The world is falling well short of a promise signed at global climate talks last year to triple the amount of wind power, according to research by an energy think tank released Thursday.
That sounds positive to me. However, we cannot tout these as being such a great source of clean energy, especially one to aid in the challenges of eliminating fossil fuels when they use plenty of those.
I talked with a mechanic for the ultra big wind turbines once. He said they use tons of oil and are constantly leaking.
I talked with a a mechanic once who said that the tiny amount leaked is minuscule compared to emissions from non-renewables.
That sounds positive to me. However, we cannot tout these as being such a great source of clean energy, especially one to aid in the challenges of eliminating fossil fuels when they use plenty of those.
Oh but we can, these overall are great sources of clean energy.
You’re assuming “oil” and “crude oil” are the same thing.
Even if they were using crude in one of these it would be a considerable carbon cost saving over the lifetime.