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To: TobagoJack who wrote (57850)	11/14/2009 1:15:28 AM
From: Snowshoe	Respond to of 217587

Ordos City is the location for that huge new solar energy farm announced in September... U.S. Company and China Plan Solar Project nytimes.com We discussed it starting here, and I mentioned my concern about dust affecting large solar installations... Message 25958310 BTW, it's also the place where Chairman Mao's Great Leap Forward helped create a large desert (out of two smaller ones)... Ordos Desert en.wikipedia.org In the modern period, the lack of rainfall has resulted in a return to desert conditions. However, the most disastrous damage to the environment was caused by the political movements launched by Mao Zedong, namely the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution, during which the thin line of fragile vegetation separating the Kubuqi and Maowusu deserts was destroyed. Subsequent pressure of population and the increase in sheep/goats/cattle further damaged the already weakened local environment to the point of no return, and as a result, the two deserts finally linked up in the 1990s, forming the larger current day Ordos.