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In 1959 Slochteren in the province of Groningen, The Netherlands, became famous in the world of the production of energy. A huge underground gas deposit made of The Netherlands a major energy exporting country and it brought the country as a whole much wealth and prosperity. But earlier, too, Slochteren had been one of the areas where natural resources were delved for energy: from the seventeenth century it had been a major supplier of peat. When that industry collapsed, enormous water-filled excavations were left as a reminder of the sweat and tears and exhaustion of the turf workers who eked out a poor life from their seemingly never-ending laborious days. Some of these areas have been taken over by the national parks administration which has transformed them into marvellous natural reserves. One such place is the Baggerputten just outside Slochteren.
Well-booted, we walked there as the mists were like rain suspended in the air. But the sun was slowly elbowing its way into the greenery bordering the small lakes, where a lone fisherman had already seated himself, fog swirling 'round him. Among the many late Autumn flowers was this Butter-and-Eggs or Yellow Toadflax, Linaria vulgaris, covered still in small dew drops.
They're pretty but hard to photograph well, and I've never much cared for their 'groiny' smell. The Romans are said to have called our plant 'Bubonium', referring exactly to its use for diseases of the nether parts. It seems that the late-medieval herbal Hortus sanitatis misread or mistranslated 'Bubonio' for 'Bufonio', suggesting something to do with toads (Bufo). Hence it is known, too, as Toadflax. It has also been described by the word 'urinalis', and an explanation is hardly necessary that Linaria vulgaris in keeping with that word has been used as a diuretic.
It wouldn't surprise me if Linaria is one of the constituents of the peat that was once dug here. And its decomposition might also have yielded part of the methane of the natural gas which we happily use to heat our homes today.
In May 2006, an eruption of mud began to flow in Sdoarjo Indonesia. The cause of the mud volcano is still disputed, with some theories blaming the drilling of a natural gas well by PT Lapindo Brantas, and others attributing the flow to a distant earthquake. In any case, the mud flow is the largest mud volcano in the world, spewing 180,000 cubic meters of mud per day, and is expected to continue to flow for another 25-30 years. With the eruption, 40,000 villagers were displaced and 20 were killed.
About a decade after the disaster began, these statues were placed to commemorate the lives lost and the lives interrupted. Today, the mud continues to flow.
Taken at Latitude/Longitude:-7.527064/112.703939. km (Map link)
Many homes and businesses in the city receive their natural gas supply delivered by trucks like this one spotted on Alfonso Reyes in Colonia Condesa.
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This is an askew view* of a street access cover. "GAZ" (gas in English) indicates that it provides access to the city supply lines carrying natural gas to users. I like the contrast between the cast iron cover textures and the cobblestone textures.
* Askew view: This is a "fool the eye" editing experiment. The original image was a straight-down look at the circular cover. I used an editing tool called "live unskew" in a reverse manner to produce this skewed image. Everyday experience tells us that the cover is circular. As a result, the skewing that I introduced via an editing tool makes it appear that we are viewing the circular cover at an angle. I think this "askew view" is more interesting than the original circular image.
Location: Downtown Strasbourg, Alsace FR.
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There is a good joke to be found in this photo, see the comments from [outtakes] and myself below.
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My father was a pumper for Continental Oil Company in Southwestern Louisiana in the late 1940's through the early 1960's. After that he transferred to the Natural Gas department (NGGP) and continued to work for CONOCO several more years. In all he had a total service in excess of 40 years in the oil and gas industry.
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Natural gas complex - Dekheela district, Alexandria. A deep red filter was applied on the lens and B&W conversion from RAW file.
A wall-mount gasolier sconce casts a intricate design onto the wall at the Lincoln-Tallman House in Janesville, WI.
MAN NL313-F Lion's City, 8835 seen in Madrid.
Like the majority of Madrids municipal buses, it is powered by Compressed Natural Gas, or Gas Natural Comprimado as denoted by the CNG transfers on the front of vehicles.
