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Wind Turbine Blades Could Be Recycled Into Gummy Bears One Day
CNET ^ | 8/23/22 | Monisha Ravisetti

Posted on 08/23/2022 4:08:45 AM PDT by JonPreston

But on Monday, scientists from Michigan State University offered their blueprints of an innovative way to address this issue. They developed a new form of wind turbine material that combines glass fibers with both plant-derived and synthetic polymers, which refer to long chains of molecules. The mixture is called a composite resin, and its hype lies in the fact that it can be recycled a lot more easily than pure fiberglass can.

Oh, and here's the best part: It can also be turned into delicious gummy bears.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnet.com ...


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KEYWORDS: blades; turbine; wind
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Glass fibers + synthetic polymers + composite resin = delicious gummy bears

Donovan - Catch the wind

For me to love you now, would be the sweetest thing
T'would make me sing
Ah, but I may as well try and catch the wind

1 posted on 08/23/2022 4:08:45 AM PDT by JonPreston
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To: JonPreston

“It’s a strange lifeform, Captain. It seems to feed on Glass fibers + synthetic polymers + composite resin.”
— Mr. Spock


2 posted on 08/23/2022 4:10:50 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (We are already in a revolutionary period, and the Rule of Law means nothing. )
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To: JonPreston; Daffynition
composite resin

Yeah but they're sugar free.

3 posted on 08/23/2022 4:13:05 AM PDT by Ezekiel (🆘️𓊹 𓌃 "Come fly with US". Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with Mars ♂️)
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To: JonPreston

I don’t know. I think they would be far better suited to recycling into Unicorn Farts which would have far more utility.


4 posted on 08/23/2022 4:15:01 AM PDT by rlmorel (Nolnah's Razor: Never attribute to incompetence that which is adequately explained by malice.)
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To: Ezekiel

Hahahahahahahahaha


5 posted on 08/23/2022 4:15:22 AM PDT by rlmorel (Nolnah's Razor: Never attribute to incompetence that which is adequately explained by malice.)
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To: JonPreston

Bugs and gummy bears. Food of the future.


6 posted on 08/23/2022 4:22:34 AM PDT by HYPOCRACY (This is the dystopian future we've been waiting for!)
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To: rlmorel; Daffynition



Gummy bear?

7 posted on 08/23/2022 4:27:13 AM PDT by Ezekiel (🆘️𓊹 𓌃 "Come fly with US". Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with Mars ♂️)
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To: JonPreston

…and they will only cost $162.45 (each) to make.


8 posted on 08/23/2022 4:27:28 AM PDT by The Antiyuppie (When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.)
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To: All

August 19, 2022

Federal Judge Rules Federal Oil And Gas Lease Moratorium Exceeded Biden’s Power

HELENA – A federal judge today issued a permanent injunction against President Biden’s so-called “pause” on federal oil and gas leasing and drilling permits in 13 plaintiff states, including Montana, agreeing with Attorney General Austin Knudsen that the policy violated the Mineral Leasing Act (MLA) and Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (OCSLA). In response to the legal victory, Montana’s Attorney General Austin Knudsen issued the following statement:

“President Biden’s executive order to choke off energy development didn’t just increase prices and hurt American families—it was flatly illegal. This decision is a victory for the rule of law and the workers and the rural communities who depend on the energy industry.”

United States District Judge for the Western District of Louisiana Terry Doughty issued a nationwide preliminary injunction June 2021 against the provisions of President Biden’s Executive Order 14008 that blocked oil and gas leasing operations on federal lands. His permanent injunction today is applicable only in the plaintiff states, which includes Montana. The attorneys general filed the lawsuit in March 2021.

President Biden’s order, the judge wrote, was “beyond the authority of the President of the United States”: “Even the President cannot make significant changes to the OCSLA and/or the MLA that Congress did not delegate.”

An ongoing lease moratorium would have lowered employment by 210 jobs, reduced personal income by $13 million, and cost $4 million in oil and gas taxes in Montana last year, according to a University of Wyoming study published in December 2020. The cumulative effect to the state would be 702 fewer jobs, $170 million reduced personal income, and $199 million in foregone oil and gas tax revenue by 2025.

Click at web site to read Judge Doughty’s order.


9 posted on 08/23/2022 4:27:43 AM PDT by Liz (MAN PROPOSES....GOD DISPOSES.)
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To: Ezekiel

LOL!


10 posted on 08/23/2022 4:28:36 AM PDT by rlmorel (Nolnah's Razor: Never attribute to incompetence that which is adequately explained by malice.)
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To: JonPreston

The worship of windmills has turned their brains into a mass of mush.


11 posted on 08/23/2022 4:31:50 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Damn it! We need Trump! America First! Bring America back! We're being governed by fascists.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Nobody could still get rid of ALL the fine slivers of glass fibers that would remain in the “separated” resin. And once consumed, they could penetrate the intestinal walls and cause internal bleeding, or worse, an invasion of intestinal microbiota into the blood stream.

Either one could cause permanent disability or a painful death.

Not a VIABLE MEANS of recycling.


12 posted on 08/23/2022 4:37:06 AM PDT by alloysteel (There are folks running the government who shouldn't be allowed to play with matches - Will Rogers)
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To: JonPreston

Oh, and here’s the best part: It can also be turned into delicious gummy bears.

This breezy writing style is infesting more and more articles.


13 posted on 08/23/2022 4:52:58 AM PDT by Flick Lives (FJB and the corrupt FBI)
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To: JonPreston

I KNEW IT.


14 posted on 08/23/2022 5:13:06 AM PDT by Scarlett156 (Carol's been here. ~~ Sheriff Rick Grimes in TV version of "The Walking Dead")
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To: JonPreston

Gummi Bears are ok but why not make Swedish fish? They’re much better than Gummi Bears.


15 posted on 08/23/2022 5:16:32 AM PDT by pa_dweller (Let's all go out for ice cream.)
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To: JonPreston

If wind turbine blades can be made into gummy bears it’s only logical that gummy bears can be made into wind turbine blades. ;-)


16 posted on 08/23/2022 5:32:15 AM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (I went to bed on November 3rd 2020 and woke up in 1984.)
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To: JonPreston

Rainbows and unicorns. Gummy bears, really? I guess there are some that are so shallow. Yeah, everyone of the global warming idiots.


17 posted on 08/23/2022 5:38:43 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA ( Scratch a leftist and you'll find a fascist )
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To: JonPreston
In the meantime....it's slice and dice.

What other parts will have to be recycled that are DANGEROUS to us...like the lead in the old TVs.

18 posted on 08/23/2022 5:47:34 AM PDT by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: Ezekiel

Not sure what tahis says about either products but I don’t want either one.


19 posted on 08/23/2022 6:16:21 AM PDT by RedMonqey
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To: JonPreston

Gummy Bears with THC and mRNA, I’ll bet.


20 posted on 08/23/2022 6:27:56 AM PDT by Scrambler Bob (My /s is more true than your /science (or you might mean /seance))
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