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The Netherlands is sending its worn-out wind turbines to Ukraine instead of the scrapheap (euromaidanpress.com)
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[–] aramis87@fedia.io 37 points 1 week ago

Ukrainian buyers are installing them to decentralize a grid that Russian strikes have battered through four winters. [...] Hundreds of Dutch machines are nearing the end of their working lives at home. Instead of the scrapheap, many are being refurbished and shipped east. [...] Between 700 and 800 Dutch machines face the scrap heap in the coming years, with no reuse in sight. Yet many still have fifteen to twenty years of life left. Owners are replacing them with turbines that generate five or six times as much power

I love it when you can use multiple "problems" to solve each other: the Dutch get machines that produce more power, Ukrainians can get (comparatively) low-cost machines to supplement their grid power, and a bunch of material is kept from the scrap heap!