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iCandy: It’s Electric

A robotic newspaper-storage locker, an electronic fork, and shoes that track your dance moves

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iCandy: It’s Electric
Photo: Anna Gowthorpe/Press Association/AP Photo

Photo: Imaginechina/AP Photo
Quick—what country is the world’s leading wind and hydropower energy producer? Bet you didn’t guess China. The photo shows the country’s most well-known renewable energy project, the Three Gorges Dam. Electricity is generated as water from the Yangtze River rushes through the dam, the world’s largest capacity hydroelectric plant, at Yichang, in Hubei province.

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