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The sun sets behind a oil platform off the coast of California. Is this the sunset of fossil fuels due to climat echange?
G538 still with its tatty Freight Australia logo and livery working the PN fuel shunt.
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Sculptor Dan Rawlings' installation that explores our exploitation of nature’s resources and nature’s ability to respond. 20-21 Visual Arts Centre, Scunthorpe, UK.
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Trametes versicolor, is believed to have significantly slowed the natural production of coal by breaking down the lignin in plants that eventually formed lignite (coal). Scientists at Oregon State University have recently been studying the mushrooms potential to produce bio-fuels and perform environmental cleanup.
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Sunset over the mouth of the River Humber in East Yorkshire, England. This was taken from Spurn Point, a sandbank Spit that runs out alongside the Estuary into the North Sea. This is quite an old photo, taken using my old Fuji Finepix S9500 bridge compact camera.
Edson, AB-20101219-Floorhand Darren Lefebvre directs a pipe onto a trough on the Stoneham Drilling Rig #8 while pulling the pipes out of the ground. Photo by Mikael Kjellstrom
Edson, AB-20101219-Floorhand Bradley Verhey putting away a tong on the Stoneham Drilling Rig #8 while pulling the pipes out of the ground. Photo by Mikael Kjellstrom
"Feathers on my breath
Gentle impulsion
Shakes me, makes me lighter
Teardrop on the fire..."
- Massive Attack (Teardrop)
This image is a remix of a splashing droplet photograph that I took a while ago with a Speedlight camera flash unit rented out by a friend. The colours in this version have been inverted in Photoshop to enhance the contrast and bring out a little fiery colour. If you haven't heard 'Teardrop', go and find a copy - it's a great piece of music.
Leased CP SD40-2 #5927 pulls a cut of loaded Westmoreland Coal hoppers from the mine to Sask Power's Poplar River Power Plant near Coronach SK
As UN climate talks start in Katowice, a rally organised by Campaign Against Climate Change was held outside the Polish embassy in London to show solidarity with Polish activists calling for the threat of global warming to be taken more seriously by governments. The pivotal talks will see countries finalise the rulebook to the landmark Paris Agreement, but with coal companies among the official sponsors of the talks many aren't optimistic they'll take sufficient action on climate change.
After speeches by politicians, environmentalists and activists the gathering marched to Downing Street, to hand over a Frack Free United Declaration for the Prime Minister, Theresa May.
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(Note: I've moved this one back to the top of the heap because of one additional bit of information which I wasn't aware of when it was originally posted, or when I reposted it three months ago. The new info is this little statement from the Wikipedia entry about Wyoming's Powder River Basin.)
The mines in the Powder River Basin typically have less than 20 years of life remaining.
Twenty years! Then what??? Anyway, end of insert and update; back to the original caption ...
Yeah, that's right -- 11 million tons of coal a year. I took this photo a few years ago but thought it worth resurfacing, if only as a reminder. It's a reminder of what it takes to feed our insatiable appetite for electric power, and all the conveniences which that energy source provides.
As I noted when the pic was taken (2007), Plant Scherer, located south of Atlanta GA, burns the amount of coal carried by nearly 1,300 coal trains a year -- which works out to 2,000 miles of coal cars, or as writer John McPhee put it, "twelve million tons of the bedrock of Wyoming." The quote is from McPhee's wonderful two-part series of articles in the New Yorker. The trains he wrote about pass through Huntsville -- day and night -- on their way to Plant Scherer. And that's where this one was headed.
A natural gas fracking well near Shreveport, Louisiana.
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Original title: Natural Gas Fracking in Louisiana
Kraftwerk in Betrieb bis 1990, Usedom, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, heute Historisch-Technisches Museum PeenemĂ¼nde, 1939–1942, Abteilung Kraftwerksbau der Siemens-Schuckert AG (Architekt vielleicht Hans Hertlein?), 30MW Steinkohlebefeuerung, Fernwärme
A late summer walk from the Berkshire Downs with a view over Didcot Power Station. The first three cooling towers were demolished on July 27 2014. Soon the last remaing Cooling towers of this coal-fuelled power station will be also be blasted and brought crumbling down.
9208 leads two sister 92 class units on an empty coal train headed for loading at one of the Hunter Valley mines.
COP26 Sheffield Climate March 06/11/21
4,000 people marched to a rally outside City Hall demanding greater action on reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Album: www.flickr.com/photos/shefftim/albums/72157720116193159
Edson, AB-20110104-Roughnecks Donald Etheridge working on the Stoneham Drilling Rig #8 in Alberta, Canada. Photo by Mikael Kjellstrom
Today I managed to put together the winning combination of Kindle Reader PC App and Inkpad Notepad App.
My initial introduction to Kindle on my PC was not favourable to me as a writer and researcher because it did not permit copy&paste on my PC desktop.
The phone app works better in this regard but I don't write on my phone.
That's all changed. Shown here are the results of the two in combination. InkPad Notepad has been on my phone for over a decade so I appreciated all its user-friendly features and its online synchronization from various devices.
Try it. You'll like it.
Edson, AB-20110104-Roughnecks Donald Etheridge working on the Stoneham Drilling Rig #8 in Alberta, Canada. Photo by Mikael Kjellstrom
Three unit trains of Powder River Basin coal await crews at the east end of Guernsey terminal, Guernsey, Wyoming. 2021-08-18.
When Electric Energy Inc. cranked out its first commercial power in August 1953, it was home to the world's largest turbines and tallest towers to move high voltage across the Ohio River to a massive nuclear plant west of Paducah.
Transmission lines across Ohio River to USEC plant are on towers 478 feet high and 4,000 feet apart .
Northern interloper CP8834 leads an NS tank train on the approach to Upper Bay Bridge. In the loop (passing siding) is a manifest train that has just crossed over the bridge.
From the toxic waste created by the extreme extraction of tar sands destroying indigenous communities in Canada, to toxins created by the BP Whiting refinery producing sacrifice communities in the Greater Chicago area, to the resultant catastrophic effect on our climate, the urgent need for a just transition away from fossil fuels to a 100% renewable energy economy is abundantly clear.
JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA -- Saturday, May 14th, 2016. Activists from 350.org converged at the Zoo Lake this morning and walked to the Gupta's residence where they demand a just response to climate change and deliver a coffin full of coal symbolizing the end of coal during a Break Free action.
Break Free 2016 is a week of coordinated direct actions that target the most dangerous fossil fuel projects, in an effort to keep coal, oil and gas in the ground and accelerate a just transition to 100% renewable energy. Thousands of people all over the planet are putting their bodies on the line to send a message to polluters and politicians that we need to break free from fossil fuels now.
Photo by: Shayne Robinson | Mutiny Media
Washington DC, the afternoon of Sunday November 29, 2015. Around 1,000 activists and supporters affiliated with 350, AVAAZ and other climate justice groups gathered in front of the White House for a rally and march to influence the policy direction of the world climate talks commencing in Paris the next day. The DC event was one of many taking place all over the world this weekend. In Paris, climate justice activists were placed under house arrest and long planned demonstrations were banned, ostensibly due to security concerns in the wake the the tragic ISIS terrorist attacks of Friday, November 13. Some very brave French activists marched on the streets of Paris in defiance of the ban and were subjected to chemical weapon attack by militarized police.