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  • Wind turbines tower over a wheat field at a wind farm in Birds Landing, California. Each 265-foot wind turbine produces enough electricity per year to power 350 average-size California homes. An old wind powered water pump is at left.
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  • Wind turbines tower over a wheat field at a wind farm in Birds Landing, California. Each 265-foot wind turbine produces enough electricity per year to power 350 average-size California homes.
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  • Wind turbines tower over a wheat field at a wind farm in Birds Landing, California. Each 265-foot wind turbine produces enough electricity per year to power 350 average-size California homes.
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  • Wind turbines tower over a wheat field at a wind farm in Birds Landing, California. Each 265-foot wind turbine produces enough electricity per year to power 350 average-size California homes.
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  • John Opris, a wind farm operations manager for enXco, with 265-foot wind turbines and his typical day's worth of food in Birds Landing, California. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his day's worth of food in July was 3700 kcals. He is 50 years of age; 5 feet, 10 inches tall; and 180 pounds. Each 265-foot  wind turbine produces enough electricity per year to power 350 average-size California homes.  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • On Green Island, a former prison island off the coast of SE Taiwan where political prisoners were incarcerated and re-educated during the unnervingly recent White Terror. There's actually still a high-security prison on the island, but it only holds 200 inmates (actual felons, not polital prisoners), as opposed to the couple thousand of earlier decades..Now it's mostly a tourist destination. We visited in the off season in March, thereby avoiding the 5,000-10,000 tourists that inundate the little place daily, though, being the off season, we had to contend instead with intermittent cold rain and high winds.
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  • On Green Island, a former prison island off the coast of SE Taiwan where political prisoners were incarcerated and re-educated during the unnervingly recent White Terror. There's actually still a high-security prison on the island, but it only holds 200 inmates (actual felons, not polital prisoners), as opposed to the couple thousand of earlier decades..Now it's mostly a tourist destination. We visited in the off season in March, thereby avoiding the 5,000-10,000 tourists that inundate the little place daily, though, being the off season, we had to contend instead with intermittent cold rain and high winds.
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  • Death Valley, California. 4th of July celebration fireworks at Furnace in high winds. 100 degrees F at 10 PM. Palm trees caught on fire and burned when struck by fireworks.
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  • Death Valley, California. 4th of July celebration fireworks at Furnace Creek in high winds. 100 degrees F at 10 PM. Palm trees caught on fire and burned when struck by fireworks.
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  • Sailboats on a summer evening on Lake Merritt in downtown Oakland, California.
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  • An overturned truck from an automobile accident, and a victim on the roadside of Highway 29, American Canyon, California. The accident took place in front of an auto wrecking yard. USA.
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  • Passerbys attending to the wounds of a car accident victim on the roadside of Highway 121, Napa County, California. USA
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  • Thanksgiving at Menzel and D'Aluisio's in the Napa Valley, California.
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  • San Telmo district. Mime on the street.
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  • Kuwait oil well fires. Al Burgan field. Tornados of smoke reflected in oil lake.
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  • Weather: Evan Menzel, 6, runs toward a dust devil, a small whirlwind, near Casa Grande, Arizona.  Dust devils usually last for a short period of time but can swirl dust and debris to great heights. Desert. Model Released (1991)
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  • Napa Valley portraits of Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio with 600 mm lens.
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  • Art installation at Burning Man. Burning Man is a performance art festival known for art, drugs and sex. It takes place annually in the Black Rock Desert near Gerlach, Nevada, USA.
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  • Black Rock Desert, Nevada: Burning Man is a performance art festival known for art, drugs and sex. It takes place annually in the Black Rock Desert near Gerlach, Nevada, USA..A woman wearing sunflowers holds an umbrella to guard against the desert sun. Her companion wears a skirt made of pornographic homosexual playing cards.
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  • California State Flag. The Historic Bear Flag was raised at Sonoma on June 14, 1846, by a group of American settlers in revolt against Mexican rule. The flag was designed by William Todd on a piece of new unbleached cotton. The star imitated the lone star of Texas. A grizzly bear represented the many bears seen in the state. The word, "California Republic" was placed beneath the star and bear. It was adopted by the 1911 State Legislature as the State Flag.
