Chinese construction crews have completed encircling the Tarim Basin – one of the most forbidding places on Earth – with an extra-high voltage “energy ring”.
The project, which has taken 15 years to build, transforms the vast inland basin – home to China’s largest desert – into a massive new-energy transmission hub.
The 4,197km (2,608-mile) power transmission and transformation project in an area of the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region known as the “sea of death” was completed on Sunday, state…
