China is “using the sun to fight the sand” in the latest chapter of its ongoing battle against “desertification”.
An “audacious” project in Ordos, Inner Mongolia, will see the construction of 100 gigawatts of solar panels – more than three times as much capacity as the US is currently building – along a stretch of land 250 miles long and three miles wide, said Semafor.
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