Don’t bitch too much Mr. Kellough or they’ll get dumped in your state.
Build the wall with old wind blades.
Disposing of the turbines will largely be a Texas problem as the state produces the most wind power and wind is one of the state’s largest power sources.
“Y’all fidna gestroy da erf!” —Gredda Thunderburger
When I was in the power industry, “life extension” was a common strategy for power plants nearing the end of the their 30 year design life span. We usually could extend the life out to 50 years without major investments. Plants I started up in the early 70s were decommissioned 30 to 40 years later and sometimes they were carefully reassembled, sold to other countries, and reassembled there to finish their lives. If the entire plant wasn’t sold, the value of the scrap steel was high and it was recycled. There was almost nothing in a conventional power plant that could not be easily recycled. Even the concrete floors and the asphalt parking lots were crushed for re-use in new asphalt and concrete.
No such “life extension” will be possible with wind turbines or solar cells. In fact, when the companies go bankrupt, the towers will stand forever mute as testaments to the utter energy insanity of the early 21st century. Millions of tons of concrete buried in the ground will stay there forever and the towers will finally rust and fall after decades or centuries. Meanwhile, those towers will stand as useless sentinels across our beautiful country as a testament to our energy folly.
It really hacks me off because no coal mine can be opened without the developer paying a huge surety bond up front that the land will be restored when the mine is closed decades in the future. No such surety bonds are paid for the monstrous wind turbines. Eventually, it will take a massive Superfund III to tear all the defunct wind turbine towers down.
I don’t understand how this is all “clean and sustainable.” Sounds like a huge fraud.
[[By 2050, Used Wind Turbine Blades Will Exceed 43 Million Tons Of Waste Every Year]]
I’m surprised the gov isn’t taking them and recycling them into bird shot to shoot down eagles and other endangered birds with
It may be possible:
But, I would prefer to NEVER see another one.
Iām thinking about starting a company to convert old wind turbines into organic fertilizer. That wonāt work, of course. But in the meantime Iāll be getting lots of government grant moneyā¦and maybe even a Nobel Prize.
So whatās not to like?
Ever try to get rid of a fiberglass boat?
Just about impossible. Even if you burn it there is still a pile of stuff left. And don’t breathe the fumes. Great huge black clouds of fumes from all the plastic resin of course.
We can only hope someone with some sense and power stops all this green crap before it goes waaaaay too far.
There will be a lot more carnage if the democraps eliminate “fossil” (BTW - no such thing) lubricants which are used lubricate the moving parts.
Yet another stupid leftist social-engineering scheme with massive unintended consequences
Figure out a way to build houses out of them.
Sooo..
Cut them up and make housing for the homeless!
[snark]
Wonder if they can be ground up and used as filler in roadway material.