https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/3c521dc4-5637-4fbd-b78a-d459a0fb087c China's vast wind industry generates more electricity than the next nine countries combined. But many of the first-generation turbines are at the end of their useful lives, and are being replaced by larger, taller towers. That leads to a major disposal problem, with tens of thousands of turbines and blades totaling millions of tons which typically would be buried in landfills, or incinerated. But engineers in Gansu are refurbishing old units, swapping old components with new, and redeploying them to remote areas with localized power demand. Closing scene, Guilin Resources and links: A Year of Clean Energy Milestones https://e360.yale.edu/digest/2025-energy-review China's solar, wind power installations soared to record in 2024 https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/chinas-solar-wind-power-installed-capacity-soars-2024-2025-01-21/ China added record wind and solar power in 2025, data shows https://www.courthousenews.com/china-added-record-wind-and-solar-power-in-2025-data-shows/ What President Trump Gets Wrong And Right About Wind Farms https://www.forbes.com/sites/monicasanders/2025/07/31/what-president-trump-gets-wrong-and-right-about-wind-farms/ Wind energy has a massive waste problem. New technologies may be a step closer to solving it https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/28/world/wind-turbine-recycling-climate-intl Can wind turbines be recycled? https://climate.mit.edu/ask-mit/can-wind-turbines-be-recycled Unfurling The Waste Problem Caused By Wind Energy https://www.npr.org/2019/09/10/759376113/unfurling-the-waste-problem-caused-by-wind-energy America Can Recycle 90% of Wind Turbine Mass, According to New DOE Report https://www.energy.gov/cmei/wind/articles/america-can-recycle-90-wind-turbine-mass-according-new-doe-report In China first, project breathes new life into ageing wind turbines https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3364771/china-first-project-breathes-new-life-ageing-wind-turbines Top 10 countries with the most electricity generation in 2023 https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202408/1318729.shtml China puts world’s first 100-kW bamboo-built solar platform to offshore test https://interestingengineering.com/energy/china-100kw-bamboo-floating-solar-platform-offshore Top 10 countries with the most installed wind power capacity https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202407/1316637.shtml Tue, 15 Sep 2026 10:10:41 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://tankie.tube https://tankie.tube/lazy-static/avatars/3ba3ff73-a8b6-49c9-add8-9653ef090c7f.webp https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/3c521dc4-5637-4fbd-b78a-d459a0fb087c All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://tankie.tube/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.