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Major Chinese solar panel manufacturers are targeting the fast-growing Japanese market for their panels in 2010 and beyond. The U.S. sector remains fragmented, due to a lack of a national climate change policy, but it looks promising in the longer term, they say.

Japan is aiming for 28 gigawatts of solar power in 10 years. In comparison, current solar capacity worldwide is under 17 gigawatts.

"Some countries, when they put out a national goal, you don’t know whether they will achieve it, but Japan seems to have a good track record," said Shawn Qu, CEO of Canadian Solar, a Chinese manufacturer of solar power modules.

"If the [Japanese] government puts out the target, then they have the mechanism to make sure it happens."

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Japan thinks of population relief three dimensionally.

To relive the burgeoning stress of Tokyo -- one of the world's most overstuffed cities -- Japan is looking to build the planet's first offshore city in a 3,000-foot pyramid right in the middle of Tokyo Bay.

Check out the video above.

If built, the Shimuzu Mega-City Pyramid would be the biggest structure on Earth, twelve times the size of the Great Pyramid in Egypt.

A massive energy storage system that can guarantee uninterrupted power delivery.

Meaning: clean electricity all the time, even when the winds aren’t blowing and the sun isn’t shining.

And now there’s a battery unit being produced in Japan that claims it can provide just that.

They’re called sodium-sulfur systems. And they offer a way to store power from the sun and wind, and then dispatch it to the grid when demand is greatest.