A picture was worth 24,000 mirrors when eSolar, a company based in Pasadena, Calif., that specializes in solar thermal power, transformed a vast field of heliostats at its Southern California solar farm into a Fourth of July tableau of the American flag and the Statue of Liberty.
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Weird day. The @earthhour global twiitter profile I operate for Earth hour was accidently suspended by Twitter along with many others. Human error apparently. Wasted a couple of hours not having any luck with support. Sucky day.
Once, maybe it was a mistake. Twice, I'm beginning to think they're doing it on purpose.
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People "played" the market and watched share prices constantly from tickertape machines in cafés, clubs and worplaces. Remind you of anything? Tickertape was the new tech. Car companies were the high flyers. People lost fortunes. Hmm, deja vu.
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Warnings of a crash were ignored. Few believed it would happen. Top investment bankers advised the president the good times would roll on. No need for intervention. Result: massive crash, followed by Great Depression. Questioning of Capitlism in Europe. Rise of nationalism, communism, facism and then world war.
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Watched a doco on the crash of 29. Amazing how similar it was to 08-09, in the yrs leading up. Tickertape was like the web then.
Footage of Michael Jackson in rehearsal for the This Is It tour has been released by the concert promoters AEG Live. The star looks energetic and in good health, and seems to be enjoying the run-through of hit They Don't Really Care About U
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"The nation that leads in the creation of a clean energy economy will be the nation that leads the 21st century global economy," Obama told reporters at a White House press conference."
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Hard to imagine our Australian leaders saying such thing at the moment. Weak.
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