Duke Energy is partnering with another to develop this Chinese ECO city.
If China wants to avoid choking on its growing urban population, places like Tianjin Eco-City have to take off
Visitors look at a model of an "eco-city" which is now under construction near the port city of Tianjin in northeastern China. Photograph by: Allison Jackson, AFP / Getty Images
January 23, 2011 - Here, where China and Singapore are trying to build the perfect city, dozens of orange and yellow cranes spin while five wind turbines stand still. An old man in worn black slippers carts a white sink in a rudimentary wheelbarrow; another fellow drives a decrepit little red tractor with a small payload of red bricks. It puffs out gentle clouds of nauseating exhaust. Dozens and dozens of workers wearing yellow hard hats but little else in the name of safety work away in a pit that will soon be a building.
They are erecting an entire city from scratch. China’s central government wants it to be green beyond any existing metropolis, where the city’s 350,000 residents will be able to make 90% of their trips via foot, pedal-power, or public transportation.
The developers envision a city where 50% of its water will come from unconventional sources, such as wastewater treatment, rainwater collection, water reclamation, and seawater desalination. Tap water will be drinkable. China’s first smart grid will power the city, and if Tianjin Eco-City meets its target, roughly 20% of the energy consumed here will be from renewable resources. {continued}
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