tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23448810498664326652024-02-20T07:31:21.228-08:00Manufactured landscapesExplore extreme manufactured/ industrial landscapes in google maps.TThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15147175927877791153noreply@blogger.comBlogger92125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2344881049866432665.post-37169326255110213602009-06-08T10:14:00.000-07:002009-06-08T11:20:52.627-07:00The Aachen health " factory"<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">The Aachen health "factory":</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">One of the weirdest looking buildings in Europe could easily be the large hospital of Aachen. </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://maps.google.nl/maps?hl=nl&ie=UTF8&ll=50.776832,6.043596&spn=0.002561,0.006883&t=h&z=18">The Klinikum Aachen</a><span style="font-family: arial;">, full German name "Universitätsklinikum Aachen" (University Hospital Aachen), abbreviated UKA, formerly known as "Neues Klinikum", is the largest hospital of europe located in Aachen in Germany. It is part of the University of Aachen and contains its whole medical faculty. Seen from far away, for many visitors the Klinikum Aachen looks like a giant power plant rather than a hospital.</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNy655O9NlovAGRrtESQpl9_gu5hAp4fNMZt0lJ8i0wI1KTEM-QGrlZ2Gh3xcotcU2r_gANk7hhBJ0GL-4ZnOjdZEhT17VW2fw6iSjjeF70g1qcJqOKyduGBWl9LvVHsU0GI6KkeyMR_he/s1600-h/Dreil%C3%A4ndereck_Klinikum_Aachen.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNy655O9NlovAGRrtESQpl9_gu5hAp4fNMZt0lJ8i0wI1KTEM-QGrlZ2Gh3xcotcU2r_gANk7hhBJ0GL-4ZnOjdZEhT17VW2fw6iSjjeF70g1qcJqOKyduGBWl9LvVHsU0GI6KkeyMR_he/s400/Dreil%C3%A4ndereck_Klinikum_Aachen.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5345020733099660882" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRINESkjygCANHdX77jxYrFIIMmsLuWFYRdVRUEpx1KGQTdUS0DqTX1ecNJEVePLrZxAWCYMgyEQzUPM5ZD49xYKnxwlPC6kAg_P6EDkS5SKKxrPT4wTKbj-55ngLcXrfpszIKyw9b2aLx/s1600-h/1287114.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRINESkjygCANHdX77jxYrFIIMmsLuWFYRdVRUEpx1KGQTdUS0DqTX1ecNJEVePLrZxAWCYMgyEQzUPM5ZD49xYKnxwlPC6kAg_P6EDkS5SKKxrPT4wTKbj-55ngLcXrfpszIKyw9b2aLx/s400/1287114.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5345010223017896050" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyfcpI5H8MA5jf-3QscPQ13WmZsvNSGoZMo1UgT5AOcKe4FVecPAxoml1jhKb0OYnaG0DwoCKAqhue7x71wBTDxK6gQaKNImW_V1LdVuzM08aTEpyNb8ny9oXMl6j5AKuWz2NjTW-o-p32/s1600-h/633478.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyfcpI5H8MA5jf-3QscPQ13WmZsvNSGoZMo1UgT5AOcKe4FVecPAxoml1jhKb0OYnaG0DwoCKAqhue7x71wBTDxK6gQaKNImW_V1LdVuzM08aTEpyNb8ny9oXMl6j5AKuWz2NjTW-o-p32/s400/633478.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5345010226208184514" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2Y0tOkDm8GnoTS0tYjvp5KiUfwGDaVIBHGpMCgUDclM_XWYVDkyl2MgpPwYpn8tUcntemBRXKiITmPxUqNnizb3vH1cEv3vkCHTIg7Ak1hyphenhyphenlt23P3gpHnk3R5SappgAQoBb2rTBCStngx/s1600-h/Naamloos.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 295px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2Y0tOkDm8GnoTS0tYjvp5KiUfwGDaVIBHGpMCgUDclM_XWYVDkyl2MgpPwYpn8tUcntemBRXKiITmPxUqNnizb3vH1cEv3vkCHTIg7Ak1hyphenhyphenlt23P3gpHnk3R5SappgAQoBb2rTBCStngx/s400/Naamloos.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5345016001743493170" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">This is due to the huge striped ventilation pipes that are attached to the outer walls and the 24 " towers" that protrude above the main building:</span><br /><br /><p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyvZw89Z-jRwT3VFhF9WI1a1XCFmk-Rclw6ZZ0q6vMGT9E64aZ-wiWSmgXJaxPRQlRTi2EVwzZnJhHBB7Bx22ITkGPYF6VJdsmQFwSTeDzrgluMIfbkXAzC06I_iqYz8y-E4LTUXhOGeR6/s1600-h/4602750.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyvZw89Z-jRwT3VFhF9WI1a1XCFmk-Rclw6ZZ0q6vMGT9E64aZ-wiWSmgXJaxPRQlRTi2EVwzZnJhHBB7Bx22ITkGPYF6VJdsmQFwSTeDzrgluMIfbkXAzC06I_iqYz8y-E4LTUXhOGeR6/s400/4602750.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5345011977865005010" border="0" /></a></p><p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><br /></p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpgB_TR8U4SgxevGJ1wDIQB3grkKB0FK8OwAwSGcchJHOSMBAiWCB7AZCNvlQKrMMC5x97mWYKKXgZLMd0bsruweUSwOmJ_X3nNN6TceTnH5sbcOx3YGurQLaB9rr0A0PTOT26Uk-h7u7S/s1600-h/Klinikum_Aachen_2005-03-16_exterior_(3).jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpgB_TR8U4SgxevGJ1wDIQB3grkKB0FK8OwAwSGcchJHOSMBAiWCB7AZCNvlQKrMMC5x97mWYKKXgZLMd0bsruweUSwOmJ_X3nNN6TceTnH5sbcOx3YGurQLaB9rr0A0PTOT26Uk-h7u7S/s400/Klinikum_Aachen_2005-03-16_exterior_(3).jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5345021519981412770" border="0" /></a><p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; font-family: arial;"><br /></p><span style="font-family: arial;">The University Hospital Aachen (UKA) combines in its singularity all mechanisms of supplying the patient, the entire medical faculty and the dentistry under one roof. In this enormous building is a place for the common research of engineers, scientists and physicians. At the moment co-operate 59 professors, 824 scientific assistants and 4347 non-scientific employees in 33 clinical departments, 21 institutes and in the administration of the UKA. The University Hospital has 1.510 beds. The industrial design of the building is not only visible from the outside but also the interior of the building is very industrial looking:</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSPl96fKra8nFNQSWgGa0oJ5SURtWG0yRmXABNR7xsEz8it4Rc7hB7n_cGqX-kOKqg0C8xWF1UUvYBP-14dgW_K2Uf-rj5-2Iz9UUT-bK0BLcXKFioG7aJGho6cFf-1czfGMFdwzliYav1/s1600-h/Aachen_klinikum_innen.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 299px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSPl96fKra8nFNQSWgGa0oJ5SURtWG0yRmXABNR7xsEz8it4Rc7hB7n_cGqX-kOKqg0C8xWF1UUvYBP-14dgW_K2Uf-rj5-2Iz9UUT-bK0BLcXKFioG7aJGho6cFf-1czfGMFdwzliYav1/s400/Aachen_klinikum_innen.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5345019750130507842" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">This building was designed as a health factory, the product enters the "factory" sick and leaves it healthy.</span>TThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15147175927877791153noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2344881049866432665.post-35115510181754434442009-05-22T02:26:00.000-07:002009-05-22T04:23:05.470-07:00Largest ammunition storage sites in the world.