05-09-2023, 07:32 PM
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 didn't mean to imply that it did. I haven't seen any statistics on it and it is probably hard to make an assessment, but it is possible that if all used up green technology ends up in land fills that the net affect on the environment would still be positive. But it certainly will be better if we can develop ways of recycling green technology to a greater extent than it is today.