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[–] artifex@piefed.social 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, in the coming years we're going to see a lot of "cheap electricity enables China to..." headlines.

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[–] SOULFLY98@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Oh look a western article about China doing something and not casting doubt on it with the phrase "BUT AT WHAT COST?"

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[–] Telemachus93@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 year ago

I was totally expecting that phrase when reading "New York Times". :D

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[–] nullPointer@programming.dev 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

they built on the Atacama plataeu(~12,000 feet)?

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[–] silence7@slrpnk.net [S] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

Tibetan Plateau, about 14,000 feet

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[–] nullPointer@programming.dev 0 points 1 year ago (1 child)

i guess it is NYT bad journalism again

On the Tibetan Plateau, nearly 10,000 feet high, solar panels stretch to the horizon and cover an area seven times the size of Manhattan. They soak up sunlight that is much brighter than at sea level because the air is so thin.

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[–] Rekhyt@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

The specific place they are talking about, Gonghe County, is around 9,400 ft high (at least at the random point I picked within it off a map). The average height across the Tibetan Plateau is 14,800 ft, but that's an average, not a minimum.