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  • Vang Vieng, Laos. Nam Song River toll bridge.
    LAO_110315_617_x.jpg
  • Hyatt Regency Hotel lobby at the Embarcadero, San Francisco, CA
    USA_CA_110511_25_x.jpg
  • Stony Hill Winery, St. Helena, CA (Napa Valley). Stony Hill Winery is known for producing fine white wines which are aged in oak barrels that have been used for as many as 30 years, thereby not adding much oak flavor at all to the wine..
    USA_051222_29StonyHill_rwx.jpg
  • A large mirroring metal sculpture called The Cloud Gate, at Millennium Park, Chicago, Il, bends the cityscape, and people that pass by. USA. By British artist Anish Kapoor.
    USA_061103_077_rwx.jpg
  • A group of friends have their picture taken in front of The Cloud Gate, a large mirroring metal sculpture at Millennium Park, Chicago, Il, USA. It visually bends the cityscape and people that pass by, and under. By British artist Anish Kapoor.
    USA_061101_092_rwx.jpg
  • Twin fishmongers in the Mercado del Ninot, Barcelona, Spain.
    SPA_205_xs.jpg
  • Picking red peppers near Mendavia on the border between La Rioja and Navarra provinces, Spain.
    SPA_197_xs.jpg
  • Costumed revelers, a nun in drag and a clown, at Winter Carnival in Venice, Italy.
    ITA_41_xs.jpg
  • Large elderly woman sunbathes on the rocky beach, Amalfi Coast, Italy.
    ITA_31_xs.jpg
  • Beer garden trumpet player. Prague, Czech Republic.
    CZE_26_xs.jpg
  • Solar energy: Covell Park in Davis, California. Residential homes with solar panels on the roofs. 1981.
    USA_SCI_ENGY_40_xs.jpg
  • USA_SFOL_01_xs.The annual Folsom Street Fair in San Francisco's South of Market district is is held on the last Sunday in September and caps San Francisco's Leather Pride Week. It was started in 1984 for gays and lesbians, and other practitioners of alternative lifestyles. California, USA. es. California, USA..
    USA_SFOL_01_xs.jpg
  • Folsom Street Fair, San Francisco, CA annual event.
    USA_100926_28_x.jpg
  • Stony Hill Winery, St. Helena, CA (Napa Valley). Stony Hill Winery is known for producing fine white wines which are aged in oak barrels that have been used for as many as 30 years, thereby not adding much oak flavor at all to the wine..
    USA_051222_25StonyHill_rwx.jpg
  • Stony Hill Winery, St. Helena, CA. Napa Valley. Stony Hill Winery is known for producing fine white wines which are aged in oak barrels that have been used for as many as 30 years, thereby not adding much oak flavor at all to the wine..
    USA_051222_04StonyHill_701_rwx.jpg
  • Guest toilet of Richard and Fenella Hodson, Godalming, UK. (Material World Family from Great Britain UK).
    GBR_050915_Hodson_133_rwx.jpg
  • A chef preparing suckling pig in a traditional restaurant in Toledo, Spain.
    SPA_180_xs.jpg
  • Solar energy electrical generating power plant in the Mojave Desert near Barstow, California. Solar One consists of a circular arrangement of 1, 818 mirrors, each measuring 23x23 feet (7x7 meters). These mirrors focus the sunlight onto a huge central receiver, which sits atop a 300-foot (91 meter) tower. The mirrors are computer controlled to track the path of the sun. Water is pumped through the receiver and heated to a temperature of 960 degrees Fahrenheit. The resultant steam runs a turbine, producing 10 megawatts of power for eight hours a day. (1985).
    USA_SCI_ENGY_74_xs.jpg
  • Solar energy: .UEC (United Energy Corporation of Hawaii) Solar Facility in Borrego Springs, California uses both photovoltaic  and solar thermal systems. What makes their operation unique is that they use 3 acre round ponds to float their solar arrays on. The ponds act as a frictionless water bearing so that it requires very little energy to have the whole surface of the pond rotate to face the sun as it moves east to west. A series of small motors tilt the individual rows of the arrays to track the sun vertically as well. They use hot water from one type of array to run a huge still, which produces alcohol from molasses. So far there are 18 ponds. Borrego Springs, California (1990).
