China builds a giant panda-shaped solar farm

August 30, 2018 6:38 AM

Here’s a bit of good news for today.
posted by Slinga (7 comments total)

They... claim they built a panda-shaped solar farm? There are only two small "artistic renderings".

Solar farms don't have to be panda-shaped to make me happy, so it's neither here nor there as far as I care, but extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof, as they say.
posted by ardgedee at 7:30 AM on August 30, 2018 [1 favorite]

I'm with argedee, I'm skeptical such a thing has actually been built.
posted by GoblinHoney at 7:37 AM on August 30, 2018

They actually built it, it just doesn't look quite as panda-like as the renderings. The UNDP statement's satellite shot is a bit better.
posted by sysinfo at 7:55 AM on August 30, 2018 [7 favorites]

America digs a giant Trump-shaped open pit coal mine.
posted by y2karl at 8:22 AM on August 30, 2018 [4 favorites]

Thanks sysinfo, I was wondering what they would need to do to get two different colours of panels and what the implications would be for cost/efficiency. The answer is they didn't...

Anyway, there is also a Mickey Mouse PV farm in Florida.
posted by biffa at 9:13 AM on August 30, 2018

Solar farms don't have to be panda-shaped to make me happy

but it helps!
posted by numaner at 10:26 AM on August 30, 2018 [2 favorites]

There's a solar farm near me in San Luis Obispo County, CA. It's not close to the coast, but I wonder if it could be adapted to a whale shape, or otter...
posted by oneswellfoop at 3:47 PM on August 30, 2018