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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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1 posted on 08/26/2023 7:24:54 AM PDT by spirited irish
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What’s the service-life on a wind turbine blade? Can’t be long enough for something that can’t be recycled.


2 posted on 08/26/2023 7:27:29 AM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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Looks like good border fencing material to me.


3 posted on 08/26/2023 7:30:51 AM PDT by oldasrocks (uit )
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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.


4 posted on 08/26/2023 7:31:17 AM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: spirited irish

The whole wind farm project is a means of gov’t funding at inflated prices making a few people rich.


5 posted on 08/26/2023 7:31:49 AM PDT by chopperk ( )
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I wonder if there’s a way to build the much-needed wall at our southern border using these.

(But only until “wind energy” gets its well-deserved black eye so thoroughly that construction of new wind turbines totally dies off.)


6 posted on 08/26/2023 7:31:57 AM PDT by Nervous Tick (Jesus is LORD and Savior! And Donald Trump is President of the United States of America.)
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To: spirited irish

bttt


7 posted on 08/26/2023 7:33:03 AM PDT by Pajamajan (Pray for our nation. Never be slave in a new Socialist America)
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To: oldasrocks

Outstanding idea. Especially since that “breakfast taco el presidente is concerned about Abbott’s buoys in the RIO GRANDE that are keeping the boy from sending his Mexican Nationals and everyone else south of the border north to live in the U.S. and getting them out of his hair. Mexico is an enemy of America. You can eat their chips and salsa all you want but they still hate America.


8 posted on 08/26/2023 7:37:17 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer ("Say anything you like. Just don't say anything you don't like." - Old communist proverb.)
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To: spirited irish

A g4eater cost is the middle class and lower class suffering big time due to ,iberal communism and the steep steep price Increases it has brought.

A metal scrapper could benefit from the blades at least. Y cutting them down to size and bri ginger them to a scrap metal place of buisiness it would seem


9 posted on 08/26/2023 7:37:37 AM PDT by Bob434
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I drove though Texas a couple of years ago. I was stunned by the thousands of acres littered with the damn things. Like the EV by the time people realize what a bad idea it is it will be too late.


10 posted on 08/26/2023 7:38:34 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: spirited irish

They might be useful for making hiking trail bridges.


11 posted on 08/26/2023 7:38:50 AM PDT by Brian Griffin (ICCPR Article 15 No one shall be held guilty…on account of any act…not a criminal act...at the time…)
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Count Dracula had a use for them to make his point.


12 posted on 08/26/2023 7:43:23 AM PDT by Vaduz (....)
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To: spirited irish
We drove through Texas on a drive from the Left coast to the actual left coast about a year or so ago. Every so often, we saw off to one side or the other piles and piles of these things. "Green" in no sense of the word.

I think these discarded blades should be stacked near the ocean, perhaps on Martha's Vineyard, Del Mar, near the Obama compound in Hawaii, and of course Washington DC. Such would concentrate some additional reflection on the part of the "green" policy makers....

13 posted on 08/26/2023 7:45:09 AM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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Oh, the pearl clutching! You should see the tire pits outside Scranton, PA.


14 posted on 08/26/2023 7:49:30 AM PDT by dangus
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>> What’s the service-life on a wind turbine blade? Can’t be long enough for something that can’t be recycled. <<

They can be recycled. This article is about one town’s frustration that a recycler is delaying for an unknown reason.


15 posted on 08/26/2023 7:51:06 AM PDT by dangus
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To: spirited irish

In summary, wind energy has tremendous polution.


16 posted on 08/26/2023 7:51:25 AM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: spirited irish

Truck them to New York and California, as is done with the illegals


17 posted on 08/26/2023 7:51:51 AM PDT by PGR88
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You see these massive eyesores all along I 10 in Southern California. They are nothing but monuments to government waste and stupidity.


18 posted on 08/26/2023 7:53:32 AM PDT by wjcsux (On 3/14/1883 Karl Marx gave humanity his best gift, he died. )
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19 posted on 08/26/2023 7:55:30 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie ("The News” is a fake narrative promulgated by the Deep State Uniparty to control you and enrich them)
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To: Bob434
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.


20 posted on 08/26/2023 7:57:10 AM PDT by spokeshave (Proud Boys, Angry Dads. Grumpy Grandads & Curmudgeons)
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