Posted by blunosr on February 01, 2016 at 20:20:23 from (66.183.255.213):
Hi, I'd like to do solar or wind, but the problem is that they're only good for low wattage lights. How can I power my welder, or my woodworking shop? I just can't see being off-grid.
It's great for those who just read books and garden, but I putter all the time and I need real power. These alternative energy sources just don't cut it. And the cost of the systems, just to run a few lights, seems prohibitive.
I'd love to see an accounting of the real cost of wind power, or solar, compared to standard grid power. It seems to me that the steel and copper used to make a wind turbine would require a huge amount of fossil fuels to mine, smelt, and weld together.
And the rare-earth elements, and heavy metals used in solar also cost a lot to mine, using fossil fuels. And what happens to the heavy metals when the systems are done their useful life?
There seems to be a non-green underbelly to all these alternative energies. I'd like to see a documentary look into that...
One of the recent thread had me thinking about that as I was welding up a storm in my shop. On tractor stuff of course...
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