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U.S. NEWS: "Chinese-Made Turbines Will Fill Texas Wind Farm," by Rebecca Smith, Wall Street Journal, 30 October 2009.
This is becoming a political storm of sorts, as Chuck Schumer is pressuring Energy Secretary Steven Chu to disallow any stimulus money to be used to buy Chinese turbines.
China's Export-Import Bank is providing $1.5B in financing for the West Texas project.
The U.S. was the global center for such turbine production in the 1980s, but then it shifted to Europe. Now it sits with China.
A Chinese executive says, "This is just the beginning."
I think he's right.
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