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wow truly amazing pieces of engineering!
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They have built a lot of those in my neck of the woods, but I've never seen them out in the water like that. It's amazing how huge they are up close and personal.
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The failed ones look like birds that have flown into someone window, and fallen crumpled to the sidewalk.
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This is amazing! Nice collection!
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Too many wind turbines leads to global air slowing
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also, the wind pushing so many turbines actually makes the earth spin faster
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spinning energy from hurricanes...
sounds good to me... Now if only someone could figure out how to to all that insufferable heat they have in the south and west every summery. Imagine converting so much solar energy to electricity or hot water that the ambient temperature went down one degree...after all, dissimlar metals release electricity when in contact under heat...
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Fuse13: - LOL
Poetry - converting solar energy will the subject of our next post in this series...
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You don't even mention the idea of Nuclear power... A lot of people worry about the waste, but the fact of the matter is that it's been thought through and it's not a problem. You can eat Uranium cake (the byproduct of nuclear reactions, 99.7% pure uranium) by the spoonful and it won't harm you for years. One scientist even offered to do so until the environmentalists allowed the opening of Yucca mountain's nuclear waste storage facility. This isn't just a waste storage facility, there's also future hopes of refining the uranium cake into more fuel for future use (technology right now doesn't exist, but it may in the future, that's why we keep the stuff). Transportation is also non-hazardous. They shot the storage containers with rockets and they survived, what more do you want?
What about Chernobyl and 3 mile island? 3 mile island was an almost-fuck-up. The most radiation _anyone_ encountered was about that of a chest x-ray (and spread out over a longer period of time). As for Chernobyl, that was a shitty reactor, even by soviet Russia's standards. IIRC, they used liquid graphite instead of water for reactor cooling. Water, as it heats up, makes the reaction less reactive. Graphite, when heated up, makes the reaction _more_ reactive. No wonder the thing melted down.
I'm not even going to get environmental impacts (you think fish like those turbines at all?), the scalability (how many solar panels will you need to power the US?), the cost, and the waste products (think: solar panels) of manufacturing items needed for each method of power generation. I'll leave that up to you for your own research.
Cold fusion, the holy grail of power generation, is a ways off still (Tokamak is a joke and a money hole). But until then, lets not run around like chickens with our heads cut off. Please oh please run the numbers before we panic about stuff like this.
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wow, thanks for this comment - good food for thought
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for more information on offshore wind projects in North America visit www.offshorewind.net
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they should be installed in the congressional halls...
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All I can say is WOW! Great post. Complete and excellent. Where did you gat all those cool pictures? Keep up the good work. We need to keep the word out there so our people and our government stay on track. Hopefully oil prices will remain high and interest in alternative and renewable energy will also remain high. The shortage of wind turbines is disturbing but hopefully that will change as soon as they catch up with demand.
JCE
http://johnceberhardt.wordpress.com
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youd be suprised how many thousands of birds die from wind power.
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wow. i need a towel cause my head's swimming. life on earth i'm sorry to admit can seem blah sometimes but put into a perspective like that i'm literally seeing stars..ha..ha. raise the roof.
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LOL these are awesome. And I love Banksy's graffiti art.
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Passei por aqui p/ diser q teu blog tah bem legal... parabéns, vou tentar vir mais vezes... mas, quando der passe tbm no meu blog, deixe um recado.
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Another cool ad, (youtube movie). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJL4TXPTAfc
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Nice work! I put a link on my blog so other people could enjoy your ads.
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What a great page!
Visit me some time:
R2K
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Wow, cool collection of pics. Thanks for the link. I've reciprocated.
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Don't believe some of them are original! What are your cam configurations? You seem to be doing a lot of macros, must be a great lens!
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Currently I'm reading a book about Theodore Roosevelt's trip into the unexplored Amazon in the earl 20th century. It's amazing what exists there..
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Well, we haven´t even finished exploring the "known" parts of our world and YET a new paradise had been discovered, if you thought those were interesting, try searching for "yeti crab" and bring new panties.
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The picture of the large red 'flower' (# 5) is actually a member of the carrion flower genus Rafflesia, which only grows in south-eastern asia (Malay Peninsula, Borneo, Sumatra, Kalimantan, West Malaysia and the Philippines).
