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Published online 23 July 2008 | Nature 454, 388-392 (2008) | doi:10.1038/454388a
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China: Stoking the fire
China burns more coal than any other country; how it does so in the future will determine our planet's climate. Jeff Tollefson reports from Beijing.
Huang Bin, a 30-year-old engineer, is surveying the scene at one of China's showcase energy projects: a retrofit that will make the Gaobeidian coal-fired power plant in Beijing burn just a little bit cleaner. Three engineers in red hard hats pore over a blueprint, their fingers tracing lines on paper splayed across a steel tank.
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