Are battery casings made from oil, and are solar panels made from some percentage of oil? And fan blades for wind turbines?
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battery casings are plastic, so they are made from oil. Not the insides tho.
Solar panels, the plastic parts come from oil, but not the internals, which I believe are mostly silicon (sand).
Fan blades are some sort of metal, i believe. The towers are usually steel.
But you couldn’t find a better use for the oil than to make solar panels.
50 years ago, casings for automotive batteries were made from asphalt, a waste byproduct of crude oil refining. modern automotive casings are made of plastic. these and the other plastics are made from oil, but not necessarily crude oil (fossil fuel). plastics can also be made from plant oil with soya being the most common.