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The wind industry now generates enough electricity to power more than 43 US million homes with more than 70,000 turbines. But there’s one problem that urgently needs addressed, writes Louise Boyle
The state of Iowa is suing a Washington state company and its executives for allegedly dumping tons of old wind-turbine blades around Iowa, in violation of the state’s solid-waste laws.
Grants for schools, nonprofits, government entities and events to offset the cost of recycling efforts [12] Public education to educate consumers about the right ways to recycle [13] Drop-off centers for recycling, household hazardous waste, electronic waste, pharmaceutical waste and other items that should be diverted from the landfill [14] [15]
Offshore wind turbines near Copenhagen, Denmark. Europe is the leader in offshore wind energy, with the first offshore wind farm (Vindeby) being installed in Denmark in 1991. As of 2010, there were 39 offshore wind farms in waters off Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and the United Kingdom, with a ...
A Vineyard Wind turbine at the far southwest section of the offshore wind farm, 22 miles south of Martha's Vineyard. One of the turbine's blades failed in July, splintering and sending debris into ...
Wind farm waste is less toxic than other garbage. Wind turbine blades represent only a fraction of overall waste in the US, according to the wind-industry trade association, American Wind Energy Association. [110] Several utilities, startup companies, and researchers are developing methods for reusing or recycling blades. [108]
Officials with Vineyard Wind and GE Vernova, which manufactured the blades, said just before 6:30 a.m. Wednesday they would remove some existing blades and strengthen others "out of an abundance ...
Most of the MOD-series wind turbines went to sites outside of Ohio, but the first unit, the MOD-0 operated at NASA's Plum Brook facility near Sandusky from 1975 to 1988. [13] Initially, the wind turbine had a lattice tower, a 38.1m diameter two-bladed rotor mounted downwind from the tower, and a capacity of 100 kW.