Bingbing visits the offshore wind power plant. Netease Special Chen Yu Photo
Copenhagen offshore wind power plant enormous fans which dwarf the nearby ships. Netease Special Chen Yu Photo
Copenhagen offshore wind power plant looks very spectacular. Netease Special Chen Yu Photo
Bingbing introduce staff to the situation in Copenhagen for the offshore wind power plant. Netease Special Chen Yu Photo
It is almost something out of a movie only it is real: people working together to make a difference. According to Sina.com.cn, the first leg of Miss Li Bingbing’s trip to Copenhagen began with her visit to the city’s offshore power plant (Middelgrunden Off-Shore Wind Farm). The temperatures were below zero and Miss Li could feel the strong force of the wind power plant’s windmills.
Miss Li and her party took a ferry from Copenhagen New Pier to the sea. The trip took about an hour to get to the plant. As the weather was rather windy after the a bout of rain all the people present could feel the strong force of the plant’s windmills. “According to today’s cold experience, here is indeed the best place to build a wind power plant, ” Miss Li said. “wind power [works better than] solar power [with an strategically appointed location] can run 24 hours a day and it is completely clean energy.”
Built in 2001 the Copenhagen wind power plant is one of four major offshore wind farms. It is located on the sea a few kilometers away from downtown Copenhagen. Its fans are connected through underwater cables three to five kilometers away to the Ammar (Amager) power plants which has the transformer. At this time there are twenty 2,000 Kilowatt windmills offshore which supply 25% of Copenhagen’s electricity. With its advanced wind power technology Copenhagen recently announced that it will be the world’s first “zero carbon” city by 2050. By 2030, the Danish wind power system could provide half of the country’s electricity needs.
The entire morning was spent at the wind power plant and after leaving around 2pm, Miss Li is quoted as saying, “This is indeed a very memorable experience.” NetEase and Miss Li were on the same boat as 2007 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Stephen H Schneider who authored the IPCC’s “Climate Change 2007″ report. In the following days Miss Li worked with NetEase and other online friends to help share what she saw and heard in Copenhagen.
When one thinks about how much good such technology is already doing in Copenhagen it makes a great deal of sense that the Climate Change Summit would be held there. It is also tremendously impressive and inspiring to know that there are people in the world community like Miss Li who are actively searching for solutions to help the world at large. It should give us all pause to realize that if we put our minds together we can find solutions to help protect the world.