Australia plans to help re-make Weihai, in Shandong Province, into the world’s biggest solar-powered city, in addition to funding a system to monitor pollution in the Yellow and Pearl rivers. From Sydney Morning Herald:
…Prime Minister Kevin Rudd revealed details of the projects while visiting a power plant on the outskirts of Beijing on Friday.
The coal-powered plant is the site of a pilot post-combustion carbon capture project, a joint initiative of the CSIRO, the China Huaneng Group and China’s Thermal Power Research Institute.
Australia will fund a feasibility study into the development of the largest solar-powered city in the world at Weihai, in north-east China…
