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12 november 2022
A spreng, sprang or sprengebeek is a stream dug or relocated by people with wells dug in such a way that pressurized groundwater is brought to the surface. In the Veluwe (part of Gelderland) , the word spreng has a special meaning, spreng is used here for a dug well or spreng head. A spreng is therefore a dug stream and these were mainly used to drive water mills, for making paper and/or for water for the laundries.
I've never been very much on making plans and setting goals. Oh... sure... I've made them and set them in the past. But I never follow through so... what the heck's the point? Plus, I've found that happenstance is frequently my friend so... I'm pretty much content to just let life happen.
It's funny thinking back on all the many things I thought I wanted, and wanted to be, growing up... all the different jobs and professions I considered... not to mention the days I cursed the simple fact of having choices. In my mother's day, things were simpler, I thought. If you chose to do something other than raise kids and/or look after some man, your choices were relatively limited - the conventional ones being nurse, teacher, nun.
By the time I was on the scene, everything had changed. My parents told me constantly that I could be and do absolutely anything I wanted. Nice. But also... aacck... highly pressurized. Anything? Geez. You mean I have to choose from an infinite number of options? It was pretty overwhelming, especially since the things to which I naturally gravitated all seemed problematic.
I wanted to be a poet. My mom said: impractical.
I wanted to be a philosopher. My parents assured me: not at all viable if you want to eat on a regular basis.
Then I wanted to be a vet. Until I learned about medical school and the long taxing hours that would have to be got through.
At one point, I honestly thought I'd want to do AI - artificial insemination. It seemed rather "vet lite"... and the AI guys who came to our farm to inseminate our cows seemed to have a pretty spiffy life... driving around the countryside with a trunk full of frozen semen, putting on the long glove and reaching way inside a beast... bringing together the first two key ingredients in a brand new life... and then driving on to do the same thing somewhere else.
Then I got older and lazier. I started assessing career options based on the length and complexity of the required preparation. Interior designer, I thought at one point. I figured I could be done with the training and working and supporting myself well before my 20th birthday. Then I took a related course in high school. Ha-a-a-ted it. And decided to just chuck the whole career idea entirely.
Most of what's happened since has been accidental. Or coincidental. Or whatever you want to call it.
It may be sad from a certain perspective, but many of the major changes in my life were precipitated, over the years, by partnerships with men.
I took my first radio job - not because I loved the work, but because it would bring me closer to my then-boyfriend.
Years later, I moved to The Big City and took a job there to be with another boyfriend.
Ultimately, I left radio entirely and moved here, to the Island, to be with Husband Mike. And I'm certainly not complaining; it's all worked out.
So I wasn't at all surprised when I saw this pic. It was completely unintentional... but I love what resulted. This was from Friday, when I was gearing up for the knife shot. My dear little fuzzy friend was nearby, as always. I'd already triggered the shutter... on a timer... when she walked into the shot and sat there looking at me... all ears and quizzical eyes. I started laughing... and she turned to face the camera just as it clicked.
Anyway... like I said... I'm a fan of happenstance. So this is my little tribute to it.
And really... what's better than going through life knowing that you never know - and can't know - what great thing will happen next?? Bring it on.
Meteor Crater in Arizona is an interesting National Natural Landmark.
Privately owned by the Barringer Crater Company, this 1.2 km diameter, 170m deep hole confounded geologists and speculators alike for nearly 70 years. In the 1890s, mineralogists and geologists investigated meteorites in the area and the crater itself (known then as Canyon Diablo) to determine whether it could have been formed by a meteoric impact - a radical theory at that time. The Chief Geologist for the U.S. Geological Survey, Grove Karl Gilbert, hypothesized that for the crater to have been caused by a meteor would require a meteor the size of the crater, and that the meteorite itself would be buried below the crater, creating a magnetic anomaly. Since he could find no evidence to support his hypothesis, Gilbert, the most respected and prestigious geologist of his time, declared the crater a result of a volcanic steam explosion.
