Originally Posted by
FangsF15
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.
the energy payback is much shorter than a decade, more like less than a year to a few years, and the carbon payback is similarly short. stop getting news from memes
heres a link to the editor of the book from which this falsehood originates, explaining how the meme is wrong:
https://homerdixon.com/resource/no-not-say-wind-energy-idiot-power/