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  • Sand dunes and blowing grass on the beach in Northern California near Petrolia, California. Humboldt County. Lost Coast. Pacific Ocean.
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  • Automobile accident with an overturned car on Highway 121, Napa County, California.
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  • The burning Al Burgan oil fields in Kuwait after the end of the Gulf War in May of 1991 were covered in oil that rained down from the clouds of oil smoke and oil shooting into the air after a fire had been extinguished. More than 700 wells were set ablaze by retreating Iraqi troops creating the largest man-made environmental disaster in history. Here a fire fighting crew from Wild Well Control sprays water on a fire so that they can move closer with heavy equipment and attempt to stop the flow with a "stinger?. A stinger is a tapered pipe on the end of a long steel boom controlled by a bulldozer. Drilling mud, under high pressure, is pumped through the stinger into the well, stopping the flow of oil and gas.
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  • The burning Magwa oil fields near Ahmadi in Kuwait right after the end of the Gulf War in May of 1991. Tornados of fire are seen spinning off a burning well. More than 700 wells were set ablaze by retreating Iraqi troops creating the largest man-made environmental disaster in history.
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  • The fires of a a burning oil well reflected in the surrounding oil in the burning Al Burgan oil fields in Kuwait after the end of the Gulf War in May of 1991. More than 700 wells were set ablaze by retreating Iraqi troops creating the largest man-made environmental disaster in history.
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  • Windsurfers on the water near the nuclear power plant. Haroka, Japan.
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  • Spinning windmill water pump at dawn between Warm Springs and Tonopah.  Near Area 51, Nevada. (1999)
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  • Outside the home of beekeeper Aivars Radzins in Vecpiebalga, Latvia. (Aivars Radzins is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • York Cliffs house, Cape Neddick, Maine
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  • Beginning descent of the South Kaibab Trail of the Grand Canyon, Arizona, in winter. Grand Canyon National Park encompasses 1,218,375 acres and lies on the Colorado Plateau in northwestern Arizona. USA.
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  • Oat field at sunset in Kansas, USA. Seen from a low angle with setting sun.
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  • A tornado of oil and smoke is mirrored in a vast lake of oil in the Al-Burgan Oil Fields, Kuwait. In this field alone, there were more than 300 oil wells set ablaze by retreating Iraqi troops in the largest man-made environmental disaster in history. The $20 billion effort to extinguish the fires lasted until the end of the year. Each day, in this oil field alone, the loss was estimated at 5 to 6 million barrel. Huge burning oil lakes added smoke and oily rain to a nightmarish scene. May, 1991. (NPPA Winner; Communication Arts Winner).
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  • A fierce September snowstorm whips through a residential hillside area of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Material World Project.
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  • On Green Island, a former prison island off the coast of SE Taiwan where political prisoners were incarcerated and re-educated during the unnervingly recent White Terror. There's actually still a high-security prison on the island, but it only holds 200 inmates (actual felons, not polital prisoners), as opposed to the couple thousand of earlier decades..Now it's mostly a tourist destination. We visited in the off season in March, thereby avoiding the 5,000-10,000 tourists that inundate the little place daily, though, being the off season, we had to contend instead with intermittent cold rain and high winds.
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  • On Green Island, a former prison island off the coast of SE Taiwan where political prisoners were incarcerated and re-educated during the unnervingly recent White Terror. There's actually still a high-security prison on the island, but it only holds 200 inmates (actual felons, not polital prisoners), as opposed to the couple thousand of earlier decades..Now it's mostly a tourist destination. We visited in the off season in March, thereby avoiding the 5,000-10,000 tourists that inundate the little place daily, though, being the off season, we had to contend instead with intermittent cold rain and high winds.
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  • On Green Island, a former prison island off the coast of SE Taiwan where political prisoners were incarcerated and re-educated during the unnervingly recent White Terror. There's actually still a high-security prison on the island, but it only holds 200 inmates (actual felons, not polital prisoners), as opposed to the couple thousand of earlier decades..Now it's mostly a tourist destination. We visited in the off season in March, thereby avoiding the 5,000-10,000 tourists that inundate the little place daily, though, being the off season, we had to contend instead with intermittent cold rain and high winds.
