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One Cost of Green Energy: Thousands of Old Wind Turbine Blades Pile Up in West Texas
Texas Monthly ^ | 8/28 | Russell Gold

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at texasmonthly.com ...


TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: blades; notablogpimpnow; scam; texas; waste; wind; windblades; windenergy; windturbine; windturbines
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To: Bob434

The blades are fiberglass. Ever try to get rid of a fiberglass boat hull?


61 posted on 08/26/2023 10:06:22 AM PDT by _longranger81
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To: SkyDancer

It also takes energy out of the ecosystem. That’s right. The Brilliant Solution from the Brilliant People to this imaginary Environmental Crisis of Climate Change is to remove energy from a crucial component of the O-So-Delicately-Balanced Ecosystem, and make Electricity by slowing down the Wind; which…anyone? …Anyone?… Bueller? That’s right. Slower wind means warmer planet surface, which means… global warming.


62 posted on 08/26/2023 10:13:51 AM PDT by _longranger81
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To: citizen; Eva

Read the article. The firm that collected them is a fiberglass recycling firm. Most likely they had a client that balked or went under during the coronavirus recession.


63 posted on 08/26/2023 10:14:13 AM PDT by dangus
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To: _longranger81

Ergo .....


64 posted on 08/26/2023 10:24:13 AM PDT by SkyDancer (If At First You Don't Suceed, Well So Much For Skydiving ~)
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To: ViLaLuz; Bob434; spokeshave

How many Corvettes could a company make from that and other piles?


65 posted on 08/26/2023 10:25:51 AM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: GreyFriar
Why not just stack them underneath the solar panels?
Don't tell the Big Guy. He'll appoint a czar to make that happen...for 10%.
66 posted on 08/26/2023 10:32:18 AM PDT by citizen (Put all LBQTwhatever programming on a new subscription service: PERV-TV)
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To: _longranger81

Yes i have- and lemme just say the smoke is unreal


67 posted on 08/26/2023 10:35:33 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: WXRGina

ping


68 posted on 08/26/2023 10:40:43 AM PDT by logitech (If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice. )
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To: dangus

Your foolish assumption is faulty. I read the entire article.

The folks there living with the environmental eyesore, the rats, snakes, misquitoes are tired of hearing promises that the recycling will begin “soon.”

A functional business has equipment in place and operating. And they pay their taxes. Scam companies milk it, then default & go bankrupt.


69 posted on 08/26/2023 10:43:06 AM PDT by citizen (Put all LBQTwhatever programming on a new subscription service: PERV-TV)
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To: Bob434

One good thing about these green energy debacle threads on Free Republic is our greeniac bretheren identify themselves... Similar to our vaccine boosters.


70 posted on 08/26/2023 10:47:33 AM PDT by citizen (Put all LBQTwhatever programming on a new subscription service: PERV-TV)
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To: oldasrocks
Looks like good border fencing material to me.

Indeed! Just drop the things right in the Rio Grande.

71 posted on 08/26/2023 11:02:45 AM PDT by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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To: citizen

According to greenies- I’m an ‘inviro-sinner” from way back lol


72 posted on 08/26/2023 11:06:07 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: zeugma

Yep- use them for mid river walls- the left will scream their fool brains out lol


73 posted on 08/26/2023 11:06:55 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: BradyLS; All

I still argue that the the cost to build and maintain a windmill outweighs its benefit. It takes TRUCKLOADS OF CEMENT and REBAR just for the foundation, to hold these silly things up. Check out YouTube videos.


74 posted on 08/26/2023 11:38:44 AM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore)
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To: Cobra64

No argument from me. I agree.


75 posted on 08/26/2023 12:25:22 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: BradyLS

Maybe the blades could be repurposed into skies.


76 posted on 08/26/2023 6:50:18 PM PDT by jonrick46 (Leftniks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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To: dangus

Fiberglass is not recyclable. The process breaks the fibers and it loses it strength. They might have thought they were going to recycle, but they didn’t know what they were doing. Look it up yourself.


77 posted on 08/26/2023 10:10:58 PM PDT by Eva
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To: spokeshave

Not a bad idea.


78 posted on 08/26/2023 10:12:56 PM PDT by Eva
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To: spirited irish

Dump them into a semi-active volcano.


79 posted on 08/29/2023 7:27:50 AM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose GOD is the LORD. (Psalm 33:12))
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