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When she was a child my mother, who is now 97, lived and went to school not far from Salthill which was at the time a very popular holiday destination.
As I have never liked Irish seaside resorts and as my mother has always described Salthill as similar to Bray I never bothered visiting until this week. While my mother’s description is accurate to some degree I would describe it as being more attractive than Bray. Unfortunately I rained for the duration of my visit and because of the overcast sky my photographs are less colourful than I would have liked.
Salthill is a seaside area in the City of Galway in the west of Ireland. Lying within the townland of Lenaboy, it attracts many tourists all year round. There is a 2 km long promenade, locally known as the Prom, overlooking Galway Bay with bars, restaurants and hotels.
Salthill was, until 2007, home to one of the biggest non-fee paying air shows in Galway, the Salthill Air Show, which took place in June over Galway Bay. The show annually attracted over 100,000 people and generated over €1m in revenue.
I got the 401 bus from Eyre to Salthill Promenade - there is a bus every twenty minutes. To the best of my knowledge the bus fare is Euro 1.80 each way but as I have a travel pass I did not have to pay.
Generate London 2015, the conference for web designers, presented by net magazine and Creative Bloq.
17 and 18 September 2015 at the Grand Connaught Rooms in London.
Generate London 2015, the conference for web designers, presented by net magazine and Creative Bloq.
17 and 18 September 2015 at the Grand Connaught Rooms in London.
Computer generated image.
Should be viewed on black. So please click the image or press L to view it in Flickr's lightbox.
Navajo Generating Station is a coal-fired powerplant with a power of 2280 megawatts located on the Navajo Indian Reservation, near Page, Arizona, USA. Navajo Generating Station has three 236 meter high chimneys, which are among the tallest structures in Arizona. This plant provides electrical power to customers in Arizona, Nevada, and California. It was assembled during the 1970s and began producing commercial power in 1975. The construction costs were about $650 million, with an additional $420 million for new environmental scrubbers.
The power plant is served by coal mined at the Kayenta Mine near Kayenta, Arizona, and hauled by the Black Mesa and Lake Powell railroad. The Kayenta mine ships about 8 million tons of coal each year to the power plant.
The Navajo Plant emits 19.9 million tons of CO2 per year.
Generate London 2015, the conference for web designers, presented by net magazine and Creative Bloq.
17 and 18 September 2015 at the Grand Connaught Rooms in London.
Helicoprion sp. - fossil shark tooth whorl, probably from the Permian of Idaho, USA. (IMNH, Idaho Museum of Natural History, Idaho State University, Pocatello, Idaho, USA)
Bluish areas = vivianite (Fe3(PO4)2·8H2O - hydrous iron phosphate)
This remarkable fossil is a symphyseal tooth whorl from the lower jaw of an edestoid shark. Sharks have a cartilaginous skeleton and mineralized, phosphatic teeth (as are all vertebrate teeth). Helicoprion is undoubtedly the strangest shark in geologic history (see reconstructions elsewhere in this photo album and at the links given below).
Some paleontologists have interpreted the tooth whorl of Helicoprion sharks as part of a externally coiled lower jaw that may have been whipped outward and back to capture fish prey. Although intriguing, this type of reconstruction is incorrect. Instead, the tooth whorl was internal (inside the lower jaw tissues), and occupied the entire length of the lower jaw. The latter interpretation is based on an Idaho specimen that has soft-part preservation.
The spiral has been interpreted as a single tooth with numerous cusps. The oldest cusps are the smallest and occur at the center of the whorl. New, larger cusps were generated near the articulation joint between the shark's lower jaw (mandible) and the rest of the head. Helicoprion was an experiment in tooth retention - this shark could not eject teeth, unlike modern sharks.
Helicoprion sharks had modern-style scales on the body surface. Such scales result in no ripples and no sound while swimming - useful features in a marine predator. The classic interpretation of this shark having an external, open whorl as its lower jaw defeats the no-ripples-no-sound advantage of modern-style shark scales. An open, external tooth whorl is not hydrodynamic.
Classification: Animalia, Chordata, Vertebrata, Chondrichthyes, Elasmobranchii, Eugeneodontida, Edestoidea, Agassizodontidae/Helicoprionidae
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Thanks to Jesse Pruitt who provided info. and access to Helicoprion museum specimens.
