A "dark day" for people who hate renewable energy, where turbines that they won't even be able to see are going to be living rent free in their heads!🤣
Nice one, Labour 😊
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6,084,000 gallons of oil is required globally for current wind turbines to operate annually. That’s just to keep them full of oil while in continuous operation. Each wind turbine is required 2000 gallons of oil when produced 800 for gearbox and 1200 for transformers. Not to mention a catastrophic amount of gearbox failures and regular oil changes. A very significant amount of oil contributing to environmental impact. Non recyclable blade disposal is a significant challenge for sustainability. Diesel engines, yes that’s right diesel engines are relied on for initiation and electric heating of gearboxes further impacting oil usage. Kind of ironic isn’t it? Due to these issues and costly continuous monitoring systems required, high operating costs, regular maintenance costs, high catastrophic gearbox failure cost, and high environmental impact that is also quite costly are wind turbines sustainable? They are quickly proving themselves not. Now they are spending millions trying to figure out how to improve and make them sustainable. They aren’t as clean as most people think. Also the temperature dropped to 28 degrees with light snow rendering a massive solar farm inoperable they froze up and couldn’t move and were covered with a light film of snow. The wind turbines also froze up and became inoperable.
Your rant is packed with half-truths and misinformation. First, wind turbines do not use 6 million gallons of oil annually. Each one uses around 200 to 800 liters of lubricant, changed every few years. That is nothing compared to the fuel burned daily by oil and gas plants. Claiming 2,000 gallons of oil per turbine mixes up lubricant with broader manufacturing processes and ignores the fact that turbines produce far more energy over their lifetime than they consume.
Yes, gearboxes can fail, but modern turbines often use direct-drive systems that eliminate that issue. Diesel engines are not used to start turbines. Wind turbines spin when the wind blows. A few cold-weather installations may use small heaters, but they are not diesel-powered and the impact is negligible.
Blades are being recycled more every year, and over 85 percent of a wind turbine is already recyclable. As for freezing? Wind and solar function just fine in Canada, Sweden, and even Antarctica when properly equipped. The Texas blackout was largely caused by frozen gas lines, not wind.
Wind power works. It’s clean, sustainable, and improving constantly. Fossil fuels remain the real environmental and economic problem.
@wishforthenight Nope my reply wasn’t a rant. 🤣😆 Your rant is packed with mostly lies and wishful thinking. If you think they can run for years without regular maintenance and oil changes and continuous computer controlled monitoring and frequent lab testing of the oil you’re wrong. The turbines you refer to as modern aren’t as efficient or effective as the gearbox equipped and few are in use. I didn’t say they are started with diesel engines??? You obviously didn’t bother to read what I said. Need more proof?
