Health and Safety: Renewables

As some wind farms reach their expiry date they are being dismantled and recycled. At least most of the body of each turbine can be recycled, except the massive blades.

https://electrek.co/2023/02/08/wind-turbine-recycle-blades/

Panels of photovoltaic cells on solar farms are also piling up to be recycled, but the investment to do that work was never there.

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-65602519

Mega lithium battery factories have been built. Different designs and components to build a less volatile battery proliferate, as dangerous toxic and difficult to extinguish lithium fires (runaway type) have been recorded.

https://apnews.com/article/venice-bus-crash-foreign-tourists-investigation-998d73a2a36fac82c3d87df69eafb530

Storage tanks of anaerobic produced gas have exploded when struck by lightning.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-66990100

All renewable concepts must have consequences for human health and safety designed into them.

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About borderslynn

Retired, living in the Scottish Borders after living most of my life in cities in England. I can now indulge my interest in all aspects of living close to nature in a wild landscape. I live on what was once the Iapetus Ocean which took millions of years to travel from the Southern Hemisphere to here in the Northern Hemisphere. That set me thinking and questioning and seeking answers. In 1998 I co-wrote Millennium Countdown (US)/ A Business Guide to the Year 2000 (UK) see https://www.abebooks.co.uk/products/isbn/9780749427917
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