The world’s largest solar farm is greening the Tibetan desert: 20,000 sheep graze where yesterday there was only dust and solar panels.

Now I lay me down to sleep.
I try to count electric sheep.

China’s solar push has delivered a strange and very real side effect on the Tibetan Plateau. In a dry corner of Qinghai Province, where sand once dominated the land, grass now grows beneath rows of solar panels, and more than 20,000 sheep graze under the blue-black modules.

What began as a power project has become something broader, a test of whether clean energy infrastructure can also repair damaged land. The answer, at least in Talatan, is looking more promising than many expected, though experts still warn that not every desert can be fixed by simply planting panels.

i've always wondered about this , wont the solar panels cool their environment ? since they take away the heat that was supposed to be absorbed by the ground . i guess no matter what you do , you'll always have an impact on the environment