Sioux Falls Landfill Tightens Rules After Minnesota Dumps Dozens of Wind Turbine Blades

[Sanguine]

Unfurling The Waste Problem Caused By Wind Energy

EvenNPR is taking notice. But I have to call out one error in fact in the article. The "U.S. wind industry" is not young. There were operating bird choppers in the windy hills near Benicia, California when I moved to the SF Bay Area in early 1978. That they were operating means they were built no later than some time in 1977. The bird-chopper farm in the Altamont Pass near Livermore was built or became operational in 1981. IOW, the bird chopper industry has been around over 40 years, not old, but certainly not new.

Good points.  And, of course windmills have been used all over the west since those areas were settled.

[roamer_1]

SURE they can be recycled. Grind em up and use the dust in the molding process to make the same thing. We routinely used fiberglass dust to stiffen resin for filler applications, repairing Kenworth hoods for example.

[PeteS in CA]

SURE they can be recycled. Grind em up and use the dust in the molding process to make the same thing. We routinely used fiberglass dust to stiffen resin for filler applications, repairing Kenworth hoods for example.

The NPR article mentions a start-up working on doing that. But the transport and processing of the massive blades will not be cheap, and may not be economically viable.

It says something about how stupidly naive the Enviros and pols have been in their touting wind turbines as an enviro-panacea that over 4 decades into the industry we're having this fundamental life cycle discussion. And it's all at taxpayer expense.

BTW, those bird choppers near Benicia that I mentioned? After a few years they proved economically unviable, the company went out of business, and the bird choppers crumbled into ruin until, several years later, someone (probably some government agency) cleared the site. If you drove through that area along I-680 since the mid-late 80s, you wouldn't have seen those bird choppers or their ruins.

[InHeavenThereIsNoBeer]

The NPR article mentions a start-up working on doing that. But the transport and processing of the massive blades will not be cheap, and may not be economically viable.

It says something about how stupidly naive the Enviros and pols have been in their touting wind turbines as an enviro-panacea that over 4 decades into the industry we're having this fundamental life cycle discussion. And it's all at taxpayer expense.

BTW, those bird choppers near Benicia that I mentioned? After a few years they proved economically unviable, the company went out of business, and the bird choppers crumbled into ruin until, several years later, someone (probably some government agency) cleared the site. If you drove through that area along I-680 since the mid-late 80s, you wouldn't have seen those bird choppers or their ruins.

I wonder if the answer might be to transport the choppers instead of the blades, like the way wood choppers are used onsite instead of transporting large tree limbs and branches.

I can't understand why companies are not required to fund escrow accounts (or something like that), so the money for removal is in place before they break ground.  Green politics I suppose.

[240B]

Who in Hades thought turbines with massive, short-lived, non-recyclable blades would be anything but environmental disasters?!

Wind Turbines were never about the environment. They were always about slush funds, money laundering, and kickbacks, while making a politically correct statement about how 'elite' and 'woke' the people are who support this ineffective and uneconomical nonsense. However, the elite and the super wealthy, such as John Kerry, will never allow wind turbines anywhere near their property or their general areas.

Living 1600 ft from a wind turbine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7DQ3SgSg0c

[catfish1957]

They are also ugly as sin, and mar the beauty of the environment.

And are massive bird killers.

[IsailedawayfromFR]

It says something about how stupidly naive the Enviros and pols have been in their touting wind turbines as an enviro-panacea that over 4 decades into the industry we're having this fundamental life cycle discussion. And it's all at taxpayer expense.

Want to see something really utterly stupid?  Here it is.


http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,375245.msg2053320.html#msg2053320

[musiclady]

And are massive bird killers.

You’re right about that for sure! It would be in ads and on every leftist magazine cover.

But killing birds is apparently not a problem for those who don’t really care about the environment, but only care about crippling the US economy. 

[Bigun]

Wind Turbines were never about the environment. They were always about slush funds, money laundering, and kickbacks, while making a politically correct statement about how 'elite' and 'woke' the people are who support this ineffective and uneconomical nonsense. However, the elite and the super wealthy, such as John Kerry, will never allow wind turbines anywhere near their property or their general areas.

Living 1600 ft from a wind turbine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7DQ3SgSg0c

 

[240B]

Wind turbines are always built and disposed of in poor or rural areas, while the millionaires who live in L.A. and Martha's Vineyard reap the money from it. Wind turbines are for the poor people. Not for us.

And the Liberals are crazy about it. Because Liberals are ignorant saps/suckers.

[Bigun]

And the Liberals are crazy about it. Because Liberals are ignorant saps/suckers.

Or in on the scam.

[Bigun]

Want to see something really utterly stupid?  Here it is.


http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,375245.msg2053320.html#msg2053320

The irony just drips off of that picture @IsailedawayfromFR!

It perfectly illustrates that the electricity has to come from somewhere!

[IsailedawayfromFR]

The irony just drips off of that picture @IsailedawayfromFR!

It perfectly illustrates that the electricity has to come from somewhere!

This is so stupid in so many ways it staggers the mind.

Particularly since Australia imports 90% of its liquid fuel needs.  So it imports the oil to make into diesel to satisfy the nut cases that have electric cars.

Is Australia running out of fuel? PM orders supply review
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-44027042