China is famous for its pandas , and ill-famed for its pollution . To celebrate the country ’s national animal while also combating nursery gas emanation , Business Insider reportsthat a solar tycoon plant investor and operator has unveiled a sword - new Ailuropoda melanoleuca - shaped plant in Datong , China .
China Merchants New Energy Group ( CMNE ) teamed up with the United Nations Development Program ( UNDP ) to design the 248 - Accho farm , which was built by Panda Green Energy Group , a global eco - development solutions provider that ’s partly owned by CMNE . Their solar - panel bear is tremendous , but it ’s only the first phase of mental synthesis for the new Panda Power Plant .
The industrial plant currently contains one 50 - megawatt plant life . Later in 2017 , CMNE plan to fabricate a 2nd solar panda . When fully link , the Panda Power Plant will measure 1500 acres and have a capacity of 100 megawatts . In the next 25 years , CMNE claim , the Panda Power Plant will make 3.2 billion kW - hours of solar energy , thus shorten China ’s dependency on coal and atomic number 6 emissions by 2.74 million tons .
As for the Ailuropoda melanoleuca themselves , Mashable reportsthat their dim - and - ashen features are rendered using two types of solar venire : blanched fragile moving-picture show photovoltaic ( PV ) cells and black monocrystalline atomic number 14 PV cells . The capricious design are destine to promote awareness about sportsmanlike DOE among young masses .
“ plan the flora in the shape of a panda could inspire young people and get them interest in the applications of solar great power , ” Panda Green Energy ’s CEO , Li Yuan , saidin May 2016 .
Chinese young person will be levy to attend summer camps at the Panda Power Plant to learn more about immature energy production . Panda Green Energy also plans to build red panda - themed power station in Fiji and the Philippines , with the goal of constructing 100 panda flora around the world over the next five years .
" I trust that the giant panda solar exponent plants will become a holidaymaker hotspot , and in future we ’ll export these Ailuropoda melanoleuca tycoon plants to other parts of the world , " Yuan sound out .
[ h / tBusiness Insider ]