    USA_SCI_ENGY_25_xs.jpg
  • Solar energy: Solar Plant 1. Warner Springs, California. Solar Plant 1 was the largest privately funded solar powered electrical generator in the world when it was built in 1984. Built by LaJet Energy Company of Abilene, Texas , SolarPlant 1 is a five megawatt distributed receiver facility. There is no central tower to soak up sunlight reflected from a broad field of glass mirrors. Instead, each of the 700 concentrators--consisting of 24 plastic mirrors kept in shape by a vacuum pump- reflects sunlight into its own receiver. Water is pumped through the receiver, which turns to steam to drive a turbine to produce electricity. (1987).
    USA_SCI_ENGY_22_xs.jpg
  • Fish from the coast for sale at the mountain village market in Simiatug, Ecuador. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
    ECU04_5602_xf1brw.jpg
  • Spit-roasted cuy (guinea pig) are a popular food all around Ecuador, but are an especial treat in Ambato, Ecuador where plump roasted cuy are served in great numbers in shops around the city. Cuy are also raised by families in their homes and are eaten for special occasions, like Easter. (From a photographic gallery of street food images, in Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, p. 130)
    ECU04_0012_xxf1rw.jpg
  • Luang Prabang, Laos. Scenes made of mirrored glass depicting Laotian daily life adorn the walls of the Buddhist Temple compound Wat Xieng Thong.
    LAO_110316_173_x.jpg
  • Litto's Hubcap Ranch in Pope Valley, Napa County, California. A California Landmark plaque reads: This is one of California's exceptional Twentieth Century folk art environments. Over a period of 30 years, Emanuele 'Litto' Damonte (1892-1985), with the help of his neighbors, collected more than 2,000 hubcaps. All around the hubcap ranch are constructions and arrangements of hubcaps, bottles and pulltops, which proclaim that Litto, the Pope Valley Hubcap King, was here. California Registered Historical Landmark No. 939 MODEL RELEASED. Photographed in 1982.
    USA_ART_06_xs.jpg
  • Litto's Hubcap Ranch in Pope Valley, Napa County, California. USA  California Landmark plaque reads: This is one of California's exceptional Twentieth Century folk art environments. Over a period of 30 years, Emanuele 'Litto' Damonte (1892-1985), with the help of his neighbors, collected more than 2,000 hubcaps. All around the hubcap ranch are constructions and arrangements of hubcaps, bottles and pulltops, which proclaim that Litto, the Pope Valley Hubcap King, was here. California Registered Historical Landmark No. 93.MODEL RELEASED. Photographed in 1982.
    USA_ART_05_xs.jpg
  • Floyd Zaiger cuts open a "Pluot", a cross between a plum and an apricot, in his orchard. Floyd Zaiger (Born 1926) is a biologist who is most noted for his work in fruit genetics. Zaiger Genetics, located in Modesto, California, USA, was founded in 1958. Zaiger has spent his life in pursuit of the perfect fruit, developing both cultivars of existing species and new hybrids such as the pluot and the aprium. Pluot fruit (plum & apricot) - MODEL RELEASED. 1988.
    USA_AG_ZAIG_12_xs.jpg
  • Rice: Aerial of flooded rice fields near Richvale, California, USA. 1980
    USA_AG_RICE_10_xs.jpg
  • Fresh seafood featured at the Napa Valley restaurant Go Fish.
    USA_GoFish_060809_828_rwx.jpg
  • Stony Hill Winery, St. Helena, CA (Napa Valley). Stony Hill Winery is known for producing fine white wines which are aged in oak barrels that have been used for as many as 30 years, thereby not adding much oak flavor at all to the wine..
    USA_051222_27StonyHill_rwx.jpg
  • Stony Hill Winery, St. Helena, CA (Napa Valley). Stony Hill Winery is known for producing fine white wines which are aged in oak barrels that have been used for as many as 30 years, thereby not adding much oak flavor at all to the wine..
