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Vestas shares rose sharply after it posted fourth-quarter profits and revenue above market expectations and said it expected higher sales in 2024. Vestas shares rose sharply after it posted fourth-quarter profits and revenue above market expectations and said it expected higher sales in 2024. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All…

But when it’s time to decommission one, a wind turbine’s strength can become a weakness.  Because the blades are designed to be so durable, the materials used to build them can’t currently be recycled. And about 43 million tons of these blades will be decommissioned by 2050. The new work describes a way to recover the main components of wind turbine blades, breaking down the plastic that holds them together without destroying the material’s primary building blocks.  “We need sustainable energy, but we also have to…

When a wind turbine reaches the end of its working life, components like towers and nacelles can be recycled but blades often end up in landfill. Vestas is looking to commercialize a new chemical process that can break down all epoxy-based turbine blades for reuse.Harvesting wind is already roving to be an important part of the renewable energy mix, with more projects coming online and larger turbines being produced. Unfortunately, when turbine blades come to the end of their operational lives, they end up as waste in…

A Vestas wind turbine photographed in Denmark. The company said Tuesday it would launch an onshore wind turbine tower with a hub height of 199 meters.Jonas Walzberg | Picture Alliance | Getty ImagesDanish firm Vestas said Tuesday it was launching an onshore wind turbine tower with a hub height measuring 199 meters (just under 653 feet), in the latest example of how the sector is turning to increasingly large structures.In a statement, the Aarhus-headquartered company described it as "currently the world's tallest onshore…