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900 wind turbine blades go to landfill
Sep 29^th, 2019 at 9:57pm

900 wind turbine blades go to landfill

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a wyoming landfill is burying 900 non-recyclable wind turbine blades

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A Wyoming landfill is burying massive fiberglass wind turbine blades in a huge unlined pit because they're not recyclable, and there's no other good use for them.

At least three wind farms in the state are scraping more than 900 old environmentally unfriendly blades that will be sawed into........

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Why WEREN'T the wind turbine blades designed, to be recyclable ?

Why can't those blades still be used, on a wind turbine generator ?

Why do wind turbine blades have such a short working lifespan ?

Does this evidence/example support an argument, that wind turbine generators,
are an inefficient and non-sustainable power source ?

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Re: 900 wind turbine blades go to landfill
Reply #1 - Sep 29^th, 2019 at 11:15pm

Please put a link e.g.:

https://www.theamericanmirror.com/landfill-grapples-with-900-non-recyclable-wind...

Landfill grapples with burying 900 wind turbine blades — can’t be recycled
September 25, 2019

A Wyoming landfill is burying massive fiberglass wind turbine blades in a huge unlined pit because they’re not recyclable, and there’s no other good use for them.

At least three wind farms in the state are scraping more than 900 old environmentally unfriendly blades that will be sawed into pieces and hauled to the Casper Regional Landfill over the next year.

Casper Solid Waste Manager Cynthia Langston told KGWN the facility is the only one in the state big enough to handle the massive blades, which are expected to take hundreds of years to degrade.

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Reply #2 - Sep 30^th, 2019 at 8:29am

I have always thought fibreglass was highly dangerous and the last thing anyone does is "saw" it..

isnt this so typical of the do gooders ?....how much carbon is made making these wind mills??.. I bet its huge as they are huge....how many birds do they kill????? mmmm just asking..

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Casper Solid Waste Manager Cynthia Langston told KGWN the facility is the only one in the state big enough to handle the massive blades, which are expected to take hundreds of years to degrade

thats ok just build more solid waste facilities.... SIMPLES...

the Amazon may be a good place to start! Roll Eyes

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Prime Minister for Canyons Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 26906 Canberra Gender:	Re: 900 wind turbine blades go to landfill Reply #3 - Sep 30^th, 2019 at 9:21am cods wrote on Sep 30^th, 2019 at 8:29am: isnt this so typical of the do gooders ?....how much carbon is made making these wind mills??.. I bet its huge as they are huge....how many birds do they kill????? mmmm just asking.. Theres this new cool thing all the youing kids are doing called research.
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Reply #4 - Sep 30^th, 2019 at 10:16am

Prime Minister for Canyons wrote on Sep 30^th, 2019 at 9:21am:

cods wrote on Sep 30^th, 2019 at 8:29am:

isnt this so typical of the do gooders ?....how much carbon is made making these wind mills??.. I bet its huge as they are huge....how many birds do they kill????? mmmm just asking..

Theres this new cool thing all the youing kids are doing called research.

and that is going to change everything..... thats cool...I just didnt know! Roll Eyes

...burying fibreglass Roll Eyes

well it will be out of sight for many decades.... so that will help. Cheesy

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Re: 900 wind turbine blades go to landfill
Reply #5 - Sep 30^th, 2019 at 10:53am

cods wrote on Sep 30^th, 2019 at 10:16am:

Prime Minister for Canyons wrote on Sep 30^th, 2019 at 9:21am:

cods wrote on Sep 30^th, 2019 at 8:29am:

isnt this so typical of the do gooders ?....how much carbon is made making these wind mills??.. I bet its huge as they are huge....how many birds do they kill????? mmmm just asking..

Theres this new cool thing all the youing kids are doing called research.

and that is going to change everything..... thats cool...I just didnt know! Roll Eyes

...burying fibreglass Roll Eyes

well it will be out of sight for many decades.... so that will help. Cheesy

I meant you

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The_Barnacle Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 6205 Melbourne Gender:	Re: 900 wind turbine blades go to landfill Reply #6 - Sep 30^th, 2019 at 4:25pm From your link Quote: “Ninety percent of the turbines are completely reclaimed, recycled, and reused, but here is 10 percent that is fiberglass So what percentage of traditional coal fired power stations can be reclaimed, recycled and reused?
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Reply #7 - Sep 30^th, 2019 at 7:27pm

The_Barnacle wrote on Sep 30^th, 2019 at 4:25pm:

From your link

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“Ninety percent of the turbines are completely reclaimed, recycled, and reused, but here is 10 percent that is fiberglass

So what percentage of traditional coal fired power stations can be reclaimed, recycled and reused?