Twelve Iveco Irisbus Citelis 12 GNC / Tata Hispano Habit wear this livery of yellow as opposed to the usual blue to work the dedicated express service to Madrid Barajas Airport.
5131 is seen at Plaza de Cibeles en route to Atocha on September 1st 2021.
before repairing a natural gas line, workers had to burn-off all the remaining natural gas left in the line after shutting it off.
This is from our trip West and then up into Canada... Beautiful once we got past the drilling boom towns. It seems there might be a way to maintain balance but I'm not sure.
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This emergency box was built for the long haul. Decades of use show just like wrinkles and scars on the hands and faces of those who have carried it over the years. Thanks to all who work to make our world safe and comfortable.
A late CN X324 has a pair of SD40-2W's leading a Dash8 cowl (CN 5258, CN 5287 & CN 2417) as it heads through St-Lambert. The lead unit had been converted to run on LNG fuel for test purposes a few years back and acquired SD45-like flares in the process. It has since been converted to regular diesel operation. The two lead units came into Montreal in the wee hours of the morning on CN 372. SD40-2W's have become very rare in the Montreal area, so this was a nice catch.
Each of the kitchen designs by the American Gas Association were named. Kinda cute. It was part of their "New Freedom Gas Kitchen" campaign. This ad appeared in Ladies Home Journal and American Home.
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Loads of pressurized gasoline and propane gas are blown-up around the base of "the man" at the end of the Burning Man Festival. They use a controlled BLEVE (Boiling Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion).
Can't we burn that "man" thing without blowing up that much fossil fuel? This is not environmentally friendly at all. It's just a big orchestrated pyrotechnic show like those you see at Disney World or Hollywood. We don't need that. Am I the only one to feel that way?
By the way, I was in the crowd with everyone else when I took this photo, I did not have an "Inner Circle Pass" this year. Camera was handheld, no tripod.
Photo taken at the Burning Man 2012 festival (Black Rock Desert, Nevada).
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Two thirds of BNSF's current LNG-powered units sun themselves in Topeka, KS outside of the business car shops on tracks that formerly surrounded the roundhouse.
The 5815 and 9131 arrived in Topeka last week after cold-weather testing in MN and ND concluded.
My aerial imaging business expands from real estate and farm & ranch to now include oil & gas drilling operations and facilities located in South Texas.
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On September 9th, BNSF's GE LNG unit #5815 along with LNG tank BNSF #933500 were sitting outside of their Topeka, KS shops. In the background, are the test cars that have been working with these units, Canyon Diablo and Kootenai River.
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Good morning! I'm in experimentation mode this week. ;)
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Here is the natural refraction of light passing through a glass vase filled with water.
The "flame" you see inside the glass is actually the reverse of the background! How does this happen... well......
You may already know that light slows down while passing through water. What's happening here is that light passing through from the left part of the background gets bent (because it hits the water at an angle, due to its shape formed by its container) towards the right (twice, once when entering the water then again when exiting) and the opposite happens to the light from the right part of the background. This is what gives the reversal effect we see.
If the water was in the shape of a cube, the overall path of the light, from the background to the camera lens, would still end up in the same direction. Why? Because it would bend one way, but then bend back the other way (unlike going through the circular vase, in which the light bends in the same direction both times).
Cool stuff!
And BTW, if the speed of light didn't change in different mediums, things would be a lot different all around. Like, I expect everyone's vision would be mega blurry, even with glasses, because the lenses in our eyes wouldn't be able to focus light to our retinas...
Anyway, I really love the resulting effects here....Something so common, so dependable, so precise, yet so cool. And there are no glitches. It always just works. ;) And that's one of the many reasons why I love science, and the God who created it all! Hooorah!
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Edson, AB-20110104-Roughnecks Al Paley and Donald Etheridge working on the Stoneham Drilling Rig #8 in Alberta, Canada. Photo by Mikael Kjellstrom
Convection currents billow from the flames of a gas stove at home.
Home-brew Schlieren Photography.
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