LANDMAN's "truth-bomb" about manufacturing & installing alternative energy tech

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LANDMAN (season one, episode three)
https://youtu.be/fmbZwxEnAFc

NOTE: Old stuff from last year, but can't recall it being posted here (bad memory, maybe). The video clip featuring this actual segment from the show is in the link above. Whereas the video at bottom is Thornton (as actor) discussing Tommy's "monologue". On the other side of the globe, China is building more coal plants to power the high demand for alternative energy tech (manufacturing it).

INTRO: A scene from Taylor Sheridan’s new series Landman, streaming on Paramount+, has gained significant attention for its sharp critique of wind turbines and green energy. [...] Billy Bob Thornton schools an environmental-activist lawyer after she admiringly approves of a row of wind turbines in the middle of an oil patch.

WOKE LAWYER: They're massive.

TOMMY NORRIS (BILLY BOB): Four hundred feet tall.

WOKE LAWYER: Who owns them?

TOMMY NORRIS: The oil companies. We use 'em to power the wells. No electricity out here. We're off the grid.

WOKE LAWYER (scoffs): They use clean energy to power oil wells?

TOMMY NORRIS: They use alternative energy. There's nothing clean about this.

WOKE LAWYER: Please, Mr. Oilman, tell me how the wind is bad for the environment.

TOMMY NORRIS: Do you have any idea how much diesel they have to burn to mix enough concrete to pour the foundation for each one of these turbines? Or make that steel and haul all this shit out here and put it together with a 450-foot crane? You wanna guess how much oil it takes to lubricate that fuckin' thing? Or winterize it? In its entire 20-year lifespan, it won't offset the carbon footprint of making it.

And don't get me started on solar panels and the lithium in your Tesla battery. And never mind the fact that if the whole world decided to go electric tomorrow, we don't have the transmission lines to get the electricity to the cities. It'd take 30 years if we started tomorrow.

And unfortunately for your grandkids, we have a 120-year petroleum-based infrastructure. Our whole lives depend on it. Hell, it's in everything. That road we came in on. The wheels on every car ever made, including your electric car. It's in tennis rackets and lipstick and refrigerators and anti-histamines. Pretty much anything plastic. Your cell phone case, artificial heart valves. Any kind of clothing that's not made with animal or plant fibers. Soap, fuckin' hand lotion, garbage bags, fishing boats. You name it.

Every. Fuckin'. Thing.

And you know what the kicker is? We're gonna run out of it before we find its replacement.

WOKE LAWYER: It's the thing that's gonna kill us all, as a species.

TOMMY NORRIS: No, the thing that's gonna kill us all is running out before we find an alternative. And believe me, if Exxon thought them fuckin' turbines right there were the future, they'd be putting them all over the goddamn place. Gettin' oil out of the ground is the most dangerous job in the world.

We don't do it because we like it. We do it because we're out of options. And you're out here trying to find something to blame for the danger besides your boss. There ain't nobody to blame but the demand that we keep pumpin' it.

Billy Bob Thornton talks about the ‘Landman’ monologue ... https://youtu.be/_9nFraU3iQo

https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/_9nFraU3iQo

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Re: Windmills and carbon footprint..
A plausible lie is the best kind. Looking at the Google AI below .. only one account is true.. problem is which..

Wind power has a very low carbon footprint over its entire lifespan compared to fossil fuels, with an average life cycle emission of 7-14 grams of CO₂ equivalent per kilowatt-hour (g CO₂e/kWh). This is significantly lower than coal (approx. 900 g/kWh) and natural gas (approx. 450 g/kWh).
Life Cycle Assessment
The emissions associated with wind power occur throughout its life cycle, primarily during the manufacturing and construction phases. Operations, maintenance, and decommissioning contribute only a small fraction of the total footprint.
Manufacturing and Construction: The production of materials like steel, concrete for foundations, and composite materials for blades, along with heavy transportation and installation using vessels and trucks, are the main sources of emissions. Steel towers typically account for about 30% of the carbon impact, and concrete foundations for about 17%.
Operation: Once operational, wind turbines generate electricity without emitting any greenhouse gases or other air pollutants.
Decommissioning: Emissions from decommissioning are relatively small, and recycling materials like steel and potentially blades can further reduce the overall footprint.
Carbon Payback Time
A key metric is the carbon payback time, which is the period required for a wind turbine to generate enough clean electricity to offset the emissions produced during its entire creation and installation. For most wind farms, this period is relatively short:
Onshore wind turbines generally have a carbon payback time of less than one year, often between 6 to 9 months.
Offshore wind turbines take slightly longer due to more complex logistics, with payback times typically ranging from 6 to 17 months.
Given that wind turbines are designed to operate for at least 25-30 years, they provide a significant net carbon saving over their lifespan. The carbon saved throughout a wind turbine's life is estimated to be up to 50 times greater than the emissions from its manufacture and operation.