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As opposed to wind and solar? Let alone batteries, that use extremely toxic chemicals.

What we do with waste is a key ingredient to any power source, and the plan with old batteries, solar panels and wind turbines is no better than nuclear.

There is no free lunch, only competing ideas with different sets of problems and difficulties.



How is disposing of wind turbines and solar panels any different from disposing of any other silicon and aluminum machines?


There doesn't seem to be a great answer regarding recycling or disposing of composite wind turbine blades:

https://www.windpowerengineering.com/mechanical/blades/recyc...


As opposed to composite planes or car frames?


Size? Seems to me you would need to unearth a massive landfill to put the wind turbine blades and towers in.




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