collapse

if the manufacture and supply chain of materials of a windmill is substantially fossil fuel based its just a symbolic version of that.

while i think a lot of the "renewables are made of fossil fuels" arguments are overly reductionist in a pragmatic sense its still true. i do think many of those people think unless the entire supply chain of renewables is renewables its impure or not useful. Its still very useful and steps on a continuum to full renewable self reproduction , even if it does take some nuclear peaker plants or something .