So you'd be happy to have nuclear waste stored in your community...

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    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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