Sorry to break the bad nes to you guys, but its all too late, Solar Power, wind power, vegetarianism, woke ness etc are now engrained into the education system at over the last 30 years, we have allowed 2 generations to be indoctrinated by lefty school curriculum boards and the activists with Depts of Education. Hitler had only a decade of similar indoctrination with the Hitler Youth Movement. so with 30 year on climate change cultism... we are fecked!

Too many global industrialists and environmental gurus's (eg Al"the geography teacher" Gore) have so much invested ( and profiteering for this industry, they will not allow anyone to discuss let alone disturb their rationale.

Its too late!

Here is a BBC article on this problem. Puts it to scale.

http://tinyurl.com/szddkw2

yes, Bazz, and wait till you see the mountains of Solar panels that were supposed to last 25 years, yet power delivery has now declined to nye on useless with 10 years. By the way, the British Gov is sueing Siemens for their off-shore wind farms that are literally being eaten away after 5 years! its a multi-billion euro case.

Bet Grimacing Great and BoJo don't talk or care much about that, as the poor suckers whose power bills rise to allow rich people to have subsidized solar panels, will pay for the case and the new windmills when the case fails in the EU courts!

Yes Bazz, aircraft modelers are complaining that balsa for modeling is almost impossible to find, & the supply of kits of precut components has dried up, as the Chinese are buying all the balsa.

The blades are formed in balsa, then sheathed in carbon fiber laminate of various thickness dependent on the level of stress in various areas of the blade. The whole process means that none of the blade can be recycled.

They must be getting some of the strength, or even a large part of it, from the balsa being saturated with resin which in carbon fiber resin is very hard. If not Polyurethane foam would be much cheaper & easier to shape, & is used in sandwich boat construction.

Once impregnated the balsa is useless for any subsequent application. It is an international disgrace that such an important activity as model aircraft flying should be interfered with by the manufacture of these monstrosities.

Thanks for that link Bazz. There are a lot of problems with windfarms that the renewable lobby do not accept.
SKF and Timken (major leaders in world bearing technology) have faced the problem that especially in the off shore giant turbines they have been have unexpected levels of failures in the main axle bearings. Up to 30% in some units failing within 5 years. Very expensive and difficult to repair or replace. If ball and roller bearings remain stationary for periods of time, the surfaces within are subject to fretting (or in engineering terms "brinelling") and become noisy and subject to accelerated total surface failure. This, plus the next problem are why turbines must be kept turning at all times. If one is stationary, it is probably being worked on with technicians within the pod. To keep turning they must draw power from the Grid.
The next area of concern is that of blade droop when not turning. New blades can be fitted. But only if the special cranes needed are available.
As it is, it is accepted that wind turbines deliver around 30% of their name plate capacity into the Grid over extended periods.
The Coopers Gap Wind Farm so far has been unable to deliver into the Grid as they have been unable to achieve and maintain full (essential) synchronization to it.

Hasbeen, thank you for that note. I had wondered why the balsa cores could not be redirected to recovery for the hobbyist market. Too expensive to recover and then too contaminated.
Alison Jane, from the mid 1950's to the fall of the USSR, Moscow was subsidising the anti-nuclear protests around the globe to ensure that the promise of super cheap and safe electricity from nuclear would never be available to the Western economies. (While they powered on with theirs.)
It was the left sides of politics that have ensured that the nuclear power industry has been saddled with excessive and un-needed bureaucracy to nobble any attempts to provide safe high quality and affordable reliable power.
Over two generations of "nuclear is bad" indoctrination is not something that can be undone in a decade by even the most skillful education campaign.