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1Climate Photo of the Week
Throughout California and the Southwest, new energy sources are being constructed（正在兴建中）and connected to(连接到) the grid. We are just returning from(从…返回) a two-week documentary trip from Lake Mead across to(穿过）Los Angeles and up north back to Oregon, photographing and learning about（学习研究…）the solar and wind energy being installed. Hydro power from（从…获得能量）Lake Mead nears a dangerous point because of（由于）the record low water behind Hoover Dam. More on this in a later dispatch（在以后的调度）.
The work on solar and wind shows the success of （…的成功）California's climate protection law, AB 32, which is under threat （受到…的威胁）from a wrong-headed and perverse election proposition funded by out of state oilmen. We saw hundreds of （数以百计的….）people at work on the energy future encouraged by the California climate laws. Truck drivers are delivering huge V estas wind turbines, and electricians, engineers and crane operators work to install the 300 foot towers for Terra-Gen's vast expansion of the Alta Wind center, Kern County. When completed these 190 turbines made in （在…制成）Pueblo Colorado by Portland Oregon-based V estas will provide 570 megawatts of power -- and the entire project is estimated to create more than（多于，
超过）3,000 mW.
Solar power is burning bright all around （到处）southern California and Nevada. The nation's only concentrated solar power station, owned by （被什么所拥有）eSolar in Lancaster CA, focuses the sun on central towers with 20,000 ordinary mirrors, boiling water for a standard GE turbine. The 5 mW plant is a demonstration that this technology, used frequently in Spain and being demonstrated also now in India, is feasible for wide application.A new set of （一套新的….）three similar solar plants is just beginning on BLM land near the Nevada-California border -- and already employs hundreds. The BrightSource Energy installation to provide about 400 mW of power, is on land that is habitat for the California desert tortoise, Federally listed as threatened. So besides 50 fence installers, along with（和…一同）road builders, engineers and security staff being employed, the BLM and the company have 40 biologists patrolling the site to keep tortoises from( 使…免受…)being killed or injured. Eventually the project will put an average 650 to work in construction over the coming few years. The animals -- an estimated 32 of them live on the solar site -- will be relocated to （重新定位）nearby habitat. During the planning and public comment phase of the project, with input by BLM and NGO endangered species advocates, BrightSource reduced the size of the plant and its footprint to lessen its
