{"id":138022,"date":"2025-10-09T06:00:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T06:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=138022"},"modified":"2025-10-09T06:00:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T06:00:12","slug":"china-flicks-the-switch-on-world-first-thermal-power-station-in-gobi-desert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=138022","title":{"rendered":"China flicks the switch on world-first thermal power station in Gobi Desert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChina has switched on a world-first solar thermal power station in the Gobi Desert that is said to be a cheaper and more efficient use of the technology with potential to be scaled up.<br \/>\nBuilt by the China Three Gorges Corporation, the plant in Guazhou county in northwestern Gansu province uses two towers feeding a single turbine system \u2013 the first time this has been done.<br \/>\nNearly 27,000 mirrors have been installed to focus sunlight onto the 200-metre (656 feet) towers, which are about 1km (0.62&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3328209\/china-flicks-switch-world-first-thermal-power-station-gobi-desert?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChina has switched on a world-first solar thermal power station in the Gobi Desert that is said to be a cheaper and more efficient&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138022"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=138022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=138022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=138022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=138022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}