{"id":157572,"date":"2023-02-10T20:23:46","date_gmt":"2023-02-11T02:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/breakthrough-in-recycling-of-wind-turbine-blades"},"modified":"2023-02-10T20:23:46","modified_gmt":"2023-02-11T02:23:46","slug":"breakthrough-in-recycling-of-wind-turbine-blades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/breakthrough-in-recycling-of-wind-turbine-blades","title":{"rendered":"Breakthrough in recycling of wind turbine blades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/breakthrough-in-recycling-of-wind-turbine-blades2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>A new chemical process developed by Danish company Vestas can ensure that wind turbine blades are recycled at the end of their life, instead of being abandoned or going to landfill sites.<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Wind power is one of the best ways to decarbonise the world\u2019s electricity. Recent years have seen explosive growth in capacity additions, as well as gigantic new turbine designs able to generate as much as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.futuretimeline.net\/blog\/2023\/01\/11-wind-turbine-future-timeline.htm\" target=\"_blank\">18 MW<\/a>. The costs keep falling, while efficiencies continue to improve. The trend is now obvious: renewable energy is the future and will inevitably displace fossil fuels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new chemical process developed by Danish company Vestas can ensure that wind turbine blades are recycled at the end of their life, instead of being abandoned or going to landfill sites. Wind power is one of the best ways to decarbonise the world\u2019s electricity. Recent years have seen explosive growth in capacity additions, as [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":688,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1497,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-energy","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/688"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}