well lets go with Ricks "data" and at 13million tons of world total fiberglass production per year.... sounds like a very conservative guess..... more fiberglass than that being installed in new towers in the US every year.... but lets not pick on New Yorks latest expert......
13 million tons , using ricks assumptions is enough to supply about 3000 wind turbine towers........ that figure I doubt but we got it from a proven "quotable" source. The state of Iowa alone has somewhere around 4600 towers producing now. Not counting those laying in development depots for next years projects. Kansas has near that many laying in transport storage across western Kansas. Presently operating in kansas ---3000+ turbine (another worlds production per year and not counting the future additions approx. 1500 acres of blade storage on the ground waiting to go up.
Iowa is less than 1/3 of the number of towers in Texas,,,,, Only tied with Oklahoma(Iowa)
It is a massive problem nation wide. Extremely expensive and has an extremely unknown life cycle. Texas has wind farms being dismantled as new ones go up.
When you give the old college environmental try along with "Unlimited borrowing" federal financing you can go way overboard in a short time. We have more generation power in place than we can store or distribute presently. Therefore most all wind farms are operating at @ 30% capacity on an annual basis. That factor declines with every new "erection" from the environmental love bugs. Expanding without vision or reason. A system that depends on backup and rapid distribution has neither. Vetoed both in kansas so we are behind in building..... but, still able to stand in just a certain way as not to have one fall on all of us.
Soon we will be burning the cities we for reliable energy.
