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  • Irrigation: pumping station at The Wind Gap Pumping Station lifts the California aqueduct water over the Tehachapi Mountains on its way toward Los Angeles. USA.
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  • Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles, California is the final resting place of many movie stars. The cemetery also has a funeral chapel equipped for live webcasts of funeral services and "LifeStory" tributes.
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  • Aerial photograph of Mission Viejo housing subdivisions in Orange County, California.
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  • Aerial photograph of Laguna Beach subdivisions in Orange County, California.
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  • Joshua Tree National Monument, Southern California at sunrise.
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  • Orange County, California. Massive earth grading for homes and roads. Near Mission Viejo, California.
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  • Homes on a hill above Lake Mission Viejo, Mission Viejo, Orange County, California.
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  • Joshua Tree National Monument, S. California. Rock Climbing.
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  • Aerial of Mission Viejo housing subdivisions in Orange County, California, showing the last of new construction at center.
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  • San Joaquin corridor toll road grading near Laguna beach in Orange County, California. Aerial shows massive earth grading for roads and homes; leveling hills to make plateaus and benches for subdivisions.
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  • Mission Viejo in Orange County, California. Looking west from Vista del Lago Street.
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  • Los Angeles, California - Concrete-lined river with sun setting in smoggy sky behind power lines.
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  • San Diego, Sea World. Killer whale ride.
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  • Aerial photograph of California Aqueduct that carries water to southern California from Northern California. Near Coalingua.
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  • Aerial photograph of track housing in the southern California desert. Cathedral City, California, between Palm Springs and Palm Desert.
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  • Solar energy: SEGS Solar Plant. Southern California Desert. Solar power. One of the three Luz International solar energy complexes in the Mojave Desert of California, USA. Together these sites, which cover 1000 acres, generate 275 megawatts of electricity, 90% of the world's total grid-connected solar energy production. This installation, located at Kramer Junction, has an array of 650,000 computer-controlled parabolic mirrors which track the sun across the sky, focusing it's light onto tubes containing a synthetic oil. The oil, which is thus super-heated to 391 degrees Centigrade, is used to boil water for steam turbine generators in one of five power plants. (1985).
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  • Alternative Energy: Mesquite Lake Cattle Manure Power Plant, California. The Mesquite Lake Resource Recovery Project is the world's first cattle manure-fired, commercial scale power plant. The plant burns cattle manure from nearby feedlots. The manure was becoming a serious waste problem because it was of limited value as a fertilizer in the area. In many cases, feedlot owners had to pay to have the manure removed. At Mesquite Lake, this waste material is burned and the heat generates steam, which drives a turbine/generator and produces about 17 megawatts of electrical power. After supplying plant needs, 14-15 megawatts are sold to Southern California Edison. This is enough power to supply the needs of a community of about 15,000 to 20,000 homes. (1990).
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  • Solar energy: SEGS Solar Plant. Southern California Desert. Solar power. One of the three Luz International solar energy complexes in the Mojave Desert of California, USA. Together these sites, which cover 1000 acres, generate 275 megawatts of electricity, 90% of the world's total grid-connected solar energy production. This installation, located at Kramer Junction, has an array of 650,000 computer-controlled parabolic mirrors which track the sun across the sky, focusing it's light onto tubes containing a synthetic oil. The oil, which is thus super-heated to 391 degrees Centigrade, is used to boil water for steam turbine generators in one of five power plants. (1985).
    USA_SCI_ENGY_39_xs.jpg
  • Solar energy: SEGS Solar Plant. Southern California Desert. Solar power. One of the three Luz International solar energy complexes in the Mojave Desert of California, USA. Together these sites, which cover 1000 acres, generate 275 megawatts of electricity, 90% of the world's total grid-connected solar energy production. This installation, located at Kramer Junction, has an array of 650,000 computer-controlled parabolic mirrors which track the sun across the sky, focusing it's light onto tubes containing a synthetic oil. The oil, which is heated to 391 degrees Centigrade, is used to boil water for steam turbine generators in one of five power plants. (1985).
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  • At Dinamation International's factory in southern California, artists paint the head and sail of Dimetrodon, a reptile that lived before the dinosaurs. The body of this model will be left bare to show the inner mechanical workings. Dinamation International, a California-based company, makes a collection of robotic dinosaurs. The dinosaurs are sent out in traveling displays to museums around the world. The dinosaur's robotic metal skeleton is covered by rigid fiberglass plates, over which is laid a flexible skin of urethane foam. The plates and skin are sculpted and painted to make the dinosaurs appear as realistic as possible. The creature's joints are operated by compressed air and the movements controlled by computer.
