China has the largest wind turbine in the world. It's been operating since 2023, and it produces more electricity than any other. Here's a picture of it among smaller ones in the sea:
But the scale isn't easy to grasp in this photo. You don't readily see that the hub is as tall as a 50-story building. The rotor diameter, that is the width of the circle swept by the rotating blades, is longer than two football fields at 827 feet.
Whenever its usefulness is done, its tough and huge blades will probably be processed into road-building asphalt or concrete. That's what China has started doing to mitigate the problem of recycling wind turbine blades.
from Electrik
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