The ecologists, who cry loudly for a yes or a no when it comes to nuclear or coal-fired power plants, we no longer hear them when their friends in the green industry leave wind turbines to rot in nature.
Funny this denial of the pollution they create.
This is undoubtedly because their pollution is "sustainable", the buzzword of their movement.
Come on, let's get over one:
How beautiful, the results of ecologism!
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Tens of thousands of aging blades descend from steel towers around the world and most have nowhere to go except landfills. In the United States alone, approximately 8 will be phased out over the next four years. According to BloombergNEF, in Europe, which has been dealing with the problem for longer, around 000 blades / year will be decommissioned until at least 3. The situation will therefore worsen: most were built more than ten years ago, when the installations were less than a fifth of what they are today.
Designed to withstand hurricane force winds, the blades cannot easily be crushed, recycled or reused. This has created an urgent search for alternatives in places that lack open grasslands. In the United States, they are dumped with a shovel in the landfills that accept them, in Lake Mills, Iowa; Sioux Falls, South Dakota; and Casper, where they will be buried, up to 10 meters deep, stacked on top of each other.
“At the end of the day, the blades of wind turbines are here forever,” said Bob Cappadona, Chief Operating Officer of the North American unit of Veolia Environnement SA based in Paris, which is looking for better ways to manage massive waste. “Most of the landfills are considered dry graves. "
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