Vir Campestris wrote:
On 09/05/2021 23:53, Paul wrote:
One article on wind turbines, mentions that the design
is all about "number of flexures". And the blades are only
good for about 100 million flexures. Each rotation counts
as a flexure for the blade, it is constantly being worked
(and ruined). Same goes for the tower, it takes a lot of
abuse too.

And of course these exotic composited can't be recycled.

Green aren't they?

Andy

There was a claim they "grind them up and do something with them" :-)

When you need a hand-wavey story about how green you are,
claim you grind up the materials.

grinding
... \___ still working on this part
... /
profit!!!

Paul