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  • On Green Island, a former prison island off the coast of SE Taiwan where political prisoners were incarcerated and re-educated during the unnervingly recent White Terror. There's actually still a high-security prison on the island, but it only holds 200 inmates (actual felons, not polital prisoners), as opposed to the couple thousand of earlier decades..Now it's mostly a tourist destination. We visited in the off season in March, thereby avoiding the 5,000-10,000 tourists that inundate the little place daily, though, being the off season, we had to contend instead with intermittent cold rain and high winds.
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  • On Green Island, a former prison island off the coast of SE Taiwan where political prisoners were incarcerated and re-educated during the unnervingly recent White Terror. There's actually still a high-security prison on the island, but it only holds 200 inmates (actual felons, not polital prisoners), as opposed to the couple thousand of earlier decades..Now it's mostly a tourist destination. We visited in the off season in March, thereby avoiding the 5,000-10,000 tourists that inundate the little place daily, though, being the off season, we had to contend instead with intermittent cold rain and high winds.
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  • On Green Island, a former prison island off the coast of SE Taiwan where political prisoners were incarcerated and re-educated during the unnervingly recent White Terror. There's actually still a high-security prison on the island, but it only holds 200 inmates (actual felons, not polital prisoners), as opposed to the couple thousand of earlier decades..Now it's mostly a tourist destination. We visited in the off season in March, thereby avoiding the 5,000-10,000 tourists that inundate the little place daily, though, being the off season, we had to contend instead with intermittent cold rain and high winds.
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  • On Green Island, a former prison island off the coast of SE Taiwan where political prisoners were incarcerated and re-educated during the unnervingly recent White Terror. There's actually still a high-security prison on the island, but it only holds 200 inmates (actual felons, not polital prisoners), as opposed to the couple thousand of earlier decades..Now it's mostly a tourist destination. We visited in the off season in March, thereby avoiding the 5,000-10,000 tourists that inundate the little place daily, though, being the off season, we had to contend instead with intermittent cold rain and high winds.
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  • On Green Island, a former prison island off the coast of SE Taiwan where political prisoners were incarcerated and re-educated during the unnervingly recent White Terror. There's actually still a high-security prison on the island, but it only holds 200 inmates (actual felons, not polital prisoners), as opposed to the couple thousand of earlier decades..Now it's mostly a tourist destination. We visited in the off season in March, thereby avoiding the 5,000-10,000 tourists that inundate the little place daily, though, being the off season, we had to contend instead with intermittent cold rain and high winds.
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  • On Green Island, a former prison island off the coast of SE Taiwan where political prisoners were incarcerated and re-educated during the unnervingly recent White Terror. There's actually still a high-security prison on the island, but it only holds 200 inmates (actual felons, not polital prisoners), as opposed to the couple thousand of earlier decades..Now it's mostly a tourist destination. We visited in the off season in March, thereby avoiding the 5,000-10,000 tourists that inundate the little place daily, though, being the off season, we had to contend instead with intermittent cold rain and high winds.
    TAI_110325_131_x.jpg
  • On Green Island, a former prison island off the coast of SE Taiwan where political prisoners were incarcerated and re-educated during the unnervingly recent White Terror. There's actually still a high-security prison on the island, but it only holds 200 inmates (actual felons, not polital prisoners), as opposed to the couple thousand of earlier decades..Now it's mostly a tourist destination. We visited in the off season in March, thereby avoiding the 5,000-10,000 tourists that inundate the little place daily, though, being the off season, we had to contend instead with intermittent cold rain and high winds.
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  • On Green Island, a former prison island off the coast of SE Taiwan where political prisoners were incarcerated and re-educated during the unnervingly recent White Terror. There's actually still a high-security prison on the island, but it only holds 200 inmates (actual felons, not polital prisoners), as opposed to the couple thousand of earlier decades..Now it's mostly a tourist destination. We visited in the off season in March, thereby avoiding the 5,000-10,000 tourists that inundate the little place daily, though, being the off season, we had to contend instead with intermittent cold rain and high winds.
