WELCOME TO A TURBINE CEMETERY
That doesn’t mean they have to go into landfill, according to Don Lilly, chief executive of Global Fiberglass Solutions in Bellevue, Washington. Mr Lilly has been transforming fibreglass composites into small pellets he calls EcoPoly. The pellets can then be turned into injectable plastics, or highly waterproof boards that can be used in construction, he says. Mr Lilly has received interest from “several manufacturers” for his pellets.He’s also developed a programme to track blades throughout their life cycle, and make it easier to recycle them at the end. While the turbine blades, that reach the end of their life span, can be cut up on site to make them easier to remove it is a very different kettle of fish for the transport of replacement blades as exampled by the videos below.
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By the time they are replaced after 20 years they would still be struggling to show any reduction in emissions after their manufacture, transportation, construction, cable infrastructure, maintenance and their cutting up (in three pieces) and subsequent burial are taken into account.