at the top of the alley, just about which plan is a looks at the downside of wind power. even though a wind turbines generate sustainable energy, that giant lights are almost impossible to recycle. that's next to on the the get ready for an exciting album, toyota, to look surprised. hi, i'm shopping and i'm ready to dive into the hands of human to you. have you have a one to talk to me before the end the i'm expected side to side. no, i wish i could've done more the same. you just click away, find the best document on you to really

see the world as he's never seen it before. the drive now to dw the look at this bus stop this bridge and this playground noticed anything. let's take another look. the old made of a wind turbine blades because it looks cool. yeah, but it's also because we don't really know what else to do with them once that one out we can recycle up to 90 percent of the turbine like to steal from the towel or the cop up from all the wires. but it's like empty plates mostly get dumped into landfills. a field day for opponents of wind energy. the big we're in turbine junky. are they just lying around? there's nothing much renewable about these things, but the wind industry won't let that stands or they're working on making when to

event let's recyclable, and saving the green image. if it's as good as people say, it's going to be absolutely transformed. the big question is, can they and what difference would it make the chinese wind energy company mean young recently brecht about this new wind turbine, the largest in the world. they say it's got to have wrote a dime itself, 260 meters, making each blade a good fit total up in the statue of liberty. of course, this is an extreme example, but even for the run of the mill, wind turbine, positive fun, these things are massive and extremely study. they're designed to be strong and last through all sorts of weather conditions for 202530 years. this is open cooperman, an engineer who studies the entire life cycle of wind turbines, wind turbine blades, uh, mainly made of glass, so carbon fibers and stuff called a proxy residue. this acts like

a plastic super glue that binds them together. you end up with a very strong and resilient material, and that's great when the plates up and running would separating those components. we can't easily to this is claire bio who spend 30 g is researching how to best recycle, all kinds of materials. and that's really been the problem here. we've got these huge wind turbine blades. but we've got difficult to recycle materials because the combined response of putting up wind turbines and lodging numbers throughout the 19 ninety's. this 1st wave of lights is now being retired. the easiest and most common way to deal with them is to simply check them into landfills. and this might sound horrible, but it's actually not that bad. more than that lights and future piles of spin plates are only going to grow. we're putting up more and more wind turbines for good reasons. they deliver some of the cheapest and cleanest electricity that's available to us. but that also means that by 2050, we'll have an estimated 43000000 metric tons of retired lights on our hands.

dumping them into landfills and forgetting about them as a mess of waste materials. so let's look at some ideas on how to stuff that so one way to deal with old blades is by using brute force, we can burn off of the plastic pots, or use strong chemicals to dissolve it. but remains as the fiber that can be used to make new things like casa plains or snowboards. but these processes are perfect . all of these take a lot of energy and the products that you get. because the degraded by the various this technology is using by the, the brutal method that you're using to separate the components finish a strong dose is used to produce a work. so you don't get so much venue from any recycling process has to be

economic coupon apple. and this is the roads that recently. a different approach has become popular. turns out the materials and turn on plates are pretty good for making something else. if that cut into pieces and then shredded that can be used in some and production. you get some energy from the plastic parts of the blade, the rather than as that is heated. it gives off energy and then you're left with this char glass remains and that goes into concrete. and so you're able to recover some materials and use them for a common material. and then you're also able to recover some energy. waste management from the old e o has popped up with general electric to do exactly that. on the large scale in the us. they say they've already recycled over 3000 blades this way. and that's not the only benefit by burning shredded into it by lights instead of cold cement because could save up to 27 percent of c o. 2 emissions according so when the

analysis by a consulting firm, if you have cement industry, which is located close enough to the place that you've got your wind turbine blades, that this is actually something which is problem. it's economically advantages and it's environmentally favorable as well. and certainly better than landfill bucks wouldn't be better still if we could use also it on the lights to make new ones. we really need to ensure that we get it into a certain level and get it into model stay of the life cycle designs. this is maximilian sniffer ring leads the sustainability to pop it and see montgomery. so one of the world's largest when to buy manufacturers, they develop what they called the recycled lights, which you might have guessed as a plates that's supposed to be using the recycle. that's down to a new type of resume. they've invented red. okay, let me read the saw easily in the middle. so at the end of july and then the

solution, separate space exceed a residence on the last 5 a you have a common areas so that we can recover the separated materials again and use them for new products. for the moment, these new products of things like suitcases p c, cases will cost nothing new blake's, the plan is to ultimately close the loop, but small research is still needed. it's just, there hasn't been enough time to really validate that the plate has same performance over the same period of time and that it can practically be recycled at that large scale. so i think that's the next challenges to demonstrate all those things at scale, the recycled the blades. uh, more expensive than traditional ones. how much exactly the minutes got me so i wouldn't say about the already being used in some when projects. unfortunately see minutes got me. so i also wouldn't say how high the shelf total sales is. that is something we cannot disclose, which is a shame because obviously the more often we use now the more of authentic late ways

the solution could make down the line. clear is that it doesn't help with traditional blades we have to deal with now. so you will not see the impact about until 25 or 30 years. but those plans are being taken down. this is lisa extremity who's head of sustainability, invest us another leading wind turbine manufacturer that taking a different approach and that recycling strategy. as soon as we have scaled up our solution, we can always talk recycling and fox issues plates that we put up many years ago. and that can be taken down now as well as future plates. they say they figured out a way to separate the materials and existing to them plates and make them reusable, including the epoxy resin. it's supposedly done with a chemical solution that breaks it down. it would mean that groups was taking up to fine place which shipping their didn't land. so if we using this is where the

buttons, which are now coming on stream in exponentially increasing quantities, that's the great hope for the future investment stuff. and that's on, that's about the new process. just that so far it's only been proven in the lab. then that will be testing it, the new real world for 2 years to see if it can be scaled up. what we do know is that the chemical solution, the s that it's nothing exciting is chemicals that you will find all the show. and of course, gives us very good indications that this has up to be a very cost competitive. so let's recap. there's a bunch of ideas out there on how to take a blade waste, some of that already work at scale, and some that still have to prove they do wind power companies across the board of throwing money at this end. while researching this story, i've repeatedly wondered why, if you ask them they will say something like this. 15 for the cheese at the club or business. it is over there. i'm. i'm calling about the mate,

which somehow only felt like half the onset. i mean, don't get me wrong for only things in the dump and forgetting about all the materials that went into making them should not be the way forward, but with old blades, it looks and feels a lot worse than it is. i mean, these things are literally built to not decompose, should be pretty stable. they will just stays a base if i thought. so my problem with landfilling is really the plates take up a lot of space. you remember i said that will be 43000000 tons of this kind of blades by 2050. well, that will be 12000000000 tons of plastic waste and landfills and the environment by then. if we drive in waste, it's very likely not going to be down to wind turbine blades, but that's not the point. pets with caustic waste, it's tiny compared to adults with other bits of waste. it's tiny. but it's really important in the public high, it's social eye clinic. so we've got these huge wind turbines, which are making green electricity for us. and people say, yes,

bought at the end of life, you've got pulse of the structure which you're going to landfill. gas is not greed . so it's hot cheap, really to improve the meet you wind turbine technology in the public domain. that's the of a bit of the answer. any blemish, and it's green credentials makes wind power and easy target for those who wanted his credits and work in all the ways we have with big, with these renewable energy isn't renewable at all. for the winter, the stream solving the recycling challenge is the best way to live up to their image and future prove that business. so what do you think? how should we deal with old wind turbines? let's let us loan to come in since don't forget to get subscribed for movie to use like this.

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