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  • On Green Island, a former prison island off the coast of SE Taiwan where political prisoners were incarcerated and re-educated during the unnervingly recent White Terror. There's actually still a high-security prison on the island, but it only holds 200 inmates (actual felons, not polital prisoners), as opposed to the couple thousand of earlier decades..Now it's mostly a tourist destination. We visited in the off season in March, thereby avoiding the 5,000-10,000 tourists that inundate the little place daily, though, being the off season, we had to contend instead with intermittent cold rain and high winds.
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  • On Green Island, a former prison island off the coast of SE Taiwan where political prisoners were incarcerated and re-educated during the unnervingly recent White Terror. There's actually still a high-security prison on the island, but it only holds 200 inmates (actual felons, not polital prisoners), as opposed to the couple thousand of earlier decades..Now it's mostly a tourist destination. We visited in the off season in March, thereby avoiding the 5,000-10,000 tourists that inundate the little place daily, though, being the off season, we had to contend instead with intermittent cold rain and high winds.
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  • On Green Island, a former prison island off the coast of SE Taiwan where political prisoners were incarcerated and re-educated during the unnervingly recent White Terror. There's actually still a high-security prison on the island, but it only holds 200 inmates (actual felons, not polital prisoners), as opposed to the couple thousand of earlier decades..Now it's mostly a tourist destination. We visited in the off season in March, thereby avoiding the 5,000-10,000 tourists that inundate the little place daily, though, being the off season, we had to contend instead with intermittent cold rain and high winds.
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  • On Green Island, a former prison island off the coast of SE Taiwan where political prisoners were incarcerated and re-educated during the unnervingly recent White Terror. There's actually still a high-security prison on the island, but it only holds 200 inmates (actual felons, not polital prisoners), as opposed to the couple thousand of earlier decades..Now it's mostly a tourist destination. We visited in the off season in March, thereby avoiding the 5,000-10,000 tourists that inundate the little place daily, though, being the off season, we had to contend instead with intermittent cold rain and high winds.
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  • The Grund Valley and typical houses in Luxembourg city.
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  • Lower Antelope Canyon, Slot Canyon. Page, AZ
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  • Lower Antelope Canyon, Slot Canyon. Page, AZ
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  • Lower Antelope Canyon, Slot Canyon. Page, AZ
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  • Upper Antelope Canyon, Slot Canyon, Page, AZ
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  • Upper Antelope Canyon, Slot Canyon, Page, AZ
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  • Page, Arizona. Lower Antelope Canyon, slot canyon
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  • Toledo, Spain seen from a hill on the other side of the Rio Tajo.
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  • Visitors relax on undulating mosaic benches on an overlook in Parc Guell, architect Antonin Gaudi's imaginative park in Barcelona, Spain.
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  • Lower Antelope Canyon, Slot Canyon. Page, AZ
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  • Lower Antelope Canyon, Slot Canyon. Page, AZ
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  • Lower Antelope Canyon, Slot Canyon. Page, AZ
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  • Lower Antelope Canyon, Slot Canyon. Page, AZ
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  • Upper Antelope Canyon, Slot Canyon, Page, AZ
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  • Glen Canyon Dam, Lake Powel
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  • Castello di Amorosa Winery in Calistoga, Napa Valley, California. Dario Sattui's winery built to resemble a Tuscan castle.
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  • View of the Colorado River at sunrise from Dead Horse Point, Utah. USA.
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  • Rice: rice fields near Richvale, Butte County, California, USA. 1990.
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  • Dinner at Rob and Maria Sinsky's home in the Napa Valley, California.
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  • Sayers covered bridge in Thetford, VT. Haupt Truss with arch, 80', spanning Ompompanoosuc River on Tucker Hill Road, west off Route 133. The only Haupt in Vermont (as well as the Northeast) and one of only three in the US. (http://www.virtualvermont.com/coveredbridges/sayers.html)
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  • Canyon Ranch, Lennox, MA. Health and wellness spa in the Berkshires
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  • Looking down on the town of Falces, Navarra, Spain.
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  • Arnedillo, La Rioja Region, Spain.
