• Flyberius [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    5 hours ago

    When I was driving in Xinjiang I saw this thing on the horizon and thout it was an inland sea. It was only as I drove nearer that it resolved into solar panels, but even then the illusion that it was actually a body of water continued. I swear it took 20-30 minutes to drive past.

    Of course this pales in comparison to the literal forests of wind farms that cover huge swathes of Xinjiang and which take hours to drive past and consist of the biggest wind turbines I’ve ever seen.

    The green energy infrastructure in Xinjiang is genuinely one of the most jaw dropping things I’ve ever seen in my life. Possibly the most.