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That blue butterfly is beautiful! Thanks for posting these photos!
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I saw Jeff DeBoer's armor in a show in Calgary, it is utterly amazing up close.
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Wow! I liked the armor for the opposum and for the mouse. Really interesting.
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hugh.. i think it's ugly.
I prefer normal trucks.
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I have to admit....I like it.
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Wow that's trippy. At first I thought he meant truck in the american sense, but after looking at some of these i think it'd be cool to see one on the road. Better than the current semi's (lorries, etc.) out there. I especially like the one with the 3 rotating windshield wipers.
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they all have rotating wind screen wipers, i like the shapes of these but the windscreen is jumt rubbish, i wonder what would happen if i wer to smash that - would it fold in or shatter ?
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Interesting and probably the Shape of Things to Come...
A Bit "Ugly for Sure" and I wonder how Efficient it is?...
If nothing else it will show up in the next 4 or 5 Sci-Fi Movies that we haven't seen yet...
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Wow, I can claim to have peaked at what trucks will look like in 100 years. Very futuristic concept and looks very efficient on overcoming drag.
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Eeww.. interesting, but surely ugly.
Using the same style, but a lot prettier are the instruments made by
basslabThose are beauties.
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I was obsessed with semi-trucks growing-up as a kid, and I remember having a book about them that showed a prototype Chevy truck from sometime in the 50's or 60's which looked very similar to these. To me, these designs are not anything new.
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Is it a truck ?
Is it a car ?
Is it a train ?
Is it a Space Ship ?
www.glendalegolfs.com
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Hate these for the same reason I hate cabovers. What happens when you hit something? Looks like a whole lotta "ouch " to me. Good for show not for go.
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Cool! i cant wait to see those on the street!
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beautiful!
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I would kill for that truck
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In a truck like that the driver would be the first one at the scene of an accident.
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as a truck driver myself, I can say that I would hesitate to put a Pamela Anderson poster in the back of this truck's cabin. Well, maybe the poster of Reina Borg, or Princess Leia...
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Maybe just a bit overdone. But American semis have really horrible aerodynamics, they can easily up their milage with little work.
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Hahaha...yeah when I first read trucks I was thinking the typical pickup truck not semi. As out there as they look, I kinda like them. This front view picture does not do them justice. The 1/4 side view is a much better vantage point. And I like how the space between the cab and trailer is at a minimum.
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The windshield looks crazy, but there's got to be a functional purpose for it. From the looks of it, the driver can see what's directly in front of the vehicle, such as pedestrians.
If that goofy windshield means more visibility, I'm for it. Also, in a collision with anything shorter than the windshield (cars, for example), its odd shape might not be a concern.
I'm talking out my ass, though. I'm no engineer.
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UGLY!
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I wonder w/ the air dynamic design if it saves fuel in the long run. With gas prices and competition, you could save quite a lot of money.
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seen years ago...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Highwayman_%28TV_series%29
and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grvQE93wqb0
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMszP6VSI60
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I really got very ecxited to seeing such beautiful trucks and I wish I could use them one day But I'm Iranian and not only can use them but my own country trucks!
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Colani studied aerodynamics, in 1981 he presented a Citroen 2CV with 1.71 L/100km, only by aerodynamic modifications: a living guru of aero efficiency. Ergonomics is his second obsession: a designer casting vision in useable things, from supersonic planes to beer glasses. I always liked his stuff. Search for his name on Wikipedia!
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Colani states that this aerodynamic form reduces fuel consumption by 50%
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Oh that's not so bad looking. Sure it's weird, but it looks European, which is fine.
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dont understood that truck..
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these are interesting. I'd like to see pictures of the interior of the trucks, though.
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i saw one of these in tennessee a couple of weeks ago. are the available now or what was it doin?
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**dies from excess of cute!**
How long before Disney tries suing the deer, the rabbit, their parents, and any deity potentially involved in their creation, for copyright infringement?
Cute pics!
Oh...wow. My cuteness needs of the year have just been met.
ouch ouch ouch! too cute! it hurts to look directly at it....
it'll all end in tears. that's an identity crisis in the making if ever i saw one
Just wondering, are those a baby deer and an adult bunny? One of those pics was on another community and there's some debate, but I can't help thinking the deer's a little closer to faun than adult.
