From: Gronk <invalide@invalid.invalid>
Newsgroups: can.politics,alt.politics.trump,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh
Subject: Re: "Bat poop crazy"
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2025 00:27:47 -0600
Organization: 2-0
pothead wrote:
> On 2025-07-28, Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:
>> Doing an interview in Scotland about how "bad" wind turbines are (he
>> called them "windmills", but never mind)...
>>
>> ...where they quite successfully get 40% of their electricity from wind
>> turbines.
>>
>> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7pa-EvdMqA>
>
> They are horrible.
> Where I live whales are washing up on the beaches in numbers never
> seen before.
Really? Evidence? Cite? Article? No?
> The difference?
> Off shore turbines are one.
https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/new-england-mid-atlantic/marine-life-distress/frequent-questions-offshore-wind-and-whales
"At this point, there is no scientific
evidence that noise resulting from offshore
wind site characterization surveys could
potentially cause whale deaths. There are
no known links between large whale deaths
and ongoing offshore wind activities."
> Maybe it's something else, but still.
>
> Also the blades are very expensive to dispose of.
> And during hurricanes, which we do get on occaison, they fall apart.
> Plus they look ugly.
How can companies recycle wind turbine blades?
Landfilling retired blades isnât green or sustainable. Companies are
working on ways to reuse the giant structures rather than bury them
August 8,2022
â¦
Cappadona, the CEO of the Environmental Solutions and Services division
of Veolia North America, an energy, water, and waste company, confesses
that he wasnât much more optimistic when he later received a big can
filled with pieces of a chopped-up blade. Turning the used blades into
something a customer would want âwas the Rubikâs Cube of recycling,â he
says, referring to the challenging 3D puzzle. But the company quickly
came up with a plan for the material that was long considered
unrecyclable. Now, just 2 years later, Veolia runs a program that has
already turned about 2,000 of the giant blades into a valuable
commodityâcement.