When I was driving in Xinjiang I saw this thing on the horizon and thout it was an inland sea. It was only as I drove nearer that it resolved into solar panels, but even then the illusion that it was actually a body of water continued. I swear it took 20-30 minutes to drive past.

Of course this pales in comparison to the literal forests of wind farms that cover huge swathes of Xinjiang and which take hours to drive past and consist of the biggest wind turbines I've ever seen.

The green energy infrastructure in Xinjiang is genuinely one of the most jaw dropping things I've ever seen in my life. Possibly the most.

what the fuck you were not kidding that is fucking wild. Way to go China.

I've slowly been slipping more pro china talking points into the myriad political conversations I have with libs and I sense that the grip of western propaganda is slipping. Like the whole green belt around that desert. Sometimes you can break through the thought terminating cliches by showing them something as awesome as this. Like they are literally trying to save us from ourselves and our stupid capitalist bullshit.

I have a dumb question - on windy days do the cells get covered in desert dust and sand? Is there a way to clean them off if that happens?

That's absurdly cool. But my doomer alarm went off when it says this farm feeds 2 million households- that means they'd need 300 of these to satisfy residential energy demands alone

I found a YouTube link in your post. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:

• yewtu.be
• inv.nadeko.net
• yt.artemislena.eu
• piped.video