How does production of wind turbine components compare with burning fossil fuels?

What the science says... The average lifecycle emissions of coal is 77 times greater than wind energy. https://skepticalscience.com/comparison-of-wind-turbine-production-with-fossil-fuel-burning.htm Climate Myth... Producing and transporting wind turbine components releases more carbon dioxide than burning fossil fuels "[W]indmills are perhaps the worst boondoggle . . . because they require much more high quality energy to manufacture, install, maintain, and back up than [they] will ever produce." (Interstate Informed Citizens Coalition, Inc) On a lifecycle basis, wind power emits far less carbon dioxide than fossil fuels per kilowatt-hour of energy generated (Dolan & Heath 2012, Wang et al. 2019). According to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), the average lifecycle emissions of offshore and onshore wind turbines is 13 g CO2-eq/KWh.1 Lifecycle emissions for fossil fuels are much higher, with natural gas and coal releasing 486 g CO2-eq/KWh and 1001 g CO2-eq/KWh emissions, respectively.1 In other words, the average lifecycle emissions of wind energy is roughly 1/77th that of coal.1 Manufacturing accounts for only a small percentage (2.41%) of the lifecycle emissions for wind power turbines (Wang et al. 2019). Most turbine emissions come from transportation, which accounts for over 90% of emissions for both offshore and onshore operations. Once operational, wind turbines create clean, emissions-free energy that offsets the carbon dioxide emissions associated with production and transportation.2 Footnotes: [1] Nat’l Renewable Energy Laboratory, Life Cycle Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Electricity Generation: Update (Sept. 2021) (Table 1). NREL calculates emissions intensity using grams of carbon dioxide equivalent per kilowatt-hour. [2] Sara Peach, What's the Carbon Footprint of a Wind Turbine?, Yale Climate Connections (June 30, 2021). This rebuttal is based on the report "Rebutting 33 False Claims About Solar, Wind, and Electric Vehicles" written by Matthew Eisenson, Jacob Elkin, Andy Fitch, Matthew Ard, Kaya Sittinger & Samuel Lavine and published by the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia Law School in 2024. Skeptical Science sincerely appreciates Sabin Center's generosity in collaborating with us to make this information available as widely as possible. Last updated on 26 October 2024 by Sabin Center Team.

Fukushima Daiichi: How is the decommissioning process going to work?

Fukushima Daiichi: How is the decommissioning process going to work? : The decommissioning process for the Fukushima Daiichi site and surroundings is scheduled to be completed by 2051. It will require many innovations, and careful planning. Here are some of the details outlined at an event at the International Atomic Energy Agency's General Conference in Vienna. ;

MSR reactors are popping up in many places now!

https://spectrum.ieee.org/chinas-thorium-molten-salt-reactor exerpt: The attraction of thorium is that it can help achieve energy self-sufficiency by reducing dependence on uranium, particularly for countries such as India with enormous thorium reserves. But China may source it in a different way: The element is a waste product of China’s huge rare earth mining industry. Harnessing it would provide a practically inexhaustible supply of fuel. Already, China’s Gansu province has maritime and aerospace applications in mind for this future energy supply, according to the state-run Xinhua News Agency. Scant technical details of China’s reactor exist, and SINAP didn’t respond to IEEE Spectrum’s requests for information. The Chinese Academy of Sciences’ environmental-impact report states that the molten-salt reactor core will be 3 meters in height and 2.8 meters in diameter. It will operate at 700 °C and have a thermal output of 60 MW, along with 10 MW of electricity. Molten-salt breeder reactors are the most viable designs for thorium fuel, says Charles Forsberg, a nuclear scientist at MIT. In this kind of reactor, thorium fluoride dissolves in molten salt in the reactor’s core. To turn thorium-232 into fuel, it is irradiated to thorium-233, which decays into an intermediate, protactinium-233, and then into uranium-233, which is fissile. During this fuel-breeding process, protactinium is removed from the reactor core while it decays, and then it is returned to the core as uranium-233. Fission occurs, generating heat and then steam, which drives a turbine to generate electricity. But many challenges come along with thorium use. A big one is dealing with the risk of proliferation. When thorium is transformed into uranium-233, it becomes directly usable in nuclear weapons. “It’s of a quality comparable to separated plutonium and is thus very dangerous,” says Edwin Lyman, director of nuclear power safety at the Union of Concerned Scientists in Washington, D.C. If the fuel is circulating in and out of the reactor core during operation, this movement introduces routes for the theft of uranium-233, he says.

