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I flew from Shanghai to Amsterdam 2 years ago, there was a point there where there were windmills as far as the eye could see 100s and 100s, I tried toicount an
by Taniwha 7y ago
I flew from Shanghai to Amsterdam 2 years ago, there was a point there where there were windmills as far as the eye could see 100s and 100s, I tried toicount and gave up .... looking closer they were clustered around open cast coal pits and presumably dirty power stations - this was west of Beijing and I'd guess a big source of their horrible pollution.
It's a smart thing to do, essentially they're leveraging the existing transmission line infrastructure for coal for future wind
- ourlordcaffeine 7y agoI wonder if it is the gansu wind farm that you saw. 7.9 GW nameplate capacity. Absolutely massive. And I thought the walney wind farm in the UK (just under 1 GW) was massive.