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Solar Power Planet, Hydrogen-Powered Bike, Escalator, Tattoo Machine

Nearly 200 ,000 parabolic mirrors on the Mojave Desert make up Solar One, a power plant that focuses the sun's rays onto oil tubes, which boil water to power steam turbines that produce electricity. A Hydrogen fuel cell powers a prototype electric motorcycle. Go inside the fuel cell to learn how it makes power, and how it produces its only environmental emission: water. There's more to an escalator than we all thought. It processes and directs crowds while ongoing development keep us safe from injury. Ever wake up with a tattoo and wonder what happened the night before? Our inside scoop on how a tattoo machine works, may answer that. It stabs the skin 6,000 times a minute, as fast as the wings of hummingbird - only more painful.

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  • Originally Aired March 5, 2010
  • Runtime 25 minutes
  • Created July 5, 2014 by
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  • Modified July 5, 2014 by
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