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Food and Power

Two key ingredients for rapid development; large flat fields in the northern end of the route may be given over to grain production. And overhead transmission lines cover the countryside distributing the rapidly-expanding electricity demands from large, mainly coal-fired power stations. On the return flight from Beijing, I could clearly see very tall stacks and cooling towers from a large power station.

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Uploaded on December 14, 2014
Taken on December 6, 2014