{"id":61,"date":"2026-10-15T23:51:45","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T23:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cityatlas.org\/methods\/?p=61"},"modified":"2026-10-15T23:53:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T23:53:10","slug":"solar-from-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cityatlas.org\/methods\/cities\/kashgar\/solar-from-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar from space"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was more than a little surprised to see a logo carved into a solar panel farm outside Kashgar. This has already become sort of a cover image for the project. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kashgar itself is an ancient oasis on the silk road. The increasingly rare Chinese city with an overwhelmingly non-Chinese population. 85% Uighur. While I might expect a nuclear reactor nearby (because structural environmental racism also exists in the PRC), I didn&#8217;t realize that the state-owned nuclear power company was such a diverse exciter of electrons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Which do you prefer, the natural (-ish) color or the false-color IR that shows healthy vegetation as green?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"791\" src=\"https:\/\/cityatlas.org\/methods\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/kashgar_solar_rgb.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-62\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cityatlas.org\/methods\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/kashgar_solar_rgb.png 1024w, https:\/\/cityatlas.org\/methods\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/kashgar_solar_rgb-300x232.png 300w, https:\/\/cityatlas.org\/methods\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/kashgar_solar_rgb-768x593.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"738\" src=\"https:\/\/cityatlas.org\/methods\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/kashgar_solar_ir-1024x738.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-63\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cityatlas.org\/methods\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/kashgar_solar_ir-1024x738.png 1024w, https:\/\/cityatlas.org\/methods\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/kashgar_solar_ir-300x216.png 300w, https:\/\/cityatlas.org\/methods\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/kashgar_solar_ir-767x553.png 767w, https:\/\/cityatlas.org\/methods\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/kashgar_solar_ir-1536x1107.png 1536w, https:\/\/cityatlas.org\/methods\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/kashgar_solar_ir.png 1862w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was more than a little surprised to see a logo carved into a solar panel farm outside Kashgar. This has already become sort of a cover image for the project. Kashgar itself is an ancient oasis on the silk road. The increasingly rare Chinese city with an overwhelmingly non-Chinese population. 85% Uighur. While I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kashgar"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cityatlas.org\/methods\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/kashgar_solar_rgb.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cityatlas.org\/methods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cityatlas.org\/methods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cityatlas.org\/methods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cityatlas.org\/methods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cityatlas.org\/methods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cityatlas.org\/methods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64,"href":"https:\/\/cityatlas.org\/methods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions\/64"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cityatlas.org\/methods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cityatlas.org\/methods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cityatlas.org\/methods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cityatlas.org\/methods\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}