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  • Wind farm producing electricity at Tehachapi Pass, southern California. Wind Turbines. View of a wind farm with several wind turbines each with 3 spinning rotor blades. Wind power is used to drive a turbine for the generation of electricity. The electrical energy produced from a turbine is proportional to the cube of the wind speed. Thus, a 10-meter per second wind will produce 8 times more energy than a 5 meter per second wind. Wind turbines vary in size from large generators with a 1-3 megawatt capacity to small machines producing only a few kilowatts. (1983).
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  • Wind farm producing electricity at Tehachapi Pass, southern California. Wind Turbines. View of a wind farm with several wind turbines each with 3 spinning rotor blades. Wind power is used to drive a turbine for the generation of electricity. The electrical energy produced from a turbine is proportional to the cube of the wind speed. Thus, a 10-meter per second wind will produce 8 times more energy than a 5 meter per second wind. Wind turbines vary in size from large generators with a 1-3 megawatt capacity to small machines producing only a few kilowatts. (1989).
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  • Synchro-Energizer, Cardiff Beach, Southern California. MODEL RELEASED [1988].
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  • Animatronic robotic replica of an Allosaurus dinosaur returns from the paint shop to the Dinamation factory via freeway in Orange County, southern California. Dinamation makes robotic dinosaurs for museum displays around the world. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 17.
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  • Exemplifying the attempts by Japanese researchers to put a friendly face on their robots, DB's creators are teaching it the Kacha-shi, an Okinawan folk dance. Unlike most robots, DB did not acquire the dance by being programmed. Instead, it observed human dancers?project researchers, actually, and repeatedly attempted to mimic their behavior until it was successful. Project member Stefan Schaal, a neurophysicist at the University of Southern California (in red shirt), believes that by means of this learning process robots will ultimately develop a more flexible intelligence. It will also lead, he hopes, to a better understanding of the human brain. The DB project is funded by the Exploratory Research for Advanced Technology (ERATO) Humanoid Project and led by independent researcher Mitsuo Kawato. Based at a research facility 30 miles outside of Kyoto, Japan. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 51.
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  • Southern California Coast: Malibu beach party at the home of Andrea Ross; with native Indian ceremony. Pacific Ocean.
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  • Oil Well in the middle of an orange field, Central Valley, Southern California, USA.
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  • Wind farm producing electricity at Tehachapi Pass, southern California. Wind Turbines. View of a wind farm with several wind turbines each with 3 spinning rotor blades. Wind power is used to drive a turbine for the generation of electricity. The electrical energy produced from a turbine is proportional to the cube of the wind speed. Thus, a 10-meter per second wind will produce 8 times more energy than a 5 meter per second wind. Wind turbines vary in size from large generators with a 1-3 megawatt capacity to small machines producing only a few kilowatts. (1983).
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  • A mom uses the Synchro-Energizer on Cardiff Beach, Southern California, with her daughter and surfer, spear-fishing husband, at dusk. MODEL RELEASED [1988].
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  • Synchro-Energizer, Cardiff Beach, Southern California. MODEL RELEASED [1988].
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  • B-1 bomber undergoing tests at Edwards AFB, Southern California. The Boeing (formerly Rockwell) B-1B Lancer is a long-range strategic bomber in service with the United States Air Force (USAF). Together with the B-52 Strato-fortress and the B-2 Spirit, it is the backbone of the United States' long-range bomber force..
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  • B-1 bomber undergoing tests at Edwards AFB, Southern California. The Boeing (formerly Rockwell) B-1B Lancer is a long-range strategic bomber in service with the United States Air Force (USAF). Together with the B-52 Strato-fortress and the B-2 Spirit, it is the backbone of the United States' long-range bomber force.
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  • B-1 bomber undergoing tests at Edwards AFB, Southern California. The Boeing (formerly Rockwell) B-1B Lancer is a long-range strategic bomber in service with the United States Air Force (USAF). Together with the B-52 Strato-fortress and the B-2 Spirit, it is the backbone of the United States' long-range bomber force.
    USA_SCI_AVIA_22_xs.jpg
  • Wind farm producing electricity at Tehachapi Pass, southern California. Wind Turbines. View of a wind farm with several wind turbines each with 3 spinning rotor blades. Wind power is used to drive a turbine for the generation of electricity. The electrical energy produced from a turbine is proportional to the cube of the wind speed. Thus, a 10-meter per second wind will produce 8 times more energy than a 5 meter per second wind. Wind turbines vary in size from large generators with a 1-3 megawatt capacity to small machines producing only a few kilowatts. (1983).
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  • Rainbow on a winter afternoon over vineyards in the southern part of the Napa Valley, California.
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  • Rainbow on a winter afternoon over vineyards in the southern part of the Napa Valley, California.
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  • Rainbow on a winter afternoon over vineyards in the southern part of the Napa Valley, California. The photographer's 2001 Volvo station wagon is at the end of the rainbow.
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  • Rainbow on a winter afternoon over vineyards in the southern part of the Napa Valley, California.
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  • Rainbow on a winter afternoon over vineyards in the southern part of the Napa Valley, California.
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