Wind Turbine Blades Can’t Be Recycled, So They’re Piling Up in Landfills (2020)
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Re: Wind Turbine Blades Can’t Be Recycled, So They’re Piling Up in Landfills (2020)
#2They can be recycled especially in the cement industry. Also they can be repurposed https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1944/14/5/1124/htm
The manufacturers are alos working on to recycle, so this will come https://www.ge.com/news/reports/second-life-this-plant-will-....
This article is skewed!
Re: Wind Turbine Blades Can’t Be Recycled, So They’re Piling Up in Landfills (2020)
#3Least of our concerns.
Re: Wind Turbine Blades Can’t Be Recycled, So They’re Piling Up in Landfills (2020)
#4EV batteries currently can’t be recycled either, and they’re going to pile up in landfills. Perhaps people should stop clutching their pearls and work towards recycling tech. Or is this a bunch of prose from oil/gas folks hoping to stall change?
Re: Wind Turbine Blades Can’t Be Recycled, So They’re Piling Up in Landfills (2020)
#5This is actually going to be a big deal someday. Maybe it's already a big deal.
For example, Texas has massive wind farms and thankfully a lot of land that doesn't really do anything.
But these wing graveyards are going to continue to grow and grow, and "renewable energy" seems to require 100% recycling without extra CO2 release as an inherent and basic principle.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Sweetwater,+TX+79556/@32.4...
Re: Wind Turbine Blades Can’t Be Recycled, So They’re Piling Up in Landfills (2020)
#6Hey! Maybe we can trade them for some nuclear waste from Fukushima.
Re: Wind Turbine Blades Can’t Be Recycled, So They’re Piling Up in Landfills (2020)
#7Having waste on specific location on the ground is not equal to having waste on the atmosphere.
There are so little constraints to landfills that we might not go to recycle wind blades in the future :
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S09213...
Re: Wind Turbine Blades Can’t Be Recycled, So They’re Piling Up in Landfills (2020)
#8EV batteries currently can’t be recycled either, and they’re going to pile up in landfills. Perhaps people should stop clutching their pearls and work towards recycling tech. Or is this a bunch of prose from oil/gas folks hoping to stall change?
They can be, and there are demonstration plants doing this already. With more EVs on the road it is even going to make economical sense at some point.
But those darn batteries just won't break as fast as some petrolheads predicted, they are still holding up long after 150.000 km and more.
Not to mention second life uses, like grid- and homestorage, which will drive up the time for when you really want to recycle an EV battery.
Re: Wind Turbine Blades Can’t Be Recycled, So They’re Piling Up in Landfills (2020)
#9https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/11/30/fact...
"Windmill blades can be recycled," Karl Englund, CTO of Global Fiberglass Solutions and associate research professor at Washington State University, told USA TODAY. “We have proven that over and over again.”
Re: Wind Turbine Blades Can’t Be Recycled, So They’re Piling Up in Landfills (2020)
#10They’re being recycled into support structures for construction.
https://www.fastcompany.com/90727497/in-ireland-old-wind-tur....