‘Turbine graveyards’ sprawled across Texas

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7 ай бұрын

Independent journalist Ron Kendall Jr warns of “turbine graveyards” which have been popping up over the US state of Texas as turbine blades reach their useable life.
Texas is home to more than 15,000 wind turbines and has been dubbed a “clean energy powerhouse”.
In a documentary produced by Yucca Films, Mr Kendall Jr investigates the lifespan of the turbines and where they go once used.
“Once they reach their usable life we are seeing more of these, I like to call them turbine graveyards, popping up throughout the state, some to the scale of over 20 to 40 acres of maybe ten tall stacked up,” he told Sky News host James Morrow.
“It doesn’t seem like there was much thought into the end of life for a lot of these renewable energy sources.”
Mr Kendall Jr added many blades are being replaced within two years on some of the newer facilities.

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@raa8201 7 ай бұрын

I'm a Texan, but also have farmland in Iowa. We were approached around 12 years ago about putting some of these windmills on our land. When I asked them about my main concern, which was what happens, who pays for, and who removes it when it has reached its lifespan, all you heard was crickets. They had no idea. When I pressed the issue, I never heard from them again. That pretty much answered my concerns.

@actionau 7 ай бұрын

Yikes. How super sketchy can you get?

@harrisbeatsfrankou6304 7 ай бұрын

so they vandalize your farm? sounds legit, damn the leftists are freaks.

@tommas2674 7 ай бұрын

oh, come on LET'S all eat bug guts. and bonus of Fake green for the Fake virtuous for having NO virtue, we are at .04% CO2 at .02 CO2 ALL plant life dies, now, no O2 to be made of the CO2 that nourishes plants, no protection from storms, no Food, We die. Mess with God's resources.

@333elliott 7 ай бұрын

Canada : Make a wall out of them ?

@calichekid8527 7 ай бұрын

@@embededfabrication4482 It is relatively easy to plug an old oil well and remediate the site compared to how we're going to get rid of these blade. Probably have to grind them up.

@onazram1 7 ай бұрын

You know these windmill manufacturers were large campaign contributors, like other "clean energy" manufacturers and suppliers.... Climate change is big business, and that is all it is!

@user-yl1xy5eg7b 7 ай бұрын

Yes it is, right down to the process of submitting applications for research grants; they are more likely to succeed if they are phrased in a manner which appeals to the green movement, and if their theories and thus hypotheses are consistent with the prevailing nonsensical views on climate, which Alan Jones did an excellent job of debunking, in an interview with Nils Axel-Morner, several years ago: 18.06.2019: Alan Jones "New sun-driven cooling period of Earth 'not far off'".

@CarriUSA 7 ай бұрын

And the majority are FOREIGN, subsidized by tax payer!

@HollyMoore-wo2mh 7 ай бұрын

@@CarriUSA china

@allan339 7 ай бұрын

You've been fed so many climate change lies that you think alternative forms of electricity are climate friendly.

@allan339 7 ай бұрын

@@CarriUSA And Texas does nothing about it. It's almost as if the republican party are part of the problem.

@janetd4862 7 ай бұрын

My dad owned farm ground (now my siblings and I do). Dad told us to NEVER allow anyone to put a wind turbine on our land. He was concerned about that “end of life” issue. Who pays to take it down? ….to remove the foundation? What if the company who put it in is now out of business? And, environmentally, what do you do with it once it’s removed? You’re in “tornado alley”…what happens if a tornado comes through there? I feel like someone ran with an idea without thinking it through.

@drummerlovesbookworm9738 7 ай бұрын

Bless your Dad’s wisdom. May he RIP. His legacy is sensible children.

@denise8242 7 ай бұрын

Follow the money

@Mike-or3ry 7 ай бұрын

Alex Epstein 's "FOSSIL FUTURE" on sale now. The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels. HUMAN FLOURISHING

@pete_lind 7 ай бұрын

The steel, iron, aluminum, copper, concrete, and electronics of wind turbine, foundations, towers, and wiring can all be recycled. Massive concrete structures are smashed to rubble everyday by demo crews, you have an excavator with a jackhammer to do that work. YT clip about it ... Komatsu Excavator with Hydraulic Breaker / Hammer / Jackhammer Stop whining, you can build grain silos on those foundations, or storm shelter, hurricanes are typical to Texas, remember that you do need permit to build a storm shelter.

@java4653 7 ай бұрын

Like when you invaded Iraq? LOL. It's hilarious that you only care once it affects you. No wonder Texas has so many infrastructure problems.

@Hawkeye2001 7 ай бұрын

One of my farmer friends was approached by a green energy producer about leasing their land for a solar farm. There was a 20 year contract. At the end the solar company would simply walk away, and the land owner responsible for reclaiming the land. The panels contained hazardous materials that could only be recycled by one company. In Belgium.

@johnkemas7344 7 ай бұрын

Seems a typical scam by an energy producer. Same deal with the oil companies wanting to lease and take the oil and natural gas from under your properties. You sell them you rights, for very little money, they take what they want and after the ground has been destroyed by fracking and other processes, they leave you with the mess. And people fall for this ruse for a quick but small chunk of cash. They pay you relatively little for the use of your land, they make profits and in the end you're stuck for the cleanup and land restoration, possibly you being forced to do so by the government and in the end you lost more money than you were ever paid! NO THANKS

@brianfitch5469 7 ай бұрын

Most will just collect them and burn them.

@1978garfield 7 ай бұрын

What happens to most electronics is they get shopped to China. Shipping to China is artificially cheap because they need the shipping containers back. So broken electronics dead head back to China. There they will be broken apart. Metal will be recycled. Plastic is often burnt to get rid of it. Some components are burnt to get the metals out of them. Just because it is recycling doesn't mean it is "green".

@Milarz 7 ай бұрын

Then your farmer friend needs to renegotiate the contract. Is this a new concept for farm businesses? Don't they have contracts with suppliers, storage middleman, and purchasers? And the solar cell recycling business in the U.S. is new, growing, but already established: www.epa.gov/hw/solar-panel-recycling.

@beINMedia Ай бұрын

Solar companies would be happy to continue running the solar farm - even taking care of the existing panels and replacing them with state of the art ones.

@farmer9180 7 ай бұрын

Remove the tax breaks and see how many new wind farms would be built.

@dr.emilschaffhausen4683 7 ай бұрын

Ding, ding, ding! The "Green New (crappy) Deal" is nothing more than a revenue stream for buddies of government officials.

@josephgaviota 7 ай бұрын

Bingo. It's a giant scam to get we the taxpayers to make the greenies rich.

@robertkaspert4092 7 ай бұрын

That's the same with all of these renewal energy crap, you are right.

@chriswilliams8607 7 ай бұрын

as power from a wind turbine costs about a third of every thermal powerplants power your argument is BS

@josephgaviota 7 ай бұрын

@@chriswilliams8607 IF wind and solar were better, we wouldn't have to be forced to use it.

@jeffdumpster1470 7 ай бұрын

I guess we should block traffic until this injustice is addressed.

@thedave7760 7 ай бұрын

I'll get the super glue, can someone else get the police to bring some tea for us all.

@jeffb6153 7 ай бұрын

Use the blades to block the roads that eco zealots live on and their driveways.

@Lillyboo65640 7 ай бұрын

@jeffb6153 yes !!

@user-yl1xy5eg7b 7 ай бұрын

@@thedave7760 A German 'demonstrator' used superglue and sand. The police had to use an angle grinder to remove a section of road, and the 'demonstrator' had to walk away with it attached to his hand, which was at risk of amputation. People who play stupid games win stupid prizes.

@SuperMikado282 7 ай бұрын

Well said, my friend.

@skeetermc4876 7 ай бұрын

I live in Sweetwater, Texas and ive seen these blades pile up in the yards for 10 or more years. They stay rotting in the yards, becoming bee infested and rattlesnake dens. Most of the yards are in city limits near children. They say that put them there for recycling. I've never seen one blade leave the site.

