So you'd be happy to have nuclear waste stored in your community then ?
And of course you'd be happy to have a nuclear power station up the road as well.
Even though very large power stations are already not going to fit into a renewable energy grid anyway.
" Decommissioned wind turbine blades take hundreds of thousands of years to decompose. "
Two things about that:
Blades are pretty benign as opposed to nuclear waste which isn't.
The wind industry is already working on recyclable wind turbine blades.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-wind-turbine-blades-could-be-recycled-instead-of-landfilled/
https://resource-recycling.com/plastics/2019/03/27/company-expands-wind-turbine-recycling-operation/
https://reneweconomy.com.au/french-consortium-developing-first-completely-recyclable-wind-turbine-blades-31940/
https://www.utilitydive.com/news/ge-announces-first-us-wind-turbine-blade-recycling-program-with-veolia/591869/
" The fly ash from coal fired power stations has to be stored forever. "
Good reason to get rid of them then, isn't it ?
Actually , there were a couple of projects where they wanted to mine magnesium from fly ash a few years ago. I'm not sure what happened to them.
https://latrobemagnesium.com/
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