I was all ready to be pissed off at the NIMBYism, but they seem to have a genuine concern with the risk of flooding.
Just to add to the doom & gloom tone of this situation,
We don’t have a way to recycle or reuse wind turbine blades.
Just about everything else on these yokes can be recycled, melted, reused, disposed of properly… But the blades? Well… we don’t have an answer for that yet.
Worldwide, whenever a turbine is decommissioned, they just basically get stacked in a corner somewhere… & they are still there.
Bullshit. Drainage could have been implemented. Wasteful in the extreme.
20 year old wind farm, so it’s paid for itself already. If the whole mudslide/ecological disaster thing never happened it would probably make sense to de-commission the old inefficient turbines now anyway.
Be interesting to see if they apply for planning permission for new turbines. They would only need a quarter of the turbines to re-power the site with same power output
This is one of stupidest things in the current climate I have ever seen. In an energy crises we are reducing the green energy we produce. What’s done is done, it’s built now use it. If we want to make it right go after the people that allowed it to happen in the first place…..but ohhhh no can’t to that now can we. We deserve the what we get in this country, this is something there should be a protest about to keep it operational. I would go.
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Now they are going to be an eye sore.
I was all ready to be pissed off at the NIMBYism, but they seem to have a genuine concern with the risk of flooding.
Just to add to the doom & gloom tone of this situation,
We don’t have a way to recycle or reuse wind turbine blades.
Just about everything else on these yokes can be recycled, melted, reused, disposed of properly… But the blades? Well… we don’t have an answer for that yet.
Worldwide, whenever a turbine is decommissioned, they just basically get stacked in a corner somewhere… & they are still there.
Bullshit. Drainage could have been implemented. Wasteful in the extreme.
20 year old wind farm, so it’s paid for itself already. If the whole mudslide/ecological disaster thing never happened it would probably make sense to de-commission the old inefficient turbines now anyway.
Be interesting to see if they apply for planning permission for new turbines. They would only need a quarter of the turbines to re-power the site with same power output
This is one of stupidest things in the current climate I have ever seen. In an energy crises we are reducing the green energy we produce. What’s done is done, it’s built now use it. If we want to make it right go after the people that allowed it to happen in the first place…..but ohhhh no can’t to that now can we. We deserve the what we get in this country, this is something there should be a protest about to keep it operational. I would go.