@The_Resistance_1961 6 ай бұрын

"Unfortunately we had to destroy the village in order to save it." Vietnam dogma.

@Biosynchro 5 ай бұрын

You can always use those blades for craft projects, I guess. /sarc

@geoffreytoomey682 5 ай бұрын

Fantastic news, Thanks to Albosleezy and his acolyte Chris Bowen of the “United Nations Australian Labor Government” and special Thanks to Albosleezy's mate Klaus Schwab, the boss of the World Economic Forum and his Puppets in the United Nations, who created the Climate Change scam, the only way to stop the WEF=WHO=UNs apparent Climate Change is to destroy our industries, borrow heaps of money and give it the UN? I'm getting into the recycling business; with the Green energy replaceable industries being fully supported by the sheeple of the world, recycling solar panels, wind turbines, Batteries, and electric vehicles is growing exponentially and unstoppable now, and because they are so short-lived hence the catchy name “replicable” the media calls them “Renewable” sounds better for the Sheeple, renewable ha ha , the best bit is that Albosleezy’s “United Nations Australian Labor Government” will subsidise all the recycling businesses of the Green industries and also subsidise the landfill of toxic and unrecyclable parts, I've heard the new designated name for these many new Landfill facilities, will be "Green landfill projects", this is a growing Green gold mine. Made possible By the UN Member Country Politician TRAITORS pushing the WEF=UN=WHO invented CLIMATE CHANGE Scam that has sucked in the Sheeple, Green is actually very brown and never supposed to be successful supplying energy, BUT! it working to bankrupt the UN-Member Countries. Australia is being controlled by the most treasonous UN Government. Labor/Greens dreadfully either idiots or deliberate TRAITORS

@matc4t 5 ай бұрын

Anything else you want to complain about? Your papa must be embarrassed to have raised such a snowflake.

@garfieldwood8315 4 ай бұрын

Now the "Recycling company" went bankrupt...

@SandraBegotka 7 ай бұрын

I live in Mills County Texas. These things were built all around my small straw bale house (a true energy-efficient- green home). Now there are not many days when I don't live amidst the sounds of these things. ROARING. Booming. They pulse my house...I can actually feel it in my body. They might be making us ill....hard to know. But we have had new "bad feelings" arise since they came online. Headaches....nausea. Not to mention they are ugly. The landscape has absolutely been diminished by their presence. Anyone saying otherwise is either lying or a complete moron. Flashing red lights at night...dot the horizons all around. When people here tried to organize and raise a voice against them THREATS were made by those who wanted the $$. The money is crumbs from the tablecloth and a blatant bribe to get (apparently) $ desperate people to allow these on their property. It's sickening.

@supernova743 5 ай бұрын

Sound can cause some of the symtoms youre experiencing.

@RVJunke1 7 ай бұрын

Just wait till the battery recycling problem catches up to us..,my God this is all crazy.

@homesteadhomie7855 7 ай бұрын

"god" will get us through it all. Didn't "god" put everything on earth for us to use??

@andretorben9995 7 ай бұрын

And the solar panels which soon be coming to end of life. Some people are so stupid they think these things last 30 or 40 years.

@transparentglazier 7 ай бұрын

That is where Space-X comes into play, take the spent batteries into the upper atmosphere and discard them. They burn-up on re-entry. That makes Elon richer and savior of the world

@barbarahazelwood2186 7 ай бұрын

@@transparentglazierCan they do that with the blades & if so, what would the cost be & who would pay for it!

@transparentglazier 7 ай бұрын

@@barbarahazelwood2186 We have the smartest people in the universe! I am sure there is a way to incorporate the used blades to be pile driven into the ground. It probably is cheaper than the material they use now hence why it isn't happening, and we will pay for all of it. I haven't heard of any individuals or corporations stepping up to donate to the wall. Maybe have an adopt a wall section drive! Biden will certainly erect 20 miles of wall, only it won't be continuos

@camiisle6535 7 ай бұрын

Not to mention they have to keep them greased with petroleum products to keep them moving. So "green".

@rw-xf4cb 7 ай бұрын

Whale blubber, fat off birds (Mutton Bird oil?) Lard harvesting off humans could be good suck it out and get paid by the KG...

@elaineteut9579 7 ай бұрын

Yes, we have lots of them and you can see the oil or grease drip down the sides on some of them.

@haitolawrence5986 7 ай бұрын

Pixie dust needs more money for further exploration.

@Pyjamarama11 7 ай бұрын

Couldn't they use a patchouli-oil or some sesame extract to lubricate ?

@Jim-P 7 ай бұрын

@@Pyjamarama11No

@PorscheSC 7 ай бұрын

Glad someone is telling this story.

@richj120952 7 ай бұрын

It truly amazes me as an Engineer how lifetime costs of these systems are ignored by "Green" technology gurus. They just look at the "savings" from the time the device already has been installed, and then stop looking at costs of maintenance, repair, and disposal at the end of life of the device. These systems need to be looked at fully. Maintenance can equal the initial capital cost on utility systems like wind turbines, and solar cells. Then there is the cost to dispose/recycle (if that was even considered by the engineers that designed and built the devices.) They also ignore the environmental disasters they are building, like the killing of wildlife, poisoning of water due to the extraction of rare earths, etc. These Greenies are basically "hacks", and should be taken out of circulation in my opinion and really given peer reviews by various engineering specialties before being allowed to proceed.

@MB-xe8bb 7 ай бұрын

The Greenies are just salesmen and con-men. We never hear from engineers.

@Milarz 7 ай бұрын

The industry standard metric Levelized Cost of Energy (LCOE), most famously published yearly by Lazar, does include initial investment, lifetime maintenance, fuel costs, and end-of-life decommissioning costs. It does not take into account negative externalities that are not directly charged to the energy producer. However, you are wildly incorrect if you think that green energy produces anywhere near the damage that fossil fuels do (to human health, to existing man-made structures, to the environment, etc.).

@old-pete 7 ай бұрын

These costs are all included in the calculation, while the costs of fossil fuel power plants miss the costs of enviromental destruction.

@jacksimpson-rogers1069 22 күн бұрын

The only possible replacement for fossil fuels is civilian nuclear, And They Know It. There is a vast and well funded Anti-Nuclear Industry of pure propaganda, or maybe I should simply add "renewables".

@SennaTaylor-fq8lj 7 ай бұрын

People don’t like to report the negative side.

@frederickwise5238 7 ай бұрын

People dont like to HEAR the negative side even more!!!

@user-yl1xy5eg7b 7 ай бұрын

"Always look on the bright side of life" (Monty Python).

@frederickwise5238 7 ай бұрын

@@user-yl1xy5eg7b Pretty shallow. As tho this adds anything positive to the issue of destroying the environment in the name of saving the environment.. smh

@user-yl1xy5eg7b 7 ай бұрын

@@frederickwise5238 I suggest that you read my earlier comprehensive post. My remark, in quoting Monty Python, is ironic. I suggest that you go out and buy yourself an irony meter.

@frederickwise5238 7 ай бұрын

@@user-yl1xy5eg7b Strangely enuf, Im not finding any "earlier posts" by user-yl1xy5eg7b. Whatever you said must have been filtered out or fallen by the wayside. BTW I dont need another meter of any kind destroyed by the BS of liberals. I already have a closet full of those meters overloaded and wrecked beyond repair by the drivel and trivia of the aforesaid group.

@3Storms 7 ай бұрын

They siezed productive farms as well as flattened large patches of pristine natural woodlands for that "because it's good for the planet."

@frankpeletz1818 7 ай бұрын

Over 20 years, Scotland removed 14 MILLION trees for wind power. Each tree removes 48 lbs of co2 a year. Thats is a total of 670 MILLION lbs of co2 a year ,just so a wind generator can be placed there-and this is just one small country.

