Posted on 08/26/2023 7:24:54 AM PDT by spirited irish
Officials in Sweetwater say an out-of-state company has made their town a dump for the seldom-seen trash created by renewable energy.
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Yeah...that’s the photo I was looking for.
It takes energy to produce energy. An electrical engineer told me it takes 3kw of electricity to energize the field in a wind turbine to produce the energy it puts out.
And they’re filled with balsa wood! Balsa is mostly available in the Brazilian Rain Forest (considered the earths lungs) where China levels thousands of acres. Environmentalists are destroying the environment to save it. In Scotland they mowed down 16 million trees in order to erect these monstrosities.
Wind farming takes up valuable farmland as do solar farm. Both are a menace to birds (and bees?)
They’re made of fiberglass.
Dang, fiberglass? Ugggh-
“Quick research reveals that a full wind turbine unit is supposed to last ~25 years, with gear boxes and blades needing replacement after ~10 years.”
The key word is “supposed”. My guess is they don’t last half that long. Everything else about wind energy is a lie, so the supposed useful life is likely to be also.
Exactly. This is a huge issue. Not just blades but turbines and masts too.
Every one of these installed with tax subsidy.
Our squandered tax money blown on global warming hoax.
The promises to clean it up and the taxpayer subsidies continue. But these breeding grounds for rats, snakes and misquitoes just get bigger. The clean-up answer is always the same: “soon.”
Eventually, overarching costs and unpaid taxes lead to defaults & bankrupcies, as the owners walk away with the cash. This is pretty much the game plan for many green energy operations.
Eventually, mass disposal will simply be another government and taxpayer subsidized money siphoning operation.
The article actually says they are being recycled.
I don’t know who put out this “can’t be recycled” garbage, but it’s wrong. There are processes that convert plastics back into combustible gasoline.
Holy Moley! Imagine all those bases covering or buried in the ocean floor for their asinine oceanic wind farms they wanna build too-
Somewhere along the line- i think the earth was indeed visited by aliens who sucked the brains out of liberals- and we have visitations now by the same aliens to see how their experiment is working out- they see all the wind farms, and know that the brainless have taken over the world -
If turbine blades could be profitiably recycled - sans massive taxpayer subsidies or an outright line item in the federal/state budgets - it would already be being done and there’d be no pictures of huge blade (and solar panel) scrap piles.
” don’t know who put out this “can’t be recycled” garbage, but it’s wrong. There are processes that convert plastics back into combustible gasoline.”
You are being far too literal, uneducated nerds do that.
The process requires using more heat than the results provide. It is uneconomical.
Leave the rattlesnakes in them when you build the wall. /s
Maybe the solution is to start suing the proponents of these non-recyclable green energy materials for environmental damages. They do that to the current energy companies. Time for the greens to be held responsible for the damages green energy is doing.
Good. Looking forward to reading new articles about saavy entrepreneurs that dig up all the blades and recycle them for big money.
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