Why China Built 162 Square Miles of Solar Panels on the World’s Highest Plateau

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1. May be to do over production, to keep factories running. that 5 % GDP growth has to come from some where.

2. Data centers in the desert baby!

3. Temu made solar panels. Keep it there please.

4. There is a large EV charging stations near the visitor center of mount Everest, powered by solar panels.

5. Good for china as they march towards the future while America does an about face and marches towards the past.

6. Because no extreme weather. Solar panel very fragile. This plato only very cold and hot ; even no rain means no hailstones .

7. To make power and win the industries of the future. Why phrase this as a question? We’ve known the strategy for over a decade.

8. They want true clean energy independence, a goal that every nation should strive for. America should pay attention instead listening to an old man who doesn’t even grasp how the technology works.

9. > Dislocating people for power projects is politically sensitive all over the world. But high-altitude projects affect relatively few people in sparsely populated settlements. China pushed more than one million people out of their homes in west-central China a quarter-century ago and flooded a vast area for the reservoir of the Three Gorges Dam. *This year, China has been installing enough solar panels every three weeks to match the power generation capacity of that dam.*

   Dam…

10. How do you clear snow/ice from these things?  Do they defrost themselves?  Does maintenance roll by with a big old scraper?

11. Solar radiation is more intense at a dry higher altitude.

12. Probably had an over run in the panel factory and needed to put them somewhere so someone close to xi came up with a great idea. It wouldn’t surprise me if it’s a very long distance to the actual users.

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