@clydesimpson1462 7 ай бұрын

Australias poorly educated energy minister is allowing the wholesale destruction of 1 million hectares of pristine forest and koala habitat for his glorified windmills.

@ohsweetmystery 7 ай бұрын

Lazy landowners who want money for not doing anything.

@raymondstrehl3679 7 ай бұрын

That's so F...Up I'm .. Had it....

@johnlewis8165 7 ай бұрын

If a blade shatters in a storm, it spreads razor sharp Fiberglass Filiments all over the area, and then the field can never safely be used for pasture or hay making.

@stopbeingstupidtoday 7 ай бұрын

They also leak and sling oil all over the place and contaminate the ground below. Occasionally they set on fire, etc. Yes they have petroleum products within to make the run. It contaminates the soils below.

@archcollie5708 7 ай бұрын

This is the tip of a very large iceberg. Wait until millions of tons of toxic solar glass joins the unrecyclable fiberglass / carbon fiber turbine blades and batteries. When this "renewable" folly fails, which is a certainty, watch those responsible for the mess run and cower.

@craigirwin4771 7 ай бұрын

Just like they just admitted the wall works.

@rw-xf4cb 7 ай бұрын

They will be long gone enjoying their kickbacks or for politicians their tax paid pensions for life.

@SamsungSamsung-md9xq 7 ай бұрын

There goes your ev energy,a reality I look forward to,enough already!@

@user-yl1xy5eg7b 7 ай бұрын

They'll find someone else to blame. A conservative maybe.

@jimgiordano2576 7 ай бұрын

Bingo. you nailed it.

@davidhagerman7165 7 ай бұрын

I live in Texas and made a trip from Austin to Lubbock Texas this week and personally saw several sites full of wind turbine used blades. Near Snyder texas northwest of Sweetwater Texas they are digg a huge pit the covers about one square mile area. It right next to a large wind mill area it appears to be a pit to bury the wind turbine blades. There are several locations with stacks of used blades. Those piles of blades are at several locations and are strung along 150 miles of highway. How many are further out in the pasture lands out of site? IT IS A HUGE HAZORDOUS WAIST ISSUE.

@random2829 7 ай бұрын

I have made the trip across I-30 too many times to count. I have noticed a large decrease in the number of wind turbines in the Sweetwater area over the years. Speaking of pasture and farm land - I think these turbines take up at least a half-acre to 3/4 of an acre. That is a LOT of land that CAN NOT be used for anything else.

@chucklesthered2338 7 ай бұрын

Europe is trying to hide these piles in the middle of forests so people don't see them. They use the "out of sight, out of mind" practice.

@transparentglazier 7 ай бұрын

@@random2829 I have been told that the vibrations chase away the ground insects and animals that are part of agriculture requiring more use of pesticides and fertilizers

@johnwalker8417 7 ай бұрын

No not really in comparison to oil and coal. Not.

@johnwalker8417 7 ай бұрын

Fyi, the waist is where some folks wear a belt

@alanfinkeldey7484 7 ай бұрын

I’ve been by a couple of these storage yards for them. They don’t appear to be any better for the environment, if disposal and lifespan are any indication. I’d be curious to see what happens with them farther into to process.

@mikekosar6135 5 ай бұрын

Thanks for the post

@JackSht-lv2on 7 ай бұрын

I now understand why Australia wants to install these throughout the ocean with the UNs blessing, When they fail just push them over, out of sight out of mind 😂😂

@janicesullivan8942 7 ай бұрын

Oceanic life is only important to Liberals when they say it’s important, otherwise they don’t really give a cr@p.

@glennkerrison6108 7 ай бұрын

They'll make good coral reefs. Just slightly toxic ones. Fish tastes like garbage anyway.

@user-vk4el9oy6m 7 ай бұрын

Saw a video recently of a Whale study done around these things in the ocean....Apparently underwater they are extremely loud and can screw up the Whale migration habits.

@stever285 7 ай бұрын

Who's seen the ad's on here lately complaining about the company doing exploratory work off the West Australian coast and how it's putting the whales at risk? Green Peace ran them I think. Strangely, I haven't seen their ads about the risk to whales posed by wind farms.

@harrisbeatsfrankou6304 7 ай бұрын

Yeah and then poison the fish...so Green...so renewable.

@janvanrenesse2118 7 ай бұрын

Send this video to Greta and to every green party around the world, including the Climat extinction movement. Then they see what their "GREEN" Energy leads to.

@phnix6242 7 ай бұрын

Because they wont ignore THIS fact You know they know all they talk about is billshot

@HollyMoore-wo2mh 7 ай бұрын

It makes n difference to any of them. You will never change their minds. Greta pushed what she is told to push by her parents.

@judyhalsell9510 7 ай бұрын

They do not care with them it is ALL about their profit no matter what damage is caused to humans or other life.Greed is their god.

@colty7764 7 ай бұрын

they don't even know which bathroom to use in public...

@MsJackrussell2 7 ай бұрын

Funny how Greta and other climate activists never seem bothered by the fact that the majority of wind turbines and solar panels are made in China--by slave labour. In the same way, they don't seem to care about children n the Congo mining cobalt and other minerals.

@OldGuyAdventure 7 ай бұрын

When i took Engineering some of our course load looked at composite materials and we even toured Boeing and Standard Areo, we learned about the creep that happens with structural members with aircraft when faced with the wind loads. So when I hear about Wind Turbine blades I suspect those blades are monitored for stress creep as well and torsional loading. The blade has to withstand wind which bend the blade but also it turns which is a compound torsion and there must be a lot of strain gages in the blades to make sure they are not delaminating as a result of the torsion. Something else that I had learned about the wind turbine systems is the nature of the resin used is such that the blades are hard, and I saw one video where they used a diamond cutting chain that cuts through the blades. If you need a chain with industrial diamonds in it to cut a blade to make it manageable how much more energy do you need to grind them up to be used in other products?

@old-pete 7 ай бұрын

They use force generated by a steel chain spun at 800 to 1000 rpm. The impact shatters the blades. If done long enough one gets the material size one wants.

@volentimeh 7 ай бұрын

Regarding the diamond cutting chain, that's just the nature of cutting fiberglass in general, its allways hell on tools regardless of how "hard" the binder is (which is basically plastic)

@old-pete 7 ай бұрын

@@volentimeh From my understanding they do not use a cutting tool to grind the blades into tiny pieces, but an impact procedure that smashes the blades into pieces.

@Billy97ify 7 ай бұрын

@@old-pete I think that would be called a type of hammer mill. Uses up a lot of power.

@old-pete 7 ай бұрын

@@Billy97ify That is also what was mentioned in the articles I read about the process.

@RobertLee-tv4hc 5 ай бұрын

...but it doesn't exist if I cant see it from my house... I heard a college student once claim "if he wasn't looking at it, it doesn't exist." He learned this at his university.

@fhuber7507 7 ай бұрын

They found that the newer super-long blades don't survive operation during rain... the tip speed of the upward moving blade plus speed of raindrops causes rain to impact and crack the leading edges. They rapidly have blade failure.

@tomr6955 7 ай бұрын

Oh cool is that the similar effect to submarines? I think it's called cavitation or something like that.

@backcountyrpilot 7 ай бұрын

The propellers on float planes also experience pitting caused by water droplets splashing up from the lake.

@josephklimchock5412 7 ай бұрын

Exactly, the tips of the blades are also moving faster in the arc of the circle than say 2 FT out from the center, this causes harmonics that will crack the blades over time. While blade design can minimize this, nothing can totally prevent it. Basic physics.

@TheDetektiveConan 7 ай бұрын

@@tomr6955 cavitation is the sudden vaporisation, caused by a pressure drop, and then following implosion of the steam bubble which causes a pressure spike high enough to "eat" away the material. The damage at the turbine tips would be caused by the rapidly moving tips (200km/h / 120mi/h) colliding with the falling waterdroplets.

