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Wind Turbine Blades Can’t Be Recycled, So They’re Piling Up in Landfills
Bloomberg | Feb. 5, 2020 | Chris Martin

Posted on 02/09/2020 9:31:54 AM PST by PROCON

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To: null and void

>>Why don’t they stand them on end and use them for outer walls on government buildings?<<

Cut to length, and use to build snow fences, and other such, as well.

Stand/lean on end, and grout them to reinforce drainage channels, or highway slopes.

Lots of other uses for them, with a bit of thought.


41 posted on 02/09/2020 11:41:14 AM PST by ApplegateRanch (Love me, love my guns!)
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To: left that other site

42 posted on 02/09/2020 12:28:47 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: PROCON

Who cares if they can’t be recycled. Bury them in an out of the way place and pretend they are rocks. The only concern would be if they degraded to a toxic chemical that seeped into the water table. Plenty of places where that won’t happen.


43 posted on 02/09/2020 12:43:02 PM PST by Brooklyn Attitude (It's no coincidence that the DemocRAT/media complex always sides with America's enemies.)
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To: Bon mots

“You can build a beautiful wall with those.”

And plant ivy that can crawl up those monstrosities.


44 posted on 02/09/2020 1:03:13 PM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Operation Chaos is in play. Repeat, Operation Chaos is in play)
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To: Brooklyn Attitude

It really isn’t going to matter. You still need to mine for the materials that go into windmills and without electricity or oil, you won’t be able to extract those materials from the ground.


45 posted on 02/09/2020 1:04:31 PM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Operation Chaos is in play. Repeat, Operation Chaos is in play)
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To: PROCON

They would make nice louver-like Sun roofs for pavilion shelters, to keep the homeless people in the Mojave desert.


46 posted on 02/09/2020 1:11:30 PM PST by lurk
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To: Oldexpat

How in the Wide Wild World of Sports do the wear out? Those look perfectly viable to be.


47 posted on 02/09/2020 2:03:14 PM PST by GingisK
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To: Bob434

I refuse to use those canvas bags for groceries because of pathogens we are paying 10 cents a bag BUT they are much better plastic bags I ALWAYS forget to bring them into the stores for reuse, I end up using them to clean my kitty box!!!


48 posted on 02/09/2020 2:56:07 PM PST by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: PROCON

Can they be melted down and used for something else?


49 posted on 02/09/2020 3:31:21 PM PST by tillacum
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To: Bon mots

L8r 18


50 posted on 02/09/2020 3:39:16 PM PST by preacher ( Journalism no longer reports news, they use news to shape our society.)
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To: PROCON

From what I can glean on the internet, the darned things are practically eternal and don’t deteriorate. Why not drill holes in the darned things and dump them in the ocean where they can provide habitat for seat critters?


51 posted on 02/09/2020 6:29:39 PM PST by Hootowl
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To: null and void

There’s one standing on-end at a rest stop in Kansas (or maybe Nebraska). Makes a nice monument, but not sure to what.


52 posted on 02/09/2020 6:31:06 PM PST by Hootowl
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat

Yeah we were supposed to be switched over to paper and canvas bags a few months ago- but none of the stores have done so yet- I suspect it’s coming though soon- We used the plastic bags to bag up old meat and fruit and stuff that goes bad- paper bags just won’t cut it for that purpose-

Years ago they had paper bags, and they were ok BUT they always ripped- and groceries would tumble out just as you’re about a foot away from house- or so-

wish they’d come up with a biodegradable plastic bag- -


53 posted on 02/09/2020 9:09:43 PM PST by Bob434
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To: PROCON

Freaking hilarious: I literally just finished a couple hours ago a photo-essay on the hypocrisy of ‘greenies’ and covered that very topic among my other toxic exposés of wind power’s dirty little secrets.


54 posted on 02/09/2020 9:42:49 PM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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