Energy & Environment
Clean dreams
November 2007: Venture capitalists are sinking their dollars into China’s clean technologies
This summer, the government of the eastern city of Wuxi had to turn the taps off, cutting off water supplies to millions. The reason was that chemical factories had dumped too much untreated effluent into the city’s main water source, Lake Tai, feeding a massive algae bloom that choked the water body.
Just half an hour’s drive from the lake’s shore, however, were three factories where workers in face masks and green jumpsuits were assembling paper-thin, black or ...
Just half an hour’s drive from the lake’s shore, however, were three factories where workers in face masks and green jumpsuits were assembling paper-thin, black or ...
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