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muddysamurai said:
Yep, that is what they do with the blades when the reach the end of their service life....bury them. Can't recycle fiberglass and carbon fiber.
www.bloomberg.com

Wind Turbine Blades Can’t Be Recycled, So They’re Piling Up in Landfills

Companies are searching for ways to deal with the tens of thousands of blades that have reached the end of their lives.
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your article says this
One start-up, Global Fiberglass Solutions, developed a method to break down blades and press them into pellets and fiber boards to be used for flooring and walls. The company started producing samples at a plant in Sweetwater, Texas, near the continent’s largest concentration of wind farms. It plans another operation in Iowa.


“We can process 99.9% of a blade and handle about 6,000 to 7,000 blades a year per plant,” said Chief Executive Officer Don Lilly. The company has accumulated an inventory of about one year’s worth of blades ready to be chopped up and recycled as demand increases, he said. “When we start to sell to more builders, we can take in a lot more of them. We’re just gearing up.”
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hopefully that works out
 
rockyota83 said:
your article says this

hopefully that works out
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Zero chance. It's energy intensive and wasteful. The whole point of fibrous materials is that the fiber runs through a good chunk of the material giving them a lot of strength. Shredding defeats the point of that.

Someone is going to come up with a system that uses the flat-ish section of old blades for some sort of use that actually takes advantage of their mechanical properties.

Sections of old columns would obviously great for all sorts of things. Blades are harder but still useful. They're so big that the flat sections only have a slight arch to them.
 
muddysamurai said:
Yep, that is what they do with the blades when the reach the end of their service life....bury them. Can't recycle fiberglass and carbon fiber.
www.bloomberg.com

Wind Turbine Blades Can’t Be Recycled, So They’re Piling Up in Landfills

Companies are searching for ways to deal with the tens of thousands of blades that have reached the end of their lives.
www.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com
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Fake news IMO,

No one gives a fuck about landfill volumes, or contents of landfills.
If you use power from windmills to grind up windmill blades is that too energy intensive?
 
CarterKraft said:
Fake news IMO,

No one gives a fuck about landfill volumes, or contents of landfills.
If you use power from windmills to grind up windmill blades is that too energy intensive?
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An old school dutch style wind powered grist mill grinding up fiberglass blades one at a time into powder to feed into a cement plant or power plant would be awesome to watch. I think burning the resins off and using the fibers as cement reinforcement is about as close as you can get to recycling them but I'm sure virgin fibers make more sense strength wise, financially, and environmentally.
 
grandeyota said:
Cut them into privacy fence sized planks and overcharge suburban yuppies to fence in their yard.
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Too thick/heavy for those people to want to move.

I'd kill for some for concrete form work and retaining walls though.
 
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