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Is anyone else terrified at the thought of all of our deserts covered in solar panels? Although the areas are not productive for humans, they are an important ecosystem and we should not assume that it's useless land we can manipulate in any way without harming it!
But yay green energy!
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I'm a sevillian and I think the Solucar plant is a great idea. We have more than 300 sunny days in the year and someone has done something with all that sun :D
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There is an interesting concept of building a 'subsurface-lake power station' in the North Sea off the Dutch coast. More info
here.
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Great images, but I'm confused as to why you placed a nuclear power plant under the "bad" energy sources -- nuclear power is one of the better choices; you get more bang for your buck, and it's far cleaner than coal (which puts out more radiation than nuclear). New pebble bed reactors make a meltdown literally impossible.
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We sould support and make people support green enery immediately. We are about to cross the critical point that we can't go back.
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Gadren... will have to give nuclear energy it's own article one day.
Thanks your comments, guys
That sub-surface lake is interesting...
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Check out this US Carbon Footprint Map, an interactive United States Carbon Footprint Map, illustrating Greenest States. This site has all sorts of stats on individual State energy consumptions, demographics and State energy offices, State Taxes and more...
http://www.eredux.com/states/
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A bit more about the Solar Tower project in Australia. It is quite different to the other examples given, in that it has no mirrors and heating of water to steam.
It relies on a large green-house-like heating area to heat air that then flows inwards, past wind turbines and up a 1km-tall chimney (the tower).
See
this summary and
this CNN story
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Rob Roy - many thanks for this link. This will appear in our next Energy post.
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This posting is awesome! I did not know that so many other non traditional ways of alternate energy have been explored ..
Creating Wealth via Stocks
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wonderful work... never knew that so much initiative s been taken! the solar mirror panel thing is wow!
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There's a big difference between tidal and wave power.
All your pictures show tidal systems NOT wave systems.
Tidal would seem to be the far better bet because it is totally predictable and doesn't require some kind of reciprocating device to make it work: A conventional axial turbine is perfect
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The panels used with the solar tower are not photovoltaic solar collectors, they are simply steel reflectors mounted on motors which rotate them to follow the sun (heliostatic). The cost of 600 PV panels of THAT size would be pretty damn high, and the idea is to reflect sunlight, not absorb it.
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Am I the only one who's major concern was that Austin Powers got credit for tractor beams...
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I dont see anything artistic in spencer tunick's works..
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From one of the pixels,
As a pixel in Spencer's work many times now I can say Spencer is very much trying to show the humanity of the models, though not the individuality-except in his portraits of individuals.
To read accounts by those of us who pose, to see more of Spencer's work, including some of his lesser known individual portraits, come to http://www.spencertunickforum.org
Roger
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I'm impressed. I work for a photography company, and you know how much of a pain in the butt it is to get a class of high school seniors to form something as simple as a 0 or a 7?
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No kidding... I have the same problem trying to line up two of my little boys.
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Of course, if we're talking flip cards, there's always the classic
Caltech Rose Bowl Prank.
Incidentally, I highly recommend the book
Legends of Caltech and its sequel
More Legends of Caltech. Utterly chock-full of various pranks, as well as an apparent guide to those scriptwriters who created
Real Genius.
Though I have to say that the ones a particular friend of the family was involved in were not written up, probably because nobody would break silence, and so there must be many more pranks which have never made it into print.
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Check this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X76ZIGQgBWg
Another amazing coordinated koreans.
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Air Force Photo: The other side of the story: On a hot Sat (our day off) we were told to put on white T shirts and fall out. We were marched to the drill field and told were to stand...and that is all. Some guy in a tower took our photos. Some time later these photos were for sale in the BX. Where we told anything...NO, did we get any free photos...NO were we even thanked...of course not we were all Pvt's. Pvt James R. Garrity, Sq BN 4, Fl 2100, Lackland AFB, Tex...some 61 years ago...of ya it was very hot out
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If you like this you should realy see this Dutch commercial! Check: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5Uw7zLeacc
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Mystery animal #1 is a porcupine. Not sure about the other two!
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The first one is indeed a porcupine, the second is a Cantor’s giant softshell turtle (Pelochelys cantorii), the third is a newborn rhino.
