The Gobi desert isn’t much to look at or live in, but it’s a great place to put wind turbines: remote, low in precipitation, and, of course, windy.
China’s Sinovel Wind Group became the second largest wind turbine manufacturer in the world in part by filling the Gobi with its big, electricity-producing breeze catchers.
One beneficiary of all that activity was a company called American Superconductor Corp. (AMSC), a Devens, Massachusetts company that made the brains for....