On 25/02/2021 16:04, T i m wrote:

That 'damage radius' could be extended to say a couple of thousand
miles or more, if any toxin / pollutant could be carried by the wind
and then settles or washed down onto the ground below.

Have you ever calculated - always presuming you have enough fingers to
count on - the 'damage radius' of the cement factories that make the
ingredients for the 2,500-ton concrete plinth for each wind turbine?

Or the 'damage radius' of the rare-earth elements' mining, refining, and
component manufacture needed by its design?

Or the 'damage radius' for the lithium mining, refining, and component
manufacture?

Or the 'damage radius' of the production of the carbon fibre of its
construction?

Or the 'damage radius' of the engineering resins used to make the
composites?

Or the 'damage radius' of the cable manufacture?

Then there's the transport of all this stuff...

But most of this happens in countries far, far away. Out of sight, out
of mind, eh, except for your favourite hobby-horses?


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Spike