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> There’s currently no way to recycle or reuse the blades and it’s a big problem that nobody seems to care about The wind power industry cares and is actively
by hannob 5y ago
> There’s currently no way to recycle or reuse the blades and it’s a big problem that nobody seems to care about
The wind power industry cares and is actively asking for political incentives to change this:
https://windeurope.org/newsroom/press-releases/wind-industry-calls-for-europe-wide-ban-on-landfilling-turbine-blades/ https://windeurope.org/newsroom/press-releases/wind-industry...
- techpression 5y agoThe industry needs political incentives to even exist and now they want incentives to fix the problem the incentives created. Why don’t we just agree on state financed and owned wind power and be done with it instead of feeding the middlemen. And it begs the question, the waste was a known factor before even starting building turbines, why start asking for this now instead of twenty years ago. To me it feels very much like a problem once wanted to be swept under the rug now becoming too much to handle.
- afarrell 5y agoBecause markets carry useful signals. Part of the move to decarbonised energy is creating the free economic systems which support it.