one gig

Found via Beijing Gourmand, this article reports that two Chinese companies plan to build the world’s largest photovoltaic powerplant. It will be built in the Qaidam Basin in Qinghai, and when it’s completed will have a capacity of one gigawatt. Apparently the current biggest solar photovoltaic powerplant, in California, only manages 550 megawatts.

Ah, China, gotta love that drive to be the world’s biggest at everything (except population).

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A Kiwi teaching English to oil workers in Beijing, studying Chinese in my spare time, married to a beautiful Beijing lass, consuming vast quantities of green tea (usually Xihu Longjing/西湖龙井, if that means anything to you), eating good food (except for when I cook), missing good Kiwi ale, breathing smog, generally living as best I can outside Godzone and having a good time of it.

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