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You guys know that the picture of the elephant in the waterfall is really from the "Jungle Cruise" at DisneyLand. It's not real.
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2 guesses as to the mystery animals:
giant soft shell turtle, or terrapin?
baby black rhino
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I knew I recognized that elephant from somewhere!
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The rhino baby is a Sumatran, not a black.
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the third is a sumatran rhino!!!
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Mystery animal #2 )))
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see the pic with a cat licking a mouse? look at the shadow of the mouse. now look at the shadow of the cat :)
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...fails to mention the possible adverse effects that such high-powered installations can have on weather and atmospheric patterns.
Perhaps because there really aren't any: "The intensity of the HF signal in the ionosphere is less than 3 microwatts per cm2, tens of thousands of times less than the Sun's natural electromagnetic radiation reaching the earth and hundreds of times less than even the normal random variations in intensity of the Sun's natural ultraviolet (UV) energy which creates the ionosphere."
And the total power is 3.6MW; at least two radio transmitters have been 2.5MW, and commercial radio in the US, on the high end, can exceed 100KW.
Given the aggregate of the radio output worldwide, I wouldn't worry about one 3.6MW array hurting the environment - they don't mention it on the website because there's no reason to believe it does so in any way.
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Great info, Sigivald...
Thank you.
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That first picture looks like it comes straight out of a Myst game.p
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The Goofy sticking-out-tongue emoticon above was completely unintentional ;-0
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It's the damn C&C Tesla Coils all over again! Yargh!
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"discussing it's possible use as a nefarious weapon"
its.
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These are amazing! The only gripe I have is that you appear to have caught the disease that makes people, when they're sharing superb photos, feel that viewers will click out if there aren't some "funny" captions.
Trust me, you don't need "funny" captions!
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See the Russian site in Google Earth. Use this co-ordinate:
55°55'25.66"N
36°49'8.99"E
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Wow Jim
this is impressive. Nothing escapes all-seeing eye.
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You know, that picture of Tesla sitting in the middle of the room with all the electricity surrounding him is a double exposure. Nobody would survive something like that.
And that giant Tesla Coil near the bottom was going to power the entire world, until Tesla ran out of funds for complicated reasons. (Partly due to the fact that they thought he was mad.) He swore to his dying day that it would've worked. He turned it on just before it was destroyed despite the fact that it was incomplete and it created an aurora in the sky. Makes you wonder...
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Actually theres nothing particularly dangerous about high voltages - the spark that happens occasionally when you touch a car or doorhandle an be in excess of 30,000 volts. As my electronics teacher used to say, "Its the Volts that make your hair stand on end, but its the Amps that kill you" Mr. Tesla would have been quite save so long as the amperage was low enough. The sparks are spectacular but mostly harmless. Better to worry about the carcinogenic ozone given off.
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Found it on Google maps:
http://maps.google.com/maps?om=1&ll=55.924195,36.819756&spn=0.008704,0.007575&t=k&z=18
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I always thought electronic plants where creepy .... but nw i know i'm not the only one
XD
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"It's the Volts that jolts, but the Mils that kills"!
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It sounds like you are probably using the Google custom domains feature. I had a lot of problems with this trying to move my site about six months ago, but I did it again recently and it was a piece of cake. I'll adjust my link to your site with the new URL. Thanks again for all of the great posts!
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Yes this was quite a smooth transition. So far so good.
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Love the "life's too short for the wrong job" ads! So well crafted.
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"Ad for paints, quite impossible to pass by" is actually a Nationwide Insurance ad.
Like "get insurance before a billboard of a huge can of paint suddenly becomes REAL and tips over and spills on your building and cars".. sort of.
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I link you
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Great ads, we see how fresh new ideas can grab the eye. Can't wait to see what's next for dinner with ads campaigns, we have seen some pretty good stuff in the last 2-3 years!
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WOOW!
I didn't know that exploding stuff looks so cool!
Have you seen exploding balloon in slow motion on You Tube? Take a look at it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjcrSGzQgpw
Pretty impressive.
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excelent
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It's not my kind of photography - but absolutely amazing snaps!
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Thanks for exploding balloon tip... excellent
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Superb shots - how brave is the person holding that lightbulb in the first set of shots?
- Paul @ http://www.photographyvoter.com
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