<story><title>Vestas unveils solution to end landfill disposal for wind turbine blades</title><url>https://www.vestas.com/en/media/company-news/2023/vestas-unveils-circularity-solution-to-end-landfill-for-c3710818</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>paperwasp42</author><text>As someone who works in the energy field, I have been stoked to see these types of advancements in the past few years. When I first got into this field and would research green energy products, there was a limited field of players. Now there are so many start ups coming up with brilliant products that I can&amp;#x27;t even keep track! What a wonderful problem to have.&lt;p&gt;One of my favorite books is &amp;quot;The Wizard and the Prophet&amp;quot;, and it&amp;#x27;s great to see more and more companies following in Norman Borlaug&amp;#x27;s footsteps and finding new ways the science&amp;#x2F;tech fields can serve humanity.&lt;p&gt;If anyone out there is feeling a bit down about the general state of the tech industry, I highly encourage you to look into jobs in the green energy field. It&amp;#x27;s an exciting space filled with lots of passionate, mission-driven folks. (And, in case you&amp;#x27;re wondering, most of us aren&amp;#x27;t the neurotic, perpetually angry types that dominate the activist space. We&amp;#x27;re pretty chill people who just want a healthy and affordable planet.)</text></comment>
<story><title>Vestas unveils solution to end landfill disposal for wind turbine blades</title><url>https://www.vestas.com/en/media/company-news/2023/vestas-unveils-circularity-solution-to-end-landfill-for-c3710818</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>semi-extrinsic</author><text>FWIW, people have been researching how to recycle thermoset epoxy for at least a decade. Here is one example of an open access paper:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;pubs.acs.org&amp;#x2F;doi&amp;#x2F;full&amp;#x2F;10.1021&amp;#x2F;acsapm.1c00896&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;pubs.acs.org&amp;#x2F;doi&amp;#x2F;full&amp;#x2F;10.1021&amp;#x2F;acsapm.1c00896&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;From my reading of the press release, the novelty in this work is that they&amp;#x27;ve found a process that works with &amp;quot;ordinary&amp;quot; chemicals, temperatures and pressures, so it can be scaled up economically.&lt;p&gt;I say &amp;quot;ordinary&amp;quot;, because it might very well be working with mildly toxic chemicals at 80°C and 7 bar pressure or whatnot, so far outside the range of (at least economic) feasibility in the home lab.</text></comment>