Bloomberg: China's Remote Deserts Are Hiding an Energy Revolution

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China’s Remote Deserts Are Hiding an Energy Revolution

Nations will be urged at COP28 to triple renewable energy capacity this decade. The world’s top polluter is already on track, propelled by President Xi Jinping’s strategy to use remote regions to host vast green projects.

By Bloomberg News | November 26, 2023

Out of the rolling yellow dunes of the Kubuqi desert arises what appears to be an oasis, shimmering blue beneath the northern China sky.

Row after row of hundreds of solar panels cover this otherwise barren stretch of Inner Mongolia, about 500 kilometers (311 miles) inland from Beijing. They’re the centerpiece of a clean energy project the size of 20 Central Parks that provides enough electricity for 1.1 million homes.

The mammoth site is just one small piece of President Xi Jinping’s plan to deliver the largest ever deployment of man-made power capacity. By the end of this decade, China aims to build the equivalent of 225 more of these massive renewables bases across vast swathes of the country’s interior.

It’s a campaign that promises an upheaval across the energy sector: curbing China’s demand for fossil fuels, trimming its reliance on energy imports and steering the world’s biggest polluter toward a feasible path to zero out its greenhouse gas emissions.

Once complete, the renewables bases will total 455 gigawatts of wind turbines and solar panels. That’s more clean energy generation capacity than is currently available in any nation outside China, and almost the size of the entire power network — including coal plants and nuclear reactors — in India, the world’s third-largest system...more
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2023-china-solar-wind-power-cop28/

[msongs]

1. buried in dunes of highly abrasive sand. what could possibly go wrong? nt

[Axelrods_Typewriter]

2. Reminds me of the cities they've built that sit empty.

Quite a bit of sizzle ....... not so much steak.

[msongs]

3. yes tens of thousands of empty condos that are bought/sold never lived in

[pansypoo53219]

4. can fry birds in air.