@user-yl1xy5eg7b 7 ай бұрын

There is a far more efficient, smaller wind turbine. It's vertical, and doesn't have to be on a long pole. I haven't looked into it very much. I've had enough of the subject, because there are so many liars in this field, and the social media/multimedia platforms which support them.

@jlleibold1974 7 ай бұрын

I'm glad somebody is reporting on this. Though while I'm watching I got to pay attention to if it is mentioned how toxic this green energy is. How toxic turbines, solar panels, and other things to go into their supposed clean-energy are.

@HollyMoore-wo2mh 7 ай бұрын

The Green New Lie. The people that are pushing this have NO CLUE. They are just making sure their donors get theirs.

@ironworkerfxr7105 7 ай бұрын

Fiberglass is made from STYRENE look up that great chemical.

@HollyMoore-wo2mh 7 ай бұрын

@@ironworkerfxr7105 They have NO IDEA. It's a CULT of the Green new lie.

@oneolddog8809 7 ай бұрын

It’s a scam.

@iiilllii140 7 ай бұрын

Yeah, so toxic, instead keep burning coal and gas via wonderful ecological friendly fracking 👌. Btw. fracking causes radioactive waste, and so much more. Measured on the annual waste, the waste from wind turbines is a percentile of it. Of course it portrays a bad image for green energy resources but think about it how much waste every single person is responsible for, per year!

@patfallon3027 7 ай бұрын

I can remember the old fashioned farmer's windmills,they had at least a dozen twisted flat metal blades on them and they spun reasonably well and lasted for years with little maintenance,I always wondered why they didn't make these wind turbines the same way but bigger

@jacksimpson-rogers1069 22 күн бұрын

Dear patfallon, they produced quite small amounts of power. I gather that three very long blades is the most economical way to gather what power they can. They bloody well aren't "turbines". The turbine invented by Charles Parsons was a brilliant, very new advance upon the reciprocating engine of the splendid steam locomotive. So anyway there is a great deal of misguided cleverness goes into these Satanic Wind Mills. At about 12 m/s (metres per second) the vanes have already presented less than their full area to the wind. It is the methodology that parallels the "reefing" of the sails in a boat or ship. As the wind speed goes up, they shed progressively more, until the wind is so strong that they present the minimum possible, and stop. The power of the wind is proportional to the cube of its speed, so the graphs I have seen that seem like a straight line from 6 m/s to 12 m/suggest that wind speeds up to 6 m/s are fully used, but producing only twice as much at twice that speed means that 3/4 of the wind power is not being used. The demands imposed upon the roots of the vanes, both to be rotated on their own axes, and to resist the torque trying to keep the blade resisting the wind at all, quite amaze me

@MrBashem 7 ай бұрын

Glad someone is bringing light to this. So tired of people talking about green energy with windmills and solar.

@tired7140 Ай бұрын

They are both good ideas but only a Pipe Dream scam at this point in time.

@jacksimpson-rogers1069 22 күн бұрын

@@tired7140 sorry mate, weather dependent energy sources are NOT a good idea when nuclear power is in fact safely available at a million times the energy density per unit mass.

@tired7140 15 күн бұрын

@@jacksimpson-rogers1069 You are 100% correct. My comment was to pacify the idiots that think solar and wind power are the only way to go. Have a nice day.

@docmach8794 7 ай бұрын

I was with a crew who delivered nacelles for wind generators from Hutchinson Ks. to Comanche Tx. The complete system was "supposed" to last 20 years and take 10 million for each unit. Basically, they are viable through subsidies alone. They would need to produce at least 500 thousand dollars a year for 20 years just to break even. Green? Hell no. Think about the extraction of metals through mining. The ore is blasted, diesel loaders fill huge Electro Haulers to the rail system, the ore is transported to Lakers then taken to be refined in blast furnaces, smelted, shipped to processors, shaped into sheets, shipped to be turned into the needed towers, copper for the windings is mined and goes through the same process, then when all components are ready they are loaded onto convoys of tractor trailers and transported to the site hundreds of miles, off loaded and cranes are used to erect them. The blades are made in places like Grand Forks North Dakota using similar metals and also petrochemicals for the resins used. I make this point because if you calculated all of the Diesel for transportation, the petrochemicals for the manufacturing the coal for the furnaces, gasoline for the chase vehicles and all of the oil in the nacelles for lubrication and cooling, you will understand these things are NOT green. Now you have a ticking timebomb getting stacked higher and higher hoping somebody will figure out what to do with the parts.

@bluejay3333 7 ай бұрын

Who is profiting from the manufacturing of the wind generators? Ten years later people are going to realize they made a huge mistake putting them on their farms! Michigan has several, it’s ruining the look of the landscape, red blinking lights at night is so annoying!! Now it’s solar panels being pushed, so ugly to see row after row .

@RS-ls7mm 7 ай бұрын

I hate wind generators for many reasons but they are actually very profitable in the short term. Most have paybacks in only 2 years. The ecological devastation for this greed is being completely overlooked in the name of money. (both sides are profiting so I don't see an end)

@raymondstrehl3679 7 ай бұрын

Any time the Govt. pushes something You know someone's getting screwed

@raymondstrehl3679 7 ай бұрын

A bunch

@RS-ls7mm 7 ай бұрын

@@raymondstrehl3679 In the short time I lived in California I used to have fairly cheap earthquake insurance. Then the government decided to help (themselves) and the cost quadrupled and the coverage drastically decreased. Leftists are more greedy than any capitalist.

@glamdring0007 7 ай бұрын

As bad as the piles of turbine blades are...what's even worse, by quite a lot, is the problem we are running full speed towards - the fact that solar panels are highly toxic and how to deal with them.

@anderander5662 7 ай бұрын

And lithium batteries

@curtekstrom9531 7 ай бұрын

Turbine blades last 8 to 10 years. Solar Panels last 40 to 50 years

@craigparker4108 7 ай бұрын

@@curtekstrom9531 Solar panels may last 20 to 25 years but maintenance needs to be done, inverters need replacing & efficiency falls with age. Nobody says 50 years lol.

@curtekstrom9531 7 ай бұрын

@@craigparker4108 There are LG Panels out there that are pushing 45 years and still producing at 72%.

@craigparker4108 7 ай бұрын

@@curtekstrom9531 That is just not true. By 2005, LG was a Top 100 global brand, and in 2006, LG recorded a brand growth of 14%. Its display manufacturing affiliate, LG Display, is now the world’s largest plasma panel manufacturer. LG Solar Energy is a subsidiary formed in 2007 to allow LG Chem to supply polysilicon to LG Electronics for production of solar cells.

@ssbalmera7464 7 ай бұрын

There was always a concern on the end of life but no one has wanted to listen and address the issue. They just kept pushing for "oil free" energy without any resolution on the non-viable technology of wind farms.

@rockymntnliberty 7 ай бұрын

An interesting thing I've heard numerous times over years, is that it actually takes more fossil fuel energy to manufacture, erect, and maintain one of these wind turbines, then you will ever get out of it in the renewable energy. Just to fuel the trucks and equipment to get a tower to its build site, and to erect it, it takes in excess of 2,000 gallons of fuel, perhaps as much as double of that.

@old-pete 7 ай бұрын

Why do you listen to stuff somebody heard "somewhere"? If it interests you, check it out! The information is a few clicks away. Windturbines earn back all invested energy in 6 to 14 months.

@glenbard657 7 ай бұрын

Even Michael Moore figured out that "green" energy is a scam.

@haitolawrence5986 7 ай бұрын

That clown is a bloated broken clock in this case.

@pauljamison8546 7 ай бұрын

low bar

@jmack619 7 ай бұрын

fat bar@@pauljamison8546

@nicholasklangos9704 7 ай бұрын

But he is still the biggest moron on the planet...

@chhansen9813 7 ай бұрын

Michael Moore and Rosie O' Donnell are the same person!

