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China Powers Up World’s First 20MW Offshore Wind Turbine 🌊💡

Hold onto your solar-powered hats, eco-warriors! China just dropped a renewable energy mic 🎤 with the world’s first 20-megawatt offshore wind turbine installed off Fujian Province. This sky-high green giant – with blades longer than a football field ⚽ – could power 44,000 homes annually once connected to the grid later this year.

Engineers battled angry seas and hurricane-level winds using a 2,000-tonne-capacity installation ship 🚢 and space-grade positioning tech to assemble the 174-meter-tall structure. Each rotation generates enough juice to charge 1,200 smartphones 📱 – talk about #WindGoals!

Here’s why your future self will thank China: One turbine = 24,000 fewer coal trucks rumbling through cities 🚛💨 = 64,000 tonnes of CO2 wiped from the atmosphere annually. That’s like taking 13,700 gas-guzzling cars off the road! 🌱

As climate talks heat up in 2026, this turbine spins new hope for Asia’s clean energy transition. Who knew fighting global warming could look this cool? 😎

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