How much petroleum do you think it takes to produce a wind turbine?

by Takver

Question by Adam: How much petroleum do you think it takes to produce a wind turbine?
How much petroleum do you think it takes to produce a wind turbine? (shipping parts, painting the structure, plastic parts, installation, manufacturing, shipping of raw materials for manufacturing, mining for the metals, transporting those mined metals, mining for the magnetic parts, shipping those magnetic parts, drilling for the petroleum used to make parts of the wind turbines in the first place, shipment of the drilling platforms, transportation of the petroleum from those platforms…? How much would ya guess?)

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Answer by Yellow Go LightlyYou [...]

How much energy is required to produce, transport and install solar panels?

Question by John M: How much energy is required to produce, transport and install solar panels?
I’m wondering if you total up all the electricity a plant making solar panels uses in a year, the energy the workers take to travel to their jobs each day, the energy used to transport the finished product to consumers and finally the energy used to install them and then compare it to the energy all of these panels will produce during their 20 year life will anything be gained?

Or would be have been ahead to just not bother making the panels in the first [...]

Q&A: how many watts can one of those big wind gen- alt produce ?

Question by james m: how many watts can one of those big wind gen- alt produce ?
the ones you see in west tex and calif

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Answer by freakshowjones III and psychowhat

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Q&A: What process is used to produce biodiesel fuel? Specifically, the changing of certain types of algae?

Question by ?: What process is used to produce biodiesel fuel? Specifically, the changing of certain types of algae?
I have read a little about a process called ‘transesterification’.. Can you give me any good websites or suggestions.

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Answer by Carrie Shttp://www.biodiesel.org/pdf_files/fuelfactsheets/Production.PDF

Hi there…
I GOOGLE it and came up with many sites try this one.

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A silicon solar cell array, with a collection efficiency of 13%, is required to produce 1.5 kW of power to run?

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Question by LeoLeo: A silicon solar cell array, with a collection efficiency of 13%, is required to produce 1.5 kW of power to run?
A silicon solar cell array, with a collection efficiency of 13%, is required to produce 1.5 kW of power to run a small pump. If the array is positioned to collect 340 Wm-2 of energy from the sun, how large an area (in m2) does the array need to be to achieve the desired output?

show calculation please

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Answer by Smily Liuumm..idk..
hope someone will help you..

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Operation REACH’s Gulfsouth Youth Biodiesel Project Will Collect Fried Turkey Grease this Thanksgiving to Produce Biodiesel Fuel

Operation REACH’s Gulfsouth Youth Biodiesel Project Will Collect Fried Turkey Grease this Thanksgiving to Produce Biodiesel Fuel










New Orleans, La. (PRWEB) November 18, 2010

The Gulfsouth Youth Biodiesel Project (GYBP), a program of Operation [...]

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