Wind turbine blades are notoriously difficult to recycle. These companies have found ways to upcycle them into new products instead bloomberg.com/news/features/… via @climate
Fully funded @UWEBristol PhD studentship available with me @delaurentisc and @HayesEnda. Application info will be published soon but there will be a short turnaround, so please message me or Carla if you want to discuss. Please share. #onshorewind
Dr John Barimo from @UCC speaking about the SDG Toolkit and how this framework acts as a catalyst to remove obstacles and facilitate the integration of the SDGs into the curriculum #EwS2022
What can you do with used wind turbine blades? New #RTEBrainstorm podcast based on an article by Peter Deeney @eriucc@UCC & Kieran Ruane @mtu_ie & voiced by Erik Threlfall - now available wherever you get your podcasts & rte.ie/brainstorm/2022/0323/…
Glass fibres from wind turbine blades could be used as supplementary cementitious material , new paper : sciencedirect.com/science/ar… - however, extracting fibres from blade GFRP is not yet justified from sustainability and economic standpoints
Deadline for abstracts extended to 24th June.🚨 Join us at the 18th Corporate Responsibility Research Conference hosted by @cleoqub, in association with @ESCP_bs, @KedgeBS and the Sustainability Research Institute @UniversityLeeds. Find out more: ow.ly/oQcy50JvS8w
"There’s not just one way of being sustainable, and so it’s important that we find a pathway to sustainability that is fair and just" - Niall Dunphy, director @ucc_cppu@eriucc
"There’s a common thread that runs through a lot of our work – we would describe it as the people’s relationship with energy".
Dr Niall Dunphy @ucc_cppu discusses the importance of ‘energy citizenship’ in Independent Thinking magazine. #research#UCCSTEMucc.ie/en/magazine/summer22i…
Re-Wind featured in Composites World. Larry Bank :"Repurposing does require the labor and costs involved with cutting and transporting blades [for shredding, downcycling, pyrolysis]" compositesworld.com/articles…#BladeBridge#BladePole @scienceirel @eriucc