Windmills

Only one of the top ten wind mill manufacturers is in the United States and that is a GE plant in Boston. They produce 7.57 Gwts per year. Biden calls for 67 Gwts by 2023 which means that they will need to purchase from outside the country and mostly from China. In addition to the windmill proper the engine needs dysprosium, neodymium and praseodymium which are rare earth metals mined in China. The recently passed National Defense Authorization Act direct most Pentagon systems to use rare earth metals that have been mined and refined outside of China within five years. This does not apply to private companies like GE. The government is currently funding an Australian company to mine rare earths in Texas. How environmentalist react to this remains to be seen. The goal, based on Biden's buy America plan, is to manufacture and mine everything in the US.