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  • Visitors relax on undulating mosaic benches on an overlook in Parc Guell, architect Antonin Gaudi's imaginative park in Barcelona, Spain.
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  • Visitors relax on undulating mosaic benches on an overlook in Parc Guell, architect Antonin Gaudi's imaginative park in Barcelona, Spain.
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  • Visitors relax on undulating mosaic benches on an overlook in Parc Guell, architect Antonin Gaudi's imaginative park in Barcelona, Spain.
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  • The Grund Valley and typical houses in Luxembourg city.
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  • The Grund Valley and typical houses in Luxembourg city.
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  • Serpentine Great Wall of China at Mutianyu. China.
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  • Lower Antelope Canyon, Slot Canyon. Page, AZ
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  • Lower Antelope Canyon, Slot Canyon. Page, AZ
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  • Lower Antelope Canyon, Slot Canyon. Page, AZ
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  • Village of Leoz, in Navarra, Spain.
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  • The crumbling village of Gallipienzo, Spain is built on the side of a hill and is utterly charming. The houses are built of stone and mortar. The old mortar is crumbling and is patched in places. Several of the homes are newly renovated but the owners kept the original ideas of the houses in place, which is what is keeping the village charming. Navarra, Spain.
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  • Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • Wind farm producing electricity at Altamont, California. Wind turbines. 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. (1985).
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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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  • Wind farm producing electricity at Altamont, 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. (1985).
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  • Wind farm producing electricity at San Gorgonio Pass, near Palm Springs, 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. (1986).
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  • Wind farm producing electricity at Altamont, 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. (1985).
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  • Wind farm producing electricity at Altamont, 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. (1985).
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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. (1983).
    USA_SCI_ENGY_53_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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  • Wind turbines tower over a wheat field at a wind farm in Birds Landing, California. Each 265-foot wind turbine produces enough electricity per year to power 350 average-size California homes. An old wind powered water pump is at left.
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  • 265-foot wind turbines tower over wheat fields in Birds Landing, California as Peter Menzel photographs John Opris with his day's worth of food for a book. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Each 265-foot wind turbine produces enough electricity per year to power 350 average-size California homes. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Buddhist prayers imprinted onto flags that are attached to tall hand hewn poles are said to disperse into the winds for the protection of people living or dead. (Those seen here are in the Ura Valley, east central Bhutan). Some are wind flags, which are erected on mountaintops and hillsides for personal wishes on behalf of the erector. Others are prayer flags, which are erected by families to cleanse the sins of their deceased family member. From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Bhutan, 2001.
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  • Prayer flags above the town and district center of Wangdi Phodrang. Buddhist prayers are imprinted onto flags that are attached to tall hand hewn poles. The prayers are said to disperse into the winds for the protection of people living or dead. Some are wind flags, which are erected on mountaintops and hillsides for personal wishes on behalf of the erector. Others are prayer flags, which are erected by families to cleanse the sins of their deceased family members. From coverage of revisit to Material World Project family in Bhutan, 2001.
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  • Flyaway skydiving simulator.  A vertical wind tunnel propels 'flyers' into the air, simulating free flight.  Las Vegas. USA.
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  • Firefighters from the KWWK (Kuwait Wild Well Killers) attempt to kill an oil fire in the Rumaila field by guiding a "stinger" that will pump drilling mud into the damaged well. A "stinger" is a tapered pipe on the end of a long steel boom controlled by a bulldozer. Drilling mud, under high pressure, is pumped through the stinger into the well, stopping the flow of oil and gas. A sudden wind shift after a sandstorm caused the oil to blow back on the workers and equipment, causing a very dangerous situation because the oil and gas could have easily ignited. The Rumaila field is one of Iraq's biggest oil fields with five billion barrels in reserve. Many of the wells are 10,000 feet deep and produce huge volumes of oil and gas under tremendous pressure, which makes capping them very difficult and dangerous. This well is of relatively low volume. Rumaila is also spelled Rumeilah..
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  • A lone woman in black chador (tent) walks along one of the labyrinth of covered streets and alleys that wind through the ancient mud brick city of Yazd, Iran.
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