Gasoline was $1.10 per gallon. A U.S. postage stamp cost 29 cents. Apple released its first Macintosh computer using the new PowerPC Microprocessors. 10% of the people in the U.S. used a mobile telephone. And, the first version of a web browser, Netscape Navigator, was launched. In the hydroelectric industry, 29 new projects were completed in North America during 1994, offering more than 800 MW of new electrical capacity. These plants ranged in size from the 90-kW Placentia Avenue hydro plant in California to the final units of the 840-MW Laforge-1 facility, part of the massive James Bay development in Quebec, Canada.
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