Posted on 09/04/2019 7:45:17 PM PDT by george76
wind turbines only last for twenty years, and after that time the turbines must be torn down .. wind turbine blades cannot be recycled
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more than 100 wind turbine blades measuring 120 ft long have been dumped in a Sioux Falls, South Dakota, landfill, but theres a problem: the massive blades are taking up too much room
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A wind farm near Albert Lea, Minn., brought dozens of their old turbine blades to the Sioux Falls dump this summer.
But City Hall says it wont take anymore unless owners take more steps to make the massive fiberglass pieces less space consuming.
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This year, 101 turbine blades have been trucked to the city dump. But with each one spanning 120 feet long, thats caused officials with the landfill and the Sioux Falls Public Works Department to study the long-term effect that type of refuse could have on the dump.
South Dakota is a long way to travel to dispose of wind turbine blades, which uses a lot of diesel fuel, and South Dakota officials arent sure why the blades are .
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The fact that it is too expensive to dispose of wind turbine blades in a landfill should be front page news, because were going to have thousands of blades to get rid of in the near future. In fact, the Energy Information Administration shows Minnesota has some of the oldest wind turbines in the country, meaning this problem will present itself sooner than later.
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Argus Leader: Sioux Falls Landfill Tightens Rules After Minnesota Dumps Dozens of Wind Turbine Blades ( Full title).
(Excerpt) Read more at americanexperiment.org ...
Bats don’t even have to hit the blades to die.
I have firsthand knowledge of this. Yes, gas turbines designed to run at an even speed and frequency are having much higher O&M chasing wind. Fact.
How much diesel fuel, and hence CO2, is expended taking these 120 foot behemoths nearly 200 miles for disposal? Why the heck doesnt Minnesota take care of their own waste? If environmentalists are concerned about plastic soda straws polluting the environment why no concern about these plastic monstrosities?
Because they're fiberglass?
A few of them in a line would make a cool portico roof or a bus stop cover.
You forgot the very low frequency noise and long flickering shadows. Living near those things literally makes you crazy. California ranchers who have been on their land for generations have had to abandon the ancestral land.
https://fiberline.com/news/miljoe/breakthrough-recycling-fibreglass-now-reality
Destroying the planet with wind turbine blades. Another “not thought out end result of the green new deal”
Just dismantle them and leave them at the curb. Somebody will pick them up.......
You just won the interwebs for life with that comment, congratulations.
Composite materials don't "recycle" well.
https://recyclenation.com/2014/09/recycle-fiberglass/
Not that their volume can't be reduced, but chopping or grinding up creates new and different hazards, compared with the finsished but used up part.
Similar issue with fiberglass boat hulls. Take up plenty of room.
I believe that Hurricane Katrina was caused by the impact of the MN generators on the Earth’s wind.
What happens when we’ve used up all the wind?
Renewable? I think not.
Plus they kill birds by the thousands. But windmills are an icon of the enviro-wackos.
I had a chem professor who worked for dupont. He could have written the three equations and showed the truth. However, truth has never had much of an impact on the world.
I did not learn his level of chem.. but he was a great and compassionate prof.
I am to the point now of understanding truth doesnt matter I often ask, if I could prove X using your standard (not those heretical, unachievable standards) would you listen?
99 percent of the people I ask are closed to any idea, but theeir own.
Great quote!
Wind turbine blades
“Helicopters that could lift California!”
Great idea! Seriously, just think of it. Lift Kalifornia and start hauling it to China. Since the blades are near their end life, they’d likely fail half way there, dropping the Marxist state into the ocean.
“Why cant they be recycled?”
Because you can’t break them down and stick them in the “mixed” container.
rwood
A 120 ft blade is 240 ft long, about the length of a WW2 Destroyer Escort. Burying these blades is like trying to put a warship in a landfill.
They’re fiberglass, i.e., glass fibers in plastic resin. Burn them and bury the glass that is left over.
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