What began as a Transition Year mini business for two Laois girls, has grown into a steadily growing business. Maeve Kenny and Emma Delaney are from Cullohill.
Figure 1. This figure provides an estimate of the maximum and minimum tonnage of EOL blade material for existing wind blades installed up to (but not after) 2019 in entire world (global), the U.S. and Europe (European Union, plus U.K.). The maximum scenario is based on the shortest service life,15 years, and the higher 14 t/MW blade conversion factor. The minimum scenario is based on the longest service life of 30 years and the lower 10 t/MW blade conversion factor. The predictions are based on total blade mass. All figures credit: Emma Delaney QUB (Re-Wind Network)
There have been a number of journal papers and magazine articles published recently that have addressed the issue of wind turbine blade “waste.” Much of the evidence presented in these articles is felt to be too speculative in the opinion of the authors. Work undertaken by the Re-Wind Network team has raised six key issues for discussion of blade end of life (EOL). These include how to define wind turbine end of l
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Buoyed by higher oil prices, BP made $4.7 billion in profit in the first quarter, up from $1.4 billion in profit in the fourth quarter of last year.
The London-based energy giant, which runs the BP Whiting Refinery along the Lake Michigan shoreline, has posted a loss of $4.7 billion the previous year.
BP pulled in $2.6 billion in underlying replacement cost profit in the first quarter, up from $0.1 billion the previous quarter. The company attributed its better-than-expected quarter to higher oil prices, bigger refining margins and exceptional gas marketing and trading performance. This quarter demonstrates what we mean by performing while transforming. With the acceleration of divestment proceeds, together with strong business performance and the recovery in the price environment, we generated strong cash flow and delivered on our net debt target around a year early, CEO Bernard Looney said. We are commencing share buybacks in the second quarter which, alongside our resil