Bullets:

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-ene…

China’s solar, wind power installations soared to record in 2024
https://www.reuters.com/business/ener…

China added record wind and solar power in 2025, data shows
https://www.courthousenews.com/china-…

What President Trump Gets Wrong And Right About Wind Farms
https://www.forbes.com/sites/monicasa…

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/…

Can wind turbines be recycled?
https://climate.mit.edu/ask-mit/can-w…

Unfurling The Waste Problem Caused By Wind Energy
https://www.npr.org/2019/09/10/759376…

America Can Recycle 90% of Wind Turbine Mass, According to New DOE Report
https://www.energy.gov/cmei/wind/arti…

In China first, project breathes new life into ageing wind turbines
https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-ec…

Top 10 countries with the most electricity generation in 2023
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/20240…

China puts world’s first 100-kW bamboo-built solar platform to offshore test
https://interestingengineering.com/en…

Top 10 countries with the most installed wind power capacity
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/20240…

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