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<\/a>The picture is from an article posted at The Federalist<\/a> on Friday.<\/p>\nThe article reports:<\/p>\n
While green advocates commonly use the terms renewable, sustainable, and net zero to describe their efforts, the dirty little secret is that\u00a0much of the waste from solar panels<\/a>\u00a0and wind turbines is ending up in landfills.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n The current amounts of fiberglass, resins, aluminum and other chemicals \u2014 not to mention propeller blades from giant wind turbines \u2014 pose no threat currently to local town dumps, but this largely ignored problem will become more of a challenge in the years ahead as the\u00a0500 million solar panels<\/a>\u00a0and the 73,000 wind turbines now operating in the U.S. are decommissioned and replaced.<\/strong><\/p>\n …\u201cNobody planned on this, nobody had a plan to get rid of them, nobody planned for closure,\u201d said Dwight Clark, whose company, Solar eWaste Solutions, recycles solar panels. \u201cNobody thought this through.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n The discussion about what to do with worn-out solar and wind equipment is another topic usually elided in net zero blueprints, which often focus on the claimed benefits of projects while discounting or ignoring the costs. As\u00a0RealClearInvestigations previously reported<\/a>\u00a0regarding the lack of plans for acquiring the massive amounts of land for solar and wind farms needed to achieve net zero, the math can get fuzzy, and the numbers cited most frequently are those rosiest for renewables.<\/strong><\/p>\n The article concludes:<\/p>\n What\u2019s more,\u00a0bankruptcies<\/a>\u00a0among\u00a0European companies<\/a>\u00a0have begun to mar the renewable wind landscape as surely as the towers, a trend that could continue or accelerate as the Trump administration\u00a0stops the federal spigot<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cThe government has let them off the hook by shaping their policies around climate activism,\u201d Shaffer said. \u201cThey\u2019re not putting down escrow money for decommissioning and someone\u2019s going to have to come along and remove them, or we\u2019ll be staring at these rotting towers in the ocean.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n The blades are so big that they are usually broken into three pieces when decommissioned, and the giant chunks of fiberglass, resin, and composite materials go to landfills or warehouses.<\/strong><\/p>\n Already, horror stories exist of municipalities faced with decommissioning problems. Towns like\u00a0Sweetwater, Texas<\/a>, which for many years has been the leading state for wind power, have seen\u00a0turbine recycling contracts<\/a>\u00a0ignored.\u00a0Global Fiberglass Solutions,<\/a>\u00a0one of the companies handling such contracts, did not return requests for comment.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cYou can\u2019t reuse turbines, and there are now thousands upon thousands of blades just sitting there in warehouses already,\u201d Isaac said. \u201cIt\u2019s an environmental disaster we\u2019re looking at.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n This article was originally published by RealClearInvestigations.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n There is nothing environmentally friendly about either wind or solar energy when you look at the bigger picture–how it is manufactured and how it has to be disposed of.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This is a picture of a landfill with used windmill turbine blades. Note the size of the tractor in comparison to the size of the blades. The picture is from an article posted at The Federalist on Friday. The article … Continue reading