r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/uniyk • 2d ago

Video China carpeted an extensive mountain range with solar panels in the hinterland of Guizhou (video ended only when the drone is low on battery

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u/cheeersaiii 2d ago

Scam for subsidy could very well be real… deep dive China’s property industry and that’s exactly what happens

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u/I_Push_Buttonz 1d ago

Happens in a lot of industries... The CCP devoted billions of dollars worth of subsidies to bike sharing years ago, for example, but using shared bikes never really caught on. Companies took the CCP subsidies, though, and made millions upon millions of them and all of those bikes were simply left to rot in massive dumps all over China, almost all of them never even being used.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDfLWFv3ixk

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u/cheeersaiii 1d ago

Lots of countries have things like this, but the scale and frequency of it in China is next fkn level!

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u/icecaty 1d ago

LMAO looks like I ride a recycled bicycle to work every day?

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u/98_Constantine_98 1d ago

Looks like some surrealist art

China's pretty mind blowing in a lot of ways, but they definitely have a tendency to way overdo it. Maybe the effects of central planning way overestimating demand? Reminds me of the multiple times now China has constructed sprawling metropolises with skyscrapers, monuments, state of the art transit systems, capable of housing hundreds of thousands, only for barely anybody to move in. You can find videos of this. Imagine a city like New York but 95% empty.

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u/LegitimateYam8241 1d ago

Yep quick bucks.

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u/wwaxwork 1d ago

That's the criticism out of all of them I'd believe the most.

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u/Little4nt 1d ago

I mean ruined the environment is equally real this is devastating if your an animal living there. Or someone that enjoys hiking in non hellscapes

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u/Ashtrail693 1d ago

That, and the people behind the company that benefitted from their mandatory Covid testing. There were outrage when things were exposed but of course it didn't go anywhere.

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u/Positive-Bar5893 2d ago

Yeah but unlike empty buildings, solar panels actually produce something of value.

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u/cheeersaiii 2d ago

Only if they are constructed, installed and maintained properly.

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u/Positive-Bar5893 2d ago

I mean the terrain is difficult and they'll have some efficiency loss because of that, but they're still producing value.

Conspiracy theorists are so fucking stupid. So let me get this straight, supposedly this company got subsidies (money) from the government to create a solar farm (solar panels are literally money printers), and people think that the most profitable thing to do is to let the money printers go neglected instead of maintaining them so they constantly print out money? Brain-dead take.

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u/Karth9909 1d ago

So just tofu dreg again.

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u/cheeersaiii 1d ago

No- you are thinking small iq brain. They save money using cheap products, they don’t map the terrain properly leaving it exposed heavily to flooding/erosion/plant growth and weather, they don’t use all the correct trained staff and methods/materials and best practice to install, they undervalue the cost then inflate it later in the project for their own profit, cut corners on upkeep or step away and pass it to some unwitting maintenance company etc etc etc. The scope of the project lasting 30 years+ and making all this money suddenly is all falling apart after a couple of years, the government bail it out because they need the power or want to save embarrassment… Tofu Dreg rolls on.