The Army intends to build a 500mw solar plant at Fort Irwin in the Mojave Desert.
In this quieter part of the Mojave Desert, Robert Bigelow's own fantasy is coming to fruition.
Virgin Galactic plans to launch its first flights from a site in the Mojave Desert in 2008.
Four other licensed solar projects to be built in the Mojave Desert are the targets of similar suits.
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BrightSource is hoping to start construction in August on a 400-megawatt project called Ivanpah, in the Mojave Desert.
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Among those projects is the Brightsource Ivanpah project, a 450-foot-fall solar power tower located in the Mojave Desert.
However, this machine and 19 others will face far more difficult conditions in the race across the Mojave Desert.
There are many opponents of building large solar farms in the Mojave Desert.
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To preserve Mojave Desert tortoises, it is essential to control native ravens, whose numbers have been boosted by distant landfill sites.
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Las Vegas lies at the edge of the vast Mojave Desert, in a bowl-shaped valley in the parched rain-shadow of the Sierra Nevada mountains.
Right now, the Mojave Desert is home to roughly 400 mw worth of solar projects, the biggest concentration in the world.
Atlantis was caught in a rare desert downpour after landing at Edwards Air Force Base in the Mojave Desert on February 20.
Ensconced on the eastern edge of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, Inyokern covers 11 square miles of Kern County in the dust-choked Mojave Desert.
This month, in the Mojave Desert, a company called BrightSource plans to break ground on a revolutionary new type of solar power plant.
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Even when members post under their real names, they may not reveal whether they live in San Francisco, New York or the Mojave Desert.
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The vehicle was dropped from a carrier aircraft high above California's Mojave Desert and ignited its rocket engine to go supersonic for a few seconds.
If only the project were far enough ahead to have a few models of the very long-range version parked ordered-but-not-paid-for in the Mojave desert, Mr Woodard might be happier.
An image from Mr. Ritts's last project is in the show, a 2002 photo of actor Ben Affleck posing in a dry lake bed in California's Mojave Desert.
BrightSource was founded in 2004 by American-Israeli pioneer Arnold Goldman, whose Luz International built nine solar thermal power plants in the Mojave Desert in the 1980s and 1990s.
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Standing 38ft-high and constructed entirely of old-growth Douglas fir, the acoustically perfect dome rises out of the dusty Mojave Desert like a UFO, embodying the extra-terrestrial elements that inspired its construction.
Within months, airlines were cancelling orders, leasing companies were going bust, Boeing was shedding the first of 60, 000 unwanted workers and the Mojave desert was filling with parked aircraft.
Case in point: California recently approved construction of a 370-megawatt solar thermal project in the middle of the Mojave Desert the first such large-scale project in the U.S. in over twenty years.
Convinced of its staying power, the company just opened a design studio in Orange County, Calif. and is building a factory in Alabama and a test track in the Mojave Desert.
In one example among many, the Defenders of Wildlife, Center for Biological Diversity, and the Sierra Club, filed a lawsuit challenging a 100-turbine wind development in mountains north of the Mojave Desert.
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At the recent groundbreaking for a test track in the Antelope Valley of the Mojave Desert, Chairman Chung and several other executives, including O'Neill, held shovels over a trough of dirt for photographers.
There also have been deaths at the Baja 1000 and Dakar Rally, the two most famous off-road races, though multiple-death crashes into the crowd like the one in the Mojave Desert are rare.
At the recent groundbreaking for a test track in the hardscrabble Antelope Valley of the Mojave Desert, Chairman Chung and several other executives, including O'Neill, held shovels over a trough of dirt for photographers.
Built for American Airlines, NASA acquired the aircraft in 1974 and used it for test flights from Edwards Air Force Base in California's Mojave Desert and ferry flights to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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The two companies, the only big makers of large passenger jets, expect a further fall in orders to some 350 this year on top of which there are about 500 brand-new jets parked unused in the Mojave desert.
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