If You Want ‘Renewable Energy,’ Get Ready to Dig

Mark P. Mills | The Wall Street Journal 

Building one wind turbine requires 900 tons of steel, 2,500 tons of concrete and 45 tons of plastic.

Powering society entirely with wind and solar farms combined with massive batteries . . . would require the biggest expansion in mining the world has seen and would produce huge quantities of waste.

“Renewable energy” is a misnomer. Wind and solar machines and batteries are built from nonrenewable materials. And they wear out. Old equipment must be decommissioned, generating millions of tons of waste.

via If You Want ‘Renewable Energy,’ Get Ready to Dig – WSJ