| The Colosseum Mine is a gold and silver mine located in Mojave National Preserve, California at an elevation of 5,906 feet. Colosseum Inc. was a subsidiary of Lac Minerals Ltd. The company conducted mining and cyanide (carbon-in-pulp) leaching of gold/silver ore in the Clark Mountain Range of southeastern California from 1988 to 1993. | The cocoon is a metal spring with spandex white leggings stretched over the coil. The cocoon houses a Texas Instruments micro projector which plays a video of a boy riding a bicycle with no hands. The boy riding bicycle was originally recorded at Riis Park beach, Queens. In order to reach the Colosseum Mine the artist had to rent a four wheel drive Jeep in Las Vegas. | |
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The slot machine displays the image of Tarzan. Tarzan the ape man. A primitive white man living in a jungle. A jungle in a desert. Tarzan wins. Most of the people gambling in the casino are playing slot machines. They lose. | Primm is a town on the California Nevada border with three casinos for people who can't wait to get to Las Vegas. Originally named Stateline, the name was changed to avoid confusion with Stateline, Nevada near lake Tahoe. |  |
The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System is a concentrated solar thermal plant in the Mojave Desert.
It is located at the base of Clark Mountain in California, across the state line from Primm, Nevada. The plant has a gross capacity of 392 megawatts.
It deploys 173,500 heliostats, each with two mirrors focusing solar energy on boilers located on three centralized solar power towers.
The first unit of the system was connected to the electrical grid in September 2013 for an initial synchronisation test. The facility formally opened on February 13, 2014.
In 2014, it was the world's largest solar thermal power station. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivanpah_Solar_Power_Facility)
It is necessary to drive through Ivanpah to get to the Colosseum Mine in the mountains behind.
it appears that the electric power lines leave Ivanpah
and go directly to Primm to power the three casinos
and shopping mall which constitute Primm
mirrors focus the sun's heat
onto three boilers mounted on towers
which create steam that feed the generators
that create the electricity
the flow of electrons
the current in the cables
that turn on the slot machines
among other functions
view from the airplane leaving Las Vegas going to San Francisco flying over various mountain ranges between Las Vegas and the Sierra Nevada mountains.