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Photos capture the breathtaking scale of China's wind and solar buildout

683 pointsby mrtksnyesterday at 9:54 AM488 commentsview on HN

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neko_rangeryesterday at 3:14 PM

Country of facades and shortcuts. None of those are plugged in to anything, just a propaganda piece. They paint rocks green

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margorczynskiyesterday at 10:53 AM

Wouldn't it be better to just go with nuclear? Isn't this a gigantic waste of space and overhead to maintain it? And how "renewable" are the materials used to produce these?

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SPICLK2yesterday at 11:38 AM

I find the idea of blanketing mountainous wilderness in relatively short-lived e-waste just awful. Surely there are much better terrains for solar panels?

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avsteeleyesterday at 12:49 PM

Beautiful pictures. To be clear: China runs on coal and will for the foreseeable future.

https://www.iea.org/countries/china

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/coal-consumption-by-count...

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