Energy Hungry China Warms to Solar Water Heaters

(Reuters) – Dusty Dezhou was relegated to the footnotes of Chinese history for centuries, known mainly as the place where a Filipino king died.

Now, Huang Ming hopes hot water will help put it on the map.

His company has earned a fortune manufacturing solar heaters, relatively low-tech rooftop devices which capture the sun’s energy to provide water for baths and washing and are at the forefront of a renewable energy drive…

Huang started on the other side of the energy industry, training as a petroleum engineer. But he took worries about “peak oil” — the time when global production will peak, followed by a decline — seriously enough to nurture a second career.

Reuters