China’s First Bamboo Offshore Solar Platform Could Change How We Build for Energy at Sea
The 100-kW solar platform Jilin-2 stands on a bamboo-based structure. Credit: CIMC Raffles For centuries, people along China’s rivers and coasts lashed bamboo together and trusted one of nature’s lightest building materials to keep them above the water. Bamboo rafts and boats were simple, cheap and remarkably buoyant — but they also had obvious weaknesses….