‘Insanely cheap energy’: solar power continues to shock the world
&gt; <i>&quot;[in 2000] Shi agreed and ended up settling in the small city of Wuxi&quot;</i><p>A bit of a tangent, but it’s always strange to me when people describe Chinese or Indian cities with millions of residents as &quot;small&quot;. Wuxi had &gt;1 million people in 2000, and today has like 3.5 million (6.5 million in the prefecture). This article makes it sound like a minor town in a remote province, but Jiangsu has about the same population as Germany, twice as populous as California, and is an industrial powerhouse ~with~ [edit: adjacent to] the busiest port in the world (Shanghai).<p>Nobody ever writes about &quot;the small city of Dallas&quot; or &quot;the small city of San Diego&quot; or &quot;the small city of Birmingham&quot; or &quot;the small city of Munich&quot;.