Tuesday, February 18, 2025

Decommissioned wind turbine blades recycled into asphalt for new roads in China. Really!

How much does that cost? Most likely another government boondoggle paid for by taxpayers!

Unreliable, environmentally harmful wind power is the greatest scam of the last 50 years or so!

"... In 2023, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Denver, Colorado, estimated that between 3,000 and 9,000 turbine blades will be retired each year for the next 5 years in the US alone; that figure would then increase to between 10,000 and 20,000 until 2040.

Now consider how big the problem could be across Europe and China, which have the world's largest wind turbines. The largest turbine we know of, a 26-MW-generating behemoth set to be completed in China by Dongfang, has a blade diameter of 1,107 ft (310 m). ...

A team from the Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has devised a process of crushing and chemically treating old blades so they can be combined into asphalt mixtures and cement concrete for constructing roads. ..."

Decommissioned wind turbine blades recycled into asphalt for new roads

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