Recycling of wind turbine blades still a distant prospect
A new collaboration between Aarhus University, the Danish Technological Institute as well as companies Olin and Vestas aims to develop a new chemical solution for turbine blade production, so they can be recycled in the future. However, the new technology will not be usable for existing blades.
The blades of wind turbines cast shadows not only on the ground on which they stand but far into the future as well, where great landfills filled with blades, like glass-fiber and epoxy bones in a grave, have been highlighted by opponents as the dark side of renewable energy.
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