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See info. at:
web.uri.edu/celsnews/two-uri-biologists-solve-mystery-of-...
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17 and 18 September 2015 at the Grand Connaught Rooms in London.
In 1997 the Capitoline Museums debuted an exhibit entitled "The Machines and The Gods". The exhibit took place in the newly resurrected generating room of Rome's first electricity plant. Side by side both classical sculpture and industrial archeology were united. Shortly after it was decided that the building would become a permanent addition to the Capitoline Museums and would showcase their most recent additions in ancient Roman sculpture.
The neighborhood of Ostiense, in the southern part of Rome, has been on the rise over the past 5 years. This area was home to much of Rome's industrial history. Indeed other now abandoned structures still reside close to the waterfront including an old slaughterhouse, the Gasometer, and the old general markets. As these sites are recommissioned for modern use, a trendy cafe life begins to blossom and a once hidden portion of the city now comes to life.
Image shot from a slide July 2000.
SAVE THE HEARN, The Richard L. Hearn Generating Station
Don't demolish the Hern
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The Tate Museum transformed the Battersea Power Station into the Tate Modern.
Why can't we?
Building Date: 1949-51, 1959-1961
Architects: The Stone and Webster Engineering Company
Current Owner: Ontario Power Generation
Location: 440 Unwin Avenue
"The Richard L. Hearn Generating Station is an important landmark in the Port Lands Industrial District, an area that was developed in the early 20th century.
Planned in the 1940s, the Station was strategically located near the lake for the convenient receipt of coal by ship. It was named for Richard Lancaster Hearn, an engineer, nuclear power entrepreneur, and the Chairman of Ontario Hydro from 1955-1956.
On its opening in 1951, the Plant became the largest thermal-electric station in Canada. Constructed of structural steel, reinforced concrete slab floors and brick infill walls, it housed four coal-fired generating units which supplied 188 000 kilowatts of power to the province. Another four generating units were added from 1959-1961.
In the early 1970s, and partly in response to increased complaints about air pollution, a larger smokestack was built to disperse the plants pollutants over a broader area. By 1994, the Station had ceased operations.
In 2002, Ontario Power Generation leased the Hearn Generating Station and a portion of the adjoining land for use as a film studio. In 2008, the new Portlands Energy Centre, powered by natural gas and steam, was opened on the Station's lands. Today, the Richard L. Hearn Generating Station faces an uncertain future."
Heritage Toronto
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Realised I never posted the final product.
This is what I ended up with, I would have liked to spent a bit of time roughening up the edges of the text/vectors, but in the end just needed to get the job out. Thanks to all those that commented and helped me out.
Generate London 2015, the conference for web designers, presented by net magazine and Creative Bloq.
17 and 18 September 2015 at the Grand Connaught Rooms in London.
Generate London 2015, the conference for web designers, presented by net magazine and Creative Bloq.
17 and 18 September 2015 at the Grand Connaught Rooms in London.
noticias.terra.com.br/ciencia/cupuladoclimacopenhague/not...
Reinventar a roda não é uma tarefa fácil, mas os pesquisadores do Instituto de Tecnologia de Massachusetts (MIT) estão dedicando seus melhores esforços ao projeto. O laboratório Senseable City, do MIT, projetou uma roda que captura a energia cinética gerada quando um ciclista freia e a acumula para os momentos nos quais ele pode vir a precisar de um empuxo adicional.
Embora o conceito seja sólido em termos tecnológicos, o verdadeiro desafio para a nova roda talvez seja o de conquistar os ciclistas. Afinal, há séculos as bicicletas são amadas por sua simplicidade, e não pelos recursos tecnológicos que ofereçam aos seus usuários.
Mas, como disse Carlo Ratti, o diretor do laboratório, "agora o ciclismo pode se tornar ainda mais efetivo do que foi ao longo do tempo". O que o seu laboratório está desenvolvendo, disse Ratti, é o "Ciclismo 2.0".
