Rigs come and go… there are certainly environmental concerns involved.
Wind turbines and their foundations are permanent and there are environmental concerns involved.. Also.. what do they make wind turbines out of?
I asked the question for a reason…
Check out how big the foundations are.. The Earth can absolutly not "absorb" these.. Actually they are PERMENENT..taking TNT to take them out..
Thank you for the info on what the turbines are made of… Answer: metal for the tower… Plastic/resin molds for the blades. Yet another "Green" solution that depends on drilling.
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February 23rd, 2010 at 11:26 am
Oil gas rig is worse. Wind turbine is made out of a lot of metal
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February 23rd, 2010 at 11:53 am
While wind turbines are indeed built on the ground, they are by no means permanent – the earth can tear pretty much anything down. I believe they are made out of steel, much like any other construction.
Despite their installation and materials, the fact is that operating a wind turbine creates almost no byproducts, whereas an oil rig can create millions of pounds of CO2 in just a few years.
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February 23rd, 2010 at 12:41 pm
Oil rigs are far worse. They use far more metal than a wind turbine and leak toxic chemicals and gases into the environment.
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February 23rd, 2010 at 12:52 pm
check out this site it will answer your question
http://www.enotes.com/how-products-encyclopedia/wind-turbine
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February 23rd, 2010 at 1:08 pm
Oil/gas rigs are far worse. For example, in many of the hurricanes that pass through the caribbean, oil rigs are pulled up and destroyed, leaving behind tons of leaked oil. Wind turbines create green energy, which means they don’t consume any fossil fuels, which are terrible for the environment. However, I don’t know exactly what they are made of, but definitely some kind of metal.
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February 23rd, 2010 at 1:28 pm
Mother nature has a recycle system for the CO2 to fossil fuel.
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February 23rd, 2010 at 2:13 pm
You have to consider the whole package. If you are building an oil rig, storage and processing plants there are lots of resources used, same if you are building wind turbines. Most of it is steel and energy to shape and put together so both would be similar impact. That’s about the only aspect where they are even close. When it comes to the impact on the land, a wind turbine has less impact than a house, it doesn’t damage or alter the environment surrounding it much, maybe an access road. An oil rig has run off, which is toxic to the land, it takes material from within the earth which has to be replaced often with water, which is becoming scarce and often disrupts the water tables and under ground aquifers in the area. Entire communities are engaged in lawsuits because of the toxins left behind from oil extraction. They often have to burn off natural gas which decreases air quality in the region as well. Then there is more pollution with processing the petroleum into what we need like gasoline etc. And finally all the pollution from burning the products in cars and power plants, not to mention the toxins created by making plastics which can never biodegrade.
Hands down the oil rigs are worse for the environment than a wind turbine.
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