Comment by ZeroGravitas

There's a thriving second hand market for wind turbines.

Similar to EV discussions a lot of motivated reasoning seems to assume that these items are disposed of in a black hole or set on fire in a school playground after a few years to try to equalize the damage done by combustion alternatives.

In reality people are spending tens or hundreds of thousands to buy these used turbines because they have value.

I've not seen full calculations for wind but I assume they exist. I've read ones for solar which calculate replacing panels in a farm after 17 years and landfilling the old ones is still ecologically positive because the extra generation of the new panels would pay off.

Obviously this only gets better if you resell or recycle the old panels instead.