    USA_051222_26StonyHill_rwx.jpg
  • Stony Hill Winery, St. Helena, CA (Napa Valley). Glasses in winery. Stony Hill Winery is known for producing fine white wines which are aged in oak barrels that have been used for as many as 30 years, thereby not adding much oak flavor at all to the wine..
    USA_051222_09StonyHill_rwx.jpg
  • Car dealership sign with the American flag, Statue of Liberty and the word Forever, in Miami, Florida, USA.
    USA_SIGN_07_xs.jpg
  • A large mirroring metal sculpture called The Cloud Gate, at Millennium Park, Chicago, Il, bends the downtown cityscape. USA. By British artist Anish Kapoor.
    USA_061103_129_rwx.jpg
  • View of the large mirroring metal sculpture called Cloud Gate, from beneath it, at Millennium Park, Chicago, Il, USA. It visually bends the cityscape and people that pass by, and under. By British artist Anish Kapoor.
    USA_061101_083_rwx.jpg
  • A band member with his tuba reflected in his sunglasses while waiting for Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari during a  trip to the Yucatan, Mexico.
    MEX_110_xs.jpg
  • Fish vendor in the Mercado del Ninot, Barcelona, Spain.
    SPA_206_xs.jpg
  • Picking red peppers near Mendavia on the border between La Rioja and Navarra provinces, Spain.
    SPA_198_xs.jpg
  • Picking red peppers near Mendavia on the border between La Rioja and Navarra provinces, Spain.
    SPA_194_xs.jpg
  • Bicycle leans against a wall beneath a shuttered window. Italy.
    ITA_32_xs.jpg
  • New cars on the dock awaiting shipping in Salerno, Italy..
    ITA_06_xs.jpg
  • Dresden, East Germany. Frederick Augustus I bronze statue.
    GER_22_xs.jpg
  • Rafale French fighter at the Paris Air Show, at Le Bourget Airport, France. Held every other year, the event is one of the world's biggest international trade fairs for the aerospace business.
    FRA_100_xs.jpg
  • Harajuku district Elvis dance troop members. Tokyo, Japan.
    Japan_JAP_30_xs.jpg
  • Frozen tuna with numbers painted on them ready for the pre-dawn auction at the Tsukiji wholesale fish market in Tokyo, Japan.
    Japan_JAP_20_xs.jpg
  • Solar energy: Solar Plant 1. Warner Springs, California. Solar Plant 1 was the largest privately funded solar powered electrical generator in the world when it was built in 1984. Built by LaJet Energy Company of Abilene, Texas, SolarPlant 1 is a five megawatt distributed receiver facility. There is no central tower to soak up sunlight reflected from a broad field of glass mirrors. Instead, each of the 700 concentrators--consisting of 24 plastic mirrors kept in shape by a vacuum pump- reflects sunlight into its own receiver. Water is pumped through the receiver, which turns to steam to drive a turbine to produce electricity. (1985).
    USA_SCI_ENGY_77_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 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 electrical generating power plant in the Mojave Desert near Barstow, California. Solar One consists of a circular arrangement of 1, 818 mirrors, each measuring 23x23 feet (7x7 meters). These mirrors focus the sunlight onto a huge central receiver, which sits atop a 300-foot (91 meter) tower. The mirrors are computer controlled to track the path of the sun. Water is pumped through the receiver and heated to a temperature of 960 degrees Fahrenheit. The resultant steam runs a turbine, producing 10 megawatts of power for eight hours a day. (1982).
    USA_SCI_ENGY_38_xs.jpg
  • Solar energy electrical generating power plant in the Mojave Desert near Barstow, California. Solar One consists of a circular arrangement of 1, 818 mirrors, each measuring 23x23 feet (7x7 meters). These mirrors focus the sunlight onto a huge central receiver, which sits atop a 300-foot (91 meter) tower. The mirrors are computer controlled to track the path of the sun. Water is pumped through the receiver and heated to a temperature of 960 degrees Fahrenheit. The resultant steam runs a turbine, producing 10 megawatts of power for eight hours a day. (1982).
