{"id":9502,"date":"2021-02-11T11:24:07","date_gmt":"2021-02-11T16:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/?p=9502"},"modified":"2021-02-18T18:57:23","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T23:57:23","slug":"the-total-costs-of-solar-wind-energy-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/the-total-costs-of-solar-wind-energy-production\/","title":{"rendered":"The total costs of solar &#038; wind energy production"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video controls src=\"http:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Unobtanium-.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Welcome To The Wind Turbine Graveyard<br>\n\ufeff <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>IS THIS WHAT WE\u2019RE OPTING FOR?&nbsp; REALLY? WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?&nbsp; <br>\nWAKE THE HELL UP! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What happens to &#8220;wind farm&#8221; equipment when they wear out\u2026they are NOT recyclable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Got to be a better way\u2026 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Welcome To The Wind Turbine Graveyard, Casper, Wyoming. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"476\" height=\"332\" src=\"http:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/TurbineGraveyard1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9565\" srcset=\"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/TurbineGraveyard1.jpg 476w, https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/TurbineGraveyard1-300x209.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 476px) 100vw, 476px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Hundreds of non-recyclable wind turbine blades to be buried in landfill <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is your \u2018Clean Energy!&#8217;<br>\n&nbsp;<br>\nSo much for clean power; note the size of the bulldozer burying the blades in comparison to the blades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Welcome to the wind turbine graveyard.&nbsp; It stretches a hundred meters {328 feet} from a bend in the North Platte River in Casper, Wyoming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"485\" height=\"361\" src=\"http:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/TurbineGraveyard2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9566\" srcset=\"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/TurbineGraveyard2.jpg 485w, https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/TurbineGraveyard2-300x223.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 485px) 100vw, 485px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>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}.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Between last September and this March, it will become the final resting place for 1,000 fiberglass turbine blades. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These blades, which have reached the end of their 25-year working lives, come from three wind farms in the north-western US state.&nbsp; Each will be cut into three, then the pieces will be stacked and buried.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Turbines from the first great 1990s wave of wind power are reaching the end of their life expectancy today.&nbsp; About two GigaWatts worth of turbines will be refitted in 2019 and 2020.&nbsp; And disposing of them in an environmentally-friendly way is a growing problem.<br>\n&nbsp;<br>\nThis cost taxpayers $200,000 or more per unit, or $200 million total for the 1000 blades, to have them transported and decommissioned.&nbsp; That\u2019s $200,000,000.00&nbsp; &nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome To The Wind Turbine Graveyard \ufeff IS THIS WHAT WE\u2019RE OPTING FOR?&nbsp; REALLY? WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?&nbsp; WAKE THE HELL UP! What happens to &#8220;wind farm&#8221; equipment when they wear out\u2026they are NOT recyclable. Got to be a better way\u2026 Welcome To The Wind Turbine Graveyard, Casper, Wyoming. Hundreds of non-recyclable wind turbine &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/the-total-costs-of-solar-wind-energy-production\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The total costs of solar &#038; wind energy production<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53,37],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9502"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9502"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9567,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9502\/revisions\/9567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esterlund.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}