"Jazz" Shaw?
Posted on 09/11/2019 12:34:07 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Same with solar panels, what happens to those solar farms when they wear out.
I read a detailed study on this 20 year life problem. Given the difficulty of recycling the beasts, a 20 year life is too short to make it economical. Gas fired plants on small plots of land cost less and last a lot longer.
Another dirty little secret is that the rapid advances in efficiency and cost effectiveness of both wind and solar are coming to an end, as they approach some hard physical limits.
A fundamental physics problem. Theoretical limits.
They have a little further to improve, but the large and easy gains are already behind us.
"Jazz" Shaw?
They stay right where they are!
I mean, would you want to try to dismantle one after it has become spider central?
Any solar farms in Australia might need a nuke to finally dismantle because of the spiders.
I’m not a fan (pun intended!) of wind power because they are eyesores, a hazard to birds, and cost a fortune to maintain.
Heh,so we’ve got an intermittent energy source that’s:
1. Expensive to install
2. Expensive to maintain
3. Even more expensive to remove
All while being unreliable.
Sounds like Hillary.
More pearl clutching panty wadding nonsense. The plastics industry has been working on recycling processes and several are now in commercial production. They chop up the blades on-site to fit into semi trucks and haul them to the recycling center where 2-3 tons per day can be processed into new usable fiberglass-reinforced thermoplastic pellets and sheets:
https://resource-recycling.com/plastics/2019/03/27/company-expands-wind-turbine-recycling-operation/
And they’ll also do fiberglass from boats, planes and other sources in the waste stream. How much fiberglass waste just got created last week in the hurricane? That happens all the time, turbine blades last 20 years. So in reality the wind industry has provided the motivation for development of fiberglass recycling that will end up keeping not only turbine blades but other waste out of landfills.
American ingenuity.
Windmills are an icon of the left. That enables them to act on emotion, and not on reason. It’s feeeels good to force people to use windmills even though they make horrible noises and slice birds to pieces.
The end goal is to destroy our industrial civilization that is based on petroleum products. What’s a few birds if it brings down a mighty civilization?
Solar panel contain small amounts of heavy metals that we do not circulating in our water supply. Very small per panel but a lot of panels can be quite a problem.
They don’t talk about all the birds they kill. Shame on these people.
In retirement, I’ve taken up photography. My once pristine Eastern Washington is now visually polluted with countless turbines.
20 years ago had you built a house in many of the places these now are, you’d be stoned into submission by the tree huggers for blighting the open spaces.
They are not majestic. They are an eye sore.
On the other hand, old-school Dutch windmills are wonderful feats of engineering, I had the chance to go inside one there a few years ago.
Those that are serious about clean power have one choice: Nuclear.
There’s a wind farm in Bloomington, IL where I used to live. The turbines revolve all the time, in fact I never see them stopped, even on days when there is no wind.
I say BS.
Actually I was in Casper Wyoming recently where they have a lot of these, and my nephew took me to the dump to recycle some stuff and drove by a big pile of those fiberglass blades that were about to be buried right there so maybe they haven’t got the memo.
Glass windows and cats kill hundreds of times more birds than windmills. Are you proportionally more concerned about those?
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