How can we be entirely oil free with wind energy if turbines need oil?

How do we manufacture the windmills?

Of course, there's always this as well.



So green...

Is that guy harvesting organic windmills?

Hemp oil brah

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How do we manufacture the windmills?

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Hell, how do we get them to the wind farms?

I used to work next door to the primary manufacturer of the giant windmill blades in Little Rock, and the delivery of a SINGLE blade required an oversized 18 wheeler with a custom trailer that was too long to take most normal surface roads, a lead car, a follow car, and a team of about 5 other cars to run ahead and shut down/block off intersections and turns too tight for the long rig.

It was a HUGE production to deliver even one blade, and that doesn't even count all the machinery and equipment required to place the thing on the trailer and then install it at its destination. No telling what oil and petroleum based products are used in the manufacturing process of the blades either.

Then you have the rest of the windmill that needs to be manufactured, delivered using big rigs and follow cars, and oil reqiired to even lubricate the turbine.

It's fricking nuts to even consider how we'd make ANY of this work without O&G products.