Posted on 07/10/2026 3:34:22 AM PDT by Adder
At the beginning of April, I did a little roundup of the current waste-disposal difficulties renewables were facing, both in solar and in the wind industry.
The solar nightmare is incoming...
By 2050, the estimated total boundary area required for 1.5 million wind turbines is expected to reach 3.1 to 4.6 million square kilometers - the combined size of India and Argentina.
The obvious question regarding this transition—with its towering turbine skeletons, virtually indestructible composite blades, and billions of solar panels—is this: Just where will all this metal, silicon and concrete be buried?
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So I am not sure why they have to be buried...maybe store them like they do old airplanes?
My first thought was at sea. but I’m sure Greenpeace would have a problem with that.
And then what?
L
Grind up those blades and mix the pulp in concrete or asphalt
Then...nothing?
Throw it all off of a cliff with a starter rope attached to a generator to get free electricity, then make those persons who forced the efface of original use cost benefit haul the mess back up and do it again
Removing that much wind energy from the atmosphere has to create some destructive or undesirable consequences.
Cut them into car-sized pieces and put them in front yards of any member of Congress that voted for the funding of these wretched behemoths.
Wow! Good chuckle on that one!
the estimated total boundary area required for 1.5 million wind turbines is expected to reach 3.1 to 4.6 million square kilometers - the combined size of India and Argentina.
It is probably the area around a wind turbine which has to be clear for the turbine to operate effectively.
It seems a fairly meaningless number.
Someone asked what happens when the energy from the wind is extracted from the atmosphere. Wind energy ultimately is converted to friction, hence to heat. The energy extracted from the atmosphere by wind turbines also ends up as heat.
So the end result is the same, but the heat will be distributed a bit differently at first.
It is also likely there will be a little less wave action or overall wind speed in the atmosphere. As 4.6 million square km is less than 1% of the world’s surface, the difference is probably too small to be measurable.
Canada. Or...Greenland?
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