They're hauled in in one piece so theres no reason to cut them except to make hauling them out cheaper.
There's no reason these things can't be shipped out in one or two pieces and be turned into building supports by even possibility cutting them vertically. Think of a sudo TP or A frame building made of them even.
They're an odd shape and while strong, when you start cutting into anything made of fiberglas resins, you start ruining the thing that makes them strong - the matting they're made up from. You also could have problems from the materials themselves, are they made to be near animals? Outgassing, resin shards, etc.
It's industrial waste that's going to need a reprocessing scheme in order to be less of a problem than the coal it's trying to replace.
I completely agree with you about the coal and good points on off gassing. Just even the tip half would be alright for something as it looks like they're reenforced fairly well. Hell, I'd experiment making an earthship home out of them.
I'm sure that uses can be found for them, but we simply don't have any yet. Maybe using a section as reinforcement in concrete (aka the world's largest rebar) may be viable.
>There's no reason these things can't be shipped out in one or two pieces
Except a $675,000 reason of course
The alternatives being pure losses
They are getting paid that one payment to dispose ofthe blades, underground, indefinitely and for an infinite number of blades. The city has to do something with them so they bury them. Reusing/upcycling could actually produce income on top of what they've already received.
You're talking about a loss of easy revenues for the city... Somebody will have to build the industry capable of recycling those things, efficiently, and for a profit evidently, because that's the whole point. A business model better than bury those things in the ground and pocket the money, in a nutshell.
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