Wind Turbine Carbon Footprint
By Robert Wilson. Its carbon footprint is massive try 24185 tons of CO2. Wind Turbine Using Either A Vertical Or A Horizontal Axis A Embodied Download Scientific Diagram With 45 Tons of Rebar and 481 M3 of Concrete. Wind turbine carbon footprint . What is the carbon footprint of a 200m turbine and how much concrete is poured into the ground to support 35 of them. To create a 1000 Kg of pig iron you start with 1800 Kg of iron ore 900 Kg of coking coal 450 Kg of limestone. The blast furnace consumes 4500. While we focus on the low carbon footprint of wind energy we need to appreciate its enormous physical footprint. An increase in the number of planning applications for onshore wind farms is leading to communities asking more questions including why all that energy. In 2006 turbine manufacturer Vestas studied the carbon payback period for various turbines. The typical footprint assigned for a 1 MW wind turbine is 025 acres. The footprint for the. Wind energy has a l...