Science and Art complement each other like cream cheese on a bagel and a delicious cup of coffee. Look at the Chinese doing everything larger than Americans. Aren’t they just the king country of ”ah…I think we can do that bigger, cheaper, and faster.”  When I first looked at this image I thought of the opening ceremony of the Olympics. Do you remember? They used what looked like solar plates in their choreography and it was breathtaking. If you didn’t see it, you’re probably thinking WHO CARES!

Bottom line, I’m always looking for that, “Oh Wow,” and a 25 square mile solar blanket of panels, larger than Manhattan, sea of black, light-absorbing glass, is off the hook!

The plant can pump enough energy to light 3 million homes per hour.

Arizona-based First Solar announced yesterday plans to construct the world’s largest solar plant in Ordos, China. When completed in 2019, the 2,000 megawatt Ordos solar farm will produce enough power to provide for 3 million homes.  It’s a development that makes China, the second largest energy-using country, one of the biggest players in the solar energy game.

It seems like a new “world’s largest solar plant” or “world’s most efficient solar cell” is being announced every day, but the Ordos solar farm is an especially big deal – the 25 square mile, multi-billion dollar plant makes other solar projects look tiny by comparison. Other major projects in the works, such as First Solar’s 550-megawatt project in California and the US Army’s 500 megawatt solar thermal project in the Mojave Desert, don’t even come close to matching Ordos.

Still, renewable energy projects get scrapped or pared down all the time. That means it will be worth keeping an eye on Ordos, which is scheduled to begin the first of its four phases of construction in 2010, to see if it is actually completed. If it is, the country that is now the world’s biggest polluter could easily also become the world’s biggest renewable energy consumer.

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