7 million plug-ins on the road by 2025

[X-it]

Finally a study on how much CO2 to make those batteries...shocking. Great article Dave. It sounds to far fetched to even believe, but as long as gag orders do not come down. Eventually the truth might bubble to the surface.

 

[X-it]

Here is the CO2 for one windmill, every 10 years rebuild time.
https://stopthesethings.com/2014/08/16/how-much-co2-gets-emitted-to-build-a-wind-turbine/

 

[lilduke]

Carbon dioxide is plant food. Good god ur as bad as the "greenies"
windmills look cool imo. Not sure if they make any electricity though lol

 

[52weekbreak]

For those wanting park knowledge seeing as how you think it is partially Albertas here you go

x it - I had confess I can't really tell whether you are serious when making a post or are hopefully just joking around or maybe just do not have time to write a complete post. The above for instance seems to suggest that you believe Kakwa is all in BC when clearly the BC website shows a link for the Alberta portion of the park.

 

[X-it]

I do not care one bit about that 52weekbreak, just be glad we fight so you guys have some mountains to ride in. What I do car about is dip ****s like David Suzuki protesting at the dam to fight for his kickbacks on windmills.

 

[Caper11]

I talked to a electrician today, that worked in chile on a 120mw solar array system that trudeau helped fund, and his opinion on solar changed after working on the system. All of those panels and you might get 3hours of 120mw of charging he said.

 

[ABMax24]

Here is the CO2 for one windmill, every 10 years rebuild time.
https://stopthesethings.com/2014/08/16/how-much-co2-gets-emitted-to-build-a-wind-turbine/

So according to this a 1MW windmill produces 241.85 tons of CO2 in its manufacturing.

Now a coal power plant produces 792lb of CO2 per MWh generated.

Now using an extremely low capacity factor for wind, 10% (Canadian average is about 30%) we can calculate its power production.
1MW*24hr/day*365day/yr*10%capacity factor=876MWh/year

Now we can calucalte the CO2 production for coal power:
876MW*796lbs/MWh / 2000lbs/ton=348.648tons

So over its first year, a wind turbine produced 348.648-241.85=106.798 tons less CO2 than a coal power plant, now keep in mind after its first year the turbine is essentially emission free. So for the next 24 years the turbine produces low emission power.

Its really great you can pull an article off the internet to prove yourself wrong.

Good day.

 

[S.W.A.T.]

So according to this a 1MW windmill produces 241.85 tons of CO2 in its manufacturing.

Now a coal power plant produces 792lb of CO2 per MWh generated.

Now using an extremely low capacity factor for wind, 10% (Canadian average is about 30%) we can calculate its power production.
1MW*24hr/day*365day/yr*10%capacity factor=876MWh/year

Now we can calucalte the CO2 production for coal power:
876MW*796lbs/MWh / 2000lbs/ton=348.648tons

So over its first year, a wind turbine produced 348.648-241.85=106.798 tons less CO2 than a coal power plant, now keep in mind after its first year the turbine is essentially emission free. So for the next 24 years the turbine produces low emission power.

Its really great you can pull an article off the internet to prove yourself wrong.

Good day.

I think people get so caught up trying to disprove something, fact is a turbine will eventually pass a threshold and become carbon neutral and should effectively produce power without using carbon. Not sure how carbon became the scale we no measure everything on but I guess it is.

I guess it's the same idea with the electric car, of course it takes energy to build, everything does. But because it's requires no oil change and minimal maintenance eventually it should cross the same threshold, however turbines produce and cars use so the threshold would be much greater with the car

 

[52weekbreak]

Another interesting post. Making effective reuse of all the crap we make would be helpful too. Personally getting real tired of plastic bags...

 

[X-it]

With the NDP/Green coup, already this province has seen our liquefied natural gas plant gone, next on the block is site C. If your read the whole thing you will see what is green and what is cheaper. Dams are 1/2 the CO2 as windmills so why the hell was Suzuki there? People in Alberta may want to sign this too, buying power from us will be cheaper for you.

 

[eclipse1966]

100% agree on the plastic bags. Going to 3rd world countries is where you see the devastation of these nasty things! I would be onboard for 100% elimination.

Another interesting post. Making effective reuse of all the crap we make would be helpful too. Personally getting real tired of plastic bags...

 

[S.W.A.T.]

100% agree on the plastic bags. Going to 3rd world countries is where you see the devastation of these nasty things! I would be onboard for 100% elimination.

I believe the Yukon gave up on them. Amazing it's harder to find paper bags now a days

 

[ABMax24]

I believe the Yukon gave up on them. Amazing it's harder to find paper bags now a days

And to think we were all told to stop using paper bags because we had to cut down trees to get them, trees regrow and a paper bag degrades quite rapidly in the enviroment, a plastic one not so much.

 

[S.W.A.T.]

And to think we were all told to stop using paper bags because we had to cut down trees to get them, trees regrow and a paper bag degrades quite rapidly in the enviroment, a plastic one not so much.

We like the cardboard or paper option, definitely gets reused around here

 

[Caper11]

How about bring your own bag, no reason why this cannot be adopted in North America.

 

[S.W.A.T.]

How about bring your own bag, no reason why this cannot be adopted in North America.

Many places and people do, good idea

 

[ABMax24]

Many places and people do, good idea

A lot more would if a plastic bag was $1 instead of 5cents.

 

[OVERKILL 19]

Hey hey hey!!! Don't make plastic the new hate fad!!! I have chit to pay off first!

 

[ferniesnow]

Costco sells a lot of chit and they don't use plastic bags. They let their customers recycle the multitude of cardboard boxes that must be piled a mile high in the back room!

 

[eclipse1966]

thats what my wife does. Open the back of her vehicle and a million reusable bags jump out at you lol.

How about bring your own bag, no reason why this cannot be adopted in North America.