Daniel Moreau Barringer, a mining engineer who had made a fortune in Silver, learned about the crater and meteorites around it and became convinced that it was an impact crater. Believing, like Gilbert, that a sizable iron meteor (on the order of ten million tons) must have caused the crater, he began the Standard Iron Company to begin mining the area in hopes of making a billion-dollar fortune. Barringer, and his partner Benjamin Chew Tilghman set about trying to prove the validity of their impact theory, presenting arguments to the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia and the National Academy of Science in Princeton during the first decade of the 20th century.
In the following two decades, Barringer continued mining for the meteor, changing the focus from directly beneath the crater to under the south rim, only to find water. With investors getting nervous about the potential for losing their money, Barringer consulted F.R. Moulton, an astronomer, for his analysis on the size of the meteor. Unfortunately for Barringer, Moulton determined the meteor to be approximately 300,000 tons (3% of Barringer’s speculation), and that the bulk of it would have been vaporized on impact.
On November 30, 1929, heartbroken and having lost the bulk of his fortune in addition to the hundreds of thousands of investors' dollars, Barringer died a week after receiving Moulton's most thorough analysis. It took until 1960 when, Eugene Merle Shoemaker identified the existence of coesite - a silica that is only formed by intense over pressurization of quartzite rock - in the meteor crater, finally confirming Barringer's hypothesis of the impact event.
In the century since Gilbert's and Barringer's hypotheses, science has advanced considerably in geology and astronomy, to the point where impact craters hundreds of miles wide have been identified across the globe. But, without the pioneering work by Barringer, and his willingness to take on the contemporary scientific establishment (backing Gilbert), little of this would have been realized.
Sol de Mañana (Spanish: Morning Sun) is a geothermal area in Sur Lípez Province in the Potosi Department of south-western Bolivia. It extends over 10 km2, between 4,800m and 5,000m in altitude.
This area is characterized by intense volcanic activity and the sulphur springs field is full of mud lakes and steam pools with boiling mud. Industrial logging was attempted at the end of the 1980s, but is uneconomic. There are still several wells, one of which emits pressurized steam, visible in the morning up to 50 meters high. The major mud lakes are located at 4,850m.
The field is seismically active.
Sol de Mañana, together with El Tatio, is among the geothermal fields located at high altitude and is associated with the volcanic system of the Altiplano-Puna volcanic complex, as well as with a fault system that connects the two. Sol de Mañana is part of the geothermal system of the Laguna Colorada caldera; Cerro Guacha and Pastos Grandes have been proposed to be the heat sources as well. This geothermal field has been investigated for the potential of geothermal power generation.
The region of Sol de Mañana is volcanic, with extensive exposure of Miocene-Pleistocene materials ranging from andesite to rhyodacite, as well as extensive faulting. Moraines also occur in the area.
There are still several wells, one of which emits pressurized steam, visible in the morning up to 50 meters high.
DOEL (Bel.) - The Doel Nuclear Power Plant is located in the Port of Antwerp, on the left bank of the river Scheldt. The site houses 4 reactors of the PWR type. These reactors with pressurized water are among the safest in the world. The 4 reactors have a total power ouput of 2923 MW. The Doel Nuclear Power Plant accounts for about a quarter of the total electricity production in Belgium.
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Along the pipeline in Schuylerville, New York, small, pressurized leaks give Mother Nature the tools to create fields of ever-changing ice sculptures during these cold winter months.
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As a nature and landscape photographer there are a few places that have been on wish list to visit and capture with my camera. The Hot Creek Geological Site in the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range was one of them.
From their site: Hot Creek is a place to marvel at geology in action. Boiling water bubbling up from the creek bed, fumaroles and periodic geyser eruptions at Hot Creek attest to the chamber of hot magma which lies about three miles below the surface of the earth in this area.
The steam you see along the Hot Creek drainage is created when water percolates deep into the ground and enters a complex underground plumbing system. The water is heated and pressurized before it rises to the earth's surface. It is believed this journey takes around 1000 years.
Earthquakes can cause sudden geyser eruptions and overnight appearances of new hot springs at Hot Creek. Water temperatures can change rapidly, and so entering the water is prohibited.
Aufeis is ice that is formed when ground water is forced to the surface from subterranean springs. Here ice from pressurized ground water that is loaded with sediments has started to melt with the onset of summer leaving curious sediment covered ice mounds.
