For years, large solar plants have been charged with an uncomfortable suspicion. They generate electricity without burning fossil fuels, yes, but they occupy huge surfaces and alter fragile landscapes. In Talatan, in the Chinese province of Qinghai, that tension appears very clearly because the same project that advances over 609 square kilometers is also showing effects that do not quite fit the image of a desert doomed to degrade. The construc…
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For years, large solar plants have been charged with an uncomfortable suspicion. They generate electricity without burning fossil fuels, yes, but they occupy huge surfaces and alter fragile landscapes. In Talatan, in the Chinese province of Qinghai, that tension appears very clearly because the same project that advances over 609 square kilometers is also showing effects that do not quite fit the image of a desert doomed to degrade. The construc…