I'd imagine there's already things in other industries that are unwieldly and made of materials that you can't just toss into a smelter and call it a day. It's

I'd imagine there's already things in other industries that are unwieldly and made of materials that you can't just toss into a smelter and call it a day. It's just because wind turbines are correlated with the environment that their lifecycle impact ends up being heavily scrutinized. You see the same thing with solar panels and their silicon waste even if practically its a rounding error to the electronic waste of computerized happy-meal toys or whatever.