"I was just in Sri Lanka last week and in Indonesia about a month ago talking to people who had lost family members and the loss,the sorrow, the irreplaceable loved one is still felt.
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Well, if--as with a real highway--it destroys something irreplaceable, a vital ecosystem essential to human life.
His death hits Makani hard because its founder is irreplaceable: a Stanford-trained engineer who pushed the edge of design, an able leader who snared funding from Google and the ARPA-E, and a handsome windsurfing champion who knew the power of the wind firsthand.