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I have often wondered how much energy is generated from a wind farm compared to an oil well and this is what I have learned.
If an oil well produced 200 barrels of oil per day, then that well would generate 1.16 billion Btu/day.
According to Chat GPT (see below), it would take 28 wind turbines with a 2-megawatt capacity to generate approximately the same amount f energy.

Here in Texas, ERCOT (see link below) determined our wind farms can only generate about 25% of their installed capacity. So now we are up to 112 turbines. If each turbine needs an acre of land per tower, then this means we need 112 acres with 112 wind turbines to produce the same amount of energy from just 1 oil well. With today’s drilling technology, we can place 6 wells on a simple 10-acre pad site.
So, you must consider the environmental impact of the 10-acre oil well pad site compared to the 672-acre wind farm which is bigger than 1 square mile!

Also missing from this comparison is, you must drill an oil well to make a wind turbine. Oil wells do not need wind turbines. You see, all you get from a wind turbine is electricity. Oil wells produce the building blocks of life. Hydrocarbons are used to make nearly everything we need to survive. (see link below)

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https://www.ercot.com/files/docs/2022/11/29/SARA_Winter2022-23.pdf
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/can-made-one-barrel-oil/

The following information came from Chat CPT
The amount of energy generated by an oil well that produces 200 barrels of oil per day depends on various factors, including the quality of the oil and the efficiency of the equipment used to extract and refine it. However, we can estimate the amount of energy produced by the oil well based on the energy content of crude oil.
According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, the average energy content of a barrel of crude oil is about 5.8 million British thermal units (Btu). Therefore, an oil well that produces 200 barrels of oil per day would produce approximately:
200 barrels/day x 5.8 million Btu/barrel = 1.16 billion Btu/day
Now, let's compare this to the energy output of wind turbines. The energy output of a wind turbine depends on various factors, including the size and efficiency of the turbine and the wind speed at the location. According to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, a typical modern wind turbine with a capacity of 2 megawatts (MW) can generate about 6 million kilowatt-hours (kWh) of electricity per year.
Assuming that the wind turbines operate at full capacity for a year, we can calculate the energy output as follows:
2 MW x 6,000 hours/year x 1,000 kW/MW = 12 million kWh/year
To convert this to Btu, we can use the conversion factor of 1 kWh = 3,412 Btu:
12 million kWh/year x 3,412 Btu/kWh = 40.944 billion Btu/year
Therefore, to generate the same amount of energy as an oil well that produces 200 barrels of oil per day, we would need:
1.16 billion Btu/day ÷ 40.944 billion Btu/year = 28.3 wind turbines (rounded up to the nearest whole number)
So, it would take approximately 28 wind turbines to generate the same amount of energy as 1 oil well that produces 200 barrels of oil per day.