I have been covering the fact that so-called renewable energy technologies, as they presently exist, are far from being the “sustainable” alternatives to fossil fuels that the Greens propose. Wind turbines are an excellent illustration of this. The wind turbines have a life of about 20 years, and not a lot of the system can be recycled efficiently, if at all. The blades are a particular problem, with the world’s wind industry producing 43 million tons of blade waste annually by 2050, that will fill up land fill areas. The blades are huge, ranging from about 36 metres to the size of a football field. As the blades are made to last two decades, they are particularly durable, and hence extremely difficult and costly to recycle. While the blades can be used for various purpose, this is just a stop gap measure, and does not address the real issue, that the so-called Green energy economy has massively hidden costs, that fossil fuels do not have.
If carbon production is a problem with fossil fuels, the idea should be carbon capture and more efficient uses, not banning the essence of industrialism and wealth.