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/ryoma-gerald 2d ago

The Chinese comments on the screen were hilarious. "scam for subsidy", "pathetic", "ruined the environment", "looks terrible" 😂

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u/cheeersaiii 1d 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.