moltex energy is building an MSR to reduce the spent fuel rods in Eastern Canada

press release dated march 3 2025 Moltex has successfully validated WATTS on spent nuclear fuel bundles, therough state of the art hot cell experiments, at the Point Lepreau nuclear plant in New Brunswick. Advanced reactor company Moltex Energy Canada said it has successfully validated its waste to stable salt (WATSS) process on used nuclear fuel bundles from an unnamed Canadian commercial reactor through hot cell experiments conducted by Canadian Nuclear Laboratories. According to the company, WATSS is set to transform nuclear waste management by recycling nuclear waste to produce new fuel, providing a robust, commercially viable alternative to conventional direct disposal methods. Moltex intends to couple WATSS with the company’s stable salt reactor–wasteburner (SSR-W), transforming nuclear waste into clean energy while permanently eliminating long-lived transuranic elements like plutonium. WATSS can produce fuel for other reactor types as well, the company said. The process: Moltex said it has demonstrated that, using a chemical process, it can extract 90 percent of transuranic material in 24 hours, with greater efficiency over longer periods of time. According to the company, the advancement not only reduces nuclear waste volumes but also unlocks fresh economic opportunities for waste owners and utilities—options previously deemed unfeasible because of financial constraints and the availability of waste management capabilities. Under a 2020 collaboration agreement, CNL is supporting aspects of Moltex’s nuclear fuel development program for its SSR-W. Along with Moltex and the University of New Brunswick, CNL was tasked with designing, building, and optimizing a fuel testing apparatus at the university’s Centre for Nuclear Energy Research, with parallel complementary activities at the University of Manchester in England. In October 2024, Moltex announced that research has demonstrated that the SSR-W, a 300-MW small modular reactor design developed by teams in New Brunswick and Ontario in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States, can consume as fuel the majority of transuranic elements present in used fuel bundles from Canada’s CANDU reactors. Developments: In 2021, the Canadian government awarded C$50.5 million (about $40.2 million) to Moltex to support SMR research and technology development in New Brunswick. In addition to the SSR-W and WATSS, the company is developing GridReserve, thermal energy storage tanks that will enable the SSR-W to act as a peaking plant. Moltex has the goal of deploying first-of-a-kind SSR-W, WATSS, and GridReserve units at the NB Power’s Point Lepreau site. In addition, Moltex’s U.K.-based sister company, MoltexFLEX, has advanced the FLEX reactor—a modular molten salt reactor designed for low-cost, flexible operation across electricity generation, hydrogen production, and industrial heat. https://www.moltexenergy.com/qa-how-does-moltex-recycle-nuclear-waste/

Gary Nolan interview with ross Coultard, Gary has had experiences since age 6!

And he reveals a lot more knowledge about recent events where ever more whistleblowers from inside the dark programs have comes forward, a situation he that he describes as the turning point to a new era much like like what Thomas Kuhn described in his famous book about the structure of scientific revolution, when a new paradigm takes hold and everything changes in how science operates. https://youtu.be/XR0JtbuLhPo?si=r9oa4nBCZr_bxUs6

The Paypal Mafia has an interesting religious angle that goes back a long way !

One of the people who lived with Escriva in Spain and learned under him was a young priest named Arne Panula. After Escriva’s death, as head of the Opus Dei house at Stanford University in the 1980s, Arne Panula, then in his mid-40s, met a young, gay undergraduate at Stanford who was the president of the Federalist Society. His name was Peter Thiel. They remained “close friends” until Panula’s death. Panula went on to head Opus Dei in America, ran Opus Dei’s K-street lobby Catholic Information Center (CIC) and founded the theocratic Leonine Forum. Leonard Leo was on the boards of both the CIC and Leonine Forum. read the rst here: https://www.mind-war.com/p/catholic-coup-jd-vance-paypal-mafia