The Wolseley has a similar crowd, menu and surroundings stake out a table on an upper level for great people watching, especially during its popular power-breakfast hours.

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He said that because the power-breakfast guests are used to having access to the bounty of a full luxury hotel kitchen, where special requests can be easily accommodated, he sometimes finds himself scrambling to the corner deli for items such as feta cheese or bell peppers.

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Technologically, spin-offs from the space program have revolutionized fields from medicine to energy generation (solar panels were made to power satellites) to breakfast drinks.

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The first time I stayed at the Palms, the concierges rarely answered the phone, it took 30 minutes to get a breakfast check, the power went out every evening at sundown and one night a staff member came into my room at 11 p.m.

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NextEra Energy Chief Executive Lewis Hay told me last week over breakfast that he had higher hopes for solar photovoltaic (PV) power than for solar thermal power because the prices of solar PV panels were falling so extraordinarily fast.

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