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State (Iowa) sues company accused of dumping wind-turbine blades
Iowa Capital Dispatch ^ | Sept. 26, 2024 | Clark Kauffman

Posted on 09/28/2024 5:40:51 AM PDT by Mean Daddy

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To: subterfuge
they are huge.

Several years ago I saw a couple of semi's hauling a flatbed trailer with a blade on the back.

They are incredibly long and I couldn't figure out how those semis could turn corners safely.

21 posted on 09/28/2024 6:57:09 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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To: Mean Daddy

Use a few dozen of them floating over a plaza or parking lot to create an artsy awning.


22 posted on 09/28/2024 7:04:09 AM PDT by lurk (u)
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To: dynachrome

I worked for a company that needed to dispose of PCP’s years ago. You could not “pay” someone to carry it off and remove your liability then. You paid to have it destroyed in an electric furnace. A company officer had to travel with the waste and witness its destruction. If any turned up later, that person was off to Club Fed and of course the company would be severely fined. Needless to say, we never screwed up.


23 posted on 09/28/2024 7:21:59 AM PDT by The Antiyuppie (When small men cast long shadows, it is near the end of the day.)
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To: dynachrome

I remember, Soprano recycling Co.


24 posted on 09/28/2024 7:40:07 AM PDT by ABN 505 (Right is right if nobody is right, and wrong is wrong if everybody is wrong. ~Archbishop Fulton John)
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To: lurk

Stand ‘em up on end, stick ‘em in some concrete, and you’d have a right pretty wall.


25 posted on 09/28/2024 7:40:23 AM PDT by punchamullah
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To: Red Badger

Not that easy. There is a lot of chemically cured resin in the blades that cannot be recycled.


26 posted on 09/28/2024 7:40:42 AM PDT by mfish13 (Elections have Consequences.)
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To: dynachrome

“I assure you it’s not the Boy Scouts.”


27 posted on 09/28/2024 7:42:06 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: DSH

Punish the corporate officers like in “The Dirty DOzen” — 20 years hard labor.

That will make them take notice.

Instead, they’ll get a fine paid from the cash generated from the contract.


28 posted on 09/28/2024 7:53:48 AM PDT by citizen (Political incrementalism is like compound interest for liberals - every little bit adds up.)
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To: Mean Daddy

Grind them up and see if it would be ok to put them in the ROMAN CONCRETE equivalent mixture that will be used to make a REAL wall, not the stupid bollard bullcrap the genius fell for last time.


29 posted on 09/28/2024 8:15:28 AM PDT by Captainpaintball (America needs a Conservative DICTATOR if it hopes to survive. )
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To: Hot Tabasco

The back wheels steer as well with their own driver, with radio comms to the front driver, and the 4 guys in pickups around you, and the boss car and rest of the road crew. They steer like the old fire trucks in big cities turning down skinny streets.


30 posted on 09/28/2024 8:51:39 AM PDT by Delta 21 (If anyone is treasonous, it is those who call me such.)
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To: Mean Daddy

As part of their sentencing, the executives and managers of the scam recycling company need to have chopped up pieces of those turbine blades jammed into any place they reside. Let them climb over pieces of them every time they want to go to the bathroom, kitchen, etc.


31 posted on 09/28/2024 9:06:25 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: Delta 21

Not the case. Typical semi hauling a 100ft trailer carrying the wind turbine blade........


32 posted on 09/28/2024 4:04:26 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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To: Mean Daddy

Dirty little secret

When the turbines fail, it is the land owners issue, not the turbine owners.

Even if they never signed with the company.


33 posted on 09/28/2024 8:43:16 PM PDT by redgolum
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