<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">The largest ammunition storage sites in the world:</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="http://maps.google.nl/maps?hl=nl&ie=UTF8&ll=38.556086,-118.584194&spn=0.102424,0.288391&t=h&z=13">The Hawthorne Army Depot </a>is said to be the largest ammunition storage site in the world. It is located near the town of Hawthorne in western Nevada in the United States. The depot covers an area of 15 kilometers by 15 kilometers (595 km²), and has 600,000 square feet (55,700 m²) of floor space in 2,427 storage bunkers. The Hawthorne Army Depot stores reserve munitions to be used after the first 30 days of a major conflict:</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUYBIcuLxOXiXdEWGUtP45YWhGYigTZqNl4aSxoq7Gjq_9FrGMmMq2FDQGlunV8jz4VVLXprBd4KfUIAUwKpUp0fAbOsaN4XsYvidP50dptlpuImUZYWH3ztGROQTN2QwH9804o-APJvAw/s1600-h/Nevada!.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 236px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUYBIcuLxOXiXdEWGUtP45YWhGYigTZqNl4aSxoq7Gjq_9FrGMmMq2FDQGlunV8jz4VVLXprBd4KfUIAUwKpUp0fAbOsaN4XsYvidP50dptlpuImUZYWH3ztGROQTN2QwH9804o-APJvAw/s400/Nevada!.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5338579154981870274" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">In terms of storage capacity the ammunition storage site at the village of Haywood in Oklahoma in the U.S seems to be the largest in the world. <a href="http://maps.google.nl/maps?hl=nl&ie=UTF8&ll=34.827332,-95.952702&spn=0.107516,0.288391&t=h&z=13">It covers</a> an area of 12 kilometers by 12 kilometers, and was built because of the involvement of America in World War II:</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivKXI0sjaoG_g57e5xyXbLM-yNJEDEVMazoklh47H2sGFqQ0Q_TvKEhvtzfyhdOM_jS4dX6amgX9UTbd-oK4a14jtpGJUoFCN9n1xzWyXRyczjV8vCrGvv-S6i31pSgpakWY2vcTO_6Oc-/s1600-h/Haywood+1.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 215px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivKXI0sjaoG_g57e5xyXbLM-yNJEDEVMazoklh47H2sGFqQ0Q_TvKEhvtzfyhdOM_jS4dX6amgX9UTbd-oK4a14jtpGJUoFCN9n1xzWyXRyczjV8vCrGvv-S6i31pSgpakWY2vcTO_6Oc-/s400/Haywood+1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5338581271767148434" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">At the turn of the twenty-first century the plant employed more than eight hundred people. Among the largest ammo storage sites in the world is also <a href="http://maps.google.nl/maps?hl=nl&ie=UTF8&ll=40.539895,-112.387047&spn=0.099537,0.288391&t=h&z=13">the Ammunition storage site</a> at Tooele, located in Utah. It covers an area of 8 kilometers by 7 kilometers:</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqFG2kiJFNTAvk53qVd2y_F6JGxMKHYNv95ItZgJYJwNOkWbIjH7ByNqENGYsuQ3dDxkLK_lo6371I_shYXS1_0rDqGPkkR1bYc6KiLqBAOUF7LSLN8kRmkhuRmBz0EjBsoFn0CZzWenZt/s1600-h/TOELEL.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 209px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqFG2kiJFNTAvk53qVd2y_F6JGxMKHYNv95ItZgJYJwNOkWbIjH7ByNqENGYsuQ3dDxkLK_lo6371I_shYXS1_0rDqGPkkR1bYc6KiLqBAOUF7LSLN8kRmkhuRmBz0EjBsoFn0CZzWenZt/s400/TOELEL.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5338591537468500530" border="0" /></a>TThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15147175927877791153noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2344881049866432665.post-26408284060940479172009-05-16T02:57:00.000-07:002009-05-16T13:00:35.283-07:00Huge dam spillways<span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Huge dam spillways:</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">I already discussed the biggest dam spillway in the world on this blog ( The spillway of the Robert Bourassa dam in canada ). These dam spillways are generally used to release the water from the water bassins behind a dam in case of a flood. These things are most of the time build in the construction of the dam itself like for example in</span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://maps.google.nl/maps?hl=nl&ie=UTF8&ll=-25.416125,-54.596869&spn=0.007394,0.013947&t=h&z=17"> the Itaipu dam</a><span style="font-family: arial;"> in Paraguay which is one the biggest spillways ( 500 meters long and 350 meters wide) in the world in terms of water capacity. When water is released from this thing it makes a hell of a noise:</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2rV4BOnxhGF_s7DQcmRuy4ldy43lT9xhhuEUIjABjAc_fm2j1jiet7rcRLBtvSoNo7r76aKGrn46KipAhob7J8Kl4pK4IVH-O0tU-9ZXY2lnsgxPwz8j_LBb_MEuUx_4ZK1joqKC14txV/s1600-h/7047431.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 254px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2rV4BOnxhGF_s7DQcmRuy4ldy43lT9xhhuEUIjABjAc_fm2j1jiet7rcRLBtvSoNo7r76aKGrn46KipAhob7J8Kl4pK4IVH-O0tU-9ZXY2lnsgxPwz8j_LBb_MEuUx_4ZK1joqKC14txV/s400/7047431.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5333763859050767618" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">The biggest kind of spillways however can be found at earthfilled dams situated next to the dam instead in the structure of the dam itself. Like for example </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://maps.google.nl/maps?hl=nl&ie=UTF8&ll=56.016676,-122.215948&spn=0.009151,0.027895&t=h&z=16">this</a><span style="font-family: arial;"> huge spillway at the W.A.C Bennet dam in Canada:</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIJlw6lTHHnh1tY9IhcxfiGcSLM4xzGOwHdlYfASR6qJ4BBuKHVzf_WCCK3yRqBNiiMInYngUHBqcBJzT73UCjwf6o6wPbNmdETPf0cun9V8vixDqmsfCbXaN3nf5eKZyxzIh0z-9WyYcy/s1600-h/Canada.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 280px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIJlw6lTHHnh1tY9IhcxfiGcSLM4xzGOwHdlYfASR6qJ4BBuKHVzf_WCCK3yRqBNiiMInYngUHBqcBJzT73UCjwf6o6wPbNmdETPf0cun9V8vixDqmsfCbXaN3nf5eKZyxzIh0z-9WyYcy/s400/Canada.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5333765481852356482" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWPp4Xs6mHJaol25QHihaNO4t69pUciLghH_BEKzCV6n-qPkeSYJVG-BNgftp7guG-6UgDRkF5Obgf9Ce37XEjGscDISM2-a_iKtGOVVE6X1XtFP6Jk7xQdDznMPyBHEUt4zwWkPhYwDOC/s1600-h/Canada+2.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWPp4Xs6mHJaol25QHihaNO4t69pUciLghH_BEKzCV6n-qPkeSYJVG-BNgftp7guG-6UgDRkF5Obgf9Ce37XEjGscDISM2-a_iKtGOVVE6X1XtFP6Jk7xQdDznMPyBHEUt4zwWkPhYwDOC/s400/Canada+2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5333766086394154114" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">It is 800 meters long and about 35 meters wide. Another huge one is </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://maps.google.nl/maps?hl=nl&ie=UTF8&ll=47.487064,-101.389539&spn=0.011064,0.027895&t=h&z=16">this</a><span style="font-family: arial;"> one at the Garrison Dam in North Dakota in the U.S. It is part of one of the world's largest earth filled dams which forms the Sakakawea Reservoir on the Missouri River. The spillway itself is 800 meters long and is almost 350 meters wide at the point where the water enters the spillway:</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpI5i2QH4_iQ1urHKbvoXh5Roqf8CDbGfSHduXMMnnXhXHG_4DDyEmSgSeNBQbrV7OxNatxvIgq2JuAU2PH7YuUtVKlv0HW8-DDGReMCdcU3WFFj73r-dG5fgWZwbWBOvTTCBYQTSN4hrl/s1600-h/UTEDAM.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpI5i2QH4_iQ1urHKbvoXh5Roqf8CDbGfSHduXMMnnXhXHG_4DDyEmSgSeNBQbrV7OxNatxvIgq2JuAU2PH7YuUtVKlv0HW8-DDGReMCdcU3WFFj73r-dG5fgWZwbWBOvTTCBYQTSN4hrl/s400/UTEDAM.