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Originally Posted by Mr.Coffee
Coal is used for steel.
Steel is used in windmills, solar panels, etc.
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I'd like to be the pedantic ####### that points out a logical fallacy here.
You don't achieve anything by waiting for Nirvana. everything is about net lifecycle impact. A 6 million KWH / year windmill weight ~25 tons costs what 100 tons of CO2 to produce at worst? Assuming 50% utilization of the windmill burring 3 million KWH / year of natural gas gives you like a 2-3 month ROI on the CO2 for melting the steel on a windmill. And that ignores new methods of steel making like EAF, where the number could be as low as 35-40 tons of CO2
It's a fun narrative for the O&G faithful to say that the other options create emissions too, but there is a long way between current emissions and net 0.