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I did one similar to this last year and have been wanting to do another and perhaps improve on it. It symbolizes human as caretaker to our planet . So take care, it's all we got.
The glass ball is like a converging lens giving a lovely distortion with all lines pointing to the center. Like being in the middle of a snow globe or rather sun globe. The image is flipped as in my previous post so the scene in the ball is right side up.
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Le pale eoliche catturano l’energia del vento, trasformandola in elettricità per il nostro uso. Questo processo è solo una piccola parte di un ciclo molto più vasto: l’incessante scambio di energia tra il Sole, la Terra e lo spazio.
Il Sole invia fotoni ad alta energia che attraversano l’atmosfera e riscaldano la superficie terrestre. La Terra, a sua volta, non trattiene questa energia all’infinito, ma la restituisce allo spazio sotto forma di radiazione infrarossa, composta da molti fotoni a bassa energia.
Questa trasformazione è cruciale per mantenere il pianeta abitabile: se la Terra trattenesse tutta l’energia ricevuta, sarebbe un inferno rovente.
Ma il bilancio energetico che si crea alimenta qualcosa di molto più straordinario: l’aumento di entropia e informazione. È da qui che nascono il vento, le correnti oceaniche, la vita stessa, e persino il pensiero umano.
La nostra capacità di catturare una minima parte di questo flusso—come fanno le pale eoliche—è un esempio di come possiamo convivere con le leggi della natura senza interromperne l’armonia. Il Sole continua a splendere, il vento a soffiare, e la Terra a trasformare l’energia, creando e rigenerando il nostro mondo in un equilibrio dinamico che sostiene ogni cosa, dalle onde ai cieli stellati, fino alla complessità della coscienza umana.
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Abstract sunset
il cielo si dissolve in luce e ombra..... il giorno si arrende alla notte
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The sky melts into light and shadow..... the day surrenders to night
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Solar Impulse, a solar aircraft just landed at Moffett Federal Airfield at NASA Ames in Mountain View, California.
Yesterday we went to San Francisco to watch the aircraft fly over the Golden Gate Bridge. We had a nice picnic a Crissy Field. Solar Impulse was flying quite high.
Founders Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg want us to use more clean energies. Or in their word, push the transition to renewable energy resources. Very inspiring!
The aircraft has a wingspan bigger than a Boeing 747, but weights just 2 tons instead of 400 tons. More info on this historic flight at www.solarimpulse.com
I processed a balanced HDR photo from a RAW exposure.
-- © Peter Thoeny, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, HDR, 1 RAW exposure, NEX-6, _DSC6012_hdr1bal1b
It's April 1st, but the universe is NOT fooling around, with another magical light show! Here are some images of the Aurora Borealis this morning. Palmer-Fishhook, Alaska
Garden side of energy efficient buildings with superinsulation. Primarily heated by radiated solar energy, heat produced by humans, household machinery, domestic electronic equipment and light fittings. Solar collectors on the roof for warm tap water. Painted with traditional red paint from the copper-mine in Falun (Swedish: Falu rödfärg). A tenant-owners´ society with 28 dwellings.
Built: 2010. Architect: Abako Arkitektkontor.
abako.se/ (website only in Swedish) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_solar_building_design
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Solar Impulse, a solar aircraft just landed at Moffett Federal Airfield at NASA Ames in Mountain View, California. Hurray!
Today we went to San Francisco to watch the aircraft fly over the Golden Gate Bridge. We had a nice picnic a Crissy Field. Solar Impulse was flying quite high, this is a tele-zoom shot.
Founders Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg want us to use more clean energies. Or in their word, push the transition to renewable energy resources. Very inspiring!
The aircraft has a wingspan bigger than a Boeing 747, but weights just 2 tons instead of 400 tons. More info on this historic flight at www.solarimpulse.com
I processed a balanced HDR photo from a RAW exposure.
-- © Peter Thoeny, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, HDR, 1 RAW exposure, NEX-6, _DSC6003_hdr1bal1a
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Solar Impulse, the solar aircraft built in Switzerland to circle the globe, took off this early morning at Moffett Federal Airfield at NASA Ames in Mountain View, California. I got an invite to witness this historic journey around the world.
Founders and pilots Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg first addressed the press. André climbed into the cockpit for this leg to Phoenix, Arizona. The flight will take 16 hours. I had a big tripod with me and could blend in with the press to get a prime spot for takeoff. Preparations were long, but the actual takeoff happened very quiet and sudden. I took this shot a few minutes before take-off at 5am in the morning.
Bertrand and André want us to use more clean energies. In their word, they want to push the transition to renewable energy resources. Very inspiring!
