This is no different from any other piece of fiberglass. The issue isn't that the blades can't be recycled. The issue is that the blades fail at ridiculous rates because of the difficulty of manufacturing them free of defects, the difficulty of transporting them without damage, the difficulty of installing them without damage, and their inability to stand up to severe weather.
The problem is only getting bigger as companies design larger turbines that use longer blades to generate more power.
Wind turbines are a massive scam because of the economics. You'd be hard pressed to find a single wind farm anywhere in the world that can operate profitably long term without subsidies or tax breaks.
Even ignoring their abysmal uptime, they don't make sense economically.
Just wait until we have to deal with the shitshow of solar panels piled up. This is just like the south park episode where the old folks made a deal with ManBearPig. We'll be old by the time it's a problem, and let our kids deal with it.
If I remember right they're burying these things in syria, which much like all other white things that lives there means that by law they have to be put in shallow graves.
Tens of thousands of blades being disposed of? How long are these windmills lasting? If their useful life is shorter than expected, it means the power is proportionately more expensive.
about ten years... give or take. there seems to a company in Texas that has worked out a way t break them down, but it is already at full compacity if I am interpreting it right.
When those blades spin they lose their edge surprisingly quickly hitting particulates in the air and eroding not to mention the strain of varied torque and varying temperature.
To work in a sense they have to be the opposite of streamlined with a huge volume of mass transiting across the contact surface.
They use cutting edge materials to take the strain but basically you're making propellers that turn out to be white elephants down the line.
Meanwhile you can run a nuclear plant for decades and only have a relatively small cask of spent fuel. If we could re-manufacture it we would have even lases waste, but the enviro nuts banned that.
Should see how much land they take need for production too. Not far from here thry are being manufactured and are stacked in large, long piles. Many mamy piles. Right off one of our interstates, major eye sore.
This is no different from any other piece of fiberglass. The issue isn't that the blades can't be recycled. The issue is that the blades fail at ridiculous rates because of the difficulty of manufacturing them free of defects, the difficulty of transporting them without damage, the difficulty of installing them without damage, and their inability to stand up to severe weather.
The problem is only getting bigger as companies design larger turbines that use longer blades to generate more power.
Wind turbines are a massive scam because of the economics. You'd be hard pressed to find a single wind farm anywhere in the world that can operate profitably long term without subsidies or tax breaks.
Even ignoring their abysmal uptime, they don't make sense economically.
Just wait until we have to deal with the shitshow of solar panels piled up. This is just like the south park episode where the old folks made a deal with ManBearPig. We'll be old by the time it's a problem, and let our kids deal with it.
Is there absolutely nothing that used fiberglass can be used for? I mean you can make rope from plastic bottles if you need to.
i actually had no idea what they were made of. I always assumed it was aluminum.
It looks like he's putting a ultra thin cover of soil over the turbine blades, just enough to mask and hide another green policy failure.
If I remember right they're burying these things in syria, which much like all other white things that lives there means that by law they have to be put in shallow graves.
Tens of thousands of blades being disposed of? How long are these windmills lasting? If their useful life is shorter than expected, it means the power is proportionately more expensive.
about ten years... give or take. there seems to a company in Texas that has worked out a way t break them down, but it is already at full compacity if I am interpreting it right.
When those blades spin they lose their edge surprisingly quickly hitting particulates in the air and eroding not to mention the strain of varied torque and varying temperature.
To work in a sense they have to be the opposite of streamlined with a huge volume of mass transiting across the contact surface.
They use cutting edge materials to take the strain but basically you're making propellers that turn out to be white elephants down the line.
I wonder if there are enough that they can be used to build a border wall?
Meanwhile you can run a nuclear plant for decades and only have a relatively small cask of spent fuel. If we could re-manufacture it we would have even lases waste, but the enviro nuts banned that.
HONK HONK, beep beep. AAHOOOOOGA.
I love this picture. Best quote (so far)"Saving the planet one gigantic hole filled with garbage at a time"
They can't be cut up to fit in a grinder so they cut them up to fit in a landfill.
And wasting land
Should see how much land they take need for production too. Not far from here thry are being manufactured and are stacked in large, long piles. Many mamy piles. Right off one of our interstates, major eye sore.
Windmills- so so gay yet barred from Grindr. No wonder their blades killed themselves.
You can't do the helicopter on Grindr? Well that takes all the fun out of it.
Good ol fashioned Meat Spin
Give them to me I'll make something cool out of them
They want OUR green(backs) to pay for THEIR energy