Your browser does not support the video tag. Discarded wind turbine blades lie in a field next to the town cemetery in Sweetwater, Texas. Credit: Tetra Images/Getty ...
Researchers see a realistic path forward to the manufacture of bio-derivable wind blades that can be chemically recycled and the components reused, ending the practice of old blades winding up in ...
Most blades of giant wind turbines are made of metal, and easy to melt down and reuse. But the blades are mostly fiberglass and resin, materials normally buried underground. Until now. The World’s ...
The wind blade recycling market presents opportunities driven by the increased decommissioning of wind turbines, regulatory pressures, and sustainability goals. Key growth areas include thermal ...
Left: wind turbine blade waste; Middle: treated and dried wind turbine blade glass-fiber reinforced polymer (GFRP); Right: injection-molded plastic containing 70% recycled GFRP (photo by WSU). PULLMAN ...
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, Colorado, say a realistic path exists in which bio-derivable wind turbine blades can be chemically ...