@70chevs 7 ай бұрын

I didn't realise until recently but depending on the size of these wind generators they can have 100's of litres of oil in them.

@tomsherwood4650 7 ай бұрын

LOL Well like all liberal ideas, they do not really know the consequences and reality but don't seem to care.

@andrewbrown8463 7 ай бұрын

But but but my cult leader told us we hate oil. No more oil no more oil 😅

@GreggWalken-xd3qv 7 ай бұрын

And add in all the petrochemicals for the fiberglass used

@gordy4459 7 ай бұрын

And a lot of them also have a diesel generator fitted to them!...

@benzielke7149 7 ай бұрын

Yes and where I live in south texas some of them have big brown streaks that you can see from several miles away. They leak...

@sanctitysnake 7 ай бұрын

The blades are fiberglass, a mix of cloth and resin. Resin is recyclable, it takes tremendous heat to separate it from the cloth, but recycled resin can be used multiple times. The cloth can not be recycled but is easier to dispose of without being saturated with resin. Sunlight is the enemy of fiberglass, heat and sun causes the compound mixture to continuously harden [over time] until it becomes brittle and breaks. Where do all the fiberglass Boats go after they die?

@jmsmeier1113 7 ай бұрын

The question no one is asking is, what is the necessary wind speed to turn these blades without the need for a diesel drive engine and how often do those conditions occur?

@old-pete 7 ай бұрын

The blades are not turned by a diesel drive. If the wind is too slow, they stop. The starting speed depends on the model and is between 3 and 4.5 m/s.

@tomaskey6844 7 ай бұрын

I’m a Pilot Vehicle Operator that steers the trailers for the trucks that deliver the blades and we haul a lot of replacement blades. I’ve seen where new components are put on older towers. FYI; every single tower has a huge diesel engine powered generator in it!

@gooble69 7 ай бұрын

You should take some photos and post them online.

@msimon6808 7 ай бұрын

Let me repeat. You should take some photos and post them online.

@tomaskey6844 7 ай бұрын

@@judythomas2939 It is used to power the equipment during maintenance and to operate equipment when the blades are not turning. They can rotate the blade angles, turn the nacelles and keep the blades at a slow rotation when there is no wind so that the bearings and seals stay lubricated. These things are full of electrical gear for monitoring, controlling, operating, and remote communication.

@gooble69 7 ай бұрын

@@judythomas2939 Not OP so not sure of the exact answer, but I believe in colder places they put electric heaters in them to 'winterize' them. And if the wind isn't blowing then the only place to get electricity from is Diesel. Fossil Fuels save the day again!

@johnhawk8807 7 ай бұрын

FUN FACT: A wind generator cannot produce enough energy to build a wind generator

@31631106 7 ай бұрын

Could you lie any harder? How much Energy do you "think" they need to be produced? Since you called it a "Fact" why don't you produce some real facts and figures?

@peao010109 7 ай бұрын

False, it tends to take around a year for the energy put into making the wind turbine to be paid back. The only way what you said would be true would be if it the turbine was placed in a really really bad spot that barely gets any wind ever,

@johnhawk8807 7 ай бұрын

@@peao010109 You live in a utopian fantasy world and wouldn't accept facts if I did

@31631106 7 ай бұрын

@johnhawk8807 that's what someone WITHOUT PROOF would say.

@johnhawk8807 7 ай бұрын

@@31631106 scroll down for facts. You wouldn't accept facts if they wopped you upside the head like a broken rotor blade

@phcusnret 2 ай бұрын

Sure am glad that wind power is so clean.

@old-pete 2 ай бұрын

It is.

@speedysteve9121 7 ай бұрын

Drove down US-219 last week. Half of the turbines are out of commission. They are less than 30 years old.

@benzielke7149 7 ай бұрын

The fiberglass composite that the blades are made of are almost impossible for most commercial machines to chew up and destroy after they are worn out...

@paradiselost9946 7 ай бұрын

and to think that aircraft are made from aluminium sheets popriveted together, along with timber here and there... and the dutch, english, persians, blah blah... been making windmills for centuries out of timber and cloth...

@johnkemas7344 7 ай бұрын

You could grind them up (not cheaply or easily) with very expensive tooling, then burn them at high temps in a closed environment (no air Autoclave) which would separate out the oil based materials in the epoxy and glass components. But this process is very fuel intense in its' own right!! Just like they wanted to do with tires, but that never happened and we still have mountains of ties catching fire all the time. The reason the technique never got put to use?? Not profitable, plain and simple.

@waynebutler7602 7 ай бұрын

Amazed that the general populace believe this is green! 🤯

@nek_ad 7 ай бұрын

but, it looked great in Teletubbies

@johnkemas7344 7 ай бұрын

The general population for the most paRT (BUT NOT ALL OF US) will believe what ever they are told by politicians because they are too lazy and apathetic to care. This is the complete fallacy of the "BIG GOVERNMENT" Theory

@craigbucl7752 7 ай бұрын

That’s msm treatment

@danharold3087 7 ай бұрын

Given the alternative which is getting little air time here it is totally understandable.

@shirleyb2896 5 ай бұрын

Propaganda and ESG score. $$$$$$$$$

@tomkirtley4534 7 ай бұрын

I am a Brit and in the UK we have been repeatedly told renewables will give us all cheap energy = Cheap for the suppliers we the customers have seen our energy bills treble in price - In my world that's called Bullshit

@user-gd1wl8yd5j 7 ай бұрын

Look at California when those wind generator's became to costly to repair they got in their pickups and drove off. The turbines are just left standing there. You can drive up to any wind generator and start counting the number of dead birds laying around them. If anything like that happens in the oil field you would sure as hell hear about it.

@bobmirror7164 7 ай бұрын

A hahahahah ahahahaha a hahahah.

@axle.australian.patriot 7 ай бұрын

Ahhh, now I know why they scrapped plastic shopping bags.. To make room for plastic turbine blades lol

@gregoryeverson741 7 ай бұрын

i need plastic bags so i can collect cat turds.

@axle.australian.patriot 7 ай бұрын

@@gregoryeverson741 Just buy a heap of plastic bags from Woolworths or Coles, and take them home in a paper bag so you can save the planet from doom and gloom. ;)

@axle.australian.patriot 7 ай бұрын

@@gregoryeverson741 P.S. How big is your turd collection.. I have heaps of postage stamps collected :)

@gooble69 7 ай бұрын

@@axle.australian.patriot "Just buy a heap of plastic bags from Woolworths or Coles" Go one better, just grab some free ones from the fruit and vege aisles. For some reason those plastic bags don't count as being evil...

@johnkemas7344 7 ай бұрын

These turbine blades are common everywhere in mountain areas or plains areas in the USA, including here in PA in the Alleghany Mountain Range near State College PA and central PA areas. You now see many non-running dead units here in PA that have been damaged, or not serviceable or at end of life. When they fail they re too costly to repair so they sit, sometimes catch fire from lack of being maintained etc. Fatigue and stress cracks are common modes of failure. Fiberglass is nearly impossible to recycle cleanly. It is the same situation as recycling tires. It can be done but at a massive non-profitable cost generating its' own form of pollution. All about the profit - being clean and green has nothing to do with it. Just another GREEN WEENIE farce to make money of an unsuspecting public and stupid government politicians giving away big grants. This really is a sad state of affairs.

@lutomson3496 7 ай бұрын

here in california we went through this decades ago when the subsidies died, all shut down garbage but the government now forces subsidies and utility companies to buy this expensive unreliable power..take away the mandates and subsidies these will die off like it did in the past

@StsFiveOneLima 7 ай бұрын

Damned things are ugly as shiiit.

@old-pete 7 ай бұрын

@@lutomson3496 It would help if they took away the subsidies from fossil fuels. The new generation of windturbines are cheaper than fossil fuels.