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5336451220966976354" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">The most impressive and biggest concrete spillway in the world however is </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://maps.google.nl/maps?hl=nl&ie=UTF8&ll=48.026041,-106.34594&spn=0.043798,0.11158&t=h&z=14">the spillway</a><span style="font-family: arial;"> which is part of </span><span style="font-family:Georgia,Times New Roman,Times,serif;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Fort Peck Lake dam in Montana in the U.S. The dam itself is the largest earth-filled dam in the world. The spillway is 1500 meters long and 150 meters wide:</span><br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGrFyXF4jwrBqJV6OTryuYem9YQAMf5ctXs8dreMhJQrwy3Qz95sSFW1WbYvFbrITuQaXU7y7CxtmOke1S0QXXvFicPPhTSp5wzUCQ_HMjkGO5H-H2TAJf2FmRtNHIi2sIxulH5lBG94Z_/s1600-h/11111111111.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGrFyXF4jwrBqJV6OTryuYem9YQAMf5ctXs8dreMhJQrwy3Qz95sSFW1WbYvFbrITuQaXU7y7CxtmOke1S0QXXvFicPPhTSp5wzUCQ_HMjkGO5H-H2TAJf2FmRtNHIi2sIxulH5lBG94Z_/s400/11111111111.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5336454996719201394" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMadSF9s_H6U2-375qCm99cAfrT_VC7abtS-aUjQ1nyFP_Hkjpk0eLCUxN89nRE7uAkXF0JfUE1PxFE192CMyVM3NZtV-5xvnO0JpMrnKRQfsIhk-uitj09sKBsUZYE6moEP973Ts6NULe/s1600-h/444444444.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 206px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMadSF9s_H6U2-375qCm99cAfrT_VC7abtS-aUjQ1nyFP_Hkjpk0eLCUxN89nRE7uAkXF0JfUE1PxFE192CMyVM3NZtV-5xvnO0JpMrnKRQfsIhk-uitj09sKBsUZYE6moEP973Ts6NULe/s400/444444444.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5336454994904128066" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSSQwDyCXJmxSpaO83yDbfLwJLqJ_1Yp1a4ngnuifZKQ7CdSjSkYmQDyOk_t7abvK_tOEUuHUbDbao92kf_NuGzd3A311XX8nsT4HXFR75lIIHb6sKAlwpVdOLt5r4PYBmdCV0UIfqBR3L/s1600-h/333333333.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSSQwDyCXJmxSpaO83yDbfLwJLqJ_1Yp1a4ngnuifZKQ7CdSjSkYmQDyOk_t7abvK_tOEUuHUbDbao92kf_NuGzd3A311XX8nsT4HXFR75lIIHb6sKAlwpVdOLt5r4PYBmdCV0UIfqBR3L/s400/333333333.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5336454989656660194" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">Another earth filled dam ( which is also among the biggest earthfilled dams in the world) with </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://maps.google.nl/maps?hl=nl&ie=UTF8&ll=34.079091,72.720437&spn=0.013561,0.027895&t=h&z=16">impressive spillways</a><span style="font-family: arial;"> is the Tarbela dam in Pakistan. This dam actually has 2 giant spillways. One of them has a lenght of 780 meters and a wide of 100 meters and the other one has a length of about 200 meters and a wide of 150 meters:</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmYrSGJSPofQHQyK2o91TYokN1q-EdJ6fcilZIKw2fq3p2lTfnpFLo4ucTTOaoWthmPYCPHb8ZcNOwVdOo845DmNX2a3pEbKHIkkSeeY0Opu_J7vZQRDQvju7veNXMrYknpt21zkL-kMXL/s1600-h/PAKISTAN.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 278px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmYrSGJSPofQHQyK2o91TYokN1q-EdJ6fcilZIKw2fq3p2lTfnpFLo4ucTTOaoWthmPYCPHb8ZcNOwVdOo845DmNX2a3pEbKHIkkSeeY0Opu_J7vZQRDQvju7veNXMrYknpt21zkL-kMXL/s400/PAKISTAN.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5336461634459509842" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJjm0KZ6kCHZM4tdxJSp8jItb-kEL_0GYgEyzeEo1ucr0-YyIPWASFq1nQBwXIJrd8n-RuvDxN3LzKsCPPDzKfemVRLNbiRDlsBP42JaeWjCFFmyCZ5iON6arS_iByTA6Dv2Ox7TNFB06U/s1600-h/PAKISTAN+2.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 262px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJjm0KZ6kCHZM4tdxJSp8jItb-kEL_0GYgEyzeEo1ucr0-YyIPWASFq1nQBwXIJrd8n-RuvDxN3LzKsCPPDzKfemVRLNbiRDlsBP42JaeWjCFFmyCZ5iON6arS_iByTA6Dv2Ox7TNFB06U/s400/PAKISTAN+2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5336461640157402466" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">Another huge one is the </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://maps.google.nl/maps?hl=nl&ie=UTF8&ll=16.575172,79.312931&spn=0.007846,0.013947&t=h&z=17">spillway</a><span style="font-family: arial;"> which is part of the Nagarjuna sagar dam in India. The spillway is build in the dam itself and is 500 meters wide:</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj11Ca1RH7xAYE9cOxf9bsmc-aBXnUejAQXOh36O2KIJXKzKfyC2RS3XTD4dGkPjHl-Yj4pfN381XZGdxRfzA8zuYoxC1nsQe8Blv8IKjJSyk1Tf9odDVxa9KTlyJDB8BhtsrUdU27B7n96/s1600-h/INDIA+1.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj11Ca1RH7xAYE9cOxf9bsmc-aBXnUejAQXOh36O2KIJXKzKfyC2RS3XTD4dGkPjHl-Yj4pfN381XZGdxRfzA8zuYoxC1nsQe8Blv8IKjJSyk1Tf9odDVxa9KTlyJDB8BhtsrUdU27B7n96/s400/INDIA+1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5336463367598175426" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9Pi6Vx2pV0P3oUSQM77t6KcMBptbKS-1fpC92A_mtNUDuBDp_D1Bwp8S25vgkTt_Axz2d3DF_bxAUGxFTEs2FQQARfRRetMkQKskpXsh_eHg-R7ZUkimuLo1_zDVa0P5lhux-k5eYXNUH/s1600-h/INDIA+222.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9Pi6Vx2pV0P3oUSQM77t6KcMBptbKS-1fpC92A_mtNUDuBDp_D1Bwp8S25vgkTt_Axz2d3DF_bxAUGxFTEs2FQQARfRRetMkQKskpXsh_eHg-R7ZUkimuLo1_zDVa0P5lhux-k5eYXNUH/s400/INDIA+222.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5336463372514143730" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">And last but not least </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://maps.google.nl/maps?hl=nl&ie=UTF8&ll=37.474194,38.321686&spn=0.012993,0.027895&t=h&z=16">the giant dam spillway</a><span style="font-family: arial;"> of the Ataturk dam in Turkey. This thing is 900 meters long and 150 meters wide:</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJfwS3xgOBJNPPf6iFItYyyp7IEx5FDKJCSjr4rimhi_witwGy480n54zRPVHjEZscXvhjz2VRd4VtLYTP30wH1zAxEuaY-EfaSlP2vY3pFtBDLJu_5OCi5amhN5Qi1sg9YI4z48QSEC4y/s1600-h/AATURK+2.