This picture taken on September 24, 2016 shows the Five-hundred-metre Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST) in Pingtang, in southwestern China's Guizhou province. Humanity's best bet at detecting aliens is a giant silver Chinese dish the size of 30 football fields – one that simultaneously showcases Beijing's abilities to deploy cutting-edge technologies and ignore objectors' rights as it seeks global prominence. (Photo by AFP Photo/Stringer)





The sculpture Tiger and Turtle – Magic Mountain is pictured on January 19, 2017 in Duisburg, western Germany. (Photo by Kevin Kurek/AFP Photo/DPA)





Tribune Strong winds and ground blizzard conditions greeted motorists on Interstate 94 around sunrise, Thursday, January 12, 2017, west of Mandan, N.D. An Arctic cold front entered the state with winds gusting to 55 mph reducing visibility along the interstate and causing hazardous travel conditions and dangerous wind chills. (Photo by Tom Stromme/The Bismarck Tribune via AP Photo)





A coal-burning power plant can be seen behind a factory in the city of Baotou, in China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region October 31, 2010. (Photo by David Gray/Reuters)





A wind turbine stands still in a field in Waremme, Belgium, January 25, 2016. (Photo by Eric Vidal/Reuters)





The sun rises behind the Uniper coal power plant in Hanau, Germany, early morning November 23, 2016. (Photo by Kai Pfaffenbach/Reuters)





Solar panels producing renewable energy are seen in the photovoltaic park in Ollague, Antofagasta region, northern Chile January 9, 2016. (Photo by Pablo Sanhueza/Reuters)





Migrating starlings fly across the sky, in southern Israel December 28, 2015. (Photo by Amir Cohen/Reuters)





Steam rises at sunrise from the Lethabo Power Station, a coal-fired power station owned by state power utility ESKOM near Sasolburg, South Africa, March 2, 2016. (Photo by Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters)





A man walks in front of the Novokuibyshevsk refinery near the city of Samara, Russia on October 28, 2010. (Photo by Nikolay Korchekov/Reuters)





Flames emerge from a pipeline at the oil fields in Basra, southeast of Baghdad, Iraq October 14, 2016. (Photo by Essam Al-Sudani/Reuters)





A plant of Samsung Total Petrochemicals is seen in Seosan, about 150 km (93 miles) south of Seoul January 29, 2013. (Photo by Lee Jae-Won/Reuters)





A worker inspects a plant at PT Donggi Senoro LNG in Banggai, Indonesia Central Sulawesi province, October 22, 2016 in this picture taken by Antara Foto. (Photo by Puspa Perwitasari/Reuters/Antara Foto)





Steam rises from the cooling towers at the nuclear power plant in Dampierre-en-Burly, France, October 21, 2016. Picture taken October 21, 2016. (Photo by Regis Duvignau/Reuters)





Drilling rigs are parked up in the Cromarty Firth near Nigg, Scotland, Britain November 2, 2016. (Photo by Russell Cheyne/Reuters)





Water vapour billows from smokestacks at the incineration plant of Ivry-sur-Seine, near Paris as the sun rises, France, December 9, 2016. (Photo by Charles Platiau/Reuters)





The KCD open pit gold mine, operated by Randgold, at the Kibali mining site in the Democratic Republic of Congo, May 1, 2014. (Photo by Pete Jones/Reuters)





Steam rises from the chimneys of the coal power plant of RWE in Neurath, Germany, March 4, 2016. (Photo by Wolfgang Rattay/Reuters)





Electricity pylons are seen in front of the cooling towers at the Lethabo Thermal Power Station,an Eskom coal-burning power station near Sasolburg in the northern Free State province,March 2, 2016. (Photo by Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters)





Steam emerges from a cooling tower of the nuclear power plant Leibstadt near Leibstadt, Switzerland, November 18, 2014. (Photo by Arnd Wiegmann/Reuters)





A train travels from Victoria station past Battersea Power Station in central London March 19, 2010. (Photo by Andrew Winning/Reuters)





The aerial view shows artificial islands on Kashagan offshore oil field in the Caspian sea, western Kazakhstan, April 7, 2013. (Photo by Anatoly Ustinenko/Reuters)





Wind mills producing renewable energy are seen in the eolic park of the Valle de los vientos (Valley of the winds) in the II Antofagasta region, northern Chile January 7, 2016. (Photo by Pablo Sanhueza/Reuters)





A cow grazes near the Soto de Ribera thermal power plant in Soto de Ribera, near Oviedo, Spain January 23, 2017. (Photo by Eloy Alonso/Reuters)