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The other energy source is of course the North Sea Oil and Gas which has been developed for a while. It seems the people of Shetland were also concerned about the development of these facilities so concentrated them here. For more information see : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sullom_Voe_Terminal.
We were travelling by a large car/van to the island of Unst for a long walk at the Hermaness Nature Reserve. It required 2 ferry trips - Mainland to Yell, Yell to Unst.
I enjoyed the walk but found I wasn't quite fit enough and there wasn't good loo facilities when I needed it.
Having to answer a call of nature in the wide open heathland was a bit annoying. Shows you that I am getting too used to the niceties of life!
I have often asked how Island communities manage both the energy and waster generated by tourists. I think here the sheep probably generate more waste than the tourists!
A pair of dolphins leap ahead of the looming bulk carrier, "Liberty Grace", entering Corpus Christi Bay, in Port Aransas, Texas
Coal seam east of Crail in Fife, Scotland. The coal was formed in the Carboniferous, approximately 335 million years ago.
A pod of three dolphins swim in the bow wave of the crude oil tanker "Hellespont Promise", leaving Corpus Christi Bay, in Port Aransas, Texas
Lighthouse on the tip of the land in nice sunlight, Elie, Fife.
Bit of a mankind-vs-nature theme going on with this one: paths through the grass, lighthouse, boathouse, even oil-rigs in the distance along the Firth of Forth.
Earth begins to reclaim a very old hydrocarbon fueling station in Paulsboro, NJ USA. The future is Mr. Edison triumphing finally over Mr. Ford.
58035 working a Grain to Hoo Junction loaded MGR working near Cooling Street on the Grain Branch. 14th March 1995.
On my YouTube channel, The Single Track Branch Lines of the UK, The Grain Branch Kent youtu.be/G4G1OInZg30
Solent Kiteboarders
Kiteboarding at sunset tonight from Hill Head. Visibility was very poor because of low cloud and mist but the cold wind was ideal for these brave kitesurfers.
Port Allen, Kauai, Hawaii
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Het Terra-Nova Aussichtspunkt is één van de uitkijkpunten rondom de grootste bruinkoolmijn van het Duitse energiebedrijf RWE, de Tagebau Hambach. Hier wordt bruinkool (een fossiele brandstof) afgegraven door middel van dagbouw (Tagebau). Dagbouw is een vorm van mijnbouw, maar in tegenstelling tot gesloten mijnen is de aantasting van het landschap bij dagbouw, zoals je kunt zien, enorm. De bruinkoolmijn Hambach had eind 2017 een oppervlakte van maar liefst 43,8 vierkante kilometer.
Opmerkelijk: Tagebau Hambach is het laagste bovengrondse punt van Europa en één van de laagste op aarde (299 meter onder NAP).
Elsdorf, Duitsland
The Terra-Nova Aussichtspunkt is one of the vantage points around the largest brown coal mine of the German energy company RWE, the Tagebau Hambach. Here, lignite (a fossil fuel) is excavated by opencast mining (Tagebau). Opencast mining is a form of mining, but unlike closed mining, as you can see, the damage to the landscape in opencast mining is enormous. At the end of 2017, the Hambach lignite mine had an area of no less than 43.8 square kilometers.
Remarkable: Tagebau Hambach is the lowest above-ground point in Europe and one of the lowest on earth (299 meters below NAP).
Elsdorf, Germany
Louisiana (USA). May 5th, 2010. Aerial view of the oil leaked from the Deepwater Horizon wellhead, slowly approaching the coast of Louisiana East of the mouth of the Mississippi river. A BP leased oil platform exploded April 20 and sank after burning. Leaking an estimate of more than 200,000 gallons of crude oil per day from the broken pipeline to the sea. Eleven workers are missing, presumed dead. In the picture a pod of rays swims under the oily waters of the gulf. Photo by Daniel Beltra/Greenpeace
Op foto's is het bijna niet voor te stellen hoe immens groot de bruinkoolmijn Tagebau Hambach is. Het is indrukwekkend om met eigen ogen te zien, maar tegelijkertijd ook pijnlijk om te zien wat een impact het heeft op de natuur en het landschap.
In 1978 begonnen de voorbereidingen voor de grootste bruinkoolmijn van Duitsland. Enkele dorpen werden gesloopt en een groot bos werd gekapt. In 1984 kon begonnen worden met de dagbouw (Tagebau). Elk jaar wordt hier rond de 40 miljoen bruinkool gedolven.
Het toekomstplan is om een meer van Hambach te maken. Dit zou dan met 4200 hectare het grootste (qua volume) meer van Duitsland worden.
