Electric Trashcan
Thursday, September 18, 2024
Electric Trashcan
The devices we are told are required to save the planet from ourselves involve some of the more wasteful, harder to reuse objects on the planet. Most of the hardest to recycle components have life cycles of about a decade before they have to be dismantled and tossed onto the hazardous waste heap, where they can corrode and degrade for the coming hundreds of millennia.
In fact, they are so completely wasteful that they wouldn’t even be constructed to pollute the planet without immense subsidies paid by future taxpayers—it’s borrowed money—to the current well connected class of industrial political activists. But for a few brief years, they will stand on guard for the sun to shine and the wind to blow, when they can generate some of the electricity they supposedly can generate, while generating something billable to ratepayers pursuant to the rules of cost-plus accounting, whereby electric utilities can price the capital costs plus ten percent profit into residential household electric bills.
The Energy Bad Boys posted a review of all the renewable energy kit, the comparative lifespans, and the problems it creates without doing anything particularly beneficial for the biosphere.
The labeling of wind and solar energy as “renewable” is misleading. When the useful lifespan of wind turbines and solar panels comes to an end, the majority of them are not recycled - they end up in landfills.
According to a CNBC article, “Currently, about 90 percent of end-of-life or defective solar panels end up in landfills, largely because it costs far less to dump them than to recycle them.”
Wind turbines weren’t any different. According to CNBC, “The lifespan of a wind turbine is around 20 years, and most decommissioned ones have joined retired solar panels in landfills… By 2050, 235,000 blades will be decommissioned, translating to a cumulative mass of 2.2 million metric tons — or more than 60,627 fully loaded tractor trailers.”
There are a lot more details and charts at their Substack here.
Good morning, everyone, including those in Roma. Go see some Etruscan ruins for me.
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