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> Once you remove the wind turbines, the harm you've done to the nature was minimal You probably don't even need to remove the turbines if you don't want to? I
by nicoburns 1y ago
> Once you remove the wind turbines, the harm you've done to the nature was minimal
You probably don't even need to remove the turbines if you don't want to? I imagine nature would take over just fine with them left there.
- tialaramex 1y agoGiant metal towers make a dead tall tree look harmless by comparison. If that topples - and eventually it will - it will kill everybody in its path. So, we're probably not going to just leave on-shore wind turbines to rot. Off-shore definitely. The UK already had a bunch of decaying archaic man-made structures off shore because of World War II, the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maunsell_Forts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maunsell_Forts which I went to look at a few weeks back. Pieces of the forts clearly break off and disappear into the sea without incident.
- tpm 1y agoThere is mostly nobody in the path of the tower, and once you remove the blades and the turbine (there is a lot of valuable metal there) the physical load will be so low the tower itself can stand there for a very, very long time. But of course it does not have to.