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Glimmering Sea Of Solar As China Expands Desert Installation

Solar panels at the Dalat Banner Photovoltaic Station in the Kubuqi desert near Ordos, in China's northern Inner Mongolia region (Credit: AFP)

An ocean of blue solar panels ripples across the ochre dunes of Inner Mongolia's Kubuqi desert, a glittering example of China's almost inconceivably mammoth energy transition.

Even as other countries have put the brakes on desert solar projects for economic or technical reasons, China -- the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases -- is ploughing ahead.

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