How America Could Get Rich by Going Green

Posted on 3/10/10 by CBS News

CBS News correspondent Celia Hatton

reports wind turbines that can be seen slicing the sky above rural Minnesota were manufactured more than 6,000 miles away by a Chinese company. They're helping to power the nearby town of Pipestone.

 

"The wind is blowing nearly all the time," said Pipestone resident Elmer Stoltenberg. "We should take advantage of that."

 

In New Jersey, one Rutgers University campus gets

10 percent of its energy from 7,000 solar panels

also made by a Chinese company.

 

China has a dirty reputation as the world's factory, but its emerging green energy sector is threatening to leave the United States in its dust.

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