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the real media watch now on youtube. look at this bus stop this bridge and this playground. notice anything that's taken of the old made of 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 it from the towel or the cop up from all the wires. but the gigantic blades mostly get dumped into landfills. a field day for opponents of wind energy, the wind turbine junky are they just lying around? and there's nothing much renewable about these things. but the wind industry won't let that stand or they're working on making winter event, let's recyclable,

and saving the green image. effects as good as people say, it's going to be absolutely transforming. the big question is, can they? and what difference would it make? the chinese wind energy company mean young, recently brecht about this new winter by the largest in the world. they say it's got to rotate time itself, 260 meters. they can each play the good, the total of them, the statue of liberty. of course, this is an extreme example, but even for your run of the mill, wind turbine, possibly upon these things a mess of and extremely study. they're designed to be strong and last through all sorts of weather conditions for 202530 years. this is all been cooperman, an engineer who studies the entire life cycle of wind turbines. wind turbine blades are mainly made of glass, so carbon fibers and stuff called a poxy 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. so we've got these huge wind turbine blades. but we've got difficult to recycle materials because the combined spots of putting up wind turbines and larger numbers throughout the 19 ninety's. this 1st wave of slides 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 later in the future, the piles of spin plates are only going to grow. we're putting up more and more wind turbines for good reasons, to 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 massive waste of materials. so let's look at some ideas on how to stuff that just 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. what remains is 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've been using to separate the components benefit of strong most of it is used to produce a well. so it to get so much can you from any recycling process has to be economic

to popple. and this is the roads that recently a different approach has become popular. turns out the materials and turbines lights 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 residence as that is heated. it gives off energy and then you're left with this chart. glass means and that goes into concrete. and so you're able to recover some materials and use them for common materials. and then you're also able to recover some energy waste management from the old as part of the 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 wind turbine lights instead of cold cement because could save up to 27 percent of c o. 2 emissions according so in 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 plates, that this is actually something which is for hopper, it's economically advantageous, 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. so we need to ensure that we get into secondary key and get it into most of the state of the life cycle. the size of this is maxime. you again snip a ring, who needs the sustainability department and see montgomery so one of the world's largest when to buy manufacturers. they develop what they called the recycle of lights, which you might have guessed as a plates that's supposed to be easily recyclable. that's down to a new type of resonant. they've invented red. okay, let me read the size easily in the s. so at the end of the night,

and then the solution, separate space exceed a residence on the last 5 that you have a comma curious. so that we can recover the separated materials again and use them when you process for the moment. these new products of things like suitcases, suitcases will cost nothing new blights. 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 recycle blades uh more expensive than traditional ones. how much exactly the minutes go may. 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 sales total sales is. yeah, that's something we cannot disclose, which is a shame because obviously the more of them we use now, the more of

a dentist slate waste, the solution could make down the line. clear is that it doesn't help with traditional blades we have to deal with. now. 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 in their recycling strategy. as soon as we have still a valid solution, we can only solve assign, doing impulse issues placed or 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 she was taking up to fine place, which should be $39.00. so if we're using this is where the buttons,

which are now coming on stream in explanation of increasing quantities. that's the great hope for the future. investments doesn't let on much about the new process, just that so far it's only been proven in the lab. then now the testing it the new real world for 2 years to see if it can be scaled up. and what we do know is that the chemical solution, the s s not being solid, is chemicals that you will find all the show. and then of course, gives us very good indications that this us up to and this 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 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 the story, i've repeatedly wondered why if you ask them, they will say something like this. 15 for the cheese at the club on business. it is old america calling about the made,

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 plates, 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 stay the bass case. so the 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, there 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 be dealt with other bits of waste. it's tiny. but it's really important in the public high. it's social eye clinic. so we thought 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 is going to landfill. gas is not greed. so it's hot cheap, really to improve the nature of wind turbine technology in the public domain. that's the other bit of the, i'm sorry, any blemish, and it's green credentials makes wind power and easy target for those who wanted his credits. and look at all the ways we have with people in these renewable energy and renewable at all for the winter in the stream. solving the recycling challenge is the best way to live up to their image and future proof 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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