Welcome To The Wind Turbine Graveyard


IS THIS WHAT WE’RE OPTING FOR?  REALLY? WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU? 
WAKE THE HELL UP!

What happens to “wind farm” equipment when they wear out…they are NOT recyclable.

Got to be a better way…

Welcome To The Wind Turbine Graveyard, Casper, Wyoming.

Hundreds of non-recyclable wind turbine blades to be buried in landfill

Here is your ‘Clean Energy!’
 
So much for clean power; note the size of the bulldozer burying the blades in comparison to the blades.

Welcome to the wind turbine graveyard.  It stretches a hundred meters {328 feet} from a bend in the North Platte River in Casper, Wyoming.

California, Colorado, Kansas, and many other states are doing the same thing, the fiberglass blades will never deteriorate {Not Biodegradable for Folks in Rio Linda}.

Between last September and this March, it will become the final resting place for 1,000 fiberglass turbine blades.

These blades, which have reached the end of their 25-year working lives, come from three wind farms in the north-western US state.  Each will be cut into three, then the pieces will be stacked and buried.

Turbines from the first great 1990s wave of wind power are reaching the end of their life expectancy today.  About two GigaWatts worth of turbines will be refitted in 2019 and 2020.  And disposing of them in an environmentally-friendly way is a growing problem.
 
This cost taxpayers $200,000 or more per unit, or $200 million total for the 1000 blades, to have them transported and decommissioned.  That’s $200,000,000.00