Are Windturbines poisonous? Could be....

Being one of those persons who for some time have been bothered about the massive number of power wind turbines that are in place all over the UK and particularly so in Wales. Indeed only recently the Rhondda Borough has apparently approved an application for the area known as Mynydd Y Glyn. I wonder if the ‘well-informed councillors’ know about what happened in the Dutch parliament. Or that they know about why there is so much local opposition? Here in Wales people are getting pretty perturbed about the onslaught on the countryside and not just because of wind turbines. It is the loss of amenity as well as beauty. Beauty of the age-old landscape. Destroyed because of political attitudes and a quest for easy solutions. Perhaps I should remind aforementioned councillors that is not what they were elected for.

However, the Dutch parliament was in some uproar because of a simple question. Someone in the Netherlands asked the following: He had read that the vanes/blades of the wind turbines due to erosion caused by wind/rain are losing a lot of fine dust containing Bisphenol-A. Apparently 1 kg of that chemical which is a component of the epoxy used in the manufacture of the blades, would poison 1 billion litres of water! The question landed on the desk of Minister Mr. Jetten (Climate and Energy). The answer as most political answers are, was pretty vague but after doodling on about European rules blah blah, there were some interesting bits. Translated from the reply of the minister:

A component for making this epoxy is indeed Bisphenol A (BPA). However, BPA is almost completely converted during the chemical process that takes place. A small amount of unreacted BPA may remain in the final product. This remaining amount of BPA varies per product, but is in the range of 0.001 to 0.01%. This is significantly lower than the 30–40% BPA mentioned in the question.

Quite a typical political reply, and not really answering the question! The question is about the release of substances during erosion. The answer concerns production and the BPA present in bound form in the blades. It is certainly possible that erosion occurs under the influence of sunlight, wind and the weather. This may result in the release of fiberglass and other particulate matter as well. Just wondering if anyone here has ever thought about it, or is even aware of it. I do, as I am able to speak fluent Dutch, look at what happens across the water, simply because it is interesting to see how others can also make an unholy mess of things. I can say that my trust in the political process has been dented somewhat. Reading about some of the matters there, I can say that our national decision to leave the EU was the correct one.

It should also be noted that the minister did not really know anything about the process of manufacture and what the chemicals were or how much of that was deposited into the environment.

Bearing in mind I am aware we do need power, electrical power both to aid in what our political wunderkinder call, NET-ZERO without really knowing how to attain it, or even how to control the process.

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