    USA_SCI_ENGY_37_xs.jpg
  • Solar energy electrical generating power plant in the Mojave Desert near Barstow, California. Solar One consists of a circular arrangement of 1, 818 mirrors, each measuring 23x23 feet (7x7 meters). These mirrors focus the sunlight onto a huge central receiver, which sits atop a 300-foot (91 meter) tower. The mirrors are computer controlled to track the path of the sun. Water is pumped through the receiver and heated to a temperature of 960 degrees Fahrenheit. The resultant steam runs a turbine, producing 10 megawatts of power for eight hours a day. (1982).
    USA_SCI_ENGY_35_xs.jpg
  • UEC Solar. Shot in San Francisco, research facility. California. Solar photovoltaic chip on a human finger. UEC (United Energy Corporation of Hawaii) Solar Facility in Borrego Springs, California uses both photovoltaic and solar thermal systems. What makes their operation unique is that they use 3 acre round ponds to float their solar arrays on. The ponds act as a water bearing tk (frictionless) so that it requires very little energy to have the whole surface of the pond rotate to face the sun as it moves east to west. A series of small motors tilt the individual rows of the arrays to track the sun vertically as well. They use hot water from one type of array to run a huge still, which produces alcohol from molasses. So far there are 18 ponds. (1985).
    USA_SCI_ENGY_33_xs.jpg
  • Solar energy electrical generating power plant in the Mojave Desert near Barstow, California. Solar One consists of a circular arrangement of 1, 818 mirrors, each measuring 23x23 feet (7x7 meters). These mirrors focus the sunlight onto a huge central receiver, which sits atop a 300-foot (91 meter) tower. The mirrors are computer controlled to track the path of the sun. Water is pumped through the receiver and heated to a temperature of 960 degrees Fahrenheit. The resultant steam runs a turbine, producing 10 megawatts of power for eight hours a day. (1982).
    USA_SCI_ENGY_32_xs.jpg
  • Solar energy electrical generating power plant in the Mojave Desert near Barstow, California. Solar One consists of a circular arrangement of 1, 818 mirrors, each measuring 23x23 feet (7x7 meters). These mirrors focus the sunlight onto a huge central receiver, which sits atop a 300-foot (91 meter) tower. The mirrors are computer controlled to track the path of the sun. Water is pumped through the receiver and heated to a temperature of 960 degrees Fahrenheit. The resultant steam runs a turbine, producing 10 megawatts of power for eight hours a day. (1982).
    USA_SCI_ENGY_31_xs.jpg
  • Solar energy: Solar Plant 1. Warner Springs, California. Solar Plant 1 was the largest privately funded solar powered electrical generator in the world when it was built in 1984. Built by LaJet Energy Company of Abilene, Texas , SolarPlant 1 is a five megawatt distributed receiver facility. There is no central tower to soak up sunlight reflected from a broad field of glass mirrors. Instead, each of the 700 concentrators--consisting of 24 plastic mirrors kept in shape by a vacuum pump- reflects sunlight into its own receiver. Water is pumped through the receiver, which turns to steam to drive a turbine to produce electricity. (1985).
    USA_SCI_ENGY_30_xs.jpg
  • Solar energy: .UEC (United Energy Corporation of Hawaii) Solar Facility in Borrego Springs, California uses both photovoltaic  and solar thermal systems. What makes their operation unique is that they use 3 acre round ponds to float their solar arrays on. The ponds act as a frictionless water bearing so that it requires very little energy to have the whole surface of the pond rotate to face the sun as it moves east to west. A series of small motors tilt the individual rows of the arrays to track the sun vertically as well. They use hot water from one type of array to run a huge still, which produces alcohol from molasses. So far there are 18 ponds. Borrego Springs, California (1990).
    USA_SCI_ENGY_26_xs.jpg
  • Solar energy: Solar Plant 1. Warner Springs, California. Solar Plant 1 was the largest privately funded solar powered electrical generator in the world when it was built in 1984. Built by LaJet Energy Company of Abilene, Texas , SolarPlant 1 is a five megawatt distributed receiver facility. There is no central tower to soak up sunlight reflected from a broad field of glass mirrors. Instead, each of the 700 concentrators--consisting of 24 plastic mirrors kept in shape by a vacuum pump- reflects sunlight into its own receiver. Water is pumped through the receiver, which turns to steam to drive a turbine to produce electricity. (1990).
