Wind farms not so environmentally friendly.

originally posted by: Cavemannick
a reply to: chr0naut2

Toxic before they cure meaning resins. Sorry

So, like all those toxic surfboards, canoes, utility light truck canopies, and small boats?

Carbon Rivers’ recycling uses pyrolysis—a process during which organic components of a composite (e.g., resins or polymers) are broken down with intense heat in the absence of oxygen and separated from the inorganic fiberglass reinforcement. The process converts organic products back into raw hydrocarbon products called syngas and pyrolysis oil, which can be used for energy production. This gives the process a net positive energy output.

The separated recycled glass fiber can then be cleaned and collected for direct reuse in the manufacturing of new products.

“By converting the original composite scrap back into reusable raw materials, like clean, mechanically intact glass fiber and pyrolysis oil, we’ve developed a self-sustaining recycling process that makes a composites circular economy a reality,” Ginder said. “This will help create jobs in recycling and sustainability.”

While this process was originally created for material from decommissioned wind blades, it has since been adapted for automotive, marine, structural, and glass waste materials and other future uses. This includes making recycled glass fiber into nonwoven fabrics, continuous textile yarns, automotive sheet molding compounds, and plastic injection molding pellets. Recycled glass fiber can also be remelted and mixed with virgin fiberglass for additional uses.

The original technology demonstration of this circulate process was made possible through the U.S. Department of Energy’s Small Business Technology Transfer program, which provides grants to small businesses.

“The emergence of a sustainable fiberglass industry will provide a circular economy supply chain for the renewable energy sector and produce hundreds of new jobs focused on domestic materials production to support our energy infrastructure and decrease the United States’ dependence on foreign imports for fiberglass products,” Benson said.

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There is money to be made and jobs to be created in this sector.

originally posted by: AlongCameaSpider

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.

When all existing wind mills get refitted with flicker paper and unobtanium let me know.

Bird lives matter.

I’ll make bumper stickers.

Coming soon!

A study financed by Vattenfall and a group of Norwegian partners on the island of Smøla in Norway has already examined the black dyeing of a wind turbine blade. That study showed that painting one blade of a wind turbine rotor black resulted in 70 percent fewer collision bird victims. "That has to do with the way birds perceive the moving rotor of a wind turbine," says Jesper Kyed Larsen, Environmental Expert at Vattenfall. "When a bird comes close to the rotating blades, the three individual blades can 'merge' into a smear and birds may no longer perceive it an object to avoid. One black blade interrupts the pattern, making the blending of the blades into a single image less likely."

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