Chinese Fishery with a Giant Integrated Solar Array
January 29th, 2017Disclosure: I sell solar power systems in New Zealand.
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It’s huge. Must see photos.
Via: Electrek:
The images were released by Xinhau in December and the People’s Daily in January. The 200MW project will produce greater than 220GWh/year of electricity. The project cost 1.8B RMB (US$260M) and covers an area of 300 hectares. The power generated by the station will be connected to the state grid, yielding an annual income of 240 million RMB (US$34M). In addition, another 13 million RMB (US$2M) will be earned through the fishery. Roughly, the system will pay for itself in seven to eight years.
This is really cool. Never thought of building them on water, seems like a really good investment for the Chinese. To me, massive solar arrays are much less of an eyesore than those mammoth windmills, not having moving parts is also a major plus.
China is actually prosecuting insider traders and major businessmen, building man-made islands and now this? I’m aware of their brutality towards their people, but it’s kinda hard not to be impressed.
Burning coal is killing them.
They’re cancelling coal power plants now.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/01/chinese-government-has-ordered-103-planned-coal-plants-to-be-cancelled/
Wow, I didn’t know about that. I always attributed their pollution solely to manufacturing.
The air pictures look worse than Blade Runner’s cities, the water is even worse. I do not mean to sound too positive toward China, Foxconn, Mao, etc, etc, are abominations, but solar arrays are a solid idea.
http://www.businessinsider.com/china-water-pollution-2013-3?op=1&r=US&IR=T&IR=T/#woman-walks-on-a-bridge-over-a-polluted-river-at-a-suburban-area-of-wenzhou-in-zhejiang-province-14
(name change Duros=Duras)
Coal burning is literally killing them.
China’s smog pollution is due to coal consumption
http://www.businessinsider.com/china-smog-pollution-coal-burning-toxic-red-alert-2015-12/?r=AU&IR=T
China’s coal emissions responsible for ‘quarter of a million premature deaths’
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/dec/12/china-coal-emissions-smog-deaths
The chart on this Wikipedia page leaves me with the impression that a lot of the coal burned in China is lignite. This grade of coal has the lowest energy-density and the highest pollution-factor. And if I recall my history correctly, China is certainly not the first communist country to crap all over the environment with too much lignite-burning for cheap energy.