How one Iowa company is recycling wind turbine blades

The patent pending, proprietary process is held close to the chest of REGEN Fiber, a subsidiary of Alliant Energy, but it could reap big environmental rewards.

[soundmindtv]

"Can we see the process?"
"No. Trusts us, bro, we're really recycling these inside."

[kevlar]

How much energy is required for this " GREEN" solution?

[wardcollins]

Seems like a lot of money spent to recover 20 lbs of material or 2 shovel fulls of sand, I wonder how the rest of the composite material is used or is it sent to the land fill, I know there is a large metal ring that will be recycled.

[knightatthecrossroads]

Carbon footprint of the recycling process?

[terenceiutzi]

The wind turbine blades that were made in Tilsonburg ontario canad were carbon fiber epoxy. They get their strength from the very long fibers. After using more energy then they produced in their service life, what can you do with that fiber???

[urbandad]

Wind turbines are in balance 6 times in a revolution. That is why they give off that walking sound as the weight shifts from one side to the other, like yours does when you walk.

[rschiwal]

I HATE when I have a brilliant idea and then discover someone had the same idea a year ago.

[behzadutube]

chopping something up to use as filler in conceret is hardly called recycling.

[wandahagen]

Its addition to concrete or asphalt has not been tested to see if it performs as well as the products they are now using. So they do not know if they even can market their product. A pipe dream to quell the roar of burying as they are currently doing with the "green energy" by product.

[terrylonewolfswisse]

THE ELECTRICITY MADE FROM THESE WINDMILLS GOES OUT OF STATE AND THEY ARE MORE EXPENSIVE THAN THEY ARE PROFITABLE

[barleyarrish]

Nothing to see here just talk, stop telling lies.

[stevehalfhill]

Wind power sucks and is not totally dependable!

[TheCaliRhino]

Garbage, it should just be converted to graphene. Dr James Tour has the process down to a science.