The aircraft has a wingspan bigger than a Boeing 747, but weights just 2 tons instead of 400 tons. To preserve weight and aerodynamics, this aircraft has no landing gears on the side. People hold the aircraft level on long poles until it gains enough speed. More info on this historic flight at www.solarimpulse.com
I processed a balanced HDR photo from a RAW exposure.
-- © Peter Thoeny, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, HDR, 1 RAW exposure, NEX-6, _DSC6450_hdr1bal1f
The Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Project is a concentrating solar power (CSP) plant built near Tonopah in Nye County, Nevada. The 110MW plant is the first commercial-grade solar power plant in the U.S. to be fully integrated with energy storage technology. It is also the world’s largest solar power facility with storage. The estimated cost of the project was $1B. In September 2011, Tonopah Solar Energy received a loan guarantee from the US Department of Energy (DOE) to finance the construction of the Crescent Dunes solar power plant. The remaining project cost was financed by SolarReserve, the Spanish engineering and construction company ACS Cobra, and the Spanish banking firm Santander. The project entered its commissioning phase in February 2014 following completion of the construction phase. It was expected to generate about half a million megawatt-hours annually of emission-free electricity, enough to meet the needs of approximately 75,000 households. It officially began commercial operations in September 2015. At this time, the project was under contract with Nevada Energy, the electric utility for most of Nevada, to supply its entire output. Perhaps unsurprisingly for such a large facility using cutting-edge technology, however, the plant was plagued with operational difficulties, mostly plumbing issues in handling the extremely hot & corrosive molten salt. Nevada Energy canceled the contract for non-performance in 2019, & the corporate owners filed for bankruptcy. Under new owners, the plant re-began production again in 2021, however, it remains to be seen whether the difficulties were solved.
Solar power has a lot of promise, but a fundamental challenge: it works only when the sun is shining. Hence, any solar power system that can supply energy 24/7 requires some means of energy storage. Electricity, however, is notoriously hard to store, especially at power plant scales. This challenge drives the need for alternative energy-storage technologies. Crescent Dunes has a novel approach to the electricity storage problem. Rather than boil water directly, solar heating is used to melt a salt reservoir, and the molten salt then boils water via a heat exchanger. The cooled but still-liquid salt is then returned to the reservoir for reheating. The hot-salt reservoir is large enough that it can continue boiling water to generate power for 10 hours, long enough to smooth out production when the sun is not shining. Over 10,000 mirrors are focused, under computer control, onto a tower some 656 feet high, where pipes carry the molten salt to be heated. The salt exits to a reservoir where it is held around 1,050 degrees Fahrenheit. When electricity is to be generated, this salt is run through the heat exchanger, which makes superheated steam that turns a turbine.
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Aperture – f/9
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The Thams Family Park on the Broadwater and the Gold Coast Hwy at Southport... is the first stage of the Southport Broadwater Parklands Re-Development that is sandwiched between the Broadwater and the Gold Coast Highway, has just undergone a transformation... The most interesting part of this transformation is that this park has been made energy self sufficient... harnessing the energy of the sun by means of array's of Photo-Voltaic Cells... This is the right step forward... an absolutely essential step in our battle with global warming... The widespread use of Photo-Voltaic Cells, is one of the best ways of generating electricity without producing extra heat in the process.
If we are to come to terms with... and indeed survive global warming... we must urgently phase-out all means of generating electricity that requires HEAT to generate the electricity... Only Photo-Voltaic Cells, Hydro, Wind, Wave and Tidal meets this absolutely essential requirement of generating electricity.
We congratulate the Gold Coast City Council and Mayor Ron Clarke for the foresight and leadership that they have shown in bringing this project to fruition... Hopefully, this is one of many more to come... to prove Photo-Voltaic Cell technology and make it ubiquitous... applied to every building and structure on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia... and the rest of the World...
The widespread use of this solar technology can enable us to generate five times as much energy as is currently used (all sources combined)... This energy will enable us to produce and deliver the water needed to re-establish all the vegetation that has been lost due to Man's ignorance... The vegetation that nature NEEDS to regulate Earth's temperature and climate... To store the excess solar energy, that is now heating the Earth, due to a lack of vegetation... To store the excess solar energy through photosynthesis... as nature has done in the past... Photosynthesis that produced all the stored solar energy, that we call FOSSIL FUEL'S... Fossil fuels that are NO LONGER being produced... Because, Man in his lack of wisdom, stripped the Earth of the vegetation and conditions that produced these fossil fuels -- STORED SOLAR ENERGY !!!
