If you look at the quantity of waste assuming it’s all landfill except the turbine nacelle (which is more than valuable enough to scrap), it’s vanishingly small compared to any other option (yes, nuclear too if you don’t pretend spent fuel is the only type of waste it is possible to create).
It’s also generated almost exclusively on the upstream side of a few materials (silver, neodymium etc) that are being phased out.
Circular economies are great and should be high priority (due to those upstream harms), but from the propaganda you’d think that 400kg downstream of glass or fiberglass and resin (and dozen or so kg of other metals) over an entire lifetime per person in the global north was a world-ending catastrophe.
If you look at the quantity of waste assuming it’s all landfill except the turbine nacelle (which is more than valuable enough to scrap), it’s vanishingly small compared to any other option (yes, nuclear too if you don’t pretend spent fuel is the only type of waste it is possible to create).
It’s also generated almost exclusively on the upstream side of a few materials (silver, neodymium etc) that are being phased out.
Circular economies are great and should be high priority (due to those upstream harms), but from the propaganda you’d think that 400kg downstream of glass or fiberglass and resin (and dozen or so kg of other metals) over an entire lifetime per person in the global north was a world-ending catastrophe.