Posted on 09/04/2019 7:45:17 PM PDT by george76
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 doesn’t 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 can’t 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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