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Maybe they get thew new plant-based blades right. - Dope
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Just like they did with paper straws...Oh come on……
The issue with wind turbine blades is that they are made with an epoxy resin compound that heretofore was not recyclable after ~20 years of being subjected to the stresses that wind turbine blades are subjected to.
One year ago, Siemens
introduced a blade, that though an epoxy resin, CAN be recycled:
compositesworld.com - Swancor siemens gamesa solidify recyclable wind blade partnershipOf course, this does not solve the issue of the current turbine blades now in use. At least for the next 20 years, we will be faced with the problem of turbine blade disposal, but my guess is that the cost of doing so will be less than the cost of recovering from just one major hurricane that hits the Gulf Coast and then wallops North Carolina.
Turbine blades fabricated with new materials derived from plants? Who knows? I don’t. They’re doing some neat things these days in the arena of materials science. And now, combining AI with molecular modeling- geeminy crickets!! The stuff they’re coming up with these days is phenomenal.
Peace,
Bill Z
