fossil fuels. Gedser turbine – Green Social Thought https://www.greensocialthought.org Produce less. Distribute it fairly. Create a greener world for all. Thu, 22 Feb 2024 04:47:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.greensocialthought.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/cropped-ggef_logo_small-1-32x32.png fossil fuels. Gedser turbine – Green Social Thought https://www.greensocialthought.org 32 32 How to Make Wind Power Sustainable Again https://www.greensocialthought.org/biodiversity-biodevastation/how-make-wind-power-sustainable-again-0/ Wed, 21 Aug 2019 15:18:46 +0000 https://gst.riz-om.network/reprint/how-make-wind-power-sustainable-again-0/ by Kris De Decker

For more than two thousand years, windmills were built from recyclable or reusable materials: wood, stone, brick, canvas, metal. When – electricity producing – wind turbines appeared in the 1880s, the materials didn’t change. It’s only since the arrival of plastic composite blades in the 1980s that wind power has become the source of a toxic waste product that ends up in landfills. If we would reduce energy demand, smaller and less efficient wind turbines would not be a problem.]]> by Kris De Decker

For more than two thousand years, windmills were built from recyclable or reusable materials: wood, stone, brick, canvas, metal. When – electricity producing – wind turbines appeared in the 1880s, the materials didn’t change.

It’s only since the arrival of plastic composite blades in the 1980s that wind power has become the source of a toxic waste product that ends up in landfills.

If we would reduce energy demand, smaller and less efficient wind turbines would not be a problem.

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