The sun’s energy is plentiful. And China is capitalizing.
Images captured by two Earth-observing satellites, operated by the U.S. Geological Survey, revealed a rapid expansion of solar farms in a remote northern Chinese region, the Kubuqi Desert.
“The construction is part of China’s multiyear plan to build a ‘solar great wall’ designed to generate enough energy to power Beijing,” writes NASA’s Earth Observatory. (For reference, although all this energy won’t directly power the Chinese capital, around 22 million people live in Beijing; that’s over two and a half times the population of New York City.)
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