@roadwarrior3315 7 ай бұрын

@@old-pete and you still refuse to acknowledge the problem

@leonardlongoria1891 7 ай бұрын

@@old-petedude, do you not get it? This is a scam. We have an abundance of fossil fuels! Especially here in the US. Do yourself a favor and take your blinders off.

@gwallmeyertonneks1042 7 ай бұрын

I am writing from Germany. 2 things in this debate are strange for me: 1) In Germany and Europe the blades are in use for 20 to 30 years - that is the normal situation 2) old blades are here not dumped in a graveyard. They get cut and cracked into small pieces. This can be used in the cement industry as heating material or the fibers get extracted and are used for new materials. I have the impression that in the US some governmental rules are missing to solve this problem. In my region, there are thousands of windmills running and there are no major problems at all. I see them every day. In the last 30 days renewable energies had a share of 61% of the total electricity production in Germany.

@cjay2 7 ай бұрын

And who breathes that air from the 'heating materials'? Not you? Last June and July, I saw DOZENS of non-working wind machines in the fields ALL OVER Sicily, from the coasts into the central mountains.

@gwallmeyertonneks1042 7 ай бұрын

The cement industry uses a lot unusual heating materials such as used car tires etc. Because of that they have to have special filters in their chimneys. Windmills in Sicily I cannot judge. They are 1.500 Km away from my region in Northern Germany. I have been once in Sicily and saw relatively new bridges broken, probably because Mafia companies have built them. @@cjay2

@bwhit6771 3 ай бұрын

Texas is a leader in wind energy.

@rozbailey6889 7 ай бұрын

Nobody seem to take responsibility for any of these issues - I’m sick and tired of the green agenda

@coconuciferanuts339 7 ай бұрын

Many are,including myself. What really gets me is the RUSH ! Greenies seem like impetuous children.Quick,we've got to save the planet. Instead,ok,try some alternative energy systems,see how they go,but retain the tried & tested,or/improve on what we've got.

@raymondstrehl3679 7 ай бұрын

Ok I'm joining the me too

@anonygrazer3234 7 ай бұрын

@@raymondstrehl3679 The only legitimate "Me Too" I've ever heard of, so far.

@old-pete 7 ай бұрын

That has nothing to do with a green agenda, but politicians being easy on companies. In other countries companies HAVE TO take responsibility by law. And you do not see such a mess there.

@herbsuperb6034 7 ай бұрын

It's not a 'Green' Agenda. It's an Anti-America, Anti-Human agenda. Leftism is evil.

@buckytravelsplaces7581 7 ай бұрын

Smoke and mirrors Folks And You are Paying the Bills !

@yoyoke1 7 ай бұрын

Such an interesting and important topic! I absolutely love the idea of repurposing discarded wind turbine blades. One innovative way I can think of is to use these blades to create eco-friendly boats, perhaps similar to Pacific proas. Imagine sailing the seas in vessels that not only harness the power of the wind but also promote sustainability and reuse. It's a fantastic way to contribute to a greener future while fostering creativity in design.

@msimon6808 7 ай бұрын

Had any experience reshaping fiberglass? It is used because it doesn't reshape easily.

@yoyoke1 7 ай бұрын

@@msimon6808 I'm aware of that. In I still think it's possible to build a boat (proa) from this blades! Living on a boat build in similar way as those blades (composite sandwich construction). I want to try! Let me do it! I'w tread to contact some companies "recycling" this but no replay from any one.

@msimon6808 7 ай бұрын

@@yoyoke1 If you think it can be done - go for it. Says Simon De Bouncer. In 10 days or less you will get it.

@yoyoke1 7 ай бұрын

@@msimon6808 the think is that all those blades are in land fields and those have fence / owners. I'm trying for some time now get permissions to do it. But no wan event want to replay to my e-mails. "Recycling" companies are getting $$$ for what putting this to ground. I want to do something with it and I can't get even a access to one.

@cjay2 7 ай бұрын

As they leach chemicals into the highly-reactive ocean waters. SOOOO innovative.

@steamfan7147 7 ай бұрын

The answer is fairly simple, treat wind and solar farms like mines. Before a company can get a permit to mine, they must post a remediation bond. So that when the mine is played out,the bond covers the cost of restoring the land to it's original state.

@old-pete 7 ай бұрын

Some countries already do that.

@elaineteut9579 7 ай бұрын

Our small farm community has 150 wind turbines to the west and north of us and hundreds more as you travel north. A local wind turbine was hit and damaged by lightning before Mother’s Day in May. It is October and it still has not been fixed.

@terencejay8845 7 ай бұрын

There's no money in fixing them.

@johnkemas7344 7 ай бұрын

These companies get government subsidies and grants to build this stuff. Not maintain it. When it breaks there is no money to fix it. These technologies will never generate enough profits to pay to keep themselves running once they enter failure mode. So they die and fall apart. Their existence was never about being green or making money for profits. It is about scams to make companies a quick buck as cash flow only and big massive pay checks for the execs and stock holders.

@mommabear943 7 ай бұрын

I've said this for sometime now, nothing should be produced that cannot be recycled. This should be a law.

@Pyjamarama11 7 ай бұрын

Hate to burst your bubble but a lot of things can't be recycled due to the laws of nature Everything comes with a cost

@theusher2893 7 ай бұрын

Then 99% of products would never be made. Recycling only works for a very few select materials. Plus that would pretty much be worse than a communist economy and the death of the free market.

@catman13131313 7 ай бұрын

THEN DONT CREATE IT, UNLESS THERE IS SOLUTION FOR IT@@Pyjamarama11

@RS-ls7mm 7 ай бұрын

Soylent green?

@JohnSmith-ux3tt 7 ай бұрын

That was exactly what the Left said. Nek minnut, obsolete wind blades and they hide.

@enginepy 4 ай бұрын

As a Texan, I can say that most of us hate the wind farms and the wind companies. Many landowners just want the paycheck (they tend to be pretty money hungry), but the communities don’t want wind farms.

@dsg325 7 ай бұрын

These exist. I’m a truck driver and pass them all the time.

@frankdrevinpolicesquad2930 7 ай бұрын

We live in an area that went from natural gas electric production to Wind turbines. Electricity cost has skyrocketed and frequently fails in our very cold winters in North Texas.

@bpentea2403 7 ай бұрын

@Frankdrevin Frank, who is your electricity provider?

@frankdrevinpolicesquad2930 7 ай бұрын

@@bpentea2403 Pentex, out of Muenster Texas which has a large windmill farm

@arthurbrumagem3844 7 ай бұрын

Here in Mn our electric company sent us a letter a few yrs ago which actually said our bills would go up quite a bit dur to green energy. And so far I have seen at least 25% increases and my Natural gas has really went up

@April-ks8xz 7 ай бұрын

Yep

@1978garfield 7 ай бұрын

Shame. Natural gas is very efficient and clean burning.

@mwallace2922 7 ай бұрын

It's a complete grift. Follow the money 💵💵

@JustaGuy_Gaming 6 ай бұрын

The other issue is it's not just "end of life". The blades can easily get damaged in a storm, earth quake or any other bit of bad weather. Then you have improvements in technology. As new blades come out companies replace the old ones, even if the old ones would still work. If the new ones are 10% more efficient they dump the old for the new.

@old-pete 6 ай бұрын

I did not know earthquakes fall under bad weather... Not that other power plants would be fine with earthquakes. Windturbines are designed to endure 180km/h winds, some can even take winds up to 215km/h. There are many areas on this world that rarely face such winds.

@WildManDanWMD 7 ай бұрын

Fiberglass has been used for bullet proof vests. They require additional ingredients. Such as the kevlar in ecpired tires. The pipes you should be easily cut to the right shape for vests.

@mikesarling4002 7 ай бұрын

Shhh! You mustn’t report on things like this, it upsets the greens! 😂🤣😂

@andretorben9995 7 ай бұрын

Nah, the greens just ignore that they dont like.

