Tuesday, February 14, 2023

Windmills

The US has been accumulating nuclear waste since the 1950's and has about 90,000 tons which could be stored in an area the size of a football field and 30 feet deep. This is 1.8 million cubic feet. The storage of used windmill blades will take considerably more space. Nationwide there are 50,000 windmills and 2,700 are being decommissioned each year. Each blade requires 1,000 cubic feet of landfill space so each year will need 2.7 million cubic feet of space which is 50% more than all of the nuclear waste in total. The material that these blades are made from is practically indestructible and will be around for millions of years. Is anybody thinking about this stuff

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