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJfwS3xgOBJNPPf6iFItYyyp7IEx5FDKJCSjr4rimhi_witwGy480n54zRPVHjEZscXvhjz2VRd4VtLYTP30wH1zAxEuaY-EfaSlP2vY3pFtBDLJu_5OCi5amhN5Qi1sg9YI4z48QSEC4y/s400/AATURK+2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5336467164272785394" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZgpQAQcSbyKKtTktAABr31cju08t4hhulKOdbpuUv5iQS3yEpjRDx6HIo0xAQyXwJZetSjfZcE6Y4cbeqLf7pVP7zx_CGsYM0plNXp3G8DWmhVpf26kgpRLh6LZy-ReOCTHCpRw88iVtt/s1600-h/ATATURK+%21.GIF"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 259px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZgpQAQcSbyKKtTktAABr31cju08t4hhulKOdbpuUv5iQS3yEpjRDx6HIo0xAQyXwJZetSjfZcE6Y4cbeqLf7pVP7zx_CGsYM0plNXp3G8DWmhVpf26kgpRLh6LZy-ReOCTHCpRw88iVtt/s400/ATATURK+%21.GIF" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5336467157500061522" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagarjuna_Sagar" title="Nagarjuna Sagar"></a>TThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15147175927877791153noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2344881049866432665.post-56450866878276406992009-05-09T04:06:00.000-07:002009-05-09T05:09:26.078-07:00Niagara falls tailrace tunnels<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">The Niagara falls tailrace tunnels:</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Almost everybody knows about</span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://maps.google.nl/maps?hl=nl&ie=UTF8&ll=43.082555,-79.069591&spn=0.023916,0.05579&t=h&z=15"> the large Niagara water falls</a><span style="font-family:arial;"> near the town of Niagara falls on the border of Canada and the United States. But I think fewer know that there are large underground tailrace tunnels in this area which are part of the hydro electric power stations located near the waterfalls. Two of these hydro electric power station which used these large tailrace tunnels are the </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://maps.google.nl/maps?hl=nl&ie=UTF8&ll=43.07477,-79.077557&spn=0.00299,0.006974&t=h&z=18">William B. Rankin power station </a><span style="font-family:arial;">and the </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://maps.google.nl/maps?hl=nl&ie=UTF8&ll=43.082234,-79.076473&spn=0.002989,0.006974&t=h&z=18">Toronto power company generating station.</a><span style="font-family:arial;"> Both are now out of use and were explored by an urban explorer from Canada. He has his own </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://vanishingpoint.ca/">site</a><span style="font-family:arial;"> where the pictures seen below are from.</span> <span style="font-family:arial;"><br /><br />The William B. Rankin power station starts </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://maps.google.nl/maps?hl=nl&ie=UTF8&ll=43.07446,-79.078412&spn=0.001495,0.003487&t=h&z=19">here</a><span style="font-family:arial;"> collecting the water. The water then runs trough a 2200 feet long tailrace tunnel seen in the pictures below. The turbines used to generate the electricity can be seen at the top of the tunnel:</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzC0Z9Fk1iFmIHR1bY628H9g3YVqC8lS506w0aCnuufxZRa6R4SdhbipMunQJHIIaXfDgLSY0pd2-AbaAqVMcVtnMlDiO97QXmbKwCwY-m6NEBDIDJAFbWvUE5hufWujd4g3zbdqJfg-R3/s1600-h/Naamloos.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzC0Z9Fk1iFmIHR1bY628H9g3YVqC8lS506w0aCnuufxZRa6R4SdhbipMunQJHIIaXfDgLSY0pd2-AbaAqVMcVtnMlDiO97QXmbKwCwY-m6NEBDIDJAFbWvUE5hufWujd4g3zbdqJfg-R3/s400/Naamloos.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5333784326218695042" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5QqS3ivPcrN2FXu9feyUU4qY-W7YUxiQc9Kh-5WEr-ra1AiK3BT420C8zCBOWQol7He0UZcLEFetzMYizYdQT_eyTwxthbzZOkOPtcX1EPNmUPKulQAPIooZD_99UAgtjRDemSZ6RHxqG/s1600-h/rankine-tail3.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5QqS3ivPcrN2FXu9feyUU4qY-W7YUxiQc9Kh-5WEr-ra1AiK3BT420C8zCBOWQol7He0UZcLEFetzMYizYdQT_eyTwxthbzZOkOPtcX1EPNmUPKulQAPIooZD_99UAgtjRDemSZ6RHxqG/s400/rankine-tail3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5333784329059005026" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />The whole tunnel was filled with water in the past but now the power station is out of use so you are able to walk in it. The tunnel</span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://maps.google.nl/maps?hl=nl&ie=UTF8&ll=43.080367,-79.077549&spn=0.001495,0.003487&t=h&z=19"> ends</a><span style="font-family:arial;"> at a very spectacular spot below the famous horsshoe waterfall:</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrL96QoDq_iWheJUrI9j-AVINAI3avsUaSoEZ4CHCs7ILGRW49-kbEGfjpEUUWYp8CVJnJkYNXj2EOJXECfJnM3lx2b2u2PN4s5XPhBHbA5Bg_54KaT4s4Ejoivj129XFFMUhQB5efHnjR/s1600-h/river-overlook.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrL96QoDq_iWheJUrI9j-AVINAI3avsUaSoEZ4CHCs7ILGRW49-kbEGfjpEUUWYp8CVJnJkYNXj2EOJXECfJnM3lx2b2u2PN4s5XPhBHbA5Bg_54KaT4s4Ejoivj129XFFMUhQB5efHnjR/s400/river-overlook.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5333782889502438050" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDrFVm0YZawLh5302lcmzdWLSjhJic66LZ5hkKd1yFWejhl2A1bCeOyKYEccfm8P1ZOn4CaZBozkPQfLXiOJWOXYaR5v1sOHuctzxumhiwtb5iBUTy0LzG4lRhVmRexpNFJDiZidmIcJnG/s1600-h/at-the-mountains-of-madness.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDrFVm0YZawLh5302lcmzdWLSjhJic66LZ5hkKd1yFWejhl2A1bCeOyKYEccfm8P1ZOn4CaZBozkPQfLXiOJWOXYaR5v1sOHuctzxumhiwtb5iBUTy0LzG4lRhVmRexpNFJDiZidmIcJnG/s400/at-the-mountains-of-madness.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5333782891425781906" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><a href="http://maps.google.nl/maps?hl=nl&ie=UTF8&ll=43.082301,-79.076387&spn=0.002989,0.006974&t=h&z=18">The Toronto power generating station</a> (seen in the picture below ) also uses these large underground tunnels. You can see this power station in the picture below. It is clearly visible that the power station haven't been used for a long time ( for 30 years):<br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7uxpFA2ral3mAeSLR9SatfCZhezQKLp7spYDd67-N81K59xcFjafN69YQQgmZX2fICzVd4KqORHHfcDPEwWfzgCt_t3A0LGHC0y7nhckEuuOIJILvLpPkSpj0833VPp626rsg7rNs6FaN/s1600-h/1111.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7uxpFA2ral3mAeSLR9SatfCZhezQKLp7spYDd67-N81K59xcFjafN69YQQgmZX2fICzVd4KqORHHfcDPEwWfzgCt_t3A0LGHC0y7nhckEuuOIJILvLpPkSpj0833VPp626rsg7rNs6FaN/s400/1111.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5333790229377597042" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">The tunnels of this power station are located much deeper underground as those of the William B. rankin power station and this tailrace excists of multiple tunnels instead of 1 tunnel. The tunnels are located more then ten storeys underground and are completely made of brick and are a hundred years old. The tunnels are only accessible by descending through a narrow slit in its ceiling thirty feet above the floor. But when you get down there you certainly get to a spectacular site:</span><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWw0ABbdOWkTXVfTscOa4cpWErdb-J9PiwK5T0Zq3tabRiYSoo2LRl2fcnIE8rOE-8jkjGKV3Axq1pa8xaPmjsK_RWUlMpkvAmfM7_LefYhc39Vt5VdU-AzKDOV44USfU7pmtwXMrD8RNC/s1600-h/3333333.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWw0ABbdOWkTXVfTscOa4cpWErdb-J9PiwK5T0Zq3tabRiYSoo2LRl2fcnIE8rOE-8jkjGKV3Axq1pa8xaPmjsK_RWUlMpkvAmfM7_LefYhc39Vt5VdU-AzKDOV44USfU7pmtwXMrD8RNC/s400/3333333.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5333793172836729986" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgiqemexPK13qgH4MdR0AZ22OGFjU0xBhM5EudeU7gDJzWuDoxI1Jw3AG94x-ss5TaENEYRgouQNdzz8k6_l7m0LW5EgBsBrv1IqH_0PXYL6CwZ0dpJmhLRpv5GaRDGEu30VkSVAF6o6Rd/s1600-h/55555555555.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgiqemexPK13qgH4MdR0AZ22OGFjU0xBhM5EudeU7gDJzWuDoxI1Jw3AG94x-ss5TaENEYRgouQNdzz8k6_l7m0LW5EgBsBrv1IqH_0PXYL6CwZ0dpJmhLRpv5GaRDGEu30VkSVAF6o6Rd/s400/55555555555.