Funny you mentioned the idea of salvage. The first thing one has to disassemble is the blade unit. The blades are all fiberglass and totally worthless as scrap. Disposing of those huge junk chunks will be impressively expensive not to mention the cost of the crane to get them down in one piece (blowing them loose is out of the question). The gearbox and generator unit might have some value if it was on the ground already but blowing the tower would eliminate any value except scrap.-————I wrote about this years ago saying that if you think we’re dependent on oil now just wait until we might be dependent on windmills. Currently we use a supertanker load of oil/year to make the blade material for windmills. It takes a second tanker load to process the first load. The blades don’t really last very long so the process must be continuous just to keep the current stuff running.————The only reasonable way windpower can ever be industrially reliable is if the energy can be stored at the time the wind blows then metered as needed. My favorite way to do this is to pump water out of a river uphill to a reservoir then generate hydropower as needed by giving the water back to the river——doesn’t lose fish, doesn’t lose water, doesn’t lose wind——but is way too much to expect from the democommiegreenweenies. Apologies if I’ve left anyone out.
This sounds like a good demolition practice for the Navy Seals to me. Think of the video possibilities! How about a competition for most artistic and entertaining demolition of a windmill field? Commission the writing of poems and songs about the joys of C4. Do it up like the 4th of July with the Boston Pops; blowing windmills to smithereens in perfect time with the 1812 Overture. Put sparklers on the blade ends—really, the possibilities are endless and quite joyful.
I want my money’s worth out of these things one way or another.
“The blades are all fiberglass and totally worthless as scrap.”
I would dare to bet. Some burned out leftist aka progressive artist will use them.