FINALLY! Fully recyclable wind turbine blades!
Wind power is becoming an ever more dominant force in global electricity grids. But it’s ‘dirty secret’ is that the turbine blades are currently almost impossible to recycle. Now a team at the US National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) claims to have used plant-based biomass to create blades that can be completely broke down at the end of their operational lifetime and refabricated into new products. So, how do they do that then?