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5333793182337076434" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAIJ8BgqqpBTn7w73NP0uwRhBb9fBXXVaBQDtusAf34zH-BvimKkf-XFXS8UV1AJoFVLjwIfemMKOOJUsOxR2P0h9LhO2Ug0qdarkwFGHAjoQurceHvZAFCzbcVtkOD4ZIqrNKPnLHwTVI/s1600-h/44444444444.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAIJ8BgqqpBTn7w73NP0uwRhBb9fBXXVaBQDtusAf34zH-BvimKkf-XFXS8UV1AJoFVLjwIfemMKOOJUsOxR2P0h9LhO2Ug0qdarkwFGHAjoQurceHvZAFCzbcVtkOD4ZIqrNKPnLHwTVI/s400/44444444444.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5333793179020679474" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span><span style="font-family:arial;">In the picture below you can see the end of a trailrace line of this power station. The water flow would have crashed downward through the openings in the floor into the penstocks that made good use on the water's gravitational potential energy, driving it down to the base of the gorge where it spun great turbines at the Ontario Generating Station:<br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimyJLOszHPEba63U7VJnuO2Z7VAv4oKhh4BEVf8mhJB9Wn4gx9EigdTzQQnWTXHy1uLL1Wy_O9GWK0VgJZtlbEWP7_89HIfTNNVwz4OKRzsUVAx-y3q5QVsJ6TqcvgjjYfGywH3MOVK_2f/s1600-h/2222222.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimyJLOszHPEba63U7VJnuO2Z7VAv4oKhh4BEVf8mhJB9Wn4gx9EigdTzQQnWTXHy1uLL1Wy_O9GWK0VgJZtlbEWP7_89HIfTNNVwz4OKRzsUVAx-y3q5QVsJ6TqcvgjjYfGywH3MOVK_2f/s400/2222222.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5333792022853673282" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span>TThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15147175927877791153noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2344881049866432665.post-67823630252637579702009-05-08T08:41:00.000-07:002009-05-08T11:06:34.891-07:00The tallest dams<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">The tallest dams:</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">When you are talking about the tallest dams in the world </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://maps.google.nl/maps?hl=nl&ie=UTF8&ll=38.372852,69.345489&spn=0.025671,0.072098&t=h&z=15">the Nurek dam</a><span style="font-family:arial;"> near Nurex in Tadzjikistan takes the price for the heighest dam in the world. It has a height of 300 meters. It is seen very good in google earth with the terrain elevation layer turned on:</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlvXOtxYrmignrYxGYLC2tHDOj3r1XAtkmbKCgAxd-rq95ndB_YqE1GoznJB3Nn9Vy-cpEdLc58CFQ3fQSqlgU3CoU6v6fPDrpFwAdLi6_8l49Gyhz-J8sGab9hzTTfUg-mRxucZx4DA_6/s1600-h/Nurek+dam.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlvXOtxYrmignrYxGYLC2tHDOj3r1XAtkmbKCgAxd-rq95ndB_YqE1GoznJB3Nn9Vy-cpEdLc58CFQ3fQSqlgU3CoU6v6fPDrpFwAdLi6_8l49Gyhz-J8sGab9hzTTfUg-mRxucZx4DA_6/s400/Nurek+dam.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5333481651607583890" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">The water behind the dam is called the </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://maps.google.nl/maps?hl=nl&ie=UTF8&ll=38.357542,69.368019&spn=0.205413,0.576782&t=h&z=12">Vodohranili water bassin</a><span style="font-family:arial;">. The impact this dam made on this water bassin can be clearly seen at the surrounding landscape:</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFpc4ROZZhfkFjXin7E222zUJaIeFxTFE2yvxcUS1Fe-0sELXlHJHXQ2GdF2Jq13ByX2kHOsoqLrmvYp3PCxNlbTMgyacWUlvJFyXXJU3XV8AWlT-oQHq4T-cQNh57j8LYTPfDd7NYLzBO/s1600-h/6a00d834520a2e69e201127966f3e428a4.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFpc4ROZZhfkFjXin7E222zUJaIeFxTFE2yvxcUS1Fe-0sELXlHJHXQ2GdF2Jq13ByX2kHOsoqLrmvYp3PCxNlbTMgyacWUlvJFyXXJU3XV8AWlT-oQHq4T-cQNh57j8LYTPfDd7NYLzBO/s400/6a00d834520a2e69e201127966f3e428a4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5333483194438446146" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">The lighter colored strips of shoreline in the picture above highlight the tidal water level caused by the Nurek dam. The price of the second tallest dam in the world would go to </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://maps.google.nl/maps?hl=nl&ie=UTF8&ll=46.081388,7.402425&spn=0.022713,0.072098&t=h&z=15">the Grand dixense dam</a><span style="font-family:arial;"> in Switzerland. This dam has a height of 285 meters. Just click on the picture below and enlarge it to see how big this structure is when you are standing at the bottom.</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH61ZOmBObNz-xplK7ou2nPGahKJGdGOsBWyXOuyEbBTEGt7-fGjxj12ohnsqDTM6SRuqkFu82P0ldpkunsVCfgX6Fih89Px7vsO-C1Zk9iVJAvqd75H6nSjzrKa46dhIpj0F-iRf5sdF0/s1600-h/11913721.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH61ZOmBObNz-xplK7ou2nPGahKJGdGOsBWyXOuyEbBTEGt7-fGjxj12ohnsqDTM6SRuqkFu82P0ldpkunsVCfgX6Fih89Px7vsO-C1Zk9iVJAvqd75H6nSjzrKa46dhIpj0F-iRf5sdF0/s400/11913721.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5333486324101264882" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">The third tallest dam is the </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://maps.google.nl/maps?hl=nl&ie=UTF8&ll=42.75697,42.043648&spn=0.048084,0.144196&t=h&z=14">Inguri dam</a><span style="font-family:arial;"> in Georgia with a height of 272 meters:</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzsW2Z_3XpTAhY_ebcW3M3zOq6h7LHzVYNCj9DJts9dkcKqX9vMl5R6tqHsWEoM823hzXCpAqCkiQGyBr5hjsk1OaAqv_hH0Imi1IacQJFQNS9rGzpftxq6ATxMF2us-AUfHK0INSCyTQE/s1600-h/Georgie.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzsW2Z_3XpTAhY_ebcW3M3zOq6h7LHzVYNCj9DJts9dkcKqX9vMl5R6tqHsWEoM823hzXCpAqCkiQGyBr5hjsk1OaAqv_hH0Imi1IacQJFQNS9rGzpftxq6ATxMF2us-AUfHK0INSCyTQE/s400/Georgie.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5333496000798700786" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtEczmX26Q8Au2myRjjjialFA7JmQ4ChNjrhJFzIHRzEXK0Thcg7MK9kncBFVY5xOSE4Di1EcHI-0eeDQll-qrMazRIAMdsIVUFknrVbJT5t6JTUwCVckhPmn7Qycc0_Az0JRL67fuH4Oy/s1600-h/Georigia+2.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 270px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtEczmX26Q8Au2myRjjjialFA7JmQ4ChNjrhJFzIHRzEXK0Thcg7MK9kncBFVY5xOSE4Di1EcHI-0eeDQll-qrMazRIAMdsIVUFknrVbJT5t6JTUwCVckhPmn7Qycc0_Az0JRL67fuH4Oy/s400/Georigia+2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5333496361155492082" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">At </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://maps.google.nl/maps?hl=nl&ie=UTF8&ll=42.82084,42.026825&spn=0.192139,0.576782&t=h&z=12">the water bassin behind</a><span style="font-family:arial;"> the Inguri dam the same " tidal" stripes can be seen at the surrounding hills as at the water bassin behind the Nurek dam:</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivVm6-q_Hpt_N1BHvOnW07m59ZvFThyfu2EjcPmIv-VzVNbYQ9HF_UnpRh931xH21bA5kjyP9LDch3-2knmG5dD6fbHCRbGcUcPAUTwWWSCLdeD2Qk-W_hq6MTEfU0JY5YD789N72mNcPX/s1600-h/9547736.