"GREEN ENERGY" MYTH BUSTED - 50,000 tons of used wind turbine blades in the landfill

for lubrication of the transmission; Like any"waste oil" it can be re-refined or just re-used as fuel oil for burning.

OK...then what about maintenance?

What amount of energy goes into maintaining a wind turbine?

I'm trying to get a good idea of total energy returned on energy invested.

What about maintenance of a regular power plant? It's similar. Wind power isn't going to solve our energy problems, but I just get frustrated when I see people insinuating that somehow it doesn't work.

Texas generates 17% of the power it uses with wind, the equivalent of about 4 large nuclear power plants.

Nuclear is probably the cleanest energy we have besides probably solar as far as power generation vs waste. People in the U.S. are against it because of the potential for disaster. Cuz when there is an accident; it’s really really bad for the environment

Nuclear may generate clean electricity at first but it is dirty in an explosion and hard to store safely over a long duration of time. Unfortunately there are about 400 aging reactors in the USA alone.

Nuclear can be made much safer if it weren’t for the fact that it was developed mainly for nuclear weapons. Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors were Successfully developed And tested in the 1960s but then binned, of which the only real justification is that this technology hasn’t potential for weapons grade fissile material production as by products. The waste issue can also be treated with Technologies that are marginalized and suppressed (HHO and cavitation have been shown And published to do so since the 1990’s).

The wind turbine blades are a toxic amalgam of unique composites, fiberglass, epoxy, polyvinyl chloride foam, polyethylene terephthalate foam, balsa wood, and polyurethane coatings.


Thanks Greta

I think the link is great, exhaustive in detail, and with great graphics

that is why the shills are out so fast!

I would only be favor of nuclear if they had a passive design where you could pull the plug and the reactor would not run anymore without any outside means and also they had a good solution for the waste storage.

And this only begets the question of why aren’t we using this widely already.

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Burying Plutonium is so much better, right OP?

Lol burying used wind turbines is still 1000 times cleaner than burying used nuclear fuel you dummy

Recycling industries have to have an infrastructure in place with specific products or some sort of bulk storage and logistics for ready to use clean materials.

Metals are very easily recycled as there is a scrap metals and aluminum reprocessing industry just about everywhere within short shipping distances.

Glass is easily sorted and crushed. This material can be bulk stored and sold to bottle companies. Problem is that there are very few bottle producing companies and the price to ship this material outweighs the price of virgin sand. The logistics of stockpiling doesn't work out unless there are localized industries that can process bulk glass into reflective adjuncts, aggregate materials, or small industry glass products.

Plastics have various recycling purposes. PET and such is easily shredded, cleaned, and reprocessed into pellets for beverage containers. Other stuff is a bit more challenging. Bulk type containers such as pots and bins, melted plastic type extruded or molded block or pavers, composite building materials are all useful products that can readily be made. But, the production facilities have to be localized and when a production facility is set up like this, it will lose the economy of scale of having a central main production factory..

The best practice for recyclable materials is to minimize their use to begin with. Produce more durable goods and use more renewable materials for disposable packaging and goods. Engineer disposable goods to be non-toxic and biodegradible.

In manufacturing of these durable goods such as wind blades, the thought in engineering should be geared toward longest useful life, end of life alternative uses, and logistics of replacement parts. That is where the failure is with these wind blades. Lack of forethought.

Can these blades be repurposed for other uses? Can they be ground into an aggregate material for roads and concrete? Can the structure of the material be milled into building materials? Can the blades be cut into block? How about grinding them up and then cast with fresh resins into new blades or composite products?

Thoughts?