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Designed and built by the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation to the specification of the legendary Howard Hughes, the Constellation, the world's first commercially successful pressurized airliner, heralded a new post-war era of safe, comfortable and fast transatlantic air travel. This graceful looking aircraft with its long sinuous fuselage - curving downward at the nose and upward at the rear to its distinctive tripletail, became synonymous with the halcyon days of the big Propliners and is still widely regarded with awe and affection.
In all, 856 Constellations were built, ranging from the first C-69 variant to the magnificent L-1649 Starliner. Sadly 55 years after the first aircraft flew, only a handful remains airworthy as a vibrant reminder of perhaps the most beautiful propliner of them all.
Brandon, on the left, My second born son with Morgan on the right, My second born Grandson, taking a lunch break in the annual 'clean and muck out the Pond' day.
We have ordered a new, state of the art Pressurized BioFilter system that, we hope, will allow healthy fish and plants, and still keep clear water for swimming. A long standing goal of mine, since in the summer, the heat and sun produce very very healthy algae that make the pond look like it is full of split pea soup. Will let you know how it goes later this year.
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Skútustaðagígar - Lake Myvatn 20200802
Adding to the charm of Iceland, many land formations such as the Skútustaðagígar Craters have been recognized as the Icelandic gems. When you enter the Mývatn area, the first attraction you will find is the Skútustaðagígar pseudocraters. They are often known as rootless cones or rootless craters as they have no end, as normal craters would usually do. The Skútustaðagígar pseudocraters are called pseudocraters as they are not caused by the actual explosion of volcanos, but are a byproduct of their flowing lava.
This natural phenomenon takes place when piping hot lava flows over cool, wet grounds and pressurizes the earth downwards. This causes steam to be trapped under the weight of the lava, producing extreme pressure. When this pressure becomes too great, steam explosions are triggered, creating depressions in the ground to form these mesmerizing pseudocraters. The Skútustaðagígar pseudocraters were formed during the eruption of Lúdentaborgir and Þrengslaborgir around 2,300 years ago.
Source: Iceland Travel Guide
C'est l'heure du grand nettoyage dominical, dans le froid et les gouttelettes d'eau sous pression volant autour de soi...
Et c'est l'heure des motifs "chaises de bar" aussi.
En bref, c'est l'heure d'une scène de rue...
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Euphorbia is a very large and diverse genus of flowering plants, commonly called spurge. This variety, also known as Mediterranean Spurge, blooms in late winter or early spring and has lime green flowers in its cyathium. It is a contender for space in our San Francisco garden.
In the genus Euphorbia, the flowers are reduced in size and aggregated into a cluster of flowers called a cyathium. This feature is present in every species of the genus Euphorbia but nowhere else in the plant kingdom.
The milky sap of spurges (called "latex") evolved as a deterrent to herbivores. It is usually white, and transparent when dry. The pressurized sap seeps from the slightest wound and congeals after a few minutes in air. The skin-irritating and caustic effects are largely caused by varying amounts of diterpenes, which are antimicrobial and anti-nflammatory compounds that are found in retinal and retinol.
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The milky color of the mineral deposited here inspired the naming of Porcelain Basin. The mineral, siliceous sinter, is brought to the surface by hot water and forms a "sheet" over this flat area; as the water flows across the ground, the mineral settles out. Siliceous sinter is also called geyserite. Deposits usually accumulate very slowly, less than one inch (2.5cm) per century, and form the geyser cones and mounds seen in most geyser basins.
Porcelain Basin is the fastest changing area in Norris Geyser Basin, and siliceous sinter is one of the agents of change. If the mineral seals off a hot spring or geyser by accumulating in its vent, the hot, pressurized water may flow underground to another weak area and blow through it.
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How is this for "cool"… The Piaggio P-180 Avanti is an Italian executive aircraft with twin turboprop engines mounted in pusher configuration. It seats up to nine people in a pressurized cabin.
Guernsey registered 2-COOL is seen taxiing at Gloucestershire Airport, Staverton.