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 256px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivVm6-q_Hpt_N1BHvOnW07m59ZvFThyfu2EjcPmIv-VzVNbYQ9HF_UnpRh931xH21bA5kjyP9LDch3-2knmG5dD6fbHCRbGcUcPAUTwWWSCLdeD2Qk-W_hq6MTEfU0JY5YD789N72mNcPX/s400/9547736.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5333498352807118802" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">The fourth highest dam has a relatively small wide compared to the dams mentioned above but when measured by height it is still 262 meters tall. This dam is located in Italy and is called </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://maps.google.nl/maps?hl=nl&ie=UTF8&ll=46.267181,12.327476&spn=0.011318,0.036049&t=h&z=16">the Vaiont dam</a><span style="font-family:arial;">. As you can see in the picture below the dam also has a cool walkway in front it from where you can see the dazzling height of the dam itself:</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAoB7CxZpz1SXSBd4bdW5C31wFq-id_ZhCrWbcb699OXC2jgzF8l436VatAtKFfMYh-fQLITG5hsx-B6MlnUK-5XU3kHGYmcnB0uIdUBa83Kfgctx8gRRDR7Inu_hyzNG0qZzGOOkO-1OL/s1600-h/5765294.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAoB7CxZpz1SXSBd4bdW5C31wFq-id_ZhCrWbcb699OXC2jgzF8l436VatAtKFfMYh-fQLITG5hsx-B6MlnUK-5XU3kHGYmcnB0uIdUBa83Kfgctx8gRRDR7Inu_hyzNG0qZzGOOkO-1OL/s400/5765294.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5333501221992263234" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />The fifth highest dam in the world with a height of 261 meters is the </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://maps.google.nl/maps?hl=nl&ie=UTF8&ll=30.379614,78.478389&spn=0.028248,0.072098&t=h&z=15">Tehri dam</a><span style="font-family:arial;"> near the town of Tehri in India. This dam also has a very big spillway running next to it:</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF5Q0IBIdZDEqTUjanDdQR_K-tHHJn0Bql4gB9LWqnSv52ya6WYF5J_sSxEB0DbUWBwN0IYO1Joy9GIfFQXP80Rv-uTcatmiHC1RGKfi0Of98Pw6ScirpVznODejlk_OmYlZvNJVTe55eR/s1600-h/Tehri_dam_india.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF5Q0IBIdZDEqTUjanDdQR_K-tHHJn0Bql4gB9LWqnSv52ya6WYF5J_sSxEB0DbUWBwN0IYO1Joy9GIfFQXP80Rv-uTcatmiHC1RGKfi0Of98Pw6ScirpVznODejlk_OmYlZvNJVTe55eR/s400/Tehri_dam_india.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5333508588609357218" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">This dam is primary used as a hydro electric power plant. When it was still under construction the huge turbines that are used to generate the electricity where visible:</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR7iGaS0NdC-DV-1ctRs45GWTaoLUlNUhUHX2Qh9ffgGF3w3djYxs63Lu2AzJb7TOtbWxdvegJl8sOdkcr92aAAua9NUAjijGXsGTkWNW_oI_xfwiiGSdBxBYeFnn8a0jG8_0Mfx2iRlu5/s1600-h/Turbines.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR7iGaS0NdC-DV-1ctRs45GWTaoLUlNUhUHX2Qh9ffgGF3w3djYxs63Lu2AzJb7TOtbWxdvegJl8sOdkcr92aAAua9NUAjijGXsGTkWNW_oI_xfwiiGSdBxBYeFnn8a0jG8_0Mfx2iRlu5/s400/Turbines.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5333513697302864354" border="0" /></a>TThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15147175927877791153noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2344881049866432665.post-56873358262520403082009-04-18T01:04:00.000-07:002009-04-18T01:52:04.580-07:00The new valley project<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-family:arial;" >The new valley project:</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><a href="http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=22.87744,31.468964&spn=0.932488,1.235962&t=h&z=10">The New Valley Project</a> in southern Egypt is one of the biggest irrigation projects ever constructed. It consists of a system of canals to carry water from <a href="http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=22.428801,31.791687&spn=0.93554,1.235962&t=h&z=10">Lake Nasser</a> to irrigate the sandy wastes of the Western Desert of Egypt, which is part of the Sahara Desert. The 310-km long Sheikh Zayed canal is the biggest canal of the project and should bring 25 million m3 of water per day into one of the most inhospitable desert on earth and create a new Nile delta. <a href="http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=22.678352,31.736605&spn=0.014592,0.019312&t=h&z=16">These canal<span style="font-family:arial;">s</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"> are build in the middle of this desert in the hot sun. First, the channels are dug in the middle of the desert sand:</span></span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiY8P1bK-L6Jx5LQGGVOGw4X1uQH-eV9b1j01zx7pAplbeGE1UcT2__CvzVnIZWEXh7ydj8zkAgrvQ0kikDCVNs-SYveC0FV2LyGQjn2pKKDOywLE_IjvwR5MMDoGKGpIRY9mCrBFEyy3U/s1600-h/bb-egypt-058.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 262px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiY8P1bK-L6Jx5LQGGVOGw4X1uQH-eV9b1j01zx7pAplbeGE1UcT2__CvzVnIZWEXh7ydj8zkAgrvQ0kikDCVNs-SYveC0FV2LyGQjn2pKKDOywLE_IjvwR5MMDoGKGpIRY9mCrBFEyy3U/s400/bb-egypt-058.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325941701084194450" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSAqVFF054yTwufDkFYPtLBETGgNXchw35zSKKrtZSaqydFroBA1YNK-71lhGiDgFqWT7SR3c2e30onqoQECdUWTcGNxi3ZJnSfZPJq8F1ONr_-ivNCQPmF9fh7M6yEtTkdBFq6MwTup9r/s1600-h/bb-egypt-007.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 264px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSAqVFF054yTwufDkFYPtLBETGgNXchw35zSKKrtZSaqydFroBA1YNK-71lhGiDgFqWT7SR3c2e30onqoQECdUWTcGNxi3ZJnSfZPJq8F1ONr_-ivNCQPmF9fh7M6yEtTkdBFq6MwTup9r/s400/bb-egypt-007.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325941699301873442" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span class="polja" style="font-family:arial;">After that the first layer of concrete</span><span style="font-family:arial;"> is poured on it:</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHi08naforfqzSJ8XlAldeHsIwUY93GitGCezvcKWPU5H3O3coy1m2E5m7YYfX5uaqb9iIiSDDN7AqYsVnUYJZDFnIN18MGw6-1jCWBX15YsJNeFI0Qt8FLG46zLtXLGtInf9OlyGx07kU/s1600-h/bb-egypt-077.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 262px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHi08naforfqzSJ8XlAldeHsIwUY93GitGCezvcKWPU5H3O3coy1m2E5m7YYfX5uaqb9iIiSDDN7AqYsVnUYJZDFnIN18MGw6-1jCWBX15YsJNeFI0Qt8FLG46zLtXLGtInf9OlyGx07kU/s400/bb-egypt-077.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325941703249048434" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJrnuk5vHyhYCtrVtJeklY7Hb3lrRyJH12U7B4D3mVHylQ0Mng5VyeY_6x_ls4smqhi8gRp_jXBDiqjVTGvRMSIDlFcio285j-gYKiSR5jggYZHaNDovr8rW-VNWwTqxeADQJ7TBLZoflv/s1600-h/bb-egypt-076.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 264px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJrnuk5vHyhYCtrVtJeklY7Hb3lrRyJH12U7B4D3mVHylQ0Mng5VyeY_6x_ls4smqhi8gRp_jXBDiqjVTGvRMSIDlFcio285j-gYKiSR5jggYZHaNDovr8rW-VNWwTqxeADQJ7TBLZoflv/s400/bb-egypt-076.