China races to build world’s largest solar farm to meet emissions targets (235 square miles, the size of Chicago)
https://apnews.com/article/china-climate-solar-wind-carbon-emissions-ab119c39f226cfbeb2f5c1449747cae9
China races to build world’s largest solar farm to meet emissions targets (235 square miles, the size of Chicago)
https://apnews.com/article/china-climate-solar-wind-carbon-emissions-ab119c39f226cfbeb2f5c1449747cae9
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> Chinese government officials last month showed off what they say will be the world’s largest solar farm when completed high on a Tibetan plateau. It will cover 610 square kilometers (235 square miles), which is the size of Chicago.
> China has been installing solar panels far faster than anywhere else in the world, and the investment is starting to pay off. For China to reach its declared goal of carbon neutrality by 2060, emissions would need to fall 3% on average over the next 35 years, said Lauri Myllyvirta, the Finland-based author of the study and lead analyst at the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air.
> China **installed 212 gigawatts of solar capacity in the first six months of the year**, more than America’s entire capacity of 178 gigawatts as of the end of 2024, the study said. Electricity from solar has overtaken hydropower in China and is poised to surpass wind this year to become **the country’s largest source of clean energy.** Some 51 gigawatts of wind power was added from January to June.
> Li Shuo, the director of the China Climate Hub at the Asia Society Policy Institute in Washington, described the plateauing of China’s carbon emissions as a **turning point in the effort to combat climate change**. “This is a moment of global significance, offering a rare glimmer of hope in an otherwise bleak climate landscape”.
> A seemingly endless expanse of solar panels stretches toward the horizon on the Tibetan plateau. In an area that is largely desert, the massive solar project has wrought a surprising change on the landscape. The panels act as windbreaks to reduce dust and sand and slow soil evaporation, giving vegetation a foothold. Thousands of sheep, dubbed “**photovoltaic sheep**,” graze happily on the scrubby plants.
> Solar panels have been installed on about **two-thirds of the land, with power already flowing from completed phases**. When fully complete, the project will have more than 7 million panels and be capable of generating enough power for 5 million households.
While in US, we cut fundings to universities and schools because they refuse to suck up to the President. Not to mention kicking scientists out as well.
In virtually every aspect, China will rule the 21st century.
>.. to meet emissions targets
Bwa ha ha ha ha … emission targets 🙂
Nobody in China gives a flying fukc about ’emission targets’. In fact nobody cares about ’emission targets’ anywhere, except for a rapidly shrinking group of EU countries – and even they are doing the moves by inertia.
Although some media outlets are still trying to keep climate hysteria afloat, it’s largely dead.
China is installing solar panels not because of some imaginary targets, but because they need energy, regardless of the source. China also starts one new coal power plant every week .. emission targets again?
Why don’t they just use beautiful clean coal like America, are they stupid?
Honestly? Heck yeah. Way to freaking go China. This is still a drop in the bucket compared to their overall energy needs, but it’s a massive step forward vs what might have been coal or gas fueled energy.
Man I’d love to have a government that races to do anything but bomb someone
Didn’t see the mention of storage. Wonder how they’re storing the electricity generated, unless they are able to consume all that electricity during daylight time.
Phenomenal that China pretty-much have absolute unlimited energy now.
Over the past 5 years – they invented:
+ 100 megawatt salt farm: https://www.energy-storage.news/100mw-thermal-solar-salt-energy-storage-system-in-xinjiang-china-to-be-complete-by-end-of-2024/
+ They already have the largest solar farms: https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace/2017/07/25/china-just-built-250-acre-solar-farm-shaped-giant-panda/
+ and unlimited power through a iron man style thorium reactor: https://www.neimagazine.com/news/china-refuels-thorium-reactor-without-shutdown/?cf-view
+ a 100 million degree sun: https://www.sustainability-times.com/energy/heat-beyond-control-scientists-recoil-as-chinas-fusion-reactor-hits-100-million-degrees-in-unprecedented-artificial-sun-achievement/
With all this sustainable free energy, It’s odd that China are also a world leader in Co2 emissions.
+ https://www.statista.com/chart/28725/cumulative-co2-emissions-per-country-since-1970/
+ https://climatetrace.org/explore/#admin=&gas=co2e&year=2024&timeframe=100§or=&asset=
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I guess those emissions don’t correlate to energy production methods?