Recycling pollution

[Zigenare]

When German wind turbines reach end of life, they're burned. For electricity.

What happens to the Aluminium, Copper etc?

[vetran]

What happens to the Aluminium, Copper etc?

sent to India to be burnt on a beach like our techno waste?

[d000hg]

Pretty hard to burn aluminium (suppose you could add some iron) and copper.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Pretty hard to burn aluminium (suppose you could add some iron) and copper.

Yes, very hard.

[d000hg]

Yes, very hard.

It's a shame that in your attempt to be a smartarse you missed that I'd mentioned thermite in my post. I'm imaging you've never done it because it is not that easy, you have to have your materials in powdered form in the right ratio and then ignite using a very high temperature like magnesium (which is also not super flammable). You can't just burn lumps of aluminium.

[vetran]

It's a shame that in your attempt to be a smartarse you missed that I'd mentioned thermite in my post. I'm imaging you've never done it because it is not that easy, you have to have your materials in powdered form in the right ratio and then ignite using a very high temperature like magnesium (which is also not super flammable). You can't just burn lumps of aluminium.

you can melt it which was great fun at college.

[DoctorStrangelove]

you missed that I'd mentioned thermite in my post.

Really? Where's that then?

I well remember the joy of attempting to gas weld or braze aluminium. Great fun.

The brazed piece held for years & years until the damp in the shed finally encouraged the flux to eat through & it broke.

That reminds me, must get rid of all that welding kit, it's now surplus to requirements.

A bit like some of those windmills.

[WTFH]

Our raised beds (and the chicken houses) came from Solway Recycling. Yes, they had a bad fire a few years ago. At least it's an attempt to do something, rather than hide behind the Wail complaining about any attempts to do any good.

[d000hg]

Really? Where's that then?

Um, when I talked about adding iron to aluminium? I didn't use the word because anyone who knows chemistry to 12yo level would understand what I meant.