Posted on 09/04/2019 7:45:17 PM PDT by george76
wind turbines only last for twenty years, and after that time the turbines must be torn down .. wind turbine blades cannot be recycled
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more than 100 wind turbine blades measuring 120 ft long have been dumped in a Sioux Falls, South Dakota, landfill, but there’s a problem: the massive blades are taking up too much room
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A wind farm near Albert Lea, Minn., brought dozens of their old turbine blades to the Sioux Falls dump this summer.
But City Hall says it won’t take anymore unless owners take more steps to make the massive fiberglass pieces less space consuming.
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This year, 101 turbine blades have been trucked to the city dump. But with each one spanning 120 feet long, that’s caused officials with the landfill and the Sioux Falls Public Works Department to study the long-term effect that type of refuse could have on the dump.
South Dakota is a long way to travel to dispose of wind turbine blades, which uses a lot of diesel fuel, and South Dakota officials aren’t sure why the blades are .
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The fact that it is too expensive to dispose of wind turbine blades in a landfill should be front page news, because we’re going to have thousands of blades to get rid of in the near future. In fact, the Energy Information Administration shows Minnesota has some of the oldest wind turbines in the country, meaning this problem will present itself sooner than later.
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Argus Leader: Sioux Falls Landfill Tightens Rules After Minnesota Dumps Dozens of Wind Turbine Blades ( Full title).
(Excerpt) Read more at americanexperiment.org ...
That reminds me - whatever happened to late last summer stories about worn out solar panels being thrown in landfills even though they contained - 10 times more dangerous than lead - cadmium? I guess the drive-bys started spiking those stories - didn’t fit the narrative.
Building one wind turbine requires 900 tons of steel, 2,500 tons of concrete and 45 tons of plastic.
A single electric-car battery weighs about 1,000 pounds. Fabricating one requires digging up, moving and processing more than 500,000 pounds of raw materials somewhere on the planet.
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Well they can’t burn them, nor cut them up. Maybe they can use them for the WALL?
I read where fossil fuel plants are going out of business because of the increased costs associated with playing baby sitter to these things do to their sporadic nature of producing power.
Ah, should have read down more!
My favorite lake-front park on Lake Ontario in Canada has been ruined by this stupid, leftist fear-mongering - and Canadians are more proud to their fake PC credentials more than most Americans in places like SF or LA. There’s now about 2 dozen blinking, spinning windmills surrounding it. its hideous.
What about deep-sixing them into a tectonic subduction fault at the bottom of an ocean trench? Tectonic activity will eventually shift them into the fault and underneath the mantel of the earth. Then they’ll burn away into molten rock.
Maybe they could turn them into homes for Moray eels...
I hate those things. They are a blight on the land
That would be hilarious watching the libs protest a border wall made of recycled wind turbine blades.
Well, if Murray Eel needs a home, then let’s give them to him.
20 year life? Can’t recycle the composite material? Sure makes that “cheap” wind power mighty expensive on a life cycle cost basis.
I agree, Why can’t they be taken to a smelter and turned into new steel?
Solar panels use hazardous materials, like sulfuric acid and phosphine gas, in the manufacturing process that makes them hard to recycle.
Solar panels also have relatively short operational lifespans and can’t be stored in a landfill without protections against Hazmat contamination.
Waste crisis looms as thousands of solar panels reach end of life.
Man, those wind freaks really loose it when you mention all the birds they kill.
I think the article said they are made out of fiberglass.
leftist insanity on display
they’re fiberglass
maybe use them for one very large/long surf board
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