China is putting its shoulder to the wheel to turn the Kubuqi Desert in Inner Mongolia into a vast solar farm 400 kilometers (250 miles) long and 5 kilometers (3 miles) wide. When completed, it will have a maximum generating capacity of 100 gigawatts — enough to power the entire city of Beijing.

The Great Solar Wall Of China



by The_Weekend_Baker

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  2. Nameplate capacity of about the same as 100 nuclear reactors…. for the cost of only a couple.

    Or from another angle, China currently has about 1,100GW of coal. (Running at about 45% capacity factor and dropping) This one project alone has potential to relieve almost 10% of their coal use.

    And for a closer to home comparison, the US has a total of 210GW of solar( that’s domestic and commercial all added together). Commercial is at 107GW. This one project is almost 50% of the total ever installed in the US or almost the whole total of all commercial sites so far. It’s absolutely huge!

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