(New York Times) Michael Wines - On the outskirts of Tianjin, China, the Beijiang Power and Desalination Plant is a 26-billion-renminbi technical marvel: an ultrahigh-temperature, coal-fired generator with state-of-the-art pollution controls, mated to advanced Israeli equipment that uses its leftover heat to distill seawater into fresh water. The desalination complex was almost wholly made in Israel, shipped to Tianjin and bolted together.
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