Wistful children playing in flowery fields beneath fleets of whirling wonders is how the wind industry sells itself. The reality ain’t so pretty.
Embedded in every 300 tonne juggernaut is a bevy of minerals and a mountain of energy used to create the feelgood fiction that the kiddies are safely frolicking beneath a truly useful power source.
The same goes for every solar panel.
The grand wind and solar ‘transition’ has been running for barely 20 years, but already landfills are filling up with spent and busted wind turbine blades, joining millions of worn out solar panels and their cocktail of forever toxic chemicals.
Don’t confuse STT, however, with the anti-mining crowd. We’re all for it. Provided there’s a net energy – and therefore economic – benefit to be had.
Modern civilisation depends upon an enormous range of minerals, which miners deliver up for a profit, paying royalties and taxes…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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