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China: rows and rows of low-rise apartment buildings,
... often topped by solar water heaters,
. . . the size of kitchen tables.
30 million Chinese households rely upon the devices for hot water.
. . . A million of the devices are  sold annually.
. . . Neither subsidies nor environmental guilt account for the sales,
. . . or for China's place as the renewable hot-water capital of the world.
Folks in rural areas have been buying them for 2 decades,
. . . because they're cheap to own and operate.

China's National Energy Administration,
. . . is piloting a program in rural areas.
. . . to boost the incomes of,
. . . 2 million poor Chinese,
. . . using rooftop solar.
Villagers will become shareholders in cooperatives,
. . . that manage local power substations, and
. . . sell any excess power to the grid.

6-5-2017 Source:  https://www.bloomber...uld-think-small