What's more, if federal and other funds for further construction dry up, California could end up with an expensive train to nowhere.

更悲剧的是，如果提供给线路建设的联邦基金或者其他的财政支持枯竭，那么加州将拥有一条昂贵却没有目的地的铁路。

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Even California is having a rethink, and may change its rules to accommodate straw-bale construction.

甚至加州也重新考虑，可能改变细则对稻草建筑提供支持。

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The construction of the Allen Telescope Array on an arid plateau in northern California greatly expands the number of star systems from which astronomers could detect signals.

位于北加州干旱高原上建造的艾伦望远镜阵列将天文学家所能探测到信号的恒星系统数量大大地增加了。

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"In California alone it is estimated that 160,000 construction jobs could be created just to build those two high speed rail corridors."

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Construction of California's high-speed train could start in 2012.

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There, as well as in Milwaukee, Chicago, Miami and much of the rest of Florida and California, construction is slow relative to the overall housing stock and relative to normal levels.

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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.

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Google has invested directly in renewable energy projects, such as the 370-megawatt Ivanpah solar thermal power plant now under construction in California.

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