Facing The Future
The Hydro of the first decade of the 21st century saw the loss of the old dam building generation, to an adept at accommodating larger world wide trends—The Anthony Power Development, was considered to be part of the last hydro-electric power development in Tasmania. The 1,000 GWH Project has seen upgrades to component parts of existing superstructure operated by the Hydro, and on-going progress towards being a carbon neutral operation.
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“Perfect present has no existence in our consciousness. As I said years ago in Erewhon, it lives but upon the sufferance of past and future. We are like men standing on a narrow footbridge over a railway. We can watch the future hurrying like an express train towards us, and then hurrying into the past, but in the narrow strip of present we cannot see it. Strange that that which is the most essential to our consciousness should be exactly that of which we are least definitely conscious.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)
“Here is unfenced existence:
Facing the sun, untalkative, out of reach.”
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“Biographical data, even those recorded in the public registers, are the most private things one has, and to declare them openly is rather like facing a psychoanalyst.”
—Italo Calvino (1923–1985)
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—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)