Elsdorf, Duitsland
It's almost impossible to imagine in photos how immense the Tagebau Hambach brown coal mine is. It's impressive to see with your own eyes, but at the same time painful to see the impact it has on nature and the landscape.
Preparations for Germany's largest lignite mine began in 1978. Some villages were demolished and a large forest was cut down. In 1984, opencast mining (Tagebau) could be started. Every year around 40 million lignite is mined here.
The future plan is to make a lake of Hambach. With 4,200 hectares, this would then become the largest (by volume) lake in Germany.
Elsdorf, Germany
Powder River fossil fuels head east behind BNSF ES44AC #6158 on a cold January day (1-10-2016) in the Sand Hills of Nebraska on the former Burlington Northern main.
Simply one of many from my archives that haven't seen the light of day thus far while I endure the dry shooting spell. My travels across the country this year have resulted in only two occasions for time off at home in Tennessee.
Pumpjack silhouettes during a Weld County sunset as wildfire smoke fills the distant sky.
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Louisiana (USA). May 5th, 2010. Aerial view of the oil leaked from the Deepwater Horizon wellhead, slowly approaching the coast of Louisiana East of the mouth of the Mississippi river. A BP leased oil platform exploded April 20 and sank after burning. Leaking an estimate of more than 200,000 gallons of crude oil per day from the broken pipeline to the sea. Eleven workers are missing, presumed dead. In the picture shrimp boat participating in the cleaning operation.Photo by Daniel Beltra/Greenpeace
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Louisiana (USA). May 5th, 2010. Aerial view of the oil leaked from the Deepwater Horizon wellhead, slowly approaching the coast of Louisiana East of the mouth of the Mississippi river. A BP leased oil platform exploded April 20 and sank after burning. Leaking an estimate of more than 200,000 gallons of crude oil per day from the broken pipeline to the sea. Eleven workers are missing, presumed dead. In the picture shrimp boat participating in the cleaning operation.Photo by Daniel Beltra/Greenpeace
Tanker Asphalt Eagle upbound on the Hudson River passing tugboat Evelyn Cutler between Beacon and Newburgh, NY
Just Stop Oil activists marching down Whitehall, with the top of Nelson's Column just visible in the background, on Saturday 20 March 2023.
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JSO should be applauded for trying to remind us that the door of opportunity for minimizing catastrophic climate change is rapidly closing. Their "Just Stop Oil" message also reminds us what our most urgent priority should be - to stop investing in new oil fields and production and to turn instead to green sources of energy.
Even if many don't agree with their current tactic of slowly marching along a road dressed in orange hi-vis jackets and carrying their simple "Just Stop Oil" message on banners, I think most people will be shocked by the way JSO activists have been repeatedly assaulted by motorists and others, whose violent actions have often been encouraged and apologized for, if not excused, by the mainstream media. As if that isn't enough to deter most people from joining them, they also face surveillance, arrest and draconian penalties for peaceful protest, including lengthy prison sentences and heavy fines, under the newly passed Public Order Act.
Louisiana (USA). May 5th, 2010. Aerial view of the oil leaked from the Deepwater Horizon wellhead, slowly approaching the coast of Louisiana East of the mouth of the Mississippi river. A BP leased oil platform exploded April 20 and sank after burning. Leaking an estimate of more than 200,000 gallons of crude oil per day from the broken pipeline to the sea. Eleven workers are missing, presumed dead. In the picture workers setting booms around the brown pelican colony in Breton island. The brown pelican is Louisiana's state bird. Photo by Daniel Beltra/Greenpeace
New Book: Bart van Damme - COAL LANDSCAPES
Size: 13×11 in, 33×28 cm. Pages: 88
All photos were created in industrial areas in The Netherlands, in 2012 - 2017.
If you're interested you can get your copy at Blurb.
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As an artist / photographer, I am particularly interested in the transitional landscape and coal heaps are a prime example, as they constantly change shape and volume. It’s a slowly disappearing landscape, since coal driven power plants are banned more and more in our part of the world, especially since and because of the Paris Agreement of 2015. It interests me that coal represents everything that we generally perceive as dirty and polluting, while on the other hand, these heaps, like no other, are able to catch the light so phenomenally.
Portraying coal heaps in a formal style can create a certain monumentality, like mythological or magic mountains, on which the viewer can project their own thoughts. Especially when a white paper-emulsion is sprayed on top of them - to keep the coal dust from spreading - the heaps seem in competition with natural mountains with snowy tops. These landscapes are unknown to most people, because they are located in remote and semi-hidden places. For me it was a revelation to find and to create beauty in these unlikely and unexpected places. Extraordinary and vanishing landscapes, in a changing world.
