Isn’t metal fully recyclable already? Much more so than wood?

Speaking from experience, EU government green innovation grants are often wasted on ill-considered “solutions”. There’s a whole ecosystem of corporations specializing in convincing bureaucrats with no scientific education to give them grant money rather than trying to build stuff that makes sense.

Wooden wind turbine blades are exactly the sort of thing that makes an EU green tech bureaucrat salivate. Visible but inoffensive, cute but grand, natural but industrial, a rustic solarpunk-aesthetic without actually requiring any sort of social restructuring.