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325942262418294850" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">After this layer another layer of conrete is poured on it but first they attach layers of plastic foils in between so they don't lose any water</span><span class="polja"><span style="font-family:arial;">:</span><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbIGNhyphenhyphen7dxbTc_aO2wjVrGMSxDmp8-N-v1WT7-zPlh8c_ZJ_JTgJNNHvds2eES88aVFmc-8zrT_CaUjKicLfEJqXW2rqRQ1zAHGvMd3y76MDD6Ueh9Johzct-WwhmBcg0H6ytrWPP7YcyI/s1600-h/bb-egypt-003.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 264px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbIGNhyphenhyphen7dxbTc_aO2wjVrGMSxDmp8-N-v1WT7-zPlh8c_ZJ_JTgJNNHvds2eES88aVFmc-8zrT_CaUjKicLfEJqXW2rqRQ1zAHGvMd3y76MDD6Ueh9Johzct-WwhmBcg0H6ytrWPP7YcyI/s400/bb-egypt-003.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325941697408494946" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Of course these channels have to be filled with water. This is where the flagship of this project comes in action. I'm talking about the <a href="http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=22.637283,31.859171&spn=0.014596,0.019312&t=h&z=16">Mubarak Pumping Station</a> which is described as a venture which "has expanded the boundaries of civil engineering. It is pumping water from from Lake Nasser into the channels. It has a discharge capacity of 1.2 million m³/hr making it the largest water pump in the world. Its innovative design places the pump-house like an island in a lake - completely surrounded by water with 24 vertical pumps arranged in two parallel lines along both si<span style="font-family:arial;">des. You can see how large this pump is when it was under construction and not filled with water around it yet:<br /><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEji9LPcNjKyf8C5jpg6rvSRHhyphenhyphenq-02Tv3HeDJdg318N2TOh7LCF6XQYIUsEKIRaW1CxzPS01YFlZpsfsdmC8Rtr93XS11UEjgn8P_ptmYHgyY1992dsDgR1tk3-sNsxmJG04jgoaMInojPz/s1600-h/1897531472_c98a9a5a2b_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEji9LPcNjKyf8C5jpg6rvSRHhyphenhyphenq-02Tv3HeDJdg318N2TOh7LCF6XQYIUsEKIRaW1CxzPS01YFlZpsfsdmC8Rtr93XS11UEjgn8P_ptmYHgyY1992dsDgR1tk3-sNsxmJG04jgoaMInojPz/s400/1897531472_c98a9a5a2b_o.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325946218335793970" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">When the water was filled around it it looks like this: (The structure itself is continuing 50 meters under water):</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKYM7si6H2dOJb-y0-koWeftA5CQuzK876GTgzhXIBfbiM17TRPnen88LYjw8UtxpwawEi7rM1vohvtIF80Ds6jZRaAtvtaNNJzK9uNh09Yt70iA2JD2O4WMAPxjMXeDBCBBg6TkXGpaeU/s1600-h/8142894.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKYM7si6H2dOJb-y0-koWeftA5CQuzK876GTgzhXIBfbiM17TRPnen88LYjw8UtxpwawEi7rM1vohvtIF80Ds6jZRaAtvtaNNJzK9uNh09Yt70iA2JD2O4WMAPxjMXeDBCBBg6TkXGpaeU/s400/8142894.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325947265515625474" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />When this thing has done it's job the channels are filled with water making agriculture in the middle of </span><span style="font-family:arial;">one of the most inhospitable deserts </span><span style="font-family:arial;"> on earth possible:<br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFF-qO-zdiNSxraFAjKkdTwMUc1XXwc2tIZRtU5YeKFCoVBvCfCIaoMbgXN6qKaxUjfDv-QGDzldCRKPaskqJlHcgFMUfj1fmdUhkuAW_Vku4rpCcIVAK8P2_rHtzaHCqhsbm9B1MfBMBg/s1600-h/Channel.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 225px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFF-qO-zdiNSxraFAjKkdTwMUc1XXwc2tIZRtU5YeKFCoVBvCfCIaoMbgXN6qKaxUjfDv-QGDzldCRKPaskqJlHcgFMUfj1fmdUhkuAW_Vku4rpCcIVAK8P2_rHtzaHCqhsbm9B1MfBMBg/s400/Channel.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5325949891853997858" border="0" /></a>TThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15147175927877791153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2344881049866432665.post-10296544854279759702009-04-12T13:44:00.000-07:002009-04-12T14:36:58.016-07:00The stairway to heaven<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">The stairway to heaven</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">The Chinese cal<span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span></span><span style="font-family:arial;">l<a href="http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=29.051246,110.481949&spn=0.006837,0.009313&t=h&z=17"> the stairway </a>y</span><span style="font-family:arial;">ou see in the two pictures below "the heaven reaching ladder". It must be one of the most impressive external staircases in the world:</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjK5675sb2C-ksl1WhKwJxAC3o1Vda2F5rHrIPT25IyjhyphenhyphenQXAp19I_U8erdvKRwBAQ9FtCW9Y3urBY74pp3_8HENj_d5lJJ65PfkWV7pOO9DpWlKV1NRYsebtsgTqHRvHJTTHbyBqvTXH1Q/s1600-h/22222222222222222.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjK5675sb2C-ksl1WhKwJxAC3o1Vda2F5rHrIPT25IyjhyphenhyphenQXAp19I_U8erdvKRwBAQ9FtCW9Y3urBY74pp3_8HENj_d5lJJ65PfkWV7pOO9DpWlKV1NRYsebtsgTqHRvHJTTHbyBqvTXH1Q/s400/22222222222222222.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323910420090154146" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmKbxXk-kbvTPhWZDEuueIxXjDjDsp21UQSKtgyQ654LWR2wbD_JYCbJID33xKwnDf7VKxO6WtiD3IoJom29bkRtMhXyc92OuUiFN-j3MKxkt4VbI7QGe8b5-SSo2sjAda-jrS2ZXk1vMg/s1600-h/11111111111.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 268px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmKbxXk-kbvTPhWZDEuueIxXjDjDsp21UQSKtgyQ654LWR2wbD_JYCbJID33xKwnDf7VKxO6WtiD3IoJom29bkRtMhXyc92OuUiFN-j3MKxkt4VbI7QGe8b5-SSo2sjAda-jrS2ZXk1vMg/s400/11111111111.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323910412893564450" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">The staircase is part of the Tianmen Mountain (which is only 8 kilometers away from downtown Zhangjiajie), and </span><span style="font-family:arial;">leads to the Tianmen cave which offers a great view over the nearby mountains and is a religious site for praying for happiness.</span><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;"> This open cave is already visible from far away:<br /></span></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjwxI7zk_ixPvZadeAE2nU9Dm20C4PQL6Tj9RlAey66DjgQOil0oYIQZAlAiTKMhiEm8MKPp6G2-UWQNObpclp7vjXEKp4GtjVgIFvjbhsw9WbN1htGBc6H_7Xzjz8giqkQTLcfvbXaBLy/s1600-h/777777777777777.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjwxI7zk_ixPvZadeAE2nU9Dm20C4PQL6Tj9RlAey66DjgQOil0oYIQZAlAiTKMhiEm8MKPp6G2-UWQNObpclp7vjXEKp4GtjVgIFvjbhsw9WbN1htGBc6H_7Xzjz8giqkQTLcfvbXaBLy/s400/777777777777777.