A nova roda utiliza um sistema de recuperação da energia cinética, a mesma tecnologia empregada em carros híbridos como o Toyota Prius, a fim de recolher energia que de outra forma seria desperdiçada, quando um ciclista usa o freio ou desce uma encosta em velocidade elevada. Com essa energia, o sistema carrega uma bateria instalada no cubo central da roda.
O esguio cubo de roda desenvolvido pela equipe de Ratti, pintado de vermelho e conhecido como "roda de Copenhague", foi revelado na manhã de terça-feira, em Copenhague. O sistema pode ser instalado na roda traseira de qualquer bicicleta existente, e inclui sensores de acompanhamento da qualidade do ar, um sistema de registro de quilometragem percorrida e uma unidade de navegação GPS para registro de percursos.
Todos esses dados podem ser enviados via Bluetooth para o celular inteligente de um ciclista, e também distribuídos a outros interessados. O laboratório está tentando eliminar o aspecto desajeitado de outras bicicletas elétricas dotadas de baterias pesadas e de cabos canhestros ao inserir toda a tecnologia no interior da roda, disse Christine Outram, a diretora de pesquisa do projeto.
"É uma tecnologia que pode convencer mais pessoas a usar bicicletas", ela disse. Mas outros especialistas demonstram mais ceticismo quanto às possibilidades. "A bicicleta básica é um conceito muito difícil de superar", disse Steve Hed, projetista de rodas para bicicletas e dono da Hed Cycling Products, de Shoreview, Minnesota, uma empresa que criou rodas especiais para astros do ciclismo como Lance Armstrong.
"A moda mais recente entre os adeptos do ciclismo são as bicicletas simples, com marcha única, simples e leves a ponto de permitir que uma pessoa as carregue no ombro quando não estiver montada".
Estamos vivendo um período de mudança no design das bicicletas, disse Jens Martin Skibsted, um projetista dinamarquês que é dono da Biomega, uma fábrica de bicicletas, e do ateliê de design ciclístico Kbisi. Skibsted acredita que, ao longo dos próximos anos, diversos designs novos e populares surgirão para atender a uma população cada vez mais urbanizada que vai tentar reduzir seu uso de automóveis.
Em períodos de mudança como o que está começando, ele disse, "a vitória dificilmente caberá ao produto mais funcional, e em lugar disso ficará com aquele que se tornar parte inerente de nossa cultura". "A roda deles parece bacana", prosseguiu. "Mas é difícil prever se poderá ou não perdurar".
De volta ao MIT, um segundo grupo de pesquisadores está apostando em um modelo diferente de roda, caso a primeira ideia não se prove atraente. Os projetistas envolvidos consideram que seja um exagero utilizar um sistema que recupera energia das freadas.
"O equipamento necessário a recolher a energia de freadas aumenta a massa, a complexidade e o custo do equipamento, e os ganhos de eficiência energética que o método propicia provam ser surpreendentemente limitados", disse William Mitchell, diretor do laboratório SmartCities, do MIT, que se dedica a melhorar a eficiência energética nos ambientes urbanos por meio de novas tecnologias.
Um dos alunos de doutorado de Mitchell, Michael Lin, também está desenvolvendo um projeto de roda elétrica para bicicleta, mas no caso dele a roda teria de ser recarregada em uma tomada.
"É um dos compromissos de projeto que tive de aceitar", ele disse. "Minha prioridade é criar uma bicicleta que se torne uma verdadeira ferramenta de transporte público."
Hed, o veterano projetista de rodas, disse que, se forem produzidas com competência, ideias como a roda de Copenhague ou a GreenWheel, um projeto de roda elétrico do MIT que admite recarga em tomada ou por meio de pedaladas, podem encontrar um nicho de mercado entre os ciclistas que precisem realizar percursos de média distância e em áreas de relevo moderado.
"Seriam opções excelentes para as pessoas que têm um trajeto de 16 quilômetros entre sua casa e o trabalho e não querem chegar ao escritório suando", ele disse.
Os ciclistas mais idosos também seriam um público-alvo interessante para as novas rodas, disse Hed. "Para a minha mãe, seria perfeito", ele afirmou. "Ela adora andar de bicicleta, e em seu caminho normal existe uma ladeira ou duas para as quais as rodas elétricas poderiam ajudar."