I remember when greenies hugged trees. Now greenies chop down trees and hug manufactured wind turbines made of concrete, steel, fibreglass and gearbox oil. 40 million tonnes of wind turbine blades destined for landfill by 2050. Wind power isn’t renewable.
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There’s nothing more galling than the sight of a 100 metre wind turbine slumped over. A smouldering aluminium & concrete corpse testament to wind power’s stupidity.
Even if a wind turbine fibreglass blade makes it through a 12 year operating life, the blade is still a global waste catastrophe.
Every year, Europe already adds 2 million blades filling landfills.
At the same time that we declared plastic straws an environmental sin, our beautiful planet has 40 million tonnes of wind turbine blades destined for landfill by 2050.
Every blade of every wind turbine installed to 2030 will be in a landfill by 2050.
So-called renewables need to be renewed every 10-15 years.
We’re not building our net-zero, nature-dependent generation once. We’re doing it twice over. Or three times. With all the waste this will bring.
This is environmental vandalism, killing the environment in the name of saving it.
I remember when greenies hugged trees. Now greenies hug manufactured goods composed of concrete, steel, fibreglass and gearbox oil. Greenies are resource hogs.
Recycling wind turbine blades is not impossible. It just takes a huge amount of energy for which coal is the optimum fuel. That’s why, without affordable coal energy, wind turbine blades and solar panels are dumped not recycled.
German wind farms kill 100,000 birds a year and unlike those killed in cities, these birds tend to be endangered species due to the location of turbines.
New model turbines are approaching 240 metres in height with blades close to 120 metres.
That will need a big hole to bury.
This is not ‘free’ energy and it certainly is not ‘renewable’.
Governments should not ‘force’ a technological transition. If wind technology was any good it would not be reliant on subsidies of $500,000 per turbine per year.
Real transitions – those that serve to benefit our community – happen naturally through market forces because they have natural economic or social advantages that meet people’s real needs.
We are one community, we are one nation and the United Nations & World Economic Forum’s net-zero is environmental vandalism.
Ah well, if we are going to be stuck with this rubbish, at least those blades will make farm bridges easy to make. er,,,, mind you, getting a 120m span to the farm is going to cost. sigh. Maybe not
My comments in the Australian and I agree with your fantastic article! What is the fine for killing a native bird in Queensland? $235,600 for a natural person, $1,178,000 for corporation, under the Animal Care and Protection Act 2001. Wind turbines were calculated to murder more than 1 .2 million birds in the USA in 2018. Australia shall soon have more turbines than they had at that time……………..and placed on every hill where migrating birds and bats traverse. Wind turbines at sea are in the path of Shearwaters migration down and then back up the east coast. When we talk of environmental responsibility how do these Greenies justify this? Birds of prey and our iconic Wedged Tailed Eagle with an 8ft two meter wingspan will be destroyed and they are endangered. Will these wind turbine operators be held to the same standard as the rest of us??
Hello Malcolm, I follow your YouTube Senate videos avidly. One Nation as a party and particularly yourself and Pauline are an inspiration and quite literally the only thing that gives me hope for my future. I honestly am now of the opinion that the only sensible “management” of this country is down to the relatively few One Nation members of our Parliaments. I am proud that at the very least I have been able to convince some fellow “sensible centrists” to follow my voting proclivities. So far as wind turbines are concerned (or any renewables for that matter) it astounds me (as someone who worked in financial planning and reporting) that the costings for this technology are hopelessly inaccurate and naive. There never seems to be any complete costing for any of this – costs relating to decommissioning and depreciation, expenses versus revenue, for example, are clearly ignored altogether. I say that because Chris Bowen declares this technology to be the cheapest. Well, it might be “cheap” were we to put up a wind turbine and it remains in service – maintenance free – for 8 decades. But you are lucky if these things last even two decades. Blades may not even last half as long and are certainly a grave – and never ending – toxic environmental hazard. Compare that with nuclear that is expensive up front but vastly cheaper in the long run and you really have to wonder if there is anyone in Parliament with even the most basic economics qualifications and experience.
Never have I seen so many destructive policies made in this country as I have seen over the last few years. First there were the horrendous (I would say criminal if justice were to truly prevail) COVID policies and directives and now we face decades of exorbitant energy bills (I estimate at least three to four times what we now pay), yet with no relief down the line – ever. Costs will be permanently inflated because of the high levels of maintenance and depreciation required to keep these renewables in service. And of course, as we well know, they only work when the sun shines and the wind blows. And even then, they are extremely inefficient. Very rarely do wind turbines, for example, operate at anything approaching their rated output capacity, unlike nuclear plants where they can be run flat out 24 x 7 x 365 just like coal fired power stations.
Exactly when are every day Australians going to revolt against this? And what is it going to take? Will we have to wait till the average family cannot afford an electric car (or new battery for their secondhand ex Government electric car) and are forced onto public transport? Do we have to wait until so many families cannot afford their energy bills that they routinely default on payments? Or do we have to wait till Summer and Winter blackouts are so frequent that our quality of life takes dips beyond a point where even the climate zealots will not tolerate it any more?
Meanwhile, Chris Bowen (arguably Australia’s most dangerous politician alongside Daniel Andrews) doubles down, triples down and quadruples down. “I am never wrong” he must surely think as his cult like delirium leads him to dreams of Australia being a renewable energy super power. Well I can see it now. Countries will ask Australian to sell them some of this “super power renewable energy”. And Bowen will have to tell them, sorry, we are out of stock at the moment but we hope to have a few small shipments in late Summer….
Now, don’t get me started on that other emerging fad – “community batteries”. Talk about being sold a dud….
Absolutely agree, hopefully you can actually get this info to msm.
Thanks
The other embarrasing fact is we are buying all of these from China!!
The experts And pollies who push these abominations don’t live near these
wind “farms” to experience the ugly sights or to experience the ignored health effects.
Experince at a company that built and maintained Cooling Towers with fans up to 14 mtr diameter tells me that a lot of the wind turbines are broken and not producing . The dynamic forces they work under wreck the drive train in 14 mtr fans, but relatively easy to fix with a crane at 15 mtrs above ground level. A. F.O.I request might reveal some of these towers are earning subsidy for no output.
These windmills have a base of 1200 tons of concrete and 45 tons of steel re-bar. What a waste and all made with lots of CO2.