This book is telling the story of how a major part of the carbon based economy era slowly is coming to an end. As such, this series of vanishing landscapes are made in the same spirit as early 20th century photographer Eugène Atget, documenting the street scenes of Paris before their disappearance into modernization.
Louisiana (USA). May 5th, 2010. Aerial view of the oil leaked from the Deepwater Horizon wellhead, slowly approaching the coast of Louisiana East of the mouth of the Mississippi river. A BP leased oil platform exploded April 20 and sank after burning. Leaking an estimate of more than 200,000 gallons of crude oil per day from the broken pipeline to the sea. Eleven workers are missing, presumed dead. In the picture oil weathered by the currents and wind. Photo by Daniel Beltra/Greenpeace
A police officer appears to film a Just Stop Oil activist on Whitehall near Parliament Square on Saturday 20 May 2023.
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JSO should be applauded for trying to remind us that the door of opportunity for minimizing catastrophic climate change is rapidly closing. Their "Just Stop Oil" message also reminds us what our most urgent priority should be - to stop investing in new oil fields and production and to turn instead to green sources of energy.
Even if many don't agree with their current tactic of slowly marching along a road dressed in orange hi-vis jackets and carrying their simple "Just Stop Oil" message on banners, I think most people will be shocked by the way JSO activists have been repeatedly assaulted by motorists and others, whose violent actions have often been encouraged and apologized for, if not excused, by the mainstream media. As if that isn't enough to deter most people from joining them, they also face surveillance, arrest and draconian penalties for peaceful protest, including lengthy prison sentences and heavy fines, under the newly passed Public Order Act.
Hey look! Here on Interstate 10 near Palm Springs, California, we can see a wind farm that is saving the planet and a greenhouse gas farm that is destroying it.
Time to take action on climate change - we all need to do our bit no matter how big or small to safeguard the planet for wildlife, the natural environment and future generations.
Moving on, here we see Avanti West Coast Pendolino 390 119 passing through Docker in Cumbria on the morning of the 6/5/25 with 9M51 from Edinburgh to London Euston va Birmingham.
This spot was accessed following a 7 mile cycle ride from Oxenholmne station after a 5am start to reach Cumbria.
Louisiana (USA). May 5th, 2010. Aerial view of the oil leaked from the Deepwater Horizon wellhead, slowly approaching the coast of Louisiana East of the mouth of the Mississippi river. A BP leased oil platform exploded April 20 and sank after burning. Leaking an estimate of more than 200,000 gallons of crude oil per day from the broken pipeline to the sea. Eleven workers are missing, presumed dead. In the picture oil weathered by the currents and wind. Photo by Daniel Beltra/Greenpeace
A sprawling coal processing plant took up the landscape here between the Kanawha River and US Route 60.
-430 employees and 250 contractors
-Daily rated capacity: 187,000 barrels of crude oil
-Products: unleaded gasoline, diesel fuels, aviation fuels, propane, butane, lubricating oils, waxes, sulphur, asphalt and heavy fuel oil
One of the biggest polish power plant located in Rybnik, Silesia. It's owned now by Polish Energy Company (PGE). This plant has 8 coal fired blocks with total capacity 1775 MWe. The biggest stacks are 261 and 314 metres tall. Lower stacks of FGD units and cooling towers are 120 metres tall.
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Elektrownia w Rybniku, należąca od maja 2017 roku do Polskiej Grupy Energetycznej, jest największą elektrownią na Śląsku i jedną z największych elektrowni w Polsce. Podstawowym paliwem elektrowni jest węgiel kamienny, którego elektrownia spala około 4 mln ton rocznie. Ze swoja mocą, wynoszącą 1775 MWe jest w stanie pokryć około 8% krajowego zapotrzebowania na energię elektryczną. Pierwsze cztery bloki pochodzą z lat 1972 - 1974, kolejne uruchomiono do 1978 roku. Obecnie w jej skład wchodzi 8 bloków energetycznych. Dwa największe kominy elektrowni wznoszą się na wysokość 261 i 314 metrów, z czego ten trugi jest najwyższym kominem w Polsce. Dwa mniejsze kominy stanowią element instalacji odsiarczania spalin i wznoszą się na wysokość 120 metrów. Chłodzenie elektrowni zapewniają dwie chłodnie kominowe o wysokości 120 metrów (po prawej), oraz Zalew Rybnicki o powierzchni 550 hektarów, który jest również znakomitym miejscem wypoczynku i rajem dla wędkarzy.