The Cap-Rouge tracel is a trestle railway viaduct (or trestle bridge) located in the Cap-Rouge district of Quebec. Completed in 1908, it is still in service.
A first transcontinental railway to British Columbia reached the west coast in 1885. A second transcontinental project was launched in 1903, then a third completed the network in 1915. It was in the second transcontinental project that the construction of the viaduct.
Very quickly, the construction of the foundations, in 1906, proved more difficult than expected, due to the very unstable soil of the river bed. It was then decided to use the very heavy technique of jacking by pressure boxes, and to remove every other tower in this sector, by considerably reinforcing the structure of the central pillars and replacing the deck of these long spans with beams. trellis.
These difficulties made it impossible to deliver the viaduct in 1907, as planned. But the collapse of the Quebec Bridge on August 29, 1907, to which the tracel is directly linked, made any haste in its construction unnecessary: the rails were laid between 1908 and 1911, the work was completed in 1913, and the viaduct was put in place. in service the same year. Trains must cross the St. Lawrence River on ferries, pending the successful installation of the central span of the Quebec Bridge in 1917.
The river bed being particularly loose, it was necessary to resort to the costly and difficult technique of sinking using pressurized caissons to establish solid foundations under the main trestles.
The workers worked in very difficult conditions in a pressurized metal chamber, weighted with concrete: the box sank little by little, vertically, into the mud and alluvial soil, as the workers removed the muddy material. Two vertical tubes connected the working chamber to the airlocks located on the surface, one reserved for personnel access, the other for the evacuation of debris.
This method is very similar to that practiced at the same time (1907) for the work of crossing under the Seine of line 4 of the Paris metro between the Cité and Saint-Michel stations, and comparable to that of sinking the pylons of the bridge from Brooklyn, a quarter of a century earlier.
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Union Pacific Train GSETRG-12 (Grain loads, CP interchange at Eastport, Idaho–River Gate, Portland, Ore.) passes over the 3,920-foot Joso High Bridge over the Snake River at Joso, Wash.
The longest and highest bridge today on Union Pacific's system, the Joso High Bridge was originally the vision of North Coast Railroad, which in 1910 started construction on the bridge at nearly the same time that it was taken over by Oregon–Washington Railroad & Navigation Co., a Union Pacific subsidiary. Completed in 1914 for the then-staggering amount of $2 million, the bridge cut out some 52 miles and four-and-a-half hours running time from the former Spokane–Portland route.
An incredible engineering feat to say the least, the project also came with a harsh human price tag. Early on in the bridge's construction, workers descended about 65 feet below the Snake River in pressurized caissons to dig footings for the piers, exposing them to oxygen deficencies below or decompression sickness when they surfaced. As the project evolved, other workers died when high winds whipped them off the bridge superstructure as many as 285 feet above the Snake River. Bodies were often swept miles downstream, not being recovered for days or weeks afterward. Once asked years after the bridge's completion about the dangers of working on Joso Trestle, a worker later recalled that the construction crew "lost one a day."
Life in the last one two years may be pressurized for many who face jobs lost and uncertainty. It is important to let go some steam............
This man seem to be enjoying himself at the parade. For many years police use to turn a blind eyes at the heavy fireworks shot off at this parade but with all the problems with terrorism and mass shooter concerns fireworks are now strictly banned and now tubes pressurized with glitter and paper strips are now shot off which was fine with me as I had brought ear plugs from remembered how loud the parade use to get. Also as usual at this parade it’s a very well behaved crowd.
Looking very apocalyptic this night.
It was 36 degrees, standing in the cold listening to my cameras shutter snap another image, 153 of them to be exact. 30 second exposures stacked using StarStax software.
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The Upper Geyser Basin is famous for hosting Old Faithful Geyser. But there is much more in the area than just this famous geyser. The Upper Geyser Basin also boasts the largest concentration of geysers in the world, including many of the worlds largest geysers.
A geyser is a spring characterized by intermittent discharge of water ejected turbulently and accompanied by steam. As a fairly rare phenomenon, the formation of geysers is due to particular hydrogeological conditions that exist only in a few places on Earth. Generally all geyser field sites are located near active volcanic areas, and the geyser effect is due to the proximity of magma.
