no wind = no generating,
there is one other problem that few people that raved over
them talk about, as wind-farms age their blades will have to be replaced,
here is a undeniable, indisputable fact, almost a quarter of a
million windmills worldwide will need to be replaced by 2030, new generation
rotor blades made of glass or carbon fibre composite material have average
lifespans of between 10 and 25 years, at current growth rates by 2034, there
will be about 200,000 tonnes of rotor blade composite material produced
annually, worldwide, and guess what? wind turbine blades are totally unrecyclable! with one exception they all have to go to landfill sites, strange how the greenies and
tree hugers left that fact out when pushing for cheap renewable energy!
but hope is on the horizon, some kids can enjoy using them in parks made
from the blades, so that's alright then, for further reading on the
not talked about problem of windfarms have a look at these publications, GenVind Innovation Consortium / No
Tech Magazine / Wind
Power Engineering / Wind
Power Monthly, there is of course one factory that process the blades, but
only one, given the problem I would have thought that every country would have
a number of blade reprocessing plants, so I guess there is
no profit it or the reprocessing plants have to be state/government subsidised.
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