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Iowa wind farm sending many giant blades to landfills

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FearlessFly 9 Nov 18
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Oh BS, I am confident in about 10 minutes somebody will pop up with an idea to use the material that will make them a Billionaire! Plus, No glowing in the dark!

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Fiberglass blades are plastic and glass. The glass part of the blades is the same as sand, not a pollutant. While the plastic part of those blades does pollute, sequestering it in a landfill is better than the fate of much more plastic that is carelessly discarded and makes its way into the sea, or burned releasing CO2 and other pollutants into the air.

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Hmm, zero CO2 and a million tons of non toxic solid waste vs coal: On top of emitting 1.9 billion tons of carbon dioxide each year, coal-fired power plants in the United States also create 120 million tons of toxic waste. I'm still going with windpower is green thank you.

I'll second that.

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Disgusting! There must be a better use for these things....could they be used for manufacturing? Housing? Slot machines? 🙂 I dunno but...landfill seems counter-productive, doesn't it?

As long as the waste isn't further degrading the environment after it's put into a landfill, I don't have a problem with it. Landfilling in general isn't a bad thing, as long as there isn't environmental fallout.

For instance, I would much rather see plastic waste landfilled than floating around in the biosphere, breaking down into microplastics. But household trash, not so much, because a lot of it degrades the environment by eventually being converted into methane that in most landfills just seeps out into the atmosphere. I think this is actually a bigger problem than (presumably) inert turbine blades.

@bingst Well...it IS Iowa, after all. We have enormous landfills here, growing all the time. I'm still enjoying the idea of using those things to make toys or slot machines, little toy airplanes....

@LucyLoohoo I've been saying for a long time that eventually... at some point in the future... we'll be mining the landfills for everything we can.

@bingst I sometimes imagine antropologists, thousands of years in future...digging happily into our ''middens'' and wondering at the purpose of some of this junk!

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