They can recycle the poo from the dunny to come out of these idiots mouths....

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Reply #8 - Sep 30^th, 2019 at 11:15pm

Generating energy from wind turbines is promoted as a much more sustainable energy source - than coal.

Correct ?

Or am i misrepresenting, ....that aspect of the promotion of clean energy tech ?

Is the generation of energy from wind turbines, ....a much more sustainable and eco friendly energy source, or not ?

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What about all of the bird kills too ?

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900 wind turbine blades go to landfill

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a wyoming landfill is burying 900 non-recyclable wind turbine blades

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Reply #9 - Oct 1^st, 2019 at 9:46am

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2014/09/15/wind-turbines-kill-fewe...

THis is how you link

Wind turbines kill between 214,000 and 368,000 birds annually — a small fraction compared with the estimated 6.8 million fatalities from collisions with cell and radio towers and the 1.4 billion to 3.7 billion deaths from cats, according to the peer-reviewed study by two federal scientists and the environmental consulting firm West Inc.

"We estimate that on an annual basis, less than 0.1% ... of songbird and other small passerine species populations in North America perish from collisions with turbines," says lead author Wallace Erickson of Wyoming-based West.

The study based its estimate on data from 116 studies conducted in the U.S. and Canada, after adjusting for the fact that surveys don't capture all fatalities. Some carcasses are missed by monitors, disappear because of scavenging or decompose before they're counted. Nearly two thirds, or 63%, of reported fatalities were small birds of 156 different species.

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Reply #10 - Oct 1^st, 2019 at 11:20am

I always struggle with these stats....how and who I always want to know.. is someone out there picking up dead birds doing autopsies to see how they died?????...

how many cameras do they have on towers and tall building maybe even aircraft... how do they know other birds havent killed them???....

too many unanswered questions for me and at the end of the day the world still has a very good bird population..... why I ask about windmills causing bird deaths is because there are so many of them built close together on land that is used by birds.... by the sea is a good start...on island is another....funny how birds are killed by high rise yet they build nest in high places.....

you bojack believe only certain 116 studies.....

if there was 116 studies claiming that was all piss in the wind you wouldnt believe it... Roll Eyes

am I a skeptic on many things.... yes sir!

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Reply #11 - Oct 1^st, 2019 at 11:57am

cods wrote on Oct 1^st, 2019 at 11:20am:

I always struggle with these stats....how and who I always want to know.. is someone out there picking up dead birds doing autopsies to see how they died?????...

how many cameras do they have on towers and tall building maybe even aircraft... how do they know other birds havent killed them???....

too many unanswered questions for me and at the end of the day the world still has a very good bird population..... why I ask about windmills causing bird deaths is because there are so many of them built close together on land that is used by birds.... by the sea is a good start...on island is another....funny how birds are killed by high rise yet they build nest in high places.....

you bojack believe only certain 116 studies.....

if there was 116 studies claiming that was all piss in the wind you wouldnt believe it... Roll Eyes

am I a skeptic on many things.... yes sir!

Can you be any smacking dumber. Collecting the data is called a metaanalysis is justs about the most powerful study that you can find.

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Prime Minister for Canyons Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 26906 Canberra Gender:	Re: 900 wind turbine blades go to landfill Reply #12 - Oct 1^st, 2019 at 11:58am cods wrote on Oct 1^st, 2019 at 11:20am: am I a skeptic on many things.... yes sir! Skepticism on the basis of examining evidence and being cautious is to be applauded. However I won't be appauding you.
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Re: 900 wind turbine blades go to landfill
Reply #13 - Oct 1^st, 2019 at 4:34pm

cods wrote on Sep 30^th, 2019 at 8:29am:

how many birds do they kill????? mmmm just asking..

It always amazes me that the Right have suddenly become so concerned about the welfare of birds. They have never shown any interest in environmental matters at any other time.

For the record, the number of birds killed by wind turbines is a small fraction of the number of birds killed by city buildings, power poles and mobile phone towers.

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Reply #14 - Oct 1^st, 2019 at 5:29pm

The_Barnacle wrote on Sep 30^th, 2019 at 4:25pm:

From your link

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“Ninety percent of the turbines are completely reclaimed, recycled, and reused, but here is 10 percent that is fiberglass

So what percentage of traditional coal fired power stations can be reclaimed, recycled and reused?

So that is the turbines accounted for. What percentage of the rest?

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