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...that these modest-size systems can produce power for as little as 4 cents per KW-H, cheaper than the polluting gas and diesel generators Tennant Creek now relies on. In California's Mojave Desert, Pacific Gas and Electric uses a solar-thermal technology that employs mirrors to focus sunlight and heat liquids moving through pipes in long troughs. This array produces large amounts of electricity -- nearly 200 times as much as the Tennant Creek system -- for an estimated 8.5 cents to 14 cents per KW-H. That is at least double the cost of coal power, but solar proponents...
...Sunlight filters in through the large windows, reflecting off the empty wooden tables. A few students, sitting alone, stare outside or read quietly as they...
...intarsia doors. Its storage and conservation facilities are woefully inadequate: the walls weep with rising damp, and the lighting is poor -- the "babushka brigade" of women guards has the habit of lifting the frilly curtains of the gloomy galleries to expose fragile Rembrandts and Poussins to direct sunlight. Rumors abound that the primitive cataloging and security systems have made it easy for thieves to purloin objects from storage to sell on Russia's flourishing black market...
...gave more money, we'd have sunlight...
...Vienna. On a stopover in France, the press landed before the President so they could see the First Couple greeted by President Charles de Gaulle. The scene had all the pomp and glamour the media had been anticipating. There had been rain earlier, and the tarmac was glistening; sunlight was starting to cut through the clouds. As Air Force One touched down, the first thing Sidey noticed was that it had a new paint job -- Jackie's work. She had gone to designer Raymond Loewy to give the jet a new look; it was now a striking blend of teal...