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[Tony Nitrous]

There's over 120 of them out past here at Coopers Gap.

[KiwiCol]

120 x 365L = nearly 44,000L of oil every year.   Go greens!  Yeah right.

[Eric GSX1400K3]

Fun factoid, most gearbox oils can be cleaned, filtered and reused.  There's no combustion (like with engine oils like our motorcycles) so you just need a nice filtration system.  We once did a 10,000l bulk tank at a copper mine that ran a kidney system 10 micron absolute filter (any finer and you start filtering out the additives that help the oil).  At $2 per litre for mineral oil, this system saved 80k in the first year alone.  Sat and filtered between running campaigns, then they pump the cleaned oil into cleaned IBC's, drain the used oil into other IBCs and filled gearboxes from the cleaned ones.  Tribology showed no issues in increased wear etc. With using cleaned oil.  As long as the base stays good, all ok.  This was a Castrol EP mineral gear oil, so heavily loaded mining gearboxes.  Arduous duty.

[Hooli]

The wind generators need an oil change every 12 months. 365 litres around $7500. Makes a home one expensive. Was wondering which plant they grow to get that oil, it is a zero carbon machine they say.

The same plant that makes all the concrete they use in the foundations?

I know I've seen figures to prove offshore ones like we've got a lot of around the coast create so much Co2 being built that even by the greenie's imaginary carbon myth maths are worse than proper power stations.

[grog]

All good Eric. They say wind must have fully synthetic, time to clean etc costs dollars. Labour cost to change those 120 windmills? Great reports on industrial accidents doing oil change. Great reports on hidden figures of blade, gearbox failures. No Spin for Scotland worth a read. Dont get me wrong, im all for a free power source, have a read on ocean wave to do it.

[VladTepes]

The wind generators need an oil change every 12 months. 365 litres around $7500. Makes a home one expensive. Was wondering which plant they grow to get that oil, it is a zero carbon machine they say.

Well, you know all those kids that skip school to protest climate change?

The oil companies harness the oil from their pimply faces, once they've glued themselves to roads and can't escape.

And teenagers are a renewable resource.