What to do with old windmill blades. Is this photoshopped?
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When you find yourself wondering if it's photoshopped just copy it and paste it into the search field at 'tineye'.
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They will look it up, if it has history it likely will be found. That helps with separating a lot of wheat from chaff....
Spoiler, yeah it is a real thing.
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And, of course, most of them are manufactured in Germany -- and then shipped to the Midwest USA. They spend more money in creating, moving and installing just ONE of these blades -- than a fully functioning unit will ever generate in total kilowatt hours.
Is this true?
It's called Energy Returned On Energy Invested -- EROEI. Engineering 101. Self explanatory. Don't put in more than you get out. These huge wind generators are miles from the break even point. All "green" energy is -- except sailing ships, circa 1700.
Not Photoshopped, it's true. These blades cannot be recycled so they just have to bury them where they will take centuries or millennia to break down. Welcome to "green energy."
BS they can't be recycled.
Be correct, please.
They WON'T recycle them as it costs much more to recycle than to just bury them.
Big difference, and one that hugely exposes this is all for profit, not the planet.
We knew this of course, so I digress.
nailed it
Please re-read my post.... I clearly said "These blades cannot be recycled...."
CANNOT (in case you're not a native English speaker) equal "can't."
I think the point u/Rooks is making is that they probably can be, but the cost benefit isn’t there so they will not recycle them.
This is correct. Technically they absolutely can be recycled. However, it is so cost prohibitive that it won't be done without force, or massive economic loss.
Can't is far overused in the world today. Used as a scapegoat and final determiner to make a point, when it is not true.
Hmm, ok, that may be the case, but he/she sure didn't communicate that very well. The English language is a wonderful servant but a terrible master. People just can't communicate effectively nowadays.
I read it a few times because initially I read it the same way you did. Concur about English... it seems intentionally constructed to screw with people.
Incredible photos have revealed the final resting place of massive wind turbine blades that cannot be recycled, and are instead heaped up in piles in landfills.
The municipal landfill in Casper, Wyoming, is the repository of at least 870 discarded blades, and one of the few locations in the country that accepts the massive fiberglass objects.
Built to withstand hurricane winds, the turbine blades cannot easily be crushed or recycled. About 8,000 of the blades are decommissioned in the U.S. every year.
Once they reach the end of their useful life on electricity-generating wind turbines, the blades have to be hacked up with industrial saws into pieces small enough to fit on a flat-bed trailer and hauled to a landfill that accepts them.
In addition to the landfill in Casper, landfills in Lake Mills, Iowa and Sioux Falls, South Dakota accept the discarded blades – but few other facilities have the kind of open space needed to bury the massive blades.
Once they are in the ground, the blades will remain there essentially forever – they do not degrade or break down over time.
And think of the diesel to power the dozers and trucks delivering them.
Ohhh the humanity!!
And trains ships dirt work concrete ...
They can be recycled, but it's much more expensive to recycle them than it is to simply cover them with dirt.....
And there's no businesses at this time, that are correctly and properly equipped to do the Recycling in a Safe manner, that doesn't directly place their Workers at risk of Lung Cancers and other such deadly illnesses, on top of the dangers of getting crushed by Large pieces, and the Metal Bases....
I wonder if they could be stuck in the sea floor to create a substrate for coral reefs.
They tried that with a bunch of tires off the coast of Ft. Lauderdale in the 70's.
It was a huge fail and I don't think anyone is ready to take on an experiment like this again.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_Reef
too buoyant I'm guessing. fiberglass tends to float...
The density of fiberglass is about 2.6 gm/cc. The density of water is 1.0 gm/cc. Fiberglass does not float; it sinks.
most yachts and small boats are built of fibreglass.
They’re also hollow shells with minimal displacement versus the body of water because of the shape and how forces are arranged/directed.
You can take two equal masses of steel and one with sink and one will float because of the shape. This is how boats work.
And most battleships and aircraft carriers are built of steel. Glad to know you think steel floats.
Aircraft carrier hulls are made of steel, therefore steel floats and won't sink if unbolted from the ship, right?
I dunno then, maybe...
at the very least, it's worth a shot.
...and maybe it'd protect some old bits of history from being scuttled for reefs...(I can dream, can't i?)
Yes they can be.....
But basically, all they are is Huge Fiberglass tubes.....
I'm friends with an electrician who worked on a windmill project. I joked with him recently that he must not have done a good job because so many of them aren't turning anymore. He said the parts come from the lowest bidders all over the world. And they don't ever fit together right, they had tons of problems with the project right from the beginning
Being a wasteful, uncreative dullard is a prerequisite for becoming a member of "the big club" that guides society. As well as embracing the virtues of self-righteous hypocrisy, of course.
I've seen it several times driving around the country. Green my ass
If it's not photoshopped, that dude has a lot of work to do. Probably just that days delivery.
Afraid it is real.
you could probably cut them up into building materials or something, but honestly, it would cost more to break them down than it's worth, thus why they get buried in the desert rather than reused...
holy fark - we just went near the city and back on the weekend - goulburn? area nsw (oz) they've doubled the amount since our last time up there a few years back
some are recycled to heat kilims to make limestone for cement
worked in the biz so no was a part of the bid
here's a video of how all this waste is created! massive tonnage of steel and concrete... all wasted on a farce!
A wind turbine has an effective lifespan of 20 years. In that time it produces less energy than what it took to make the turbine to begin with. At the end of its effective lifespan it is almost completely unrecyclable and is placed in landfills measured in the square miles.
A school district thought a wind turbine on top would be a great idea and pay for itself. The district spent millions to have it constructed. It never covered the cost and the district doesnt have the cash to remove it, so it sits at the school, slowly disintegrating.
Cant cure stupid.
'You' lie about it by saying -- These are actually pictures of elephant tusks that were confiscated from poachers. This is reason why the UN to should take over these African governments.