Question: Do wind turbines really save energy?

...Wind Energy is clean, and saves energy...

Can a wind turbine ever recover the energy spent in producing maintaining, and servicing it?

Wind turbines use only the energy from the moving air to generate electricity. A modern 1,000 kW wind turbine in an average location will annually displace 2,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide from other electricity sources, i.e. usually coal fired power stations.

The energy produced by a wind turbine throughout its 20 year lifetime (in an average location) is eighty times larger than the amount of energy used to build, maintain, operate, dismantle, and scrapping it again.

In other words, on average it takes only two to three months for a wind turbine to recover all the energy required to build and operate it.

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