Carbon-fiber composite made for wind blades stored at the Swancor Holding Co., factory in Nantou, Taiwan, in February.
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Growing up in a poor village in the mountains of central Taiwan, Robert Tsai would have to walk more than two hours to bring buckets of clean drinking water back to their family home.
“That taught me the value of natural resources,” Tsai said. “Every drop has a cost.”