Originally Posted by
OOfff
we talked about how you’re wrong about ivanpah in another thread, but here it is again.
and no, he’s not right about the energy required to construct a wind generator.
For commercial/large size windmills, it’s well in excess of a decade to break even, sometimes nearly 2 decades. The lifespan is approximately 25 years, at least from what I can find. So it will pay for itself eventually, but it’s no panacea. I think they finally found some way to recycle the used blades finally, other than burying Oh them in the dirt. So there’s that.