Generally, surface water works its way down to an average depth of around 2,000 metres (6,600 ft) where it contacts hot rocks. The resultant boiling of the pressurized water results in the geyser effect of hot water and steam spraying out of the geyser's surface vent (a hydrothermal explosion). - Wikipedia
The Skútustaðagígar pseudo craters are called pseudo craters as they are not caused by the actual explosion of volcanos, but are a byproduct of their flowing lava.
This natural phenomenon takes place when piping hot lava flows over cool, wet grounds and pressurizes the earth downwards. This causes steam to be trapped under the weight of the lava, producing extreme pressure. When this pressure becomes too great, steam explosions are triggered, creating depressions in the ground to form these mesmerizing pseudo craters. The Skútustaðagígar pseudo craters were formed during the eruption of Lúdentaborgir and Þrengslaborgir around 2,300 years ago.
Ultra valuable and Ultra rare 1936 Mercedes-Benz 540K Special Cabriolet at speed on Highway 1 South of Monterey.
Introduced at the 1936 Paris Motor Show, the Friedrich Geiger designed car was a development of the 500K, itself a development of the SSK.
Built for their wealthiest and most demanding clients, the Mercedes-Benz 540K Special Roadster was the Mercedes-Benz flagship in the prewar years. Introduced in 1936, just twenty-six 540K Special Roadsters were built, and of these, only a few were exported to the United States.
This Mercedes-Benz 540K Cabriolet, bodied by Berlin coachbuilder Erdmann & Rossi, was ordered by Barbara Hutton, the wealthy Woolworth heiress and socialite, as a gift for her future husband, Count Kurt von Haugwitz-Hardenberg-Reventlow. She asked for several unusual features, including a passenger compartment to seat four adults and custom-built wheel covers. The most unusual, and seemingly capricious, request was to fit purely decorative exhaust pipes on the left side of the car so it would look symmetrical. This unique Mercedes-Benz later appeared in the 1941 Hal Roach movie Topper Returns. It has been with the Keller Collection since the late 1980s.
Introduced at the 1936 Paris Motor Show, the Friedrich Geiger designed car was a development of the 500K, itself a development of the SSK. The straight-8 cylinder engine of the 500K was enlarged in displacement to 5,401 cubic centimetres (329.6 cu in). It was fed by twin pressurized updraft carburetors, developing 115 hp. In addition, there was an attached Roots supercharger, which could either be engaged manually for short periods, or automatically when the accelerator was pushed fully to the floor. The 540K had the same chassis layout at the 500K, but it was significantly lightened by replacing the girder-like frame of the 500K with oval-section tubes - an influence of the Silver Arrows racing campaign.
A 540K Special Roadster sold in 2016 for 9.9 Million $$, so you will have to save a lot of pennies.
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The Cap-Rouge tracel is a trestle railway viaduct (or trestle bridge) located in the Cap-Rouge district of Quebec. Completed in 1908, it is still in service.
It allows you to cross the valley of the Cap Rouge River, at the western end of the Quebec hill.
The French word tréteau (anc. fr. trestel), from the late Latin transtillum (a "traverse"), passed into English in the form trestle, became in Quebec French tressel or more commonly tracel, to designate a trestle bridge.
A first transcontinental railway to British Columbia reached the west coast in 1885. A second transcontinental project was launched in 1903, then a third completed the network in 1915. It was in the project of the second transcontinental that the construction of the viaduct was included.
Very quickly, the construction of the foundations, in 1906, proved more difficult than expected, due to the very unstable ground of the river bed. It was then decided to resort to the very heavy technique of sinking by pressure caissons, and to remove one tower out of two in this sector, by considerably reinforcing the structure of the central pillars and replacing the deck of these long spans with lattice girders.
These difficulties made it impossible to deliver the viaduct in 1907, as planned. But the collapse of the Quebec Bridge, on August 29, 1907, to which the route is directly linked, made any haste in its construction useless: the rails were laid between 1908 and 1911, the work was completed in 1913, and the viaduct was put into service the same year. Trains had to cross the St. Lawrence River on ferries, pending the successful completion of the central span of the Quebec Bridge in 1917.
