Idiot environmentalist whackos only create problems. They can’t solve any.
The liberals believe in only two kinds of power, wind and solar. So why not just install solar panels on these discarded turbine blades? Simple, eh?
J/k
But . . but . . Joe Biden said “green energy” is beautiful and will bring many wonderful high paying jobs. Landfilled turbine blades are not beautiful nor are unused acres of farmland with huge concrete windmill bases that power companies leave behind.
And when future archeologists excavate they will say this is where the idiot tribe lived.
It’s worse than that. they are supposed to last 50 years. They last 20.
Why don’t we just subsidize the companies who bury these things? Add the oversight of a government agency (DOE or BLM spring to mind) and there you have it! Problem solved.
GEORGE CARLIN:
“The Earth doesn’t share our prejudice towards plastic. Plastic came out of the Earth! The Earth probably sees plastic as just another one of its children. Could be the only reason the Earth allowed us to be spawned from it in the first place: it wanted plastic for itself, didn’t know how to make it, needed us.”
If only one could fashion them into Homeless shelters...
(”Price is right” fail sound effect)
Wait till the solar panels hit the dumps.
There are no free lunches. Just as much pollution is created in mining and refining the minerals used in the fabrication of windmills, as in conventional ways of generating electric power.
Well landfills do need fill...
If you ever here environmentalists say that “wind power is now cost-competitive with gas, coal or nuclear” - just remember they are very likely not including costs to build back up supply when the wind doesn’t blow, costs in later years when efficiency drops (by about 3-4% per year for windmills), costs of decommissioning and removal, and of course, costs of disposal.
The disposal issues aside; I wonder why these components have such a short life-cycle. I would expect they should last 5 decades or more. Seems like there is more to this.
Burn the damn things after chopping them up. Fiberglass burns quite easily. Burn them in a closed environment and use scrubbers to take care of the NO and do not worry about the CO2 which is plant food.
They should be repurposed into suppositories for politicians.
When I was training new managers one of the things I pounded into their heads was to continually ask the question: “Then what.”
In this case it would have been, “What is the life of one of these things”
“The life is about 20 years for the fiberglass blades.”
“THEN WHAT HAPPENS?”
People don’t go too far down these roads, and then it bites them in the ass.
Think about Joe Biden’s massive “Covid testing” where everyone can get tested immediately, for free.
Then what happens?
Think about what happens when these tests are all over the place. What do you do with that information?
The path that takes us down can be kind of scary.
Grind them up and burn them. Lots of BTU value.
How does a plastic blade ‘wear out’