Tag Archives: wind turbines

Concrete. Industrial Contamination

Posted on April 25, 2021 by borderslynn

You cannot build a wind turbine without using concrete. Indeed, for each turbine, requires 900 tons of steel, 2500 tons of concrete and 45 tons of plastic. The above image is in a design manual. Concrete seems to have been … Continue reading →

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Chromium. Industrial Contamination

Posted on April 23, 2021 by borderslynn

To make a wind turbine, which is 78% steel, the Earth must yield up coal for coking plants to provide coke for furnaces to burn red hot to smelt iron ore. When the Earth yielded up iron ore, sulphuric acid … Continue reading →

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Iron Ore. Industrial contamination

Posted on April 22, 2021 by borderslynn

In the previous blog, I was finding out about the environmental price of making wind turbines. They are made up of around 70% steel. Steel is made from a process whose basic ingredient is iron ore. During mining, some harmful … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged acid pollution, biopersistent harm, groundwater contamination, iron ore mining, steel production, sulphuric acid, wind turbines | 1 Comment

Making Steel to Meet Demand. Industrial Contamination

Posted on April 21, 2021 by borderslynn

To make a Turbine, a modern renewable technology, we need steel (71-79% of total turbine mass); fiberglass, resin or plastic (11-16%); iron or cast iron (5- 17%); copper (1%); and aluminium (0-2%). So to reduce the use of coal to … Continue reading →

Posted in anthropocene | Tagged blast furnace, cancer, coke, contamination, demand and supply, energy, health and safety, human invention, industrialisation, iron, poison, science, steel, technology, wind turbines | 1 Comment