The riverbed being particularly soft, it was necessary to resort to the costly and difficult technique of sinking with pressurized caissons to establish solid foundations under the main trestles.
The workers worked in very difficult conditions in a pressurized metal chamber, weighted down with concrete: the caisson gradually sank vertically into the mud and alluvial soil, as the workers removed the muddy material. Two vertical tubes connected the work chamber to the airlocks located on the surface, one reserved for personnel access, the other for the evacuation of the spoil3.
This method is very similar to that used at the same time (1907) for the work to pass under the Seine of line 4 of the Paris metro between the Cité and Saint-Michel stations, and comparable to that of the sinking of the pylons of the Brooklyn Bridge, a quarter of a century earlier.
Period documents show how each white-hot rivet was thrown vertically using pliers: a colleague would catch the rivet in mid-air in a metal funnel before throwing it even higher, with pliers, towards another worker, and so on, until it was transported to the place of use, where the rivet was set with blows from a sledgehammer: this perilous exercise certainly required strength and skill.
The tall and long silhouette of the viaduct has dominated the gentle landscape of the mouth of the Cap Rouge River for a century, with its picturesque houses in bright colours. Opinions are very divided on the aesthetics of the structure. The most philosophical among the local residents say that, since we have to live with it, we might as well find it beautiful! Historians and visitors see it as a testimony to the know-how of ancient engineers and builders, and one of the most magnificent examples of a monument of industrial archaeology.
But not much snow in the mountains yet. Luckily a short loop of track prepared with a 'snow gun', a gizmo that shoots pressurized water and air out through a nozzle.
It was built in the 1970s on a site of 75 hectares2 on the banks of the Meuse, 30 km south-west of Liège, 34 km east of Namur, 68 km east of Charleroi and 80 km km south-east of Brussels.
It is made up of three pressurized water reactors of American Westinghouse design, each prepared with a primary circuit (closed) to cool the reactor core, a secondary circuit (closed) which supplies steam to a turbo-alternator group (two for Tihange 1), and a tertiary circuit (open) supplied by water from the Meuse and equipped with an air-cooling tower.
The turbo-alternators are made up of a turbine and an electric generator of around 1,000 megawatts (2 × 500 megawatts, 1N and 1S3, for Tihange 1).
The B-3 flight jacket was issued to pilots performing missions in extreme regions.
At that time, airplanes were not equipped with pressurization devices, so they were manufactured primarily for thermal insulation.
After 1940, bomber cockpits were equipped with pressurization and temperature control functions, and the B-3 gradually disappeared.
One of two B-29 Superfortress that are still flying today, the FIFI is preserved by the Commemorative Air Force based out of Dallas Texas though this particular Sunday it was at airshow at the Trenton Mercer Airport in New Jersey. The long line indicative of the popularity of the plane as one could climb aboard the marvelous vintage aircraft that was with its pressurized cabin the most sophisticated bomber in the world at the late stages of World War II. #developportdev @gothamtomato @developphotonewsletter @omsystem.cameras #excellent_america #omsystem @bheventspace @bhphoto @adorama @tamracphoto @tiffencompany #usaprimeshot #tamractales @kehcamera @mpbcom @the_commemorative_airforce @newjerseyisntboring @newjerseyisbeautiful #omd #olympus #microfourthirds #micro43 #micro43photography
Soda Springs, Idaho has the world's only "captive geyser". In 1937, while drilling for warm water for a swimming pool, a deposit of water and pressurized gas was punched 300 feet underground. The resulting geyser came close to flooding the town before it was finally capped. Now pressure is relieved every hour by opening a valve creating a 100 foot high geyser. Over the years, a colorful orange mineral deposit has built a base around the geyser, and on this cold winter day the rocks and trees were coated with ice.
Sol de Mañana (Spanish: Morning Sun) is a geothermal area in Sur Lípez Province in the Potosi Department of south-western Bolivia. It extends over 10 km2, between 4800m and 5000m in altitude.
This area is characterized by intense volcanic activity and the sulphur springs field is full of mud lakes and steam pools with boiling mud. Industrial logging was attempted at the end of the 1980s, but is uneconomic. There are still several wells, one of which emits pressurized steam, visible in the morning up to 50 meters high. The major mud lakes are located at 4850m.
