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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My guess is that you can’t recycle fiberglass. They aren’t metal.
Great idea!
“A metal scrapper could benefit from the blades at least. Y cutting them down to size and bring them to a scrap metal place of business it would seem to make sense.”
They’re fiberglass.
Those windmill blades need to line the hallways of the government offices that enabled the con. They also need to be jammed through the walls of the houses of those who profited from the scam.
Those ugly damned things are doing far more bad than good. I’d like to see all of them gone.
Reading more of the article reveals the service life for the blades should be 20 years. Discarding after 10 is driven by the tax incentives. The whole system is corrupted by leftist using our tax dollars to subsidize waste.
So would I! On land they slaughter birds, in the same it’s whales beaching themselves because they’ve become disoriented.
The blades are not made of metal, they are fiber glass, which isn’t very recyclable, at least not without breaking down the fibers and destroying the strength of the fiber glass.
Fiberglass is a type of plastic. The glass fibers in fiberglass are not a petroleum product, what about the sizing used to hold the fibers together. The only information that I could find was that the fibers were usually coated with AGY, OCV and PPG. All I got when I looked that up was that they types of plastic. As far as I know most plastics are petroleum based products.
Rehoboth Beach, Delaware would be a good place to dump these wind turbine blades.
On Joe Biden’s many vacation trips to his home at Rehoboth, he could put his “I DID THAT” sticker on each of the blades.
not plastics, fiberglass/ toxic dust etc.
I was just telling my husband about the problem with recycling the fiberglass windmill blades and he said, “yeah, we have the same problem with recycling old fiberglass boats.’’
yeah someone pointed that out to me- too bad they can’t be recycled at least- being fiberglass though, i wonder how many blades have exploded under the constant stresses of the windmill? I remember a video showing one breaking apart at speed- here’s a video- short one=-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u14tBwO5QVQ
This statement sounds like the real truth of the matter. I could never see how funding an extra source of power production when it was neither cheap nor needed could ever be a good deal for the consumer.
Why not just stack them underneath the solar panels?
Can you build homeless shelters out of these things by bolting or gluing them together? Great public works program for newly arrived illegals.
Herc's a suggestion:
Haul them down to the southern border and bury them in to make a nice 150ft tall barrier.
This pile as an in Texas is nothing compared to what I’ve seen in Pennsylvania.
They are stockpiling them until the methods are perfected to recycle. Right now pieces are going to the automotive industry, furniture and art. Occasionally samples go away to fit in furnaces and the like.
Its happening. Just like nuclear waste. It had to go into the ground until someone invented and tooled up methods to use it again. That took 30+ years with a lot of funding.
Get one thing clear, green energy aint about clean energy. sure, the libs say it’s about clean energy and saving mother earth, but it’s the opposite.
From windmills to electric cars, green energy is terrorizing the earths nature resources, landscape, and all kinds of animals.
The liberal public are brainwashed to think it’s all unicorns and flowers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nemy4TD4I3A top 10 wind generator fails
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