05-09-2023, 08:03 AM
mattkime wrote:
[quote=Ted King]I don't know about the "probably won't be" but I agree that there is a lot more that needs to be figured out about recycling of "green" technology. Here's some work being done about windmill blades:
https://cen.acs.org/environment/recyclin...es/100/i27
This ignores a magnitude of difference in problems. How many decommissioned turbine blades would we need to create a problem the size of global warming? It just doesn't compare.
I'm confident that humans can make batteries, solar panels, and even wind turbines a big enough problem to really mess things up. Most things are thrown away instead of recycling because it's cheaper, and I think that's likely to happen with green energy tech also, unless something drastically different happens. And if current trends continue with EV cars, they'll get bigger and bigger and less efficient until the benefits over ICE are gone. I hope not, but it sure as heck isn't "solved long ago". It starts with people being insatiable, and that is what will have to change.