Drive north on G65 from the infamous ghostly Kangbashi new area of Ordos in Inner Mongolia, past the old city now Dongsheng Qu, until you come to the S24 (兴巴高速). Take it, heading west. As you look to your south, you’ll soon notice that the desert gives way to what at first appears to be a mirage but is in fact a blue ocean of solar panels, part of the Kubuqi Desert Ordos Central-North Renewable Energy Base (鄂尔多斯中北部新能源基地).  A section of the Ku