The field is seismically active.
Sol de Mañana, together with El Tatio, is among the geothermal fields located at high altitude and is associated with the volcanic system of the Altiplano-Puna volcanic complex, as well as with a fault system that connects the two. Sol de Mañana is part of the geothermal system of the Laguna Colorada caldera; Cerro Guacha and Pastos Grandes have been proposed to be the heat sources as well. This geothermal field has been investigated for the potential of geothermal power generation.
The region of Sol de Mañana is volcanic, with extensive exposure of Miocene-Pleistocene materials ranging from andesite to rhyodacite, as well as extensive faulting. Moraines also occur in the area.
Woman demonstrating the explosive potential of airborne flour dust at the Gold Medal Flour plant in Minneapolis last summer. She sprinkled flour into the silo, pressurized the building with a bicycle pump, and lit a match - it went up like a powder keg! All to help the kiddos understand the great mill disaster of 1878, which killed 14 employees. Half the building is missing and ragged to this day.
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Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber
The first aircraft to drop an atomic bomb. The bomb, code-named "Little Boy", was targeted at the city of Hiroshima, Japan, and caused unprecedented destruction. Enola Gay participated in the second atomic attack as the weather reconnaissance aircraft for the primary target of Kokura. Clouds and drifting smoke resulted in Nagasaki being bombed instead.
Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum annex.
The Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia is a companion facility to the Museum on the National Mall in Washington, DC, USA
Boeing's B-29 Superfortress was the most sophisticated propeller-driven bomber of World War II and the first bomber to house its crew in pressurized compartments. Although designed to fight in the European theater, the B-29 found its niche on the other side of the globe. In the Pacific, B-29s delivered a variety of aerial weapons: conventional bombs, incendiary bombs, mines, and two nuclear weapons.
On August 6, 1945, this Martin-built B-29-45-MO dropped the first atomic weapon used in combat on Hiroshima, Japan. Three days later, Bockscar (on display at the U.S. Air Force Museum near Dayton, Ohio) dropped a second atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan. Enola Gay flew as the advance weather reconnaissance aircraft that day. A third B-29, The Great Artiste, flew as an observation aircraft on both missions.
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Physical Description:
Four-engine heavy bomber with semi-monoqoque fuselage and high-aspect ratio wings. Polished aluminum finish overall, standard late-World War II Army Air Forces insignia on wings and aft fuselage and serial number on vertical fin; 509th Composite Group markings painted in black; "Enola Gay" in black, block letters on lower left nose.
Country of Origin
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Manufacturer
Boeing Aircraft Co.
Martin Co., Omaha, Nebr.
Date
1945
The first Boeing B-29 Superfortress made it maiden flight in September 1942 and would be critical to ending the Second World War as the mission of the Enola Gay & Bockscar B-29’s dropping devastating atomic bombs on Hiroshima & Nagasaki respectively prompted the eventual surrender of Japan. The FIFI B-29 seen in this image taken at Trenton Mercer Airport in New Jersey at an air show held by the Commemorative Air Force whose home base is Dallas is one of two B-29 Superfortress that are still flying today. The B-29 during WWII was the most sophisticated bomber at the time, the first bomber to house its crew in pressurized compartments. - [x] #developportdev @gothamtomato @developphotonewsletter @omsystem.cameras #excellent_america #omsystem @bheventspace @bhphoto @adorama @tamracphoto @tiffencompany #usaprimeshot #tamractales @mpbcom @kehcamera @newjerseyisntboring @newjerseyisbeautiful @visit_nj @the_commemorative_airforce @caf1957 #olympus #omd #microfourthirds #micro43 #micro43photography
He cinches the rope, its coarse fibers biting into his palms as he tests the tension.
In this darkness, his life is a calculation of millimeters. Every carabiner, every knot, every stitch in his harness, each is a heartbeat he hasn't lost yet.
It is the simple, binary math of the abyss: perfection means an ascent; a single oversight means becoming part of the geology.
