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German startup to scale up fully recyclable wind turbine blades (recyclingportal.eu)

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The VB1F project, carried out by a consortium of four partners, including Voodin Blade Technology, has been awarded a €48.18 million grant under the Innovation Fund to build the world’s first commercial manufacturing facility in Spain for fully recyclable wooden wind turbine blades.

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[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Current blades are made from fiber reinforced plastic, which is hard to recycle.

But I agree that the recycling wood part of it is largly PR and to attract government funding.

Relatively easy local production could be quite an advantage though.