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Cutting and shredding convert huge wind turbine blades to hand-sized chunks. Veolia North America ships this material to customers that blend it with raw materials to make cement.
With few recycling options, thousands of these blades have already ended up in landfills, and more are on their way. Although environmentalists don’t expect the blades to leach toxic metals and poisonous compounds, as is the case with other waste that has been landfilled, “the enormous volume of the blades consumes valuable landfill space,” Cappadona says. Burying the blades also wastes resources. “We should only landfill things that truly need to be landfilled,” he adds. So companies and others have started to look for recycling solutions.
originally posted by: Cavemannick
Greenies love wind and solar farming.
Reality is turbine blades are made from toxic resins, carbon fibre, fibreglass that will never break down in the environment.
This photo really shows the reality of the stupidity of greenies.
stopthesethings.com...
www.snopes.com...
That yellow dot is a caterpillar bull dozer.
Goes to show the scale of the lies.
originally posted by: AlongCameaSpider
originally posted by: Cavemannick
Greenies love wind and solar farming.
Reality is turbine blades are made from toxic resins, carbon fibre, fibreglass that will never break down in the environment.
This photo really shows the reality of the stupidity of greenies.
stopthesethings.com...
www.snopes.com...
That yellow dot is a caterpillar bull dozer.
Goes to show the scale of the lies.
The manufacturing process for the gear box inside the wind mill is made by and industry that is anything but green.
Currently, 85 to 90 percent of a wind turbine's parts can be recycled or sold. This includes the foundation, tower, gear box and generator. Fiberglass used to make blades is also reusable, and can be randomly rearranged, flattened into a sheet or even woven into a fabric.
originally posted by: FamCore2
a reply to: Cavemannick
Wind turbines require vast amounts of metallurgical coal to be produced, cannot be recycled, and require vast amounts of petroleum products both for the manufacturing/delivering and lubrication/maintenance.
They kill endangered species including critically endangered species and off shore ones are now also causing whales to die (Shellenberger has done some great exposes on this topic).
Don’t get me started on solar or lithium batteries lol
A wind turbine that produces electricity from inexhaustible winds creates no pollution. By comparison, coal, oil, and natural gas produce one to two pounds of carbon dioxide (an emission that contributes to the greenhouse effect and global warming) per kilowatt-hour produced. When wind energy is used for electrical needs, dependence on fossil fuels for this purpose is reduced. The current annual production of electricity by wind turbines (3.7 billion kilowatt-hours) is equivalent to four million barrels of oil or one million tons of coal.
Wind turbines are not completely free of environmental drawbacks. Many people consider them to be unaesthetic, especially when huge wind farms are built near pristine wilderness areas. Bird kills have been documented, and the whirring blades do produce quite a bit of noise. Efforts to reduce these effects include selecting sites that do not coincide with wilderness areas or bird migration routes and researching ways to reduce noise.
While most of a turbine can be recycled or find a second life on another wind farm, researchers estimate the U.S. will have more than 720,000 tons of blade material to dispose of over the next 20 years, a figure that doesn't include newer, taller higher-capacity versions.
originally posted by: glen200376returns
a reply to: Cavemannick
Not to mention the thousands of birds the windmills butcher daily.These environuts are either in seriously deluded or big fat hypocrites.
originally posted by: FamCore2
a reply to: quintessentone2
I see the trolls are already coming in hot lol
I should have been more specifics... the turbine blades are not economically recyclable:
While most of a turbine can be recycled or find a second life on another wind farm, researchers estimate the U.S. will have more than 720,000 tons of blade material to dispose of over the next 20 years, a figure that doesn't include newer, taller higher-capacity versions.
Source: Unfurling The Waste Problem Caused By Wind Energy
Re: Whales & off-shore wind turbines: ‘Catastrophe’: Whale deaths linked to wind farms in new documentary
originally posted by: quintessentone2
originally posted by: FamCore2
a reply to: quintessentone2
I see the trolls are already coming in hot lol
I should have been more specifics... the turbine blades are not economically recyclable:
While most of a turbine can be recycled or find a second life on another wind farm, researchers estimate the U.S. will have more than 720,000 tons of blade material to dispose of over the next 20 years, a figure that doesn't include newer, taller higher-capacity versions.
Source: Unfurling The Waste Problem Caused By Wind Energy
Re: Whales & off-shore wind turbines: ‘Catastrophe’: Whale deaths linked to wind farms in new documentary
The future holds the solutions in the materials used to produce the blades will be more recyclable friendly. I've also read where painting the blades black and white will have a 'flickering' visual effect to deter birds. They are also working on another sound to replace the 'hum'.
The Audubon Society ok's wild turbines.
The studies I read concur that no evidence exists in whale deaths, rather it's boat traffic/collisions that are at issue.
Trolls aren't as good as they once were - not a challenge - just annoying.