Gravity makes the descent the easy part. While the world's most elite spelunkers whisper about the "2-kilometer club," the signal they’ve intercepted originated from a depth that defies known maps.
This jagged maw in the earth sits in the shadow of Unger’s Rift, a proximity that feels less like geography and more like an omen.
The cave system already holds a grim record for casualties, though "disappearances" is the more accurate term. No bodies were ever recovered; no shattered gear was ever found. If Unger is involved, a quick death is the optimistic theory.
Time is bleeding away. His heavy gear has already been winched into the throat of the cave. Now, it’s his turn to follow it into the pressurized black.
To most, this is a suicide mission. But he isn't most people. He’s an Action Man.
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A year of the shows and performers of the Bijou Planks Theater.
Need a hole for an action figure scene? Our pups happily oblige. This is one of several in the dog park, and precisely the reason we needed a fenced in 'dog park'. Some of the pack are voracious diggers, so they have an area where they can burrow to their heart's delight.
The dog park:
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Action Man
Skateboard Extreme
1993, Hasbro
* See Unger's Rift on the Map of Paprihaven!
NO, not the Brew Pub (although there is nothing on a Wisconsite's mind more than food and drink) but the water tower.
It's quoted as the first thing you see coming into town and last thing leaving, also very often decorated or showing off their small-town pride.
We don't have these in California as most of our water systems are much more recently designed and built (plus don't look too earthquake proof). But building back in the 1880's thru 1930's the water tower WAS the town.
As tallest thing in town (remember height equals pressure) it would pressurize the water system. Provided back up water for droughts and firefighting and handling peak demands by draining and refilling during the day/evening.
Apparently the actual height of this iceberg was 6 storey high and if a person were to walk on it, he/she would take 5 mins to walk from one end to the other! All I can say is this is truly just the tip of the iceberg!
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About
An Antarctic Sunset With Gigantic Tabular Iceberg
The Shot
3 exposure shots (+2..0..-2 EV) in RAW
Photomatix
- Tonemapped generated HDR using detail enhancer option
Photoshop
- Added 1 layer mask effect of 'curves' for overall contrast
- Added 1 layer mask effect of 'curves' to enhance iceberg
- Added 1 layer mask effect of 'saturation' (cyans & blues) to enhance iceberg
- Added 1 layer mask effect of 'saturation' (reds & yellows) to slightly desaturate the sky
- Applied high pass sharpening
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Vue sur la vallée Rhône depuis Mirmande.
Centrale nucléaire de Cruas
La centrale nucléaire de Cruas-Meysse est dotée de 4 réacteurs nucléaires de 900 MW, soit un total de 3 600 MW. La construction a débuté en 1976 et les mises en service ont été réalisées en 1984 et 1985. Cette centrale représente en moyenne 4 à 5 % de la production nationale, soit 40 % des besoins annuels de la région Rhône-Alpes.
Environ 1 200 salariés travaillent à la centrale de Cruas sur un site d'une superficie de 148 hectares.
Pour son refroidissement, la centrale utilise l'eau du Rhône et quatre tours aéroréfrigérantes.
En avril 2013, EDF a annoncé un projet de construction de 5 à 6 nouveaux bâtiments à partir du mois de septembre 2013, pour réceptionner et finir d'assembler 3 générateurs de vapeur qui devraient commencer à être remplacés en 2014.
Les premiers générateurs de vapeur sont remplacés à partir du mois de mars 2014 sur la tranche 4. La tranche 1 est la suivante, à partir du premier semestre 2016.
fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centrale_nucléaire_de_Cruas
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Cruas Nuclear Power Station
The Cruas Nuclear Power Station is a nuclear power plant located in Cruas and Meysse communes, Ardèche, next to the Rhône River in France. The site is 35 km north of Tricastin Nuclear Power Center and near the town of Montélimar.
The site contains 4 pressurized water reactors of 900 MW each, totaling 3600 MW total. The construction began in 1978, the reactors were built between 1983 and 1984.
The power station accounts for 4 to 5% of the electric energy production in France, and 40% of the annual usage by the Rhone-Alps area. The site employs about 1,200 workers and has an area of 148 hectares. Cooling water comes from the Rhône river.