I am personally more concerned of the millions of tires disposed in landfills.
that will accelerate with EV’s are they are heavier hence more tyre wear
What about this is an acounting failure? GE Paid a company to recycle turbine blades, and that conpany didnt deliver, now they’re getting sued. There is enough money up for grabs someone will recycle them.
the reality is there is no recycling its just cut them up and mix them with something to make the greenies feel all warm and comfortable
There has been scamming for unwanted waste for years but now its green, oops maybe its not green
Steel copper and aluminum are about the only items that have a value to trade and recycle so they are.
Bestie this is what recycling means.
Lol good one, I might put in a tender, I am going to mix them with …other blades and used solar panels
Make it a theme park, Greta World
Looks like somebody is doing something to solve the problem. :
https://www.cdrecycler.com/news/veolia-wind-turbine-blade-landfill-diversion-cement-kilns
The same is happening in Europe:
PS> To DO something is a lot harder than to complain about it.
The problem is the materials, there is some work on moving away from carbon and conventional epoxy resins as the whole boating industry has had same issue for 50 years.
Its repurposed not recycled
Everyone loves a headline and most are “we have formed a company to do such and such in the future”.
( thanks for the cash injections)
What will happen to carbon aircraft, A350 B787, land fill
PPS nothing actually done just a headline…
The pessimist’s view: land fill
The optimist’s view: recycled, reused forever
The realist’s view: used in concrete and asphalt production
PS> Same applies to wind turbine blades, old fiberglass boats and many more.
but its not happening is it, its just headlines.
You need to get a handle on recycled like steel versus repurposed, just an excuse to try to to make the problem go away and none of that is financially viable without someone paying extra rather than do the job with existing materials.
EV batterys as a perfect example.
Look what people steal, copper stainless and cat convertors…anyone stealing wind turbine blades?
From the linked article above:
good news
if the answer is to burn them they should be in coal fired power stations as clean fuel
US news on recycling of fiberglass, incl. wind turbine blades:
Ørsted is already recycling 85-95% of their used wind turbine blades and are working on the last bit:
Others are also hard at work to develop recycling methods for the future:
https://www.lmwindpower.com/en/sustainability/blade-recycling
Both those links goto we tested it, we are going to commercialize it, we will in the futures etc etc. all with gov funding.
A turbine blade is nothing special just large, plenty more fibreglass going into landfill and has been for decades.
The green industry needs headlines
Your confused between headlines to fool woke greenies and reality
Singapore even did that to you, blah blah LPG tugs, good headline but backed up by buying 6 more diesels, thats reality.
Tugs and all road transport could have been LPG 50+ years ago
but…now it seems we need headlines not actions.
Yeah because Oil and Gas would never crank out propaganda headlines… Oh wait, they have literally written elementary though college level curriculums (cough, propaganda) to give to underfunded school to highlight how “green” fossil fuel could be. And for those of us who have fully developed frontal lobes, they are paying for Advertisements that look like real articles, that run next to and among real articles, which is also biased propaganda.
You seem to be their target demographic given you’ve taken the bait hook line and sinker.
Take a gander:
Thats only targeted to Americans
You do know what the rest of the world thinks of American education…
( I have 2 cousins that grew up there, expensive schools, intelligent but dont know sh!t)
The comments I posted was from the conclusion at the end of the chain of the links OM posted, bling headlines that actually went nowhere as in no action results.
Perhaps you should re aim for who has taken the bait for propaganda.
I’m not sure where you’re from, but clearly nothing ever happens there. The important thing is people are trying to solve the problems we face, and investment is coming in order of importance. Solving the world’s problem is a winning lottery ticket that you can get though hard work, and not just blind luck- whoever figures out a scalable business to solve our problems will be very rich. But you are welcome to sit and poo poo everyone’s ideas, since you clearly have reached a level of enlightenment an American could never have.
I do not have the time or energy to learn about OPEC propaganda in every country. I encourage you to look around on your own time, I’m sure there are lots of independent journalists around the world looking into the Oil Industry’s bad behavior. But not all countries have freedom of speech protections like the US, so who knows what you’d find.
I am all for reducing pollution but the green stuff is now a religion, how can a headline today be about putting lpg in a tugboat when it should of been happening 50 years ago?
As it happens the USA was a pioneer and a big user of all the gases in industrial engines.
Huge pollution benefit over petrol and diesel but never seemed to make it to the road?
When “Recycling” a turbine blade is burning it to get the carbon out as input for cement is like what!
Perhaps it should be called clean coal? ( which is what its replacing)
Hate to think what happens to the toxic fumes from the resin ( lets see if that catches on worldwide)
There is plenty that could have been done and that still applies.
Why arent all city buses on lpg?
All taxis were in Australia till the gov taxed it out of existence, now a tanker of lpg leaving is passing a tanker of gasoline going back to Australia…so green…