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If we required the recycling cost to be covered in the purchase of solar cells and wind mill blades would this still be true.
What’s cheaper to recycle, fiberglass windmills or radioactive waste?
I did not know the answer so I looked it up. Fiberglass is hard to recycle and it isn't done much. A lot of nuclear "waste" is actually spent fuel which can be reprocessed and used again.
Obviously it would be better to improve recycling of fiberglass but as it stands today, nuclear waste might be recycled more often than fiberglass...
Nuclear waste is a hell of a lot more expensive to process than fiberglass, which is why I pay a "nuclear decommissioning" every month on my electric bill.
A hell of a lot more expensive? Give me that in $ per kw/hr.
But disposal/storage of waste is baked in to the cost of nuclear. The economics of solar and wind don’t include those which is why we have windmill trash heaps
Decades of surcharges for nuclear decommissioning show that’s not true.
I was talking about the starting of new projects
fiberglass is not recyclable
Fiberglass is a bitch and it's used in far greater quantities.
You are right, solar panels in which lead is used in manufacturing are definitively easiest and cheapest to recycle.