    USA_SCI_ENGY_23_xs.jpg
  • Fish for sale, laid out on plates, in a market in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Material World Project.
    Tha_mw_13_xs.jpg
  • Spit-roasted cuy (guinea pig) is a popular food all over Ecuador, but are an especial treat in Ambato, Ecuador, where plump roasted cuy are served in great numbers in shops around the city. Cuy are also raised by families in their homes and are eaten for special occasions, like Easter. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
    ECU04_5271_xf1brw.jpg
  • Carnival at Kumbh Mela. Every 12 years, millions of devout Hindus celebrate the month-long festival of Kumbh Mela by bathing in the holy waters of the Ganges at Hardiwar, India. Hundreds of ashrams set up dusty, sprawling camps that stretch for miles. Under the watchful eye of police and lifeguards, the faithful throng to bathe in the river.
    IND_092_xs.jpg
  • Visiting friends flank Litto Damonte at Litto's Hubcap Ranch in Pope Valley, Napa County, California. A California Landmark plaque reads: This is one of California's exceptional Twentieth Century folk art environments. Over a period of 30 years, Emanuele 'Litto' Damonte (1892-1985), with the help of his neighbors, collected more than 2,000 hubcaps. All around the hubcap ranch are constructions and arrangements of hubcaps, bottles and pulltops, which proclaim that Litto, the Pope Valley Hubcap King, was here..California Registered Historical Landmark No. 93.MODEL RELEASED. Photographed in 1982.
    USA_ART_07_xs.jpg
  • Fruit crosses: Pluots (a cross between a plums and apricots at center), plumcots (samples of the first stage of crossbreeding an apricot with a plum, at right), and apriums (a cross between plumcots and apricots, at left). Floyd Zaiger (Born 1926) is a biologist who is most noted for his work in fruit genetics. Zaiger Genetics, located in Modesto, California, USA, was founded in 1958. Zaiger has spent his life in pursuit of the perfect fruit, developing both cultivars of existing species and new hybrids such as the pluot and the aprium. Pluot fruit (plum & apricot) - 1988.
    USA_AG_ZAIG_11_xs.jpg
  • Tomatoes: Tomato cannery facility, Stockton, California, USA. Washed tomatoes going up a conveyor to the factory.
    USA_AG_TOM_12_xs.jpg
  • Fresh seafood featured at the Napa Valley restaurant Go Fish.
    USA_GoFish_060809_816_rwx.jpg
  • Fresh seafood from the Napa Valley restaurant Go Fish.
    USA_GoFish_060809_786_rwx.jpg
  • Stony Hill Winery, St. Helena, CA (Napa Valley). Stony Hill Winery is known for producing fine white wines which are aged in oak barrels that have been used for as many as 30 years, thereby not adding much oak flavor at all to the wine..
    USA_051222_32StonyHill_rwx.jpg
  • Kansas City, Missouri. Opera house designed by architect Moshe Safdie
    USA_111111_02_x.jpg
  • Pigs/Swine/Hog: Oscar Mayer Company slaughterhouse in Perry, Iowa. This man cuts the front feet off the hogs and fills the wheelbarrow. USA.
    USA_AG_PIG_16_xs.jpg
  • A large mirroring metal sculpture called The Cloud Gate, at Millennium Park, Chicago, Il, bends the downtown cityscape. USA. By British artist Anish Kapoor.
    USA_061103_123_rwx.jpg
  • View of the large mirroring metal sculpture called Cloud Gate, from beneath it, at Millennium Park, Chicago, Il, USA. It visually bends the cityscape and people that pass by, and under. By British artist Anish Kapoor.
    USA_061101_080_rwx.jpg
  • A band member with his tuba reflected in his sunglasses while waiting for Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari during a trip to the Yucatan, Mexico.
    MEX_109_xs.jpg
  • Picking red peppers near Mendavia on the border between La Rioja and Navarra provinces, Spain.
