Straight Line of the Day: How Can We Recycle All The Sustainable Energy Waste?

A Follow-Up on a Sour Not-So-Green Clean Up in Sweetwater
Hot Air | 07/09/2026 | Beege Welborn

By 2050, the estimated total boundary area required for 1.5 million wind turbines is expected to reach 3.1 to 4.6 million square kilometers – the combined size of India and Argentina.

The obvious question regarding this transition—with its towering turbine skeletons, virtually indestructible composite blades, and billions of solar panels—is this: Just where will all this metal, silicon and concrete be buried?

Probably throw in a few battery-powered everythings, as well. 

17 Comments

  1. How Can We Recycle All The Sustainable Energy Waste?

    Well, we can’t.
    It is surprisingly similar to the Romans salting the fields of the conquered …
    … and much worse than “climate change”.

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