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Your part of a wind turbine blade is less than a bicycle!
Worried about recycling wind turbine blades? Today’s wind turbines are SO MASSIVE and generate so much power that the per-person amount of composite material used is less than a carbon fibre bicycle! And they tend to last 25 to 30 … Continue reading →
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Tagged Answers with Rosie, Bicycles, fibreglass, fibreglass blades, recycling, Rosie Barnes, waste, wind blades, wind power, Wind turbine
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Something BORING that could help save the world!
I found an old theme as a nice short TED talk – under 10 minutes. Wind and solar can now offer really cheap electricity for industrial heat. But there’s a problem – shown in this graphic. They’re intermittent – where … Continue reading →
Hemp crops mature in 100 days
The points below went straight into my tall timbers page as hemp can supplement the global demand for wood as we build more sustainable skyscrapers from wood.
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Tagged Building, Construction materials, Hemp, New Urbanism, sustainability, Sustainable Cities, Wood
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EU promotes minerals recycling for energy independence
Hi all, the Doomers kept arguing silly strawman junk like “We can’t recycle the batteries yet” or “There aren’t enough minerals” etc. Lithium battery recycling is a new tech and business strategy. We’re sort of at the dawn of this … Continue reading →
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