localzukJun 4, 2023

With the media so obsessed with the eventual "waste" from green energy production - end of life solar panels, turbine blades, batteries etc, wouldn't it be great if they provided context?

There are 9000 oil tanker ships on the planet. 10s of thousands of petrol trucks. 10s of thousands of petrol stations. 10s of thousands of miles of pipeline.

All of which are environmentally damaging to dispose of.

Yet, never discussed in the media. Its just the green boogeyman.

#Solar #Wind #GreenEnergy

Show threadNina Kalinina
@localzuk so, one tanker has a weight of about 100,000 tonnes. 9000 tankers is 900 million tonnes. Average turbine blade weighs 2.5 tonnes, with maybe 400-500 thousand turbines and three blades per turbine, so it's 3.75 million tonnes total. But tankers are easier to recycle, they are mostly steel
Jun 4, 2023 at 2:12pmWeb
Show threadlocalzukJun 4, 2023

@nina_kali_nina See my earlier toot about coal production... Every 1 tonne of hard coal production produces 400kg of waste (not byproduct).

So, when you look at everything in totality, the issue is that the media are highlighting the need to recycle green tech, but don't make a peep about the enormous amount of waste from fossil fuel production.

Every year, we produce more waste for fossil fuels than every bit of green tech in existence, combined.

Show threadNina KalininaJun 4, 2023
@localzuk wow. I didn't know that!
Show threadAlex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UKJun 4, 2023
@nina_kali_nina @localzuk I live near the North Sea, and yet the sheer number of tankers/container ships etc is overlooked by many and taken for granted (and because this area is quite affluent, the knackered ones are sent up North (and/or to Scotland) to be broken up so this aspect is forgotten about too)
Show threadVirginicusJun 4, 2023
@localzuk @nina_kali_nina When a mountain of coal-ash collapses in a heavy rain and destroys a few dozen houses, the newspapers talk about it for a few days, but then they disappear again.
Show threadlocalzukJun 4, 2023
@Virginicus @nina_kali_nina yup. They seem to ignore the fact that we're still creating more of it every day.