If you don't live around windmills well let me tell you. This things are super maintenance prone. Bearings, gears, parts for the generator's all fail quite often. This leads to the windmill being shutdown. My old hometown has windmills not too far away. Built about 10 years ago. Well they turn these things off and lock them when not in use. There was a wind storm not too long ago and I shit you not it literally ripped one of the wings right off, snapped right in half. The wind was too strong for the windmill. Yes you read that right. The wind snapped the blade of the windmill. The power isn't even used locally either. They also turn into massive ice catapults in the winter which makes them super dangerous to be under and or around. Imagine a school bus sized chunk of ice breaking free after an ice storm on a warm day. They will make great sniper positions in the event of a war though.
And because of the fiberglass, the broken/damaged/unusable blades are not able to be recycled, so they bury them in massive landfills which can then not be used for any other purposes. And the blades will probably take thousands of years to decompose, assuming they actually do ever decompose.
If you don't live around windmills well let me tell you. This things are super maintenance prone. Bearings, gears, parts for the generator's all fail quite often. This leads to the windmill being shutdown. My old hometown has windmills not too far away. Built about 10 years ago. Well they turn these things off and lock them when not in use. There was a wind storm not too long ago and I shit you not it literally ripped one of the wings right off, snapped right in half. The wind was too strong for the windmill. Yes you read that right. The wind snapped the blade of the windmill. The power isn't even used locally either. They also turn into massive ice catapults in the winter which makes them super dangerous to be under and or around. Imagine a school bus sized chunk of ice breaking free after an ice storm on a warm day. They will make great sniper positions in the event of a war though.
And because of the fiberglass, the broken/damaged/unusable blades are not able to be recycled, so they bury them in massive landfills which can then not be used for any other purposes. And the blades will probably take thousands of years to decompose, assuming they actually do ever decompose.