Cutting windmill blades

[DMiller]

Far too much mass to Incinerate, too hard to recover the Fiberglass or Liquify the Resins as FAR too much of the material to be dealt with. So the Next Iteration is a "Recyclable WOODEN Blade system. Issues being Rot, Bugs, Birds, and #1 WEIGHT.

 

[Maverick1974]

Multiply by a Factor of 10, not just the number, the Factor, annually. That is why is does not go into production. End up with thousands of tons of presumed salvable end result material, that no one truly needs

The experiment that I conducted in my back yard with cut up pieces of windmill blades that absolutely 100% left 3 widely used materials worldwide and left no sign of any pieces of the wind mill blade left behind. No bank is going to loan me anything with no type of business reference ect. It's a real shame because this is a bullet proof way to recycle these blades with no waste left . It's 100% clean energy. It is also the same with shredded tires. Plastic, wood ect. Amazing, it really is but im just sure if I present it that it will be stolen and I will end up 0

 

[Maverick1974]

Another one is I have a company that give me 500,000 ton of aggregate black sand that should be sand bagged and sold for energy storms ect. Can't afford the investment. I had it tested and have the analytics with nothing harmful to the environment. Another shelved idea that would help our environment and people.

 

[crane operator]

You're just a multi millionaire waiting to happen.

 

[Vetech63]

 

[Vetech63]

Give me one of these and I'll make a fortune selling fiberglass mulch.

 

[CM1995]

I worked for a guy who did framing, really good framing company, started working with banks to build on vacant properties and his theory, 'never play with your own money'

Every construction loan I have ever taken out included a personal guarantee and I've taken out at least 4-500 over my career. C-Corp company but still had the PG.

There are non-recourse construction loans out there but very rare in my experience.

 

[Oxbow]

Every construction loan I have ever taken out included a personal guarantee and I've taken out at least 4-500 over my career. C-Corp company but still had the PG.

There are non-recourse construction loans out there but very rare in my experience.

Same here.

 

[Old Doug]

The company that builds the windmills should have been made to have a plan on what to do with the blades before they ever started massproducing them.

If I could go back in time and go to some of the meetings at the plants were they were drawing up the plans for the blades I probably would have been kicked out. Most of you know that I haul and recycle scrap iron . There are a lot of things I have ran into that I wish there was a way to reuse them. I am not a big operator but I like to do everything I can not to bury stuff that can be reused . I know its not a big money deal but there is so much stuff like aluminum cans that could be recycled but are tossed out along the roads or just tossed in the trash cans.

 

[Maverick1974]

What needs to happen is people that see things ahead of what they are now and people that understand business to read and listen to the way certain individuals speak and explain their ideas instead of stay at home dad's and time clock punching workers that are programmed like robots day in and day out that have no idea how to start a business from their mind and make it turn key and only laugh because they have no vision. Issac Newton

 

[KSSS]

I presume they use the material that they do to construct the blades because it works and the cost to make them out of fiberglass makes sense (maybe an assumption). If there was anyway the Green Industry could make them out of something that could be recycled, you know they would. The issue of used blades has been a thorn in the side of the wind industry from the start. If they could market the recycled blades for something useful or recycle the components into something else that was valuable, it would be a big selling point and it would be done.

I can assume that if the Green Industry has yet to come up with some other option for construction or recycling, that there isn't an option, at least with the technology available now.

 

[heymccall]

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[DDoug]

What are the wings on the Jumbo jets are made of ?

 

[mowingman]

I just read a news story, about how hundreds of those blades have been dumped and abandoned in Texas. Some company was paid to haul them off, and was supposed to recycle them. Instead, they dumped them in Texas and disappeared/went bankrupt.

 

[CM1995]

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Not on the FB - Cliff Notes?

 

[crane operator]

Not on the FB - Cliff Notes?

It shows them building a little 30' walk bridge in a park with cut up blade sections.

 

[CM1995]

It shows them building a little 30' walk bridge in a park with cut up blade sections.

Thanks. Figured it wasn't something HD but hey it's still something useful.

 

[Pops52]

Here’s some blades being covered up. Don’t know where this pic came from but it’s 2-3 years old.

 

[Truck Shop]

Like most things humans make it costs more to recycle than build from scratch.
Plastics are the best example, microplastics are everywhere.

 

[fast_st]

Up in Labrador, I was exploring where they were building new roads, they were doing corduroy, flopping the trees across the roadbed with wide tracked excavators, clearing 100 feet wide or better then dumping shot rock and gravel on top a dozen feet thick. Seems like nice blade sections 50 feet long would make a nice stable road base.