China’s First Bamboo Offshore Solar Platform Could Change How We Build for Energy at Sea

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Instead of steel, the Jilin 2 photovoltaic system uses a composite material made of wood and bamboo. This should be more ecological.

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China is checking whether an engineered bamboo can replace steel and plastic in marine floating solar systems and is testing a bamboo as a design material for marine solar energy on a 100 kW floating photo-electric platform installed at Yantai town in Shandong province.

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In a floating 100 kW solar system, China relies on bamboo composite instead of steel. The actual hardness test for the material begins now. The article Bamboo instead of steel: China tests unusual solar platform first appeared on ingenieur.de - Jobbörse und Nachrichtenportal für Ingenieure.

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In the area of the Yellow Sea off the coast of China's Yantay (Shandong Province), testing of the Sloppy Floating Solar Station (Jilin-2) began. The key feature of the project is the carrying framework system of the newest wood and bamboo composition, the image source: CIMC Raffles, instead of traditional steel alloys and high-density polyethylene pontoons, the creators used specialized composite pipes. They combine the functions of the carrying…