the winds is not blowing.
And you are out of date. Windmills from 25 years ago are being decommissioned and recycled, new ones are designed to facilitate recycling. Find a new reason to moan about clean energy.
everyone remembers the seagreen incident, and the whitelee disaster
What are you even talking about? I saw another thread about this a long time ago. That location is inland in China, which means it lacks the water required for a nuclear power plant. Even if a nuclear power plant is easy to recycle, what’s the point if there’s no water?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_power_in_China#/media/File:Wind_farm_xinjiang.jpg
Not every nuclear plant is ran on an open cycle. They can and do build closed loop cycle cooling system nuclear plants and pipe in makeup water
"plants easier to recycle"
Decay rate ranging from a few hours to hundreds of millions of years....
Okay, so if we're talking about recycling turbines, let talk about decommissioning nuclear plants then. Oh lets see, the decommissioning of Hinkley in the UK has so far taken 5 years and cost billions of pounds!
Sellafield won't be finished until 2125 and shut down in the 1970s!
Look I'm all for nuclear energy, but the end of life costs are extraordinary compared to wind.
But Forever, is not really forever
This shows a fundamental lack of understanding of the whole nuclear industry.
If Nuclear made ecconomic sense we would build them. But they don't.
It does make economic sense, but there’s so much propaganda against it that people never even want to. Nuclear energy has come so far, and we have only closed down our plants.
The so-called problem with nuclear energy is that it works so well that it basically decimates unnecessary money raking in industry.
No propaganda, just a few meltdowns here and there.
If you're looking for propaganda you should see what the nebular power industry has been pushing through social media.
...wait?
It’s because it’s a viable alternative, and the oil industry doesn’t want that… and because oil is basically free compared to the price of nuclear.
Only on an initial cost basis. Long-term it is by far one of the cheapest ones.
Nope, who traditionally didn't want oil don't want nuclear either.
It's just that nuclear power distributors have discovered how easy it is to influence public opinion via the Internet, and people have just eaten it up. Oil distributors were doing the same thing in the 20th century, propaganda for the people, money for the politicians.
Different century, same corruption and now even more toxic power source.
If the general public wasn’t deathly afraid of them, you mean?
No its mostly exconomics. My former role involved doing viability studies for energy projects. You get NIMBYs for all energy types.
Investors just aren't as interested in high cost, long ROI projects. The plummeting cost of wind and solar further complicates this as it makes forecasting future energy pricing less accurate. So there's genuine risk that ROI gets pushed out even further.
State investors are often better poised to invest in Nuclear but most western countries have privatized models.
Except by the time one is built its probably to late
They really take up very little space. Still plenty of land between each one.
Bird and bat blenders in action
They kill like 0.000001% of the animals Cats do...
Did taco tell you that
Raptors and bats are the main victims. Raptors fly high and don't seem to be able to see the blades from above, and bats end up with ruptured lungs due to the rapid pressure changes.
Most other birds seem to be able to steer past them ok.
That's great
Such a waste.
So ugly
Super pretty!
Solar power and wind power have become highly controversial for allegedly causing environmental destruction.
And don’t forget about cancer. Every time a blade rotates someone gets cancer. Biggly bad windmills.
And somehow, this is better for the environment, even though none of that can be recycled
America Can Recycle 90% of Wind Turbine Mass, According to New DOE Report | Department of Energy
In the Apple TV series Landman, Billy Bob Thornton's character gives a great speech about how much oil is needed to run these windmills. https://youtu.be/fmbZwxEnAFc?si=IXbvIiVXBVdycnZP
It’s a lie, for the record.
Landman is an advertisement for oil companies, except without any of the pesky “false advertising” concerns. Everything that Billy Bob says is great about oil, or bad about renewables… just assume it’s a pure fabrication.
Within his fictional tv universe, he could say that “MIT scientists have proven that digging up and burning oil is actually the key to combatting climate change, and smoking cures cancer.” And maybe it’s true, in his land of make believe.
Oil companies and renewables have exactly the same owners. Look up who owns Exxon and NextEra, they are the same to the %. Blackrock, Vanguard, StateStreet and JP Morgan. It's a fake competition, they go very well together. Birdblenders are kinda useless without natural gas for a backup.
Pro-oil guy in a pro-oil TV series makes a pro-oil speech about wind turbines.
Prove him wrong. I'll wait. Take all the time you need.
Many people have already proven these specific claims from the show wrong, have you looked any of this up critically or do you just take TV show "facts" as gospel?
>In its 20 year lifespan it won’t offset the carbon footprint of making it.
The carbon footprint plus energy cost to manufacture a 2MW wind turbine is offset within 8 months of its operations. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0960148111002254. The 20-30 plus year remaining lifespan is all clean profit.
Oil companies are investing in wind turbines to power remote sites instead of paying for laying hundreds of miles of electrical cable. Wind is powering increasingly all parts of oil processing because it is cheaper than the traditional electrical energy sources. This is driving down cost of manufacturing in adjacent industries.
Here's a video in case you don't want to read: https://youtu.be/oKVNFqqzvP4?si=gOR5D5BiJMNl1yqX
Still, we can't escape oil because there is no other alternative.
Waste of time, waste of resources and a waste of land
How the f is this progress??
Notice how there's not 50 miles of coal carts on a train going through there?