Cutting windmill blades

[DMiller]

Nukes are already determined as to decom
All materials that can be decontaminated or determined as NOT contaminated can return to common waste or recycling systems. The entire site after tear down is to be reclaimed sufficiently to allow open public usage. Is all notated and finances established as plant operates as to this.

Trojan was recently returned to before use access except for the guards center and the spent fuel storage facility that will both go away once the DOE takes possession to their facilities.

 

[CM1995]

Thanks CM
Did not catch the spam part

No worries - he hit multiple threads with the same saw peddling.

 

[673moto]

This may change things:

https://www.offshorewind.biz/2023/02/08/newly-discovered-chemical-process-renders-all-existing-wind-turbine-blades-recyclable/

 

[emmett518]

Repurpose them into those tiny homes. Buy them on the cheap, cut it in half, use the big end for a bunker and the flat end for an approach or an awning. Sell the whole shebang for $ 25K installed to every prepper in the country........retire wealthy to some deserted island. Problem solved!!!!

Dynamite?

 

[aighead]

@673moto good but I bet yuck! I can't imagine the chemicals needed to melt one of those down but I bet I wouldn't want to work there or the mines where they find these chemicals.

 

[DMiller]

This may change things:
https://www.offshorewind.biz/2023/0...-all-existing-wind-turbine-blades-recyclable/
https://www.offshorewind.biz/2023/0...-all-existing-wind-turbine-blades-recyclable/

Added costs, chemicals to manage, destroys ‘Clean, Enviro Friendly’ image. Has to be some nasty stuff to break down epoxy especially when looking at Tons of it per turbine assembly.

 

[aighead]

I picture similar to when you hose down packing peanuts with acetone. It would look cool. My guess is it's not that way at all.

 

[DMiller]

That much acetone then to remove that rom the solution to get a reusable component and maybe a reusable reduction component. Talking hundreds to thousands of gallons per blade. Then the human contact or exposure value. Have to find thos will to work in Air Supplied respirators and full body hazmat suits.

Then as loads to non usable what to do with the solvent???

 

[673moto]

It’s been brought up on other sites that this new tech is only for recycling the resins... the fibers are still wasted at this point

 

[fast_st]

A big teepee style stack would probably go up pretty good!!!

Cut off the tip, stand the blade vertical and build a fire inside the base with a vent hole, hell of a stack.

 

[DMiller]

Should burn really Well with all the Goo and Oils that leach from these monstrocities.

 

[Tones]

Pity this bloke has past, he could have made a motza.

 

[fast_st]

Should burn really Well with all the Goo and Oils that leach from these monstrocities.

I had some sludge filled 12 inch pipes, once the fire got going, it looked like a rocket bound for the earth's core! pipes got squeaky clean in a hurry

 

[fast_st]

Pity this bloke has past, he could have made a motza.

Fred was a serious badass! Watch him climb a 300' vertical chimney with sticks and string

 

[fast_st]

Good thought, depending on local noise regulations, some det cord to cut the blades into quarters in the long axis, then easier to munch up.

 

[KSSS]

It would take a lot of det cord to cut those sections into smaller pieces. That fiberglass is thick. You would have to run multiple strands of 100 gn det cord on each cut to get through it. It would be interesting to try, I just wouldn't want to have to buy all the Det Cord.

 

[Tones]

In the early 80's is was working on a hydro dam excavation job and they were using a product called shear cord for doing the finish face cut in rock. It was about 5/8" diameter, looked like and behaved the same as det cord but with more grunt. Could be a possibility for cutting blades if it's still a thing.

 

[KSSS]

I have never come across that type of det cord. 100 gn is the largest I have used and by comparison it is approximately a quarter inch in diameter, 5/8" in diameter would be pretty impressive.

 

[Tones]

https://images.app.goo.gl/ru2ajRpJbfNSqsiD8
Both faces to the right side of the spillway and between the powerhouse and dam wall is where shear cord was used. The waterway on the left was the diversion channel where it may have been used but that was before my time there.

 

[Truck Shop]

This thread------The oldest windmills around here are being revamped. There are lots full of cut up
blades.