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The Best of Fast Company: China Dominates Texas Wind Power, Plastic Made Out of Algae, and the Future of Trucking

This week at Fast Company, we looked at China's entry into the Texas wind power industry, Cereplast's plastic made out of algae, the long-term future of trucking, and a proposal to build floating cities in the Netherlands. T. Boone Pickens scrapped his... ...full story at TreeHugger

from TreeHugger on Tue, Nov 03 2009

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30 Oct 09 visit Lone Star, Meet Red Star: China’s $1.5 Billion Wind-Power Deal in Texas  »  China Journal Another day, another big Chinese energy-related investment. This time it’s a $1.5 billion wind farm in Texas, paid for by Chinese banks and to be supplied with Chinese-made wind turbines.
09 Feb 09 visit China's largest wind power facility R&D center to be established in Xi'an  »  People's Daily China Northern Locomotive and Rolling Stock Industry (Group) Corporation would invest another six billion yuan (about 882.4 million U.S. dollars) in western China's Xi'an city to build the largest wind power facility research center, the company has...
04 Dec 08 visit Xinjiang wind power development enters fast lane  »  People's Daily Xinjiang is putting all its resources into creating the largest wind power industrial base in China. Construction got underway recently on a wind power project with an installed capacity of 200,000 kilowatts at Alataw Pass. In 2007 alone, the installed...
20 Apr 09 visit N. China region strives to build more wind power plants  »  People's Daily The wind power, once used only by herdsmen for cooking and lighting, will spread from remote cottages to the vast countryside in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. An official of the regional government said Monday that wind power...
07 Oct 09 visit Chasing China's wind power, with pure heart  »  People's Daily To most people interested in the wind game in China, he bore a familiar face. He was a pioneer in the country's grid connected wind power development, a key inspirator of China's first Renewable Energy Law, and was widely recognized as the wind power...

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