The dark side of ‘green energy’ and its threat to the nation’s environment

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The dark side of ‘green energy’ and its threat to the nation’s environment

What happens to old solar panels, windmills and high tech batteries?
By Amy Joi O'Donoghue@Amyjoi16 Jan 30, 2021, 10:00pm MST
 

Wind farms and massive arrays of solar panels are cropping up across public and private landscapes both in the United States and abroad as users increasingly turn to “green energy” as their preferred flavor of electricity.

President Joe Biden, in fact, has directed the Interior Department to identify suitable places to host 20 gigawatts of new energy from sun, wind or geothermal resources by 2024 as part of a sweeping effort to move away from a carbon-based economy and electrical grid.

But how green is green?

Although countries are feverishly looking to install wind and solar farms to wean themselves off carbon-based, or so-called “dirty” energy, few countries, operators and the industry itself have yet to fully tackle the long-term consequences of how to dispose of these systems, which have their own environmental hazards like toxic metals, oil, fiberglass and other material.

https://www.deseret.com/utah/2021/1/30/22249311/why-green-energy-isnt-so-green-and-poses-harm-to-the-environment-hazardous-waste-utah-china-solar

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Aside from being eyesores, these monstrosities kill about 250,000 birds in the U.S alone.

[GtHawk]

Aside from being eyesores, these monstrosities kill about 250,000 birds in the U.S alone.

The raptors are bad enough, but they also kill thousands upon thousands of pollinators like bats every year also. And then there is the problem with what to do with the decommissioned  turbine towers and blades, since there is no recycling demand for old fiberglass turbine blades they are burying them to make them disappear. Remember how the Gaia worshipers cried and bellowed about plastic bags in landfills and how long it took for them to break down? Silence on these huge fiberglass blades that break down when, the twelfth of never?