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Caribbeans

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Thu Aug 28, 2025, 02:26 AM Yesterday

China races to build world's largest solar farm to meet emissions targets


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China races to build world’s largest solar farm to meet emissions targets

APnews.com | KEN MORITSUGU and NG HAN GUAN

TALATAN, China (AP) — Chinese government officials last month showed off what they say will be the world’s largest solar farm when completed high on a Tibetan plateau. It will cover 610 square kilometers (235 square miles), which is the size of Chicago.

China has been installing solar panels far faster than anywhere else in the world, and the investment is starting to pay off. A study released Thursday found that the country’s carbon emissions edged down 1% in the first six months of 2025 compared to a year earlier, extending a trend that began in March 2024.

The good news is China’s carbon emissions may have peaked well ahead of a government target of doing so before 2030. But China, the world’s biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, will need to bring them down much more sharply to play its part in slowing global climate change.

China leads the world in solar energy (also Wind and Hydrogen)

China has been the world's top generator of solar power for the last decade.
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China is Building the Projects that will Change its Future Forever while 'Murikants argue

Imagine a nation that thinks about something besides Global Hegemony
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China races to build world's largest solar farm to meet emissions targets (Original Post) Caribbeans Yesterday OP
Well besides being the top producer of solar junk.... NNadir Yesterday #1

NNadir

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1. Well besides being the top producer of solar junk....
Thu Aug 28, 2025, 08:07 AM
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...China is the world leader in carbon emissions.

All the pictures of the smiling dictator Xi will not make solar garbage have anything to do with meeting climate "targets." The reason this is true is that the sun is widely accepted to go down during a period popularly known as "night" with the result that redundancy is required.

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