The pictures weren't staged. The accompanying German text on these pages explains how the fawn's mother was killed shortly before it's birth and the fawn was then raised in a rural town with help from townspeople (this part is not so clearly explained). The wild rabbit showed up one day. At first the two just grazed in the same area and after a while got closer until they became "friends". They grazed together and kept each other company the whole day, the rabbit built a nest next to the deer instead of burrowing and other cute stuff like that. The author (who is also the photographer) mentions that the two could have formed this friendship to be able to better protect themselves from predators by warning each other and also the deer helped the rabbit have easier access to food in the winter.
The rest of the story is available here in German.
http://www.tanja-askani.de/info/?p=18
Spoiler:
Eventually when the fawn was old enough it was sent to a park where it would be released into the wild. The second to last picture shown here, shows how after the fawn had been anesthetized for easier transport and despite strange humans being around, the rabbit went up to the deer and supported its sleepy head "as if it were saying goodbye"
Those are great, thanks for sharing them with us.
You missed this great picture :
http://www.fotocommunity.de/pc/pc/mypics/12278/display/7512605
What happened to the bunny once the fawn was moved?
It died. :(
"it's like a koala bear crapped a rainbow in my brain" -Captain Murphy
Wow, that's really cool!
awwww Cuteness overload !!! that is just SO darn adorable !!!
awwwww poor lil bunny dont have his 'dear'/deer' friend ! :-(
cute...but its not real snow... lol its just cotton !!!
Oh my gosh when I read the spoiler by Alison I actually began to cry. It was just to said....
WOW! I was blown away by these endearing pictures (no pun!)
I have a rabbit and know that they can be very lovable!
Amy, me, too! Why didn't they take the rabbit with the deer?
You're kidding?!!!!
It died????
Being the pet of 2 bunnies I know they have short memories and separating 2 rabbits doesnt appear to be as stressful (for the rabbits) as we think it is.
original text from the page of the photographer: "In der Nähe von unserem Garten lebt eine kleine Population von Wildkaninchen. Nachdem Finchen aus unserem Garten umgezogen ist, hat sich das Kaninchen dieser Gruppe angeschlossen". Translated from German it sais: "Near by our garden (the place where bambi - whose actual name is "Finchen" - once lived) there is located a small population of wild rabbits. Since Finchen has moved out of our garden the thumper has joined them." Happy ending! :)
I know it!!!! ^_^
The page also explains that they wanted to take the bunny along with the deer, but that it would have been a death sentence; in a strange territory he would not know any hiding places, and the first fox would have eaten him.
*A Carnotaurus crashes through the forest, devouring them both in one fell swoop*
>:3
Oh, I am going to cry. Why on this planet are all beautiful things accompanied by such sadness? I hope someone took care of the rabbit after it lost its deer friend. I hope it's true that rabbits have short memories and that this adorable bunny didn't succumb to grief, but went on and returned to the other wild bunnies. Wish there was some follow up on this. I am so sad over this.
Oh, I am going to cry. Why on this planet are all beautiful things accompanied by such sadness? I hope someone took care of the rabbit after it lost its deer friend. I hope it's true that rabbits have short memories and that this adorable bunny didn't succumb to grief, but went on and returned to the other wild bunnies. Wish there was some follow up on this. I am so sad over this.
Oh Thank You Anonymous (4AM) for letting us know that the rabbit joined the other wild rabbits. Now I can sleep tonight and not cry about this poor little sweet rabbit. Thank you. :)
now in my life i have a relationship and fall in love and nice times,we found eachother... he is diffrent and special for me,so far but so freindly,we didn't meet each other yet...but WE are realy crazy in love...
I saw those pictures and my tens about that:"friendship has a big world that u can fly and found your special freind..."yes !! like our real blue love!
I think these 2 make an adorable friendship I cried when i read that they have too be seperated!!
It is very lovely
http://www.fotocommunity.de/pc/pc/mypics/12278/display/5373979
this shows the bunny holding the fawn's head up while groggy from sedation
These are such wonderful photos. I am wondering where they were actually taken.....in Germany where she lives or in Alberta which is posted by someone else?? Just interested if someone knows.
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