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Re:The U.S. wind industry now employs more than 100K people by VMG on Saturday April 22, 2017 @02:13PM (#14173822)
How many mines are needed for the production and maintenance of wind (or solar) of comparable capacity?
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Re:The U.S. wind industry now employs more than 100K people by grigjd3 on Sunday April 23, 2017 @09:30AM (#14178077)
Tons of them. Materials required for solar cells and turbines have to come from somewhere.
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