ScienceSymbiosis: Harvesting the Sun in the Desert

Twelve thousand heliostats follow the sun across Dunhuang’s Gobi Desert, powering China’s first 100-megawatt molten-salt tower concentrated solar power plant. Builders developed an independent industrial supply chain despite having few technical blueprints, and the facility generates 250 million kilowatt-hours of clean electricity each year.

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