Column: ‘Green’ Goals May Not Be Very Feasible

These new mineral requirements translate into a massively enlarged mining industry, greater transportation, more/new refinement facilities and infrastructure that does not exist, and there are currently no plans to build them.

Three million turbines at 230 tons of steel each equals about 690 million tons of steel from about 1 billion tons of iron ore.

Additionally, solar requires even more cement and steel than wind turbines to produce the same amount of electricity.

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