Wind turbines are tough to recycle – this new chemistry could help

Wind turbine blades are huge, strong and hard to recycle. As the world’s use of wind energy grows, researchers are searching for better ways to make use of old, decommissioned wind turbine blades. Now researchers in Denmark are using chemistry to find ways to break down the tough epoxy plastic that make up the blades, and recover useful materials for producing future wind turbines.

Read the paper here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-05944-6

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