{"id":2696,"date":"2025-04-01T07:00:27","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T11:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/?p=2696"},"modified":"2025-03-27T16:31:56","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T20:31:56","slug":"an-innovative-solution-to-repurpose-old-windmill-blades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/an-innovative-solution-to-repurpose-old-windmill-blades\/","title":{"rendered":"An Innovative Solution to Repurpose Old Windmill Blades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wind turbine blades play a crucial part in clean energy generation, but the sheer number of them that eventually will need to be decommissioned will strain current repurposing and recycling capabilities. \u00a0An Iowan farmer is proposing a solution: \u00a0fence posts for agricultural use, and even dock posts.\u00a0 He says the posts are stronger and more durable than traditional posts, they eliminate the need for constant maintenance, and, if they can be mass produced, they would be less expensive than current fencing materials.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Recycling wind turbine blades: A farmer\u2019s ingenuity<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfra.org\/blog\/recycling-wind-turbine-blades-farmers-ingenuity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.cfra.org\/blog\/recycling-wind-turbine-blades-farmers-ingenuity<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Related Reading<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><script src=https:\/\/bookshop.org\/widgets.js data-type=\"book\" data-affiliate-id=\"102171\" data-sku=\"9781534474529\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wind turbine blades play a crucial part in clean energy generation, but the sheer number of them that eventually will need to be decommissioned will strain current repurposing and recycling capabilities. \u00a0An Iowan farmer is proposing a solution: \u00a0fence posts for agricultural use, and even dock posts.\u00a0 He says the posts are stronger and more&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/an-innovative-solution-to-repurpose-old-windmill-blades\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;An Innovative Solution to Repurpose Old Windmill Blades&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2696"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2713,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2696\/revisions\/2713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}