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Originally Posted by redpoint5
Well, the whole first post in this thread discusses the pollution and impact of building a single wind turbine.
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Presently, there are about 1-million abandoned onshore oil wells in the United States. Each one a Superfund site.
Each one will have to be properly plugged. At taxpayer expense.
Collectively, they represent millions of thousands of linear feet of abandoned steel pipe buried, and lost to the US economy.
Perhaps the American Petroleum Institute would like to absorb the total cost of decommissioning all these orphaned wells, and then we can recycle all that wasted steel, rather then mine for it.
Same for the abandoned offshore platforms.
If global population actually peaks at 10-billion, then we're near a point where less and less new infrastructure will need to be built out.
Mining and processing, and transporting will be saturated and it will just come down to maintenance from there.
If we could get Russian cobalt out of all US and global oil refining, we could probably reduce the toxic footprint of gasoline and diesel production.