    SPA_195_xs.jpg
  • Guest toilet of Richard and Fenella Hodson, Godalming, UK. (Material World Family from Great Britain UK).
    GBR_050915_Hodson_133_rwx.jpg
  • Solar energy: Solar Plant 1. Warner Springs, California. Solar Plant 1 was the largest privately funded solar powered electrical generator in the world when it was built in 1984. Built by LaJet Energy Company of Abilene, Texas , SolarPlant 1 is a five megawatt distributed receiver facility. There is no central tower to soak up sunlight reflected from a broad field of glass mirrors. Instead, each of the 700 concentrators--consisting of 24 plastic mirrors kept in shape by a vacuum pump- reflects sunlight into its own receiver. Water is pumped through the receiver, which turns to steam to drive a turbine to produce electricity. (1985).
    USA_SCI_ENGY_79_xs.jpg
  • Aerial of Solar Facility in Borrego Springs, California uses both photovoltaic and solar thermal systems. What makes their operation unique is that they use 3 acre round ponds to float their solar arrays on. The ponds act as a water bearing tk (frictionless) so that it requires very little energy to have the whole surface of the pond rotate to face the sun as it moves east to west. A series of small motors tilt the individual rows of the arrays to track the sun vertically as well. They use hot water from one type of array to run a huge still, which produces alcohol from molasses. So far there are 18 ponds. (1985).
    USA_SCI_ENGY_78_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 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_76_xs.jpg
  • Aerial of Solar energy installation: Solar energy: Solar Plant 1. Warner Springs, California. Solar Plant 1 was the largest privately funded solar powered electrical generator in the world when it was built in 1984. Built by LaJet Energy Company of Abilene, Texas , SolarPlant 1 is a five megawatt distributed receiver facility. There is no central tower to soak up sunlight reflected from a broad field of glass mirrors. Instead, each of the 700 concentrators--consisting of 24 plastic mirrors kept in shape by a vacuum pump- reflects sunlight into its own receiver. Water is pumped through the receiver, which turns to steam to drive a turbine to produce electricity. (1985).
    USA_SCI_ENGY_75_xs.jpg
  • Solar energy electrical generating power plant in the Mojave Desert near Barstow, California. Solar One consists of a circular arrangement of 1, 818 mirrors, each measuring 23x23 feet (7x7 meters). These mirrors focus the sunlight onto a huge central receiver, which sits atop a 300-foot (91 meter) tower. The mirrors are computer controlled to track the path of the sun. Water is pumped through the receiver and heated to a temperature of 960 degrees Fahrenheit. The resultant steam runs a turbine, producing 10 megawatts of power for eight hours a day. (1982).
    USA_SCI_ENGY_36_xs.jpg
  • Solar energy electrical generating power plant in the Mojave Desert near Barstow, California. Solar One consists of a circular arrangement of 1, 818 mirrors, each measuring 23x23 feet (7x7 meters). These mirrors focus the sunlight onto a huge central receiver, which sits atop a 300-foot (91 meter) tower. The mirrors are computer controlled to track the path of the sun. (the mirrors are NOT focusing the sunlight onto the tower in this photo: the receiver is not glowing hot as it would be if the sunlight were focused on it). Water is pumped through the receiver and heated to a temperature of 960 degrees Fahrenheit. The resultant steam runs a turbine, producing 10 megawatts of power for eight hours a day. (1982).
    USA_SCI_ENGY_34_xs.jpg
  • Solar energy: Solar Plant 1. Warner Springs, California. Solar Plant 1 was the largest privately funded solar powered electrical generator in the world when it was built in 1984. Built by LaJet Energy Company of Abilene, Texas , SolarPlant 1 is a five megawatt distributed receiver facility. There is no central tower to soak up sunlight reflected from a broad field of glass mirrors. Instead, each of the 700 concentrators--consisting of 24 plastic mirrors kept in shape by a vacuum pump- reflects sunlight into its own receiver. Water is pumped through the receiver, which turns to steam to drive a turbine to produce electricity. (1985) .