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The Thams Family Park on the Broadwater and the Gold Coast Hwy at Southport... is the first stage of the Southport Broadwater Parklands Re-Development that is sandwiched between the Broadwater and the Gold Coast Highway, has just undergone a transformation... The most interesting part of this transformation is that this park has been made energy self sufficient... harnessing the energy of the sun by means of array's of Photo-Voltaic Cells... This is the right step forward... an absolutely essential step in our battle with global warming... The widespread use of Photo-Voltaic Cells, is one of the best ways of generating electricity without producing extra heat in the process.
If we are to come to terms with... and indeed survive global warming... we must urgently phase-out all means of generating electricity that requires HEAT to generate the electricity... Only Photo-Voltaic Cells, Hydro, Wind, Wave and Tidal meets this absolutely essential requirement of generating electricity.
We congratulate the Gold Coast City Council and Mayor Ron Clarke for the foresight and leadership that they have shown in bringing this project to fruition... Hopefully, this is one of many more to come... to prove Photo-Voltaic Cell technology and make it ubiquitous... applied to every building and structure on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia... and the rest of the World...
The widespread use of this solar technology can enable us to generate five times as much energy as is currently used (all sources combined)... This energy will enable us to produce and deliver the water needed to re-establish all the vegetation that has been lost due to Man's ignorance... The vegetation that nature NEEDS to regulate Earth's temperature and climate... To store the excess solar energy, that is now heating the Earth, due to a lack of vegetation... To store the excess solar energy through photosynthesis... as nature has done in the past... Photosynthesis that produced all the stored solar energy, that we call FOSSIL FUEL'S... Fossil fuels that are NO LONGER being produced... Because, Man in his lack of wisdom, stripped the Earth of the vegetation and conditions that produced these fossil fuels -- STORED SOLAR ENERGY !!!
I am very interested in your feedback... So, please add your comments below !!
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Last month we stayed in Tonopah, Nevada. North-west of the town is a 110 megawatt solar thermal power plant called Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Project. It will start operating later this year and will provide power for 75,000 homes. The anticipated to cost is a bit less than $1 billion. At the bottom you see the reflection on the panels that mirror the sunlight to a large tower to heat liquid salt, which is used to generate electricity.
This solar power plant can operate 24/7 - hot salt in a big tank stores energy for use at night. A truly large-scale project. An overview video describes this.
This photo shows the reflectors called heliostats. There are 17,500 of them, each has 62.4 m² (670 square feet) of mirrors.
Explanation on using "nay" and "yea" in the title, based on Wikipedia article: "While Modern English has a two-form system of yes and no for affirmatives and negatives, earlier forms of English had a four-form system, comprising the words yea, nay, yes, and no. In essence, yes and no were the responses to a question posed in the negative, whereas yea and nay were the responses to positively framed questions."
I processed a balanced HDR photo from two RAW exposures.
-- © Peter Thoeny, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, HDR, 2 RAW exposures, NEX-6, SEL-55210, _DSC1600_1_hdr2bal1k
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On Saturday we went to San Francisco to watch the aircraft fly over the Golden Gate Bridge. We had a nice picnic a Crissy Field. Solar Impulse was flying quite high, a red helicopter was circling it to take photos. The solar aircraft landed at Moffett Federal Airfield at NASA Ames in Mountain View, California.
Founders Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg want us to use more clean energies. Or in their word, push the transition to renewable energy resources. Very inspiring!
The aircraft has a wingspan bigger than a Boeing 747, but weights just 2 tons instead of 400 tons. More info on this historic flight at www.solarimpulse.com
I processed a balanced HDR photo from a RAW exposure.
-- © Peter Thoeny, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, HDR, 1 RAW exposure, NEX-6, _DSC6021_hdr1bal1e
The new flats near my boat seem to have solar water heating fitted on the roof, close-up in adjacent photograph.
The Past on the Edge of the Future - A modest, mid-century, country home decays on the edge of a solar farm and a soybean field in Hertford, NC, USA.
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Solar Impulse, the solar aircraft built in Switzerland to fly around the world on solar fuel only, took off on May 2nd early morning at Moffett Federal Airfield at NASA Ames in Mountain View, California. I got an invite to witness this historic journey around the world.
I took this shot when approaching the white inflatable hangar seen on the right. The hangar is double-walled, and is held up by air pressure inside the walls. The fabric is 97% transparent so that the solar cells on the aircraft can operate and charge the batteries while the aircraft is parked. More info on this historic flight at www.solarimpulse.com
I processed a balanced and a paintery HDR photo from a RAW exposure, and merged them selectively.
-- © Peter Thoeny, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, HDR, 1 RAW exposure, NEX-6, _DSC6236_hdr1bal1pai1h
Well it wasn't rain - but it was so much pink and purple in the sky that it was unreal while it was in real 😄
I imaged this in the Philippines just before the point the sun begins to dip below the Pacific Ocean. I thought I would burn out my camera's sensor. That Canon PowerShot is still taking pictures, but close to retirement.
