I agree with your view on the article and when I read it had some of the same thoughts. Many things that last 20 years or so are tough to recycle. Of course, the other direction for increasing the LCA is to increase the life as I am not convinced reusing 20 year old carbon or glass fiber would work in windmills and it might need to be down cycled. I love your posts—I spent much of my career working to keep speciality polymers specialty.
Thanks for reading Steve. Feel free to also reply to any of the emails if you've got strong opinions you want to be kept private. Most R&D organizations that I've seen/heard about are pretty lean these days even at the big chemical companies so creating these new markets is going to be really challenging, but I think still possible.
I agree with your view on the article and when I read it had some of the same thoughts. Many things that last 20 years or so are tough to recycle. Of course, the other direction for increasing the LCA is to increase the life as I am not convinced reusing 20 year old carbon or glass fiber would work in windmills and it might need to be down cycled. I love your posts—I spent much of my career working to keep speciality polymers specialty.
Thanks for reading Steve. Feel free to also reply to any of the emails if you've got strong opinions you want to be kept private. Most R&D organizations that I've seen/heard about are pretty lean these days even at the big chemical companies so creating these new markets is going to be really challenging, but I think still possible.