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Wind Turbine Blades Can’t Be Recycled, So They’re Piling Up in Landfills
Bloomberg | Feb. 5, 2020 | Chris Martin

Posted on 02/09/2020 9:31:54 AM PST by PROCON

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Religion; Society
KEYWORDS: climate; globalwarming; trash; windturbines
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Many pics at the link of thousands of these buried blades that will never decompose.

Is there any 'green technology' that is Erf-friendly?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-02-05/wind-turbine-blades-can-t-be-recycled-so-they-re-piling-up-in-landfills

1 posted on 02/09/2020 9:31:54 AM PST by PROCON
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Wait till the Solar panels start piling up.


2 posted on 02/09/2020 9:32:31 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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They won’t pile up. They’ll just leave them where they are.


3 posted on 02/09/2020 9:36:10 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Truth is hate to people who hate truth.)
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To: PROCON

Send them to Greta’s house!


4 posted on 02/09/2020 9:37:48 AM PST by Stosh
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To: PROCON
I saw this coming years ago. That’s why I’ve always advocated for 100% green power generated by dancing unicorns. Greta Thunberg, are you listening?


5 posted on 02/09/2020 9:39:40 AM PST by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: Stosh

Along with all the dead birds.


6 posted on 02/09/2020 9:42:25 AM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: PROCON

Oil and gas (so-called fossil fuels) are the most “organic” products that exist. They come from the earth, with few man-made changes to them, and return to nature.


7 posted on 02/09/2020 9:43:01 AM PST by PGR88
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

You mean where they land after being spun off their mounts? Butt, “zero” emissions right? Never have so many been so clueless.


8 posted on 02/09/2020 9:44:24 AM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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Laying them flat like that insures the sand over them will never quite stop settling.

Why don't they stand them on end and use them for outer walls on government buildings?

I'm thinking they would be perfect for schools and prisons...

9 posted on 02/09/2020 9:44:27 AM PST by null and void (The democrats just can't get over the fact that they lost an election they themselves rigged!)
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Can’t we just burn them? Isn’t carbon fiber and fiberglass flammable?

While burning them may release toxic gasses into the atmosphere, it’ll be much shorter lived than all the growing piles of discarded blades strewn around... /Sarc, kinda.


10 posted on 02/09/2020 9:45:56 AM PST by Afterguard (Deplorable me!)
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In Europe they are working to recycle them. Even using them to make playground apparatus.

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-51325101


11 posted on 02/09/2020 9:46:59 AM PST by Steven Scharf
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We could use them as Wall material on our southern border.


12 posted on 02/09/2020 9:46:59 AM PST by Redcitizen ("There's no replacement for shot placement" - Paul Harrell)
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To: null and void

What makes it worse is that they only last 20 years.


13 posted on 02/09/2020 9:47:27 AM PST by Oldexpat (Stand strong VA.)
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To: PROCON

Send a few to the front yard of every insane lib that ever voted for this BS.


14 posted on 02/09/2020 9:48:29 AM PST by lgjhn23 (It's easy to be a liberal when one is dumber than a box of rocks...)
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To: null and void

What about the Mexican border? :)


15 posted on 02/09/2020 9:48:36 AM PST by xp38
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To: PROCON

2nd Peter chapter 3. God will get rid of them when He destroys Earth as we know it, by fire. Everything on Earth will be burned up. Then new heavens and a new Earth will replace what’s here now. All the old must go, because it was contaminated with sin. Only new and pure can go into Eternity. Read all about it.


16 posted on 02/09/2020 9:48:36 AM PST by Tucker39 ("It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible." George Washington)
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They took away our paper grocery bags and said we must use plastic SO everyone switched to plastic THEN the plastic bags are not breaking down in land fills WELL we ALL KNEW this would happen these peop,e ARE INSANE!!!!


17 posted on 02/09/2020 9:51:53 AM PST by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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18 posted on 02/09/2020 10:05:36 AM PST by Bon mots
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What about the Mexican border? :)

You can build a beautiful wall with those.

19 posted on 02/09/2020 10:06:32 AM PST by Bon mots
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To: Sacajaweau

Photo-voltaic panels have heavy metals at hazardous levels.


20 posted on 02/09/2020 10:06:54 AM PST by umgud
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