    USA_SCI_ENGY_29_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).
    USA_SCI_ENGY_27_xs.jpg
  • Solar energy: Solar Plant 1. Warner Springs, California. Solar Plant 1 was the largest privately funded solar powered electrical generator in the world when it was built in 1984. Built by LaJet Energy Company of Abilene, Texas , SolarPlant 1 is a five megawatt distributed receiver facility. There is no central tower to soak up sunlight reflected from a broad field of glass mirrors. Instead, each of the 700 concentrators--consisting of 24 plastic mirrors kept in shape by a vacuum pump- reflects sunlight into its own receiver. Water is pumped through the receiver, which turns to steam to drive a turbine to produce electricity. (1988).
    USA_SCI_ENGY_24_xs.jpg
  • Solar energy: Solar Plant 1. Warner Springs, California. Solar Plant 1 was the largest privately funded solar powered electrical generator in the world when it was built in 1984. Built by LaJet Energy Company of Abilene, Texas , SolarPlant 1 is a five megawatt distributed receiver facility. There is no central tower to soak up sunlight reflected from a broad field of glass mirrors. Instead, each of the 700 concentrators--consisting of 24 plastic mirrors kept in shape by a vacuum pump- reflects sunlight into its own receiver. Water is pumped through the receiver, which turns to steam to drive a turbine to produce electricity. (1985).
    USA_SCI_ENGY_21_xs.jpg
  • Spit-roasted cuy (guinea pig) is a popular food all over Ecuador, but are an especial treat in Ambato, Ecuador, where plump roasted cuy are served in great numbers in shops around the city. Cuy are also raised by families in their homes and are eaten for special occasions, like Easter. (Supporting image from the project Hungry Planet: What the World Eats.)
    ECU04_5260_xf1brw.jpg
  • Milliken Creek Inn, a bed and breakfast inn on the Napa River in Napa, California. Napa Valley. Room number 2 looking south on a bend in the Napa River.
    USA_060204_202_Napa_rwx.jpg
  • Freshly caught fish in a basket on the beach at Tossa de Mar, Costa Brava, Spain.
    SPA_204_xs.jpg
  • Costumed revelers at a private party during Winter Carnival in Venice, Italy, at Ca Barbarigo.
    ITA_44_xs.jpg
  • Painting plastic food samples at the factory of Iwasaki Co. Ltd, Tokyo, Japan.
    Japan_JAP_14_xs.jpg
  • By flexing his data-gloved hand, robotics specialist Fredrik L. Rehnmark controls the NASA robonaut as it reaches for a battery-operated power drill on a test platform. Black goggles on Rehnmark's head give him the view from the twin digital cameras mounted in the robot's shiny carapace. Next to Rehnmark, engineer Hal A. Aldridge tracks the robot's test results. In a cavernous adjacent room in the Johnson Space Center  in Texas is a life-sized mock-up of the robonaut's future home: the NASA space shuttle. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 132-133.
    USA_rs_362_qxxs.jpg
  • Lights from futuristic concept cars reflecting in the shiny column behind his head, Honda P3 chief engineer Masato Hirose has been entrusted with the transportation company's hopes of getting beyond wheels. Tokyo, Japan. From the book Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species, page 45.
    Japan_JAP_rs_274_qxxs.jpg
  • Two little girls leave their parent's table to marvel at the fresh catches in the Nan Hei (South Sea City Seafood) Restaurant which resemble the bins of various catches at a fish market; some of the selections include flesh-colored marine worms, plump pink silkworm pupae, and shiny black hard shelled water beetles, all sold not as bait, but as food. Clients choose their fish or insects and tell the staff how to prepare them. Ten minutes later they are on the table. Guangzhou province, China. (Man Eating Bugs, page 88-89)
    Chi_meb_158_xxs.jpg
  • Squirming flesh-colored marine worms for sale in a plastic tub in the Qing Ping Market. They are sold (not as bait) but as food, along with plump pink silkworm pupae and shiny black hard-shelled water beetles.   Guangzhou Province, China. (Man Eating Bugs page 86,87)
    CHI_meb_135_cxxs.jpg

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