Saw a wind farm up close in Kansas and it changed my view on green energy.

I was driving through the Flint Hills last fall and got a flat tire right near one of those big wind farms. While I was waiting for help, I walked around a bit and saw the huge piles of old turbine blades just sitting in a field, cut up and waiting... nobody talks about that waste. It made me think we push for these big projects without a full plan for what happens after. Has anyone else seen the backend of these 'clean' energy sites and felt the same way?

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holly_henderson861d ago

Honestly, that's a bit of a downer to see. But isn't that just how all big stuff gets built? They put up power lines and cell towers and nobody has a plan for those either when they're done. At least they're trying to make cleaner power now, and maybe the recycling part will catch up. It seems like focusing only on the waste misses the bigger point of why they're building them in the first place.

felix1471d ago

My uncle works in solar and says the same thing about old panels. They just stack up in warehouses because recycling them costs too much. We really do jump into new tech without cleaning up the mess first.

kai_park1d ago

Is it just me or is this how everything gets built now? I mean, we see it with phones and fast fashion too. You get the shiny new thing, but the old version gets tossed in a drawer or a landfill because dealing with it is hard or expensive. It feels like we're stuck in a cycle of making a mess and calling it progress while we figure out the cleanup later, if ever.