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Compare and contrast
By Chris Clarke on 2009 02 06 at 11:10:17 pm | 6 commentsBelow are two satellite images, courtesy Google Earth, of different pieces of the Ivanpah Valley. Both photos show land at around 3,000 feet in elevation, at a resolution equivalent to 1,500 feet up.
One of the photos is of land whose
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Is a fish more important than a tortoise?
By Chris Clarke on 2009 01 15 at 12:52:15 pm | 13 commentsIn Adam Hochschild’s book The Unquiet Ghost: Russians Remember Stalin
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Ivanpah Solar Project
By Chris Clarke on 2008 12 05 at 10:21:21 am | 2 commentsLeft out of my discussion yesterday of the big solar thermal proposal for the Ivanpah Valley—because I didn’t find out about it until just now—was the fact that the site that would be bulldozed for construction of the Ivanpah Solar Generating
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689,910 Acres
By Chris Clarke on 2008 12 04 at 12:42:40 pm | 10 commentsThe Bureau of Land Management reports that it has received applications for large solar electrical generating projects, around 80 of them, that would cover 689,910 acres of California, almost all of it in the desert.
689,910 acres is a big
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