Linking wind energy with production of steel

I'm sure it varies by design and location. But anyway, it's a shit-ton of metal.

I think. You have some incredible savings if you can produce wind turbine towers were the wind turbines are to be located. The only ship in would be iron and the trace amounts of carbon, copper, nickel, etc.

If the egg is a turbine, oil is the chicken.

PRIOR to being able to process a single gram of steel with wind energy, we must first build wind turbines by consuming vast amounts of oil and steel.

It will take decades to mitigate the expenditure and reach carbon neutrality. I guess it might be "worth" it to you if you think we have decades to fidget around on the problem.

the point about minimizing transportation distance for that much raw material certainly seems useful.

But I'm pretty sure that Mother Civilization will not fret too much finding another way to utilize surplus available energy

Frankly I find the entire conversation about how to more "greenly" produce a raw ingredient necessary for industrial production somewhat unnerving and oblivious to the root cause of our little problem. In fact, it is a manifestation of the psyche driving infinite growth: no matter what happens, the show must go on; growth will continue.

We sit here accelerating to some destination without a roadmap. There is no "enough". There is only "more" and "faster". Our only solution to our predicament is to produce more stuff to band-aid the last problem caused by building too much stuff.

You don't want parts of the line to turn off with molten metal in them.

Oh yes, we won't let nature cut off our wind! Mwahahaha