Byline: manish03 South Africa's coal-to-liquids (CTL) specialist Sasol is including carbon capture and storage (CCS) options in the upfront design of a proposed 80 000-bl/d project it is studying, together with the Shenua Ningxia Coal Industry group, for possible development in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region of China.
16 Kyodo (EDS: TWO PHOTOS ARE AVAILABLE THROUGH KYODO'S 'TREASURE' PHOTO DATABASE, NUMBERED 2009081600079 AND 2009081600083) Just outside the 470-year-old Najiahu Mosque in China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, an elderly Hui Muslim butcher in a white skullcap saws meat off a leg of lamb laid out on his pushcart under the searing afternoon heat, all the while bantering with his customer, a middle-aged Hui woman whose hair is covered by a bright red scarf.
While the Chinese inland area where the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region is situated has many hilly zones and offers abundant wind energy resources, transporting large-size wind turbines to the area is difficult.
The new networks are in the provinces of Hubei, Hunan, Hainan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Shaanxi, Gansu, Qinghai, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, and Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
But it was not drugs they peddled one recent afternoon outside a dusty, open-air market in the southern part of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region in north-central China.
Statistics from the State Grid Corporation of China showed that the electricity consumption in a few of China's inland provincial-level regions, including Heilongjiang, Xinjiang and Tibet, had been increasing in May while decrease was recorded in the provinces of Shanxi and Qinghai, as well as Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region and Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.
