Recommendable! Wind power is not only intermittent and unreliable! Wind turbines are noisy, spoil nature or change local climates!
Renewable energy is a disturbing euphemism!
"... wear of turbines, resulting from high winds, rain, hail, and other weather phenomena that erode the turbine blades and cause them to deposit tons of tiny bits of plastic/resin/polymer waste on the land surrounding land-based facilities in Scotland and Sweden. Leading-edge wear is even worse for offshore wind facilities, polluting the sea and the food chain.
Trash from wind is even more obvious and damaging when the turbines explode or collapse, which is not uncommon, as numerous videos demonstrate. ...
The material from each wind turbine has value. But if recycled, the value is less than 10 percent of the cost of decommissioning land-based turbines and just 3 percent of the cost of decommissioning offshore wind. And because the materials in the blades are of even less value and bound in a fashion that makes them difficult to recycle, wind turbines, blades, towers, and ancillary equipment such as nacelles containing gears are piling up, cluttering vast acres of land in some areas of the country.
Images are easily found that show broken and abandoned wind turbines in Hawaii rusting and falling apart, abandoned for years. In Texas, in lieu of promised proper disposal and recycling, the companies involved in decommissioning wind turbines have found it easier to stockpile the debris on open land, creating an illegal nuisance eyesore and a potential health danger. ..."
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