11 March 2026

All This "Clean Energy" Is Causing Environmental Harm

From CFACT we get an article about the dirty truth of Wind Energy that the environmentalists somehow don't want to address. Waste from “clean energy” piles up across the U.S.

Disposal of wind turbine blades is an issue. An environmental issue.

Disposal of giant blades in landfills is often the only way to deal with equipment that is no longer serviceable. “Blades are frequently buried in fragments in several landfills throughout the Great Plains,” Cohen adds, “transforming sites in Wyoming, Iowa, and South Dakota into wind turbine graveyards. By 2050, the cumulative decommissioning material from wind turbines could reach 133 million tons. On average, 3,000 – 9,000 blades are being taken out of service per year in the United States, and that number is expected to increase to 10,000 – 20,000 blades per year by 2040.”

The blades for the giant turbines don't last as long as the environmentalists hoped they would. They can't be recycled. I wonder if the energy required to produce the blades, which are made out of fiberglass, epoxy resins, and carbon fiber, can ever be recouped by the turbine. That doesn't include the steel, the concrete, and the copper that goes into the entire thing.

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