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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HoLeChit" data-source="post: 4115698" data-attributes="member: 35036">I had found and article or two on the subject, wish I could find them again. More or less, the articles stated that over the lifetime of the windmills, assuming they had a full service life, they would typically break even on carbon emissions. But due to reliability issues and obsolescence, a good percentage of windmills are taken out of service before they’re anywhere close to that “break even” point. Also, I don’t believe that study took into consideration the transportation and disposal of those windmills. This is kinda my opinion, there’s no facts behind this, it’s just based on what I’ve seen/read: windmills are more or less disposable. Most windmills are not used after they’re obsolete, it’s not cost effective.</blockquote>