The VB1F project, carried out by a consortium of four partners, including Voodin Blade Technology, has been awarded a €48.18 million grant under the Innovatio

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The VB1F project, carried out by a consortium of four partners, including Voodin Blade Technology, has been awarded a €48.18 million grant under the Innovation Fund to build the world’s first commercial manufacturing facility in Spain for fully recyclable wooden wind turbine blades.

  • Tiresia@slrpnk.net
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    21 hours ago

    Isn’t metal fully recyclable already? Much more so than wood?

    Speaking from experience, EU government green innovation grants are often wasted on ill-considered “solutions”. There’s a whole ecosystem of corporations specializing in convincing bureaucrats with no scientific education to give them grant money rather than trying to build stuff that makes sense.

    Wooden wind turbine blades are exactly the sort of thing that makes an EU green tech bureaucrat salivate. Visible but inoffensive, cute but grand, natural but industrial, a rustic solarpunk-aesthetic without actually requiring any sort of social restructuring.

    • poVoq@slrpnk.netOPM
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      20 hours ago

      Current blades are made from fiber reinforced plastic, which is hard to recycle.

      But I agree that the recycling wood part of it is largly PR and to attract government funding.

      Relatively easy local production could be quite an advantage though.

  • Horizon@slrpnk.net
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    2 days ago

    Great to read! I hope the ability to produce blades locally will be more widely accepted than it is now.