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08/11/2026

☀️🐭 Disney built a solar farm shaped like Mickey Mouse... and you can only see it from the sky.

Hidden near EPCOT, this massive array is made of 48,000 solar panels arranged across 22 acres, together forming Mickey's iconic head. ✨

That "Hidden Mickey" alone generates 5 MW of power which is enough to power about 1,000 Florida homes.

But that's not even the big one. Disney later added a SECOND solar farm nearby — this one spanning 270 acres with over 500,000 panels that actually track the sun throughout the day!

08/02/2026

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JPMorgan Chase has turned one of its largest parking areas into a massive solar power station.

At the company’s McCoy Center in Columbus, Ohio, around 40,000 solar panels now cover the building’s roof and large sections of its parking lots.

The panels above the parking spaces sit high enough for vehicles to drive underneath, creating enormous canopies that generate electricity while also providing shade.

Together, the rooftop and parking installations cover roughly 165,000 square feet and can produce enough power to meet around 75% of the electricity needs of the two-million-square-foot office complex.

The system has a generating capacity of approximately 14.8 megawatts.

Instead of using the parking lot only as empty space for cars, the company turned it into part of the building’s energy infrastructure.

Employees park beneath it.

Cars remain cooler in the shade.

And thousands of panels quietly generate electricity above them.

It is a simple idea on an enormous scale:

Use the space that already exists, rather than clearing more land to produce power.

06/15/2026

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JPMorgan Chase turned one of its giant parking lots in Columbus, Ohio, into a massive solar power plant, and it protects vehicles.

At the company's McCoy Center campus, roughly 40,000 solar panels were installed on elevated canopies above parking areas, creating shade for vehicles while generating electricity. Combined with thousands of panels already installed on the building's roof, the system now supplies about 75% of the facility's electricity needs.

This is actually quite the feat. The McCoy Center is JPMorgan Chase's largest building in the world, covering about 2 million square feet and housing around 10,000 to 12,000 employees. The building is often described as the second-largest single-user office building in the United States after the Pentagon.

The solar installation generates about 14.8 megawatts of power, enough electricity for more than 1,000 average homes. At the time it was completed, JPMorgan said it was the second-largest commercial office solar installation in the world, behind only Apple's headquarters in California.

What's interesting is that the company didn't need to clear forests or farmland for the project. Instead, it used space that was already paved over. The solar canopies also provide shade, reduce heat buildup in parked cars, and make use of an enormous parking lot that contains roughly 9,000 spaces.

This could be used in many more places and provide benefits, that is, until those suppressing advanced energy technologies allow them to come to market. To most, this idea is a unicorn, but our team has vetted and seen these technologies first hand.

04/22/2026

04/01/2026

It’s not rocket science!!

02/03/2026

In a single year, China added more than 210 gigawatts of new solar capacity. That figure alone exceeded the combined solar additions of the rest of the world during the same period.
China accounted for roughly 55 to 60 percent of all new global solar installations in that year.
China’s total installed solar capacity has now surpassed 600 gigawatts, enough to power hundreds of millions of homes with clean electricity.
Individual utility scale projects in regions like Gansu and Inner Mongolia often reach 5 to 10 gigawatts each, a scale that was considered unrealistic just a decade ago.
Globally, solar panel costs have fallen by more than 80 percent over the past ten years, with China responsible for over 70 percent of worldwide solar manufacturing capacity.
The net effect is a rapid acceleration of the global energy transition and the potential reduction of hundreds of millions of tons of CO₂ emissions per year over the medium term.⚡☀️