@camiisle6535 7 ай бұрын

There's another turbine "graveyard" in Wyoming.

@gckshea 7 ай бұрын

Quite a few we saw on US 26 between Casper and Shoshoni.

@mernshepherd6009 7 ай бұрын

I wander if you could process them into panels for building or something..

@NBTxCoog 4 ай бұрын

We drive through Sweetwater Texas frequently and there is another graveyard south of Sweetwater on 208. We have seen fairly new wind turbines shut down with black 6:03 oil/grease running down the support column. I suppose a seal gave out. I’m pretty sure it would be difficult to balance those big blades and minimize vibration damage to seals and bearings. Not only are the wind turbines visual pollution, they kill migratory birds, create massive graveyards, and are not as environmentally friendly as proclaimed. We drive by usually in the summer heat on the way to/from Colorado and it is amazing how many are not turning/generating…..

@robertdavies8305 7 ай бұрын

In the UK there are also graveyards of Turbine blades. Hidden near forests and fields. they cannot be recycled. Look out for the Solar Panels where are they been hidden.

@lewis1544 7 ай бұрын

We have about 100,000 tons of waste blades each year in the UK. The Solar Panels worry me as well - dangerous concentrations of heavy metals left to leach into the water table. Nobody wants to recycle these things because it's too expensive.

@BaronEvola123 7 ай бұрын

Here's what happened: the gov. subsidized (paid for) energy companies for 15 years to set up wind and solar farms. The life cycle of this equipment? 15 years. Basically, the energy companies sold MORE EXPENSIVE energy to the customers for way more profit.

@WindmillsTech 7 ай бұрын

Recycling wind turbine blades presents a significant challenge for the wind industry to transition fully into a circular economy. These blades are primarily constructed from carbon fiberglass, a material that has historically been difficult to recycle. However, recent developments within the industry are providing promising solutions. Siemens Gamesa, a prominent wind turbine manufacturer, has taken a pioneering step by introducing recyclable blade designs. Similarly, Vestas has announced breakthroughs in the recycling process for fiberglass blades. With these innovations and ongoing research, it is only a matter of time before we witness significant progress in addressing this issue. In the near future, we can expect remarkable advancements in sustainable wind turbine blade recycling practices.

@supanova-hy8ws 7 ай бұрын

The leading edge of the blades essentially gets sand blasted with dust and water in the air. Some of the larger blades can get to nearly 190mph at the tip. The leading edge starts to delaminate. I'll be surprised if they last 10 years, the leading edge protection tape has to be changed regularly if the blade is going th last that long.

@nelenekaranges7260 7 ай бұрын

Thankyou for honesty!🎉

@alfandeddie 7 ай бұрын

You could produce a tremendous amount of food on 20 to 40 acres. You could grow switchgrass for fuel. Just infuriating.

@OneNationUnderGod. 7 ай бұрын

It's not that the blades are worn out that quickly and need replaced, they are obsolete. Turbine manufacturers have come up with bigger, lighter blades that can generate more electricity. This doesn't excuse the waste problem though!

@Powermongur 7 ай бұрын

I'm glad we don't have any deserted places where we can just dump stuff in my country, so recycling is always a given. We been making windmills (Vestas) since 1979.

@nuttysquirrel8574 7 ай бұрын

Not just Texas, we have similar fields of dead, unrecyclable, windmill blades here in UK. What the green eco-zealots do not, or will not, admit is the non-green things that go into making renewable, inefficient, energy. Things like child labour mining for cobalt in Africa, the carbon footprint of making, and pouring, the concrete bases, the lack of other rare minerals such as Lithium, the fact that the blades (as said here) are unrecyclable as are the batteries. The batteries used in Evs have an average life of 8-9 yrs, with declining performance each year, then need to be replaced at extortionate costs (ave in UK £10-14000!!!)... the list goes on. Green??? My left te***cle!

@UncleButterworth 7 ай бұрын

MMMMM yummy fiberglass! More batteries in the ocean to charge the eels. Sounds great.

@MargaretAnderson-ti1sw 7 ай бұрын

And Dale Vince's company continues to make millions off the technology. At least he decided this week to STOP funding the misguided Just Stop Oil loonies, saying their actions are merely disruptive and accomplishing nothing.

@geoffreytoomey682 5 ай бұрын

@asmaben1114 7 ай бұрын

Now that was a useful and informative video... always good to show the downside of a product that some try to impose to people...

@SoloRenegade 4 ай бұрын

Even without blades being replaced every 2-5 years, maybe every 10yrs, I've never heard of a turbine in general itself lasting more than 20yrs.

@old-pete 4 ай бұрын

Then lookup Tvindkraft. 48 years old, still running.

@1940limited 7 ай бұрын

How much energy went into making these fiberglass blades?

@chaseme9860 7 ай бұрын

Give the people the money it took to make these instead of these companies. Let them purchase passive energy savings like new windows and insulation. Or even scaled-down turbines made for individual homes.

@3DThrills 7 ай бұрын

What the wind people aren't telling anyone is that the blades are unexpectedly becoming riddled with microfractures long before they planned to replace them, due to lightning strikes and vibration. The blades are too dense to be economically recycled so they bury them, except for a few token goofy bike racks or other attempts to call them recyclable. The trend is to make windmills taller, resulting in even more lightning strikes.

@gaylenewood7707 7 ай бұрын

Well have those turbines out in the oceans where there's ships and hurricanes that strikes how long you think they will last?

@sscbkr48 7 ай бұрын

It's about enviro bucks, for profit insanity and feigned concern .. there are no experts, just political hacks having their palms greased.

@jamescollier3 7 ай бұрын

they are also made without carbon [eyeroll]

@3DThrills 7 ай бұрын

Write your own contract where if they fail to upkeep the maintenance or pay you your share on time, property of the entire rig defaults to you. Then cut it down and sell it for scrap. They might go for it, they often just abandon them anyway. They are monorail salesmen, not scrappers.

@Dawgsofwinter 7 ай бұрын

Had someone try and convince me there was a company in Europe buying the blades to recycle them into road material and they wouldn't explain to me how it was profitable or economical to ship them that far. Never mind who this mythical company was.

@got2kittys 7 ай бұрын

There's a cement plant that grinds the blades, burns them for fuel, probably puts the ashes/ residue in ready-mix. It's something to do with it.

@chiraldude 6 ай бұрын

There should be a requirement of a 20 year lifespan for wind turbine blades. This should be a warranty issue. If blades fail before 20 years, the manufacturer should have to replace them. Then, there should be a recycling process in place for when the blades reach end of life.

@old-pete 6 ай бұрын

In some countries this requirement exists. And there are multiple recycling processes in place.

@yesher12 7 ай бұрын

As a Texan and former west Texan, it has made me sick to see those damn windmills all over the Panhandle and South Plains of Texas. The landscape has been dessimated by these turbines. We drive I-20 up to Lubbock a lot and I have seen tons of these blade graveyards and it is sickening.

@johnkemas7344 7 ай бұрын

We are starting to have them in Pennsylvania now too. Lots of wind turbines in Central mountain regions of PA. Half of them aren't running anymore, their gear boxes failed because of lack of adequate maintaining, their generators catch fire or they have nowhere to bury them here in PA cheaply at end of life so they just let them stand there until they fall over.

@frostykitties2050 7 ай бұрын

Amen n what a waste !!! Money time land environment!!

@old-pete 7 ай бұрын

Talk to your politicans, other countries do not have such graveyards.

@Cwin-ny6bp 7 ай бұрын

No joke. Can they use them as building materials or insulation or something? Turbine blades are just littered across West Texas.

@old-pete 7 ай бұрын

@@Cwin-ny6bp They can be used to make cement.

@mchume65 7 ай бұрын

If you want to clear some land and build an industrial facility, you need an environmental impact study and then permission to build that could take years to complete. But if you want to clear a large area of land for windmill or solar panels, the bulldozers will be there tomorrow, with little concern about the wildlife.

