The world's newest carbon citadel rises up between the blasted deserts of Inner Mongolia and the coal-black lands of Shaanxi province.
Hardly was the word spoken before he heard a whirring of wings over his head, looked up and saw seven coal-black ravens flying away.
"This place was hell," says Tom Levy cheerfully as he stands over an open pit filled with ancient coal-black slag.
Then his coal-black eyes became sly.