There are two aspects of green energy insanity that never get adequate attention, the reliance on rare earth minerals and the demolition and wastes issues.

The lousy economics, especially compared to those of natural gas and its emissions cutting benefits, is part of the green energy insanity I wrote about a few days ago. I provided a followup in my Best Picks of the Week post yesterday with a feature titled “The Answer Is Blowin’ Away in the Wind” about the unwinding the German Energiewende wind venture. Ever alert reader Mark Dye investigated, found the author had identified error an in the original article that has since been corrected. Another part of story has also surfaced, he noted, a part that seldom gets any attention. It’s about what to do with old windmills, which provides further insights into green energy insanity.

The front-end problem with both solar and wind is that they depend on rare earth minerals that often have to be imported and the mining of which is about as anti-environment as it gets. The German story, though, is about the back end, when old windmills have to be demolished. The original story may be found here in German and this is the translated second part (emphasis added):

http://naturalgasnow.org/cant-just-stop-green-energy-insanity-pleas...