@sweenie58 3 ай бұрын

If they are hollow I'm amazed you can't build something with them ie water culverts? Coat them in concrete?

@will0629 7 ай бұрын

An inconvenient truth.

@keegan773 7 ай бұрын

The blind rush to net zero takes no account of the consequences.

@finfrog3237 7 ай бұрын

The idea of "net zero" ignores reality. But so does the new "vaccine" technology.

@annieseaside 7 ай бұрын

Biden wants the Military to make Electric TANKS … because as you well know there are charging stations all over the hell holes where battle breaks out. The stupidity is mind-boggling. 🤯

@cjay2 7 ай бұрын

It was never supposed to.

@hejla4524 7 ай бұрын

It's a scam, they don't care.

@kentd4762 7 ай бұрын

Thank you, SNA, for covering this. We certainly won't see or hear of it here in the U.S. Seems like almost all "green" energy leads to unusable wasted parts, but shhhhh, we can't talk about that.

@leverman7517 7 ай бұрын

How much Petroleum goes into producing these giant wind turbines? Isn't the resin in fiberglass Petroleum based?

@robb8773 7 ай бұрын

fiberglass can be recyclable, however, if fiberglass is to go through the recycling process, the glass fibers will be reduced and the value of the recycled fiberglass diminished. So, this is the reason fiberglass is not recycled.

@gregoswald7723 7 ай бұрын

This wind turbine debate just keeps going around in circles... If the proposed solution to make things "green" is "build more stuff" it isn't as green as it appears.

@user-vk4el9oy6m 7 ай бұрын

25 year lifespan on something so expensive is ludicrous....

@transparentglazier 7 ай бұрын

@@user-vk4el9oy6m That is the same useful life expectance of public housing

@user-vk4el9oy6m 7 ай бұрын

@@transparentglazier you are kidding right?...Properly maintained a house can last centuries.

@transparentglazier 7 ай бұрын

@@user-vk4el9oy6m The key words are 'Properly maintained'. The housing projects in Chicago were only projected to have a life expectancy of 25 years, most have been razed and the occupants shifted to what were more stable communities

@vargviper7192 7 ай бұрын

These graveyards are just another example of the recycling myth. It is that simple. Further, following the oil boom crash in the 1980's, there were acres of land in Texas littered with oil drilling equipment and derrick structures. The money in wind turbines is made on the front side rather than the backside or as a result of the energy resulting from the operational turbines. The sale of the turbines is a money maker and the shipment of the turbines generates good income from trucking companies because they are oversized loads and not every trucker is qualified for those. No money in the recycling of the turbines. That Sweetwater farm has been there for more than ten years. The same applies for the farm outside of the Bay Area in California and the one on the way to Palm Springs. No man-made product comes without waste. There is always waste and what amounts to garbage and no one ever considers that going into the production process.

@yukko_parra 7 ай бұрын

This is the one time government has to step in to regulate material usage, and fund a recycling industry. I know fibreglass can't be recycled, but perhaps its just costly to recycle, rather than impossible. that's where government steps in

@vargviper7192 7 ай бұрын

@@yukko_parra Government and its interference in the markets is largely responsible for the problem in the firs place. Further intervention would likely make matters worse.

@user-bs2yl7jb8t 3 ай бұрын

Amazing that I hear this first from a foreign news outlet.

@frayserken Ай бұрын

australia likes to copy the us its not a suprise they here looking

@shannonbennett5692 7 ай бұрын

When emotion rules over logic

@stephensmith1794 7 ай бұрын

I was over near there in late November from Australia and the turbines were everywhere. I stopped at the intersection where the movie cast away finished , ( Tom hanks talked to the lady in the Ute ) and the windmills covered ground in all directions nearly. Kansas and Missouri also had these, we passed them for hours and hours. Disgraceful

@johnalexander4356 7 ай бұрын

I grew up in the Texas panhandle. Lots of wind so now tons of wind turbines. They are so ugly to look at and noisy. Add on the issues of them all failing when it turns cold, the recycling failure, the oil leaking out over the ground around towers, high cost, and I'm very sure I've missed problems. Bring back coal!

@jayjones6904 7 ай бұрын

Tom Hanks can kiss my butt

@user-im9ju4hx8s 5 ай бұрын

Then why didn’t Tom Hanks say something to his holly weirdo friends .

@LittleLizzy2 7 ай бұрын

As far as I know, you can't recycle solar panels in Canada either, unless you do it illegally by dumping them. We know of people who just bury broken solar panels as they don't know what else to do with them as there is nowhere around that will recycle them. Now all the bad stuff just leach out into the soil that will eventually go into our water supply systems.

@jimmurphy5355 7 ай бұрын

What is all that "bad stuff" that leaches out?

@UncleButterworth 7 ай бұрын

@@jimmurphy5355 "solar panel toxicity" would be a good place to start, but google/alphabet will certainly alter results to favor their preferred narrative.

@jimmurphy5355 7 ай бұрын

@@UncleButterworth Looks like solar panels don't actually present that much of a problem. Silicon, glass, and aluminum are the vast bulk of the unit. There is some lead in panels that use lead based solder - but it appears that the use of lead solder is being phased out. Some panels used to contain cadmium, but pretty much all new panels are silicon based. Compared to the megatons of toxic fly ash produced by coal plants, the leaching problem (if any) from landfilled solar panels is a flyspeck in a sandstorm.

@LittleLizzy2 7 ай бұрын

@@jimmurphy5355 I have a brain injury, so I hope this makes sense.. I've not only been told this information but have Googled the topic & read the same thing there. If I am wrong, please educate me, I have no problem having my mind changed, especially if I'm wrong. I was informed that the solar panels are damaged, laying on the ground or have been buried in the ground that they can potentially leach toxic heavy metals into the ground/ground water. They can't be recycled in Canada, or at least where I live. I went & asked the gentleman that runs our garbage dump. He told me that it's considered hazardous waste here & can't be dumped or recycled. He said if we have a bad hail storm like we do all the time here, he said good luck finding somewhere to legally dispose of them. He said there was a company here for a while, but it cost you money to recycle them & then they were shipping them to third world countries for them to take our garbage just for them to find any little bits of heavy metals worth money they could sell, etc, then they burn it all the garbage that is illegal to burn here just for them to get sick with all sorts of stuff. What does that do for pollution? What good are we actually doing if we don't have plans for end of use/life. If you don’t see a problem, it doesn't mean the problem isn't there. I have a solar setup (I hope they don't break), I recycle, I try to conserve water & help charities that help wildlife & the eco system we share with them. I'm not against green ideas, I just want products that can be properly recycled & that don't hurt the living, the environment, or anything else that lives in it. Windmills hurt animals & sea creatures too, they do some good, but do bad things too, but everyone wants to push the good stuff, but never talks about the bad stuff & can't answer questions or have the research to back up their theories they hold onto so tightly. If you don't discuss the bad with the good people who have ideas that could possibly fix the issues, don't know if there are any issues to fix. This has taken me hours to write. Hopefully, it flows correctly. Being a perfectionist with a brain injury sucks. It takes me a lot longer to say what I mean & for people to understand where I am coming from

@thurin84 7 ай бұрын

how long does a blade have to last to ameliorate its cost of production?

@old-pete 7 ай бұрын

The whole wind turbine earns back all invested energy in 6 to 14 months. The invested money in earned back in 8 to 18 years.

@iowacorn9740 5 ай бұрын

Huge Piles of the dead blades in West Central KANSAS also. Forget what town, but there are many hundreds to THOUSANDS of dead blades there

@jerrybrickley2115 7 ай бұрын

I've seen a video proudly declaring what was referred to as a "recycling" program. A company was paid to cut up blades, grind them to a rough powder. Then that is used in concrete production. The ground up blades are burned at the concrete plant, the heat produced is used to dry the powdered concrete mix as it comes down the production line. Great, ain't it.