From: Gronk <invalide@invalid.invalid>
Newsgroups: can.politics,alt.politics.trump,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh
Subject: Re: "Bat poop crazy"
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2025 23:35:03 -0600
Organization: _2~0
Gronk wrote:
> 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?
"Where I live whales are washing up on the beaches
in numbers never seen before. "
Still no evidence...
>> 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.
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