{"id":268790,"date":"2023-07-22T12:05:37","date_gmt":"2023-07-22T10:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=268790"},"modified":"2023-07-22T12:05:40","modified_gmt":"2023-07-22T10:05:40","slug":"will-wind-turbines-generate-more-waste-than-electricity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=268790","title":{"rendered":"Will wind turbines generate more waste than electricity?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From CFACT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0Ronald Stein<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Wind turbine with broken wings after a heavy spring storm in the Netherlands<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Wind turbines, once touted by a few wealthy and less populated countries as a clean solution for electricity, are now becoming an eyesore, a hazard, and a significant environmental threat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After decades of operating around the world for the few wealthy and less populated countries, wind turbines continue to have a life expectancy of about 20 years. To date, there has yet to be discovered a financially viable means of recycling those wind turbines.\u00a0 As a result, today\u2019s old wind turbines are being dumped into toxic waste dumps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because wind turbine blades are very difficult to recycle, the waste stream created by the retired blades is a mounting problem. Globally by 2050, projections are that there will be\u00a043 million tons of blade waste produced EVERY YEAR<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0\u2014 the equivalent of 215,000 locomotives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By the turn of the century in 2100,\u00a0the world population is projected to be more than 11 billion from its current 8 billion<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n