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Situated at East Point which is just slightly north of Darwin city, hedonist's haven of the balmy tropical northern Australia. I think it's a trial joint venture between the local council and some US mob. The black whirly top was spinning furiously when we approached to shoot however it just stopped as if camera shy.
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Solar Impulse, the solar aircraft built in Switzerland to circle the globe, took off on last Monday early morning at Moffett Federal Airfield at NASA Ames in Mountain View, California. I got an invite to witness this historic journey around the world.
Founders and pilots Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg first addressed the press. André climbed into the cockpit for this leg to Phoenix, Arizona. The flight took 16 hours. I had a big tripod with me and could blend in with the press to get a prime spot for takeoff. Preparations were long, but the actual takeoff happened very quiet and sudden. I took this shot at the time of take-off at 5am in the morning.
Bertrand and André want us to use more clean energies. In their word, they want to push the transition to renewable energy resources. Very inspiring!
The aircraft has a wingspan bigger than a Boeing 747, but weights just 2 tons instead of 400 tons. To preserve weight and aerodynamics, this aircraft has no landing gears on the side. People hold the aircraft level on long poles until it gains enough speed. More info on this historic flight at www.solarimpulse.com
I processed a balanced HDR photo from a RAW exposure.
-- © Peter Thoeny, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, HDR, 1 RAW exposure, NEX-6, _DSC6477_hdr1bal1d
Thank you for visiting - ❤ with gratitude! Fave if you like it, add comments below, get beautiful HDR prints at qualityHDR.com.
Solar Impulse, the solar aircraft built in Switzerland, took off early Monday morning at Moffett Federal Airfield at NASA Ames in Mountain View, California. I got an invite to witness this historic journey around the world.
Founders and pilots Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg first addressed the press. André climbed into the cockpit for this leg to Phoenix, Arizona. Here the crew pushes the aircraft sideways so that it can taxi to the runway. The flight took 16 hours.
Bertrand and André want us to use more clean energies. In their word, they want to push the transition to renewable energy resources. Very inspiring!
The aircraft has a wingspan bigger than a Boeing 747, but weights just 2 tons instead of 400 tons. To preserve weight and aerodynamics, this aircraft has no landing gears on the side. People hold the aircraft level on long poles until it gains enough speed. More info on this historic flight at www.solarimpulse.com
I processed a balanced and a paintery HDR photo from a RAW exposure, and merged them.
-- © Peter Thoeny, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, HDR, 1 RAW exposure, NEX-6, _DSC6421_hdr1bal1pai1e
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Solar Impulse, a solar aircraft is currently on the way to San Francisco and will soon fly over the Golden Gate Bridge. We plan to go to San Francisco to see the spectacle. You find info at www.solarimpulse.com
Three years ago, the two pilots came to NASA Ames Moffett Field with the first generation of solar aircraft. This photo is from the lecture they gave at NASA Ames on April 26, 2013.
I processed a balanced HDR photo from one exposure.
-- © Peter Thoeny, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, HDR, 1 exposure, NEX-6, DSC01976_hdr1bal1b
Dans la parabole du four solaire d'Odeillo, l'un des deux plus grands du monde, : 54m de haut, 48m de large...un paradis de reflets !
Pyrénées Orientales, Languedoc Roussillon, France .
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Solar Impulse, the solar aircraft built in Switzerland, took off on Monday morning at Moffett Federal Airfield at NASA Ames in Mountain View, California. I got an invite to witness this historic journey around the world.
Founders and pilots Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg first addressed the press. Their vision is future with clean energy. André climbed into the cockpit for this leg to Phoenix, Arizona. The flight took 16 hours. After takeoff I I met Bertrand Piccard in person, what an honor!
More info on this historic flight at www.solarimpulse.com.
I processed a balanced HDR photo from a RAW exposure.
-- © Peter Thoeny, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, HDR, 1 RAW exposure, NEX-6, _DSC6536_hdr1bal1b
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Last week we stayed at Tonopah, Nevada. North-west of the town is a 110 megawatt solar thermal power plant called Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Project. It will start operating later this year. The anticipated to cost is a bit less than $1 billion. At the bottom you see the reflection on the panels that mirror the sunlight to a large tower to heat liquid salt, which is used to generate electricity.
This solar power plant can operate 24/7 - hot salt in a big tank stores energy for use at night. A truly large-scale project. An overview video explains it.
I processed a balanced HDR photo from a RAW exposure. I actually took three bracketed exposures, but decided to use just the underexposed one to get these deep colors.
-- © Peter Thoeny, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, HDR, 1 RAW exposure, NEX-6, SEL-55210, _DSC1640_hdr1bal1b
Krka – 2019, October 05
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