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Daniel Natal's avatar

What an eye-opening article! Wind turbines pollute vastly more than nuclear power . . . and this doesn't even get into the whole slavery issue, where people in bondage are in the mines, harvesting cobalt, uranium or lithium, etc. Well-done, Droz!

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Van Snyder's avatar

Also blowing in the wind.... Turbine blades' coverings are made of fiberglass bonded with epoxy. Epoxy is used because other plastic binding agents are destroyed by sunlight. The major ingredient of epoxy is Bisphenol-A, which has been banned in food packaging in many countries because it''s carcinogenic. But it''s OK if it gets into the food chain from windmills because we'd otherwise die from heat or something. The average 1 MWe windmill sheds 65 kilograms of microplastic particles per year, of which about 40% is Bisphenol-A.

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