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Post by steppenwolf on Sept 6, 2023 7:24:40 GMT
People seem shocked that RAAC, with a life expectancy of about 30 years, has been used in schools, hospitals etc but this is not unusual. A lot of this renewable energy infrastructure that we're putting up all over the place has an even shorter lifespan. For example these incredibly expensive wing turbines are claimed to last 20 to 25 years but if they're placed offshore they have been failing before they're even 5 years old - and they're difficult and expensive to recycle, especially the huge blades. These generally end up in landfill. The same goes for solar panels. They last up to 25 years but many fail much earlier (especially the cheap Chinese ones). Again they usually end up in landfill, because they're difficult to recycle, which is very dangerous because they contain toxic materials which will be very dangerous when they end up in the water.
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Post by Pacifico on Sept 6, 2023 7:38:42 GMT
It's going to be the same with EV's - the cost of repair is simply going to be too high and they will end up just being junked when theoretically they should have many more years of life.
Whether its possible to stop this drive to short term lifespans is debateable.
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Post by seniorcitizen007 on Sept 6, 2023 19:19:58 GMT
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Post by steppenwolf on Sept 7, 2023 6:41:50 GMT
It's going to be the same with EV's - the cost of repair is simply going to be too high and they will end up just being junked when theoretically they should have many more years of life. Whether its possible to stop this drive to short term lifespans is debateable. BEVs have the potential to be an obsolescence disaster because the failure of their battery effectively makes them an uneconomic repair, because the battery is such a large proportion of the cost. And any damage to the battery - such as in a light collision - means that the battery has to be replaced because of the dangers of fire. Nobody seems to consider these things - which is strange because they must be aware of the need to move away from the throwaway mentality. Yet a lot of this new technology for Net Zero seems to ill thought out for "repairability" or recycling. |
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Post by Red Rackham on Sept 7, 2023 8:36:18 GMT
Mum had a 1953 Morphy Richards steam Iron that was used well into the 1990's. Although it still worked it became a bit too heavy for her but she didn't want to throw it away, she was fond of it. So due to it's weight she used it as a door stop. Somehow I cant see a modern steam iron lasting the best part of fifty years, then repurposed as a door stop.
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