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If there were ever a quintessential metaphor for the Amercian desert, this is it

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Despite its stark beauty and opportunities for solitude, the American desert is often considered as a wasteland, a perfect place to build industrial junk that "has to go somewhere," such as garbage dumps and solar-power plants.