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 ...
They kill birds, they don’t work when there is no wind,, and worst of all they are hideously ugly.
Burn them, like wood....
They are made of fiberglass
Seems to me that a smart high school student should be able to easily understand that the solar & wind generators are a loser all the way around. There should be absolutely no subsidies for these industries.
fiberglass is a mixture of resin and glass fibers sandwiched together. I only know this because when I was younger My dad would use the material to make sailboats and I spent a few summers helping with the construction. I am just guessing but my guess is that recycling is prohibitively expensive and that the technology to do it has not been developed to the point where the shear amount of fiberglass waste can be done because the production of the waste surpasses the ability to recycle.
Every power ‘device’ has a business model attached, with cost figured up for the ‘life’ of the model (to include it’s eventual dismantling). So you look at a coal plant (or group) that is mostly there to back-up wind or solar power. You are paying full-price for the construction, the daily maintenance, and the team to keep it operational....then you figure in the wind-power costs, the profits necessary, and then the customer’s end-point.
No one...even in Europe...can show cheap and reasonable costs when you do the long-term planning with wind-power in the front, and coal-plants as the back-up. Yet, there is no alternate to coal-power, as alternate sources...unless you want more hydroelectric power.
All of this leads me to one of two conclusions. You will have more black-outs in the future, or you will be paying 30-to-50 percent more on your electrical bill for coal plants to sit idle.
Good luck with that fool’s errand!
“Yeah, but I don’t care what all your engineering calcs and lifecycle cost analyses show! We need to go Green, go Renewable!”
Once-beautiful vistas all over America have been completely ruined. The Altamont Pass in California was once the most verdant area imaginable in springtime. It honestly looked like Ireland. Now it has a giant power plant spread hither and yon for miles and miles ruining the vista everywhere you look.
The funny thing the same greenies who once screamed bloody murder over having to view ONE offshore oil production platform on the California coast are happy with despoiling all the natural beauty of California inland.
I told him why don’t we jut put tiny windmills on our cars and that way we can charge our batteries with free energy. Maybe we could also dangle a magnet in front of our car and let it pulls us everywhere we need to go!
It hurts watching that video.
“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.”
Subduction is very slow maybe 5 centimeters per year or around 2 inches. It would take 700+ years to consume a 120’ blade thrown in length wise.
Wind turbines cause climate change downwind too...going to have to apply for a government grant to study it!
Yeah. So? ;-)
They are made of fiberglass.
LOL!
BTW, our local dump has to be closed on weekends to keep out-of-state freeloaders from filling it.
Probably both. Hopefully the subsidies will die and take the windmills with it.
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