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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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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat
[[They took away our paper grocery bags and said we must use plastic]]
Now they are taking away our plastic and demanding that we use ‘reusable bags’ (ie canvas bags that harbor pathogens), OR pay .10 per paper bag-
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posted on
02/09/2020 10:07:40 AM PST
by
Bob434
To: Bon mots
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posted on
02/09/2020 10:08:10 AM PST
by
PROCON
(Molon Labe)
To: PROCON
Meanwhile across the border in many parts of Canada hydro-power provides some of the cheapest power in the world...
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posted on
02/09/2020 10:10:06 AM PST
by
MSF BU
To: umgud
Sounds like more good material for the border barrier.
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posted on
02/09/2020 10:10:12 AM PST
by
xp38
To: PROCON
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posted on
02/09/2020 10:10:36 AM PST
by
bigbob
(Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
To: null and void
I wonder how many birds, bats and insects are destroyed by these blades? Environmental hazard?
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posted on
02/09/2020 10:13:36 AM PST
by
salmon76
(Democrats are worried that American voters will interfere in the 2020 election)
To: null and void
Why don't they stand them on end and use them for outer walls on government buildings? Build the wall!!!
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posted on
02/09/2020 10:22:08 AM PST
by
USS Alaska
(NUKE THE MOOSELIMB, TERRORISTS, NOW!)
To: Redcitizen
Great idea. I was thinking mixing shredded blade material in asphalt, myself.
To: PROCON
Conservatives need to come up with some kind of Disclaimer Time Capsule to explain to future civilizations that all the CRAP they’re uncovering was not created by ALL AMERICANS, but by a group of unbelievably stupid liberals.
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02/09/2020 10:34:23 AM PST
by
smvoice
(I WILL NOT WEAR THE RIBBON.)
To: PROCON
The blades actually can be "recycled," and I know a guy who works for the only company that does it. However, the "recycling" essentially consists of breaking down the old blade into transportable pieces and re-using and re-processing the material to make new blades - kind of like re-cycling old newsprint.
However, it is true that a lot of the old blades are piling-up in landfills because it's easier and cheaper to just make new ones instead of recycling the old ones. That's why my friend's company is struggling a bit.
To: Redcitizen
Just might work if they were filled with concrete.
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posted on
02/09/2020 10:42:49 AM PST
by
matthew fuller
(Communism causes Cra-Cra, and it is contagious.)
To: bigbob
“they are being recycled:”
Seem like they are using the ground pieces as an aggregate, like gravel in a concrete mix, when mixed with new material.
Could be used like re-bar too, if the breakdown technology gets a bit more efficient.
Maybe an aerodynamic car body? Tesla two-
Imagine parts of a turbine blade, especially the surfaces, re-manufactured into a honeycomb or screenlike material, then overfilled with concrete or other polymer or resin.
One heck of an anti Migre Wall at the border.
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posted on
02/09/2020 10:49:28 AM PST
by
Macoozie
(Handcuffs and Orange Jumpsuits)
To: PROCON
Why not dump them into the Marianas Trench?
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posted on
02/09/2020 10:51:44 AM PST
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
To: null and void
Could we use them to build the wall.
To: PGR88
Huge fan of abiogenic hydrocarbons.
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posted on
02/09/2020 11:02:28 AM PST
by
waterhill
(I Shall Remain, in spite of __________.)
To: Afterguard
The resin glue will burn. The carbon fiber and fiberglass won’t burn.
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posted on
02/09/2020 11:07:18 AM PST
by
brooklin
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
02/09/2020 11:09:12 AM PST
by
Redcitizen
("There's no replacement for shot placement" - Paul Harrell)
To: PROCON
Looks like a CAT 8 or 9 Dozer, and those blades dwarf it.
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posted on
02/09/2020 11:15:49 AM PST
by
Carriage Hill
(A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
To: null and void
Line them up vertically along the Rio Grande.
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posted on
02/09/2020 11:18:56 AM PST
by
left that other site
(For America to have CONFIDENCE in our future, we must have PRIDE in our HISTORY... DJT)
To: null and void
Looks like they could be cut up and re-purposed into sailboat rudders.
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posted on
02/09/2020 11:19:13 AM PST
by
Rebelbase
(Time for Trump to go Machiavelli on the democrats and never Trump republicans.)
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