Ryan Clarke

Aug 22, 2024 | science.org | Paras S. Minhas |Zhenlin Yang |David Pfau |Ryan Clarke

Editor’s summaryWind energy is a key component of the general push to power the world more sustainably. However, modern blades for use in wind turbines are assembled with epoxy resins that are resource intensive to manufacture and cannot be easily recycled. Clarke et al. report a polyester material for blade manufacture that can be derived from biomass and straightforwardly deconstructed for recycling at the end of its life by heating in methanol.