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http://data.cimple...lizedReviewRating	not credible
schema:url	http://fullfact.org/online/wind-turbines-energy/
schema:text	A viral post on Facebook claims that wind turbines cost more energy to produce than could ever be gained back from them. This is incorrect. This text is selectively quoted from an essay written by scientist David Hughes, and published in 2009 in an anthology edited by Thomas Homer-Dixon. On his blog Mr Homer-Dixon writes: “The poster is fraudulent. I didn’t write the text, the text itself is selectively quoted, and the argument it makes, taken in isolation, is meaningless.” The full quote from the book is: “The concept of net energy must also be applied to renewable sources of energy, such as windmills and photovoltaics. A two-megawatt windmill contains 260 tonnes of steel requiring 170 tonnes of coking coal and 300 tonnes of iron ore, all mined, transported and produced by hydrocarbons. The question is: how long must a windmill generate energy before it creates more energy than it took to build it? At a good wind site, the energy payback day could be in three years or less; in a poor location, energy payback may be never. That is, a windmill could spin until it falls apart and never generate as much energy as was invested in building it.” So Mr Hughes was saying only that placing windmills in bad places may mean they don’t generate enough energy to “pay back” the energy it cost to produce them, not that all turbines will fail to do so. Mr Homer-Dixon adds, “it would be pointless to put wind turbines in poor locations”. A 2014 study which looked at the same issue found that 2-megawatt wind turbines installed in Northwest USA paid for themselves in 5-6 months. A 2010 analysis of fifty separate studies found that the average wind turbine, over the course of its operational life, generated 20 times more energy than it took to produce. This level was “favourable” in comparison to fossil fuels, nuclear and solar power. Many wind turbines have a designed service life of 20 years, although the actual operating lifespan of a turbine can vary depending on the environment they are in, and the maintenance strategy applied to them.
schema:mentions	dbpedia:Thomas_Homer-Dixon Windmill Applied Digital Data Systems Ore Wind turbine Renewable energy Fossil fuel Solar power Steel Watt Facebook United States Anthology Metallurgical coal Photovoltaics dbpedia:Net_energy_gain dbpedia:Howard_Hughes dbpedia:World_energy_supply_and_consumption
schema:reviewRating	Incorrect—this is based on a selective quotation. It could, in theory, be the case for turbines placed in poor locations. But studies show turbines pay their energy cost back quickly.
schema:author	full-fact
schema:datePublished	2019-02-27 (xsd:date)
schema:inLanguage	English
schema:itemReviewed	http://data.cimple.eu/claim/e45338bc7ca3b5001b6b4d59335208dbf5c5a29a223b26735dce9772

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