Home > VHS >   California's Gold #909 - BIG THINGS IN THE DESERT VHS
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Description   We all know our deserts here in California are big. They cover huge areas ofour state. And in this episode of "California's Gold," producer/hostHuell Howser travels to the desert in search of big things -- and finds them! First, he travels to the Palms Springs area to visit one of six major windfarms in the world. Over 4,000 giant windmills are here -- some almost twohundred feet tall -- making clean, pollution-free energy representing the futureof energy production. Next, Huell travels to the little town of Boron to see a big hole and a bigtruck. The big hole is the open pit mine where about 50 percent of the world'sborax comes from. To get the borax out of that huge open pit, there are trucksso big you won't believe them even when you're seeing them! They're two storieshigh, wide as a two-car garage, longer than a city bus and weigh as much as onehundred and eleven mid-size cars. Finally, Huell travels to the remote Goldstone area of the Mojave desert tovisit the largest and most sensitive scientific telecommunications systems inthe world - The Deep Space Network. Huell and cameraman Luis Fuerte find outjust how big when they're given the opportunity to climb inside one of thedishes and walk around . All in all, it's a big adventure in a big desert -- an adventure where wediscover some big pieces of "California's Gold.

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