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Re:How Windmills as Wide as Jumbo Jets Are Making Clean Ener... by eddieschod on Monday April 23, 2018 @08:44AM (#16902873)
Does anyone have a datasheet so we can calculate the Energy ROI?
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Re:How Windmills as Wide as Jumbo Jets Are Making Clean Ener... by alphydan on Monday April 23, 2018 @09:42AM (#16903295)
Here you go: https://www.vestas.com/~/media/vestas/about/sustainability/p...

Money-shot on p66. About 8 months for EROEI (Energy returned on energy invested). I worked on some of these Life Cycle Analyses and can attest that they were quite rigorous.

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