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323921873885821106" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />There are altogether exactly nine hundred and ninety-nine steps in this staircase. This Tianment cave is a natural water-eroded cave with the highest elevation in the world. The open cave runs south-northward and has a height of 131.5 meters, a width of 57 meters and a depth of 60 meters. It’s much like a gate towards the heaven. In 1999 a bunch of pilots flied their jets trough this c</span>ave. This event was watched by 800 million people on tv. </span> <span style="font-family:arial;">And in 2006 the Russian Air force did the same (the picture seen below is not photoshopped):<br /><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg17oaGpWq72-VPe-9oUfSLFB7FSqF1UfEmLpNcsU9lH8_iY9aCbpMy-OeIy7GJWr5DJNC3GcdJ22XXnaynaRM5oNbsL_qadX3tNVg1VVBWtfreRIKBmoOQq7-6FbjxQgY29UFHNfKKkgF5/s1600-h/666666666666.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 301px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg17oaGpWq72-VPe-9oUfSLFB7FSqF1UfEmLpNcsU9lH8_iY9aCbpMy-OeIy7GJWr5DJNC3GcdJ22XXnaynaRM5oNbsL_qadX3tNVg1VVBWtfreRIKBmoOQq7-6FbjxQgY29UFHNfKKkgF5/s400/666666666666.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323917389114484978" border="0" /></a><br /><br /> <span style="font-family:arial;">By the way not only this staircase and cave are impressive also<a href="http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=29.059884,110.477679&spn=0.013673,0.018625&t=h&z=16"> the road</a> leading to this place is fascinating. This road is called the Tongtian Avenue (Avenue toward Heaven) and it has 99 turns symbolizing that the heaven has nine palaces:</span><br />'<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4neEsNuOTzhJ7hAd5CJQbuCPALgN9abZkWGM9BY0wSpnY3n3ZPk-GRhsdDJ2cN0bMaOwNhLd4bhSKpp1zH4oN-jK2sajBxU56lDZEj939kllSZNRdM4WO7d_Jo0so8NaVS5oOp7_0B4GM/s1600-h/44444444444444444.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4neEsNuOTzhJ7hAd5CJQbuCPALgN9abZkWGM9BY0wSpnY3n3ZPk-GRhsdDJ2cN0bMaOwNhLd4bhSKpp1zH4oN-jK2sajBxU56lDZEj939kllSZNRdM4WO7d_Jo0so8NaVS5oOp7_0B4GM/s400/44444444444444444.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323911961103475522" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0y6199clK_wFwfE1nxM4WE4_xkkKJjP4ir9iyWyZxqEGNXHV7ygZmdjCsZd85v5Z2wzwdHaGMJZVXQuDp4UY5m6aDSqLOfedBS70m0qODgZraTF6tzAyt-pnzjJoMk1i0lLEAZ1GcFKG8/s1600-h/33333333333333333333.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0y6199clK_wFwfE1nxM4WE4_xkkKJjP4ir9iyWyZxqEGNXHV7ygZmdjCsZd85v5Z2wzwdHaGMJZVXQuDp4UY5m6aDSqLOfedBS70m0qODgZraTF6tzAyt-pnzjJoMk1i0lLEAZ1GcFKG8/s400/33333333333333333333.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323911126282149202" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwABwK6NQjT8dmKVlfS4TPc2UQxerl3jIpgdKxPn0sGRpBgtSLhyphenhyphenzO3fnoEwdK9AlDKsDXQQYCH9_BeBzlUPL7W4MyI3G_vyX4Bdwr4WLxrarDV09K0o55KkmmUOcPQmP2Zh1LvozjnwU2/s1600-h/55555555555555.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwABwK6NQjT8dmKVlfS4TPc2UQxerl3jIpgdKxPn0sGRpBgtSLhyphenhyphenzO3fnoEwdK9AlDKsDXQQYCH9_BeBzlUPL7W4MyI3G_vyX4Bdwr4WLxrarDV09K0o55KkmmUOcPQmP2Zh1LvozjnwU2/s400/55555555555555.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323913215501721730" border="0" /></a>TThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15147175927877791153noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2344881049866432665.post-49902368294899168782009-04-12T11:20:00.001-07:002009-04-12T13:38:36.014-07:00Cool exterior elevators<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Cool exterior elevators:</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">The Bailong Elevator is the world’s largest exterior elevator built onto the side of a huge cliff in Zhangjiajie in China. At over 330 meters tall, this elevator looms high midway up a cliff overlooking a valley far below. Moreover, the elevator is mostly glass, affording passengers a dizzying view to the depths below:</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhU8S3lXXotH2WsfrNbQzNRtxrDG0T869t1SGrZoXWZCQIJP2FkfHMQ34vA7iPp29KunKwdBP5yy9iUm5c1lKDK3Ttv8rVbofVhO6LPO7O4G5ecBNCkN1bE3d_Zx8ZrInKXVELC4bcQ5jAI/s1600-h/giantelevator1.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhU8S3lXXotH2WsfrNbQzNRtxrDG0T869t1SGrZoXWZCQIJP2FkfHMQ34vA7iPp29KunKwdBP5yy9iUm5c1lKDK3Ttv8rVbofVhO6LPO7O4G5ecBNCkN1bE3d_Zx8ZrInKXVELC4bcQ5jAI/s400/giantelevator1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323900528054890370" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNYpgmo7KeSPLKwml3_SMqKi0XMInMF4ttdSYiXZHA6IdF9KfuOOkVQo2cvV4RSMszwBRFkGS8ODLZF0GvqvsGJCm56Z8rRLj3fcNdiaS8LJdj9xSKzBi3ETQ7nrTH84g3TMxvyU9O_t29/s1600-h/elevator+china+2.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 263px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNYpgmo7KeSPLKwml3_SMqKi0XMInMF4ttdSYiXZHA6IdF9KfuOOkVQo2cvV4RSMszwBRFkGS8ODLZF0GvqvsGJCm56Z8rRLj3fcNdiaS8LJdj9xSKzBi3ETQ7nrTH84g3TMxvyU9O_t29/s400/elevator+china+2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323873828770571682" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><a href="http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=47.000583,8.396156&spn=0.002667,0.004656&t=h&z=18">The Hammetschwand Lift</a> is the highest exterior elevator of Europe and is located in Switzerland. It brings you 156 meters in the air from a spectacular rock path to the lookout point Hammetschwand on the Bürgenstock plateau overlooking Lake Lucerne:<br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhGhZcGX831iRInaInkFvsM8nNxJAbPDF0tKh1PGTlWsJvDyIQ36p8xgYRln8MUhqg-O05nRzaTH5dCz7Zt5LuBvypdkcYg0SNRqpPUdB3tBAEKWMOSA2nOkLRxR-jqK3Tje-q6GNGWecQ/s1600-h/Sitzwwerland+2.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhGhZcGX831iRInaInkFvsM8nNxJAbPDF0tKh1PGTlWsJvDyIQ36p8xgYRln8MUhqg-O05nRzaTH5dCz7Zt5LuBvypdkcYg0SNRqpPUdB3tBAEKWMOSA2nOkLRxR-jqK3Tje-q6GNGWecQ/s400/Sitzwwerland+2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323876913926416962" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimFLuoEC-GhAGeLurKxG7hbbSGn92KAqH9UbIcnUZLU5-69AAXzmUWBgfKimWrafbmXUPdHlJHbhA11vUs8tSYlgTKz224GI_lbeHVIvEHF2rS0hw2WLCzx1_bXQhr3_wDdZl16ZQ_nIO9/s1600-h/Switzerland+3.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; 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width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOHnX2cQOiw1FrKIFNZCHGQkTmX7n7HUPOicav4SmIZDmJbXdzBsmkVRdE3vyAMH101WoXDUUgX9jTO28vFibuTsVL3Bu_xWBHmkwB_g6AbzHg2irFTa43tqYKxZ6tUSBfwGADTt8bNalJ/s400/Switzerland+1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323876915231527650" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">These kind of exterior lift are sometimes also integrated in buildings like </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=-12.974185,-38.513051&spn=0.001905,0.002328&t=h&z=19">here</a><span style="font-family: arial;"> in the Lacerda building in the city of Salvador in Brazil:</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTTd-USiPiu2BOsWJfw_Yoi_SYOQd4cj3875jgoYE9oxV0GXyrC9IvvTyaRWlb3iwk6yG4nzQHe5NTvKspEaZQS9qbog8EuBb8pRpzHY4xEmRNtUkEciNsfOGRLPAN_OCtgHoYmS_3De8t/s1600-h/BRAZIL.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTTd-USiPiu2BOsWJfw_Yoi_SYOQd4cj3875jgoYE9oxV0GXyrC9IvvTyaRWlb3iwk6yG4nzQHe5NTvKspEaZQS9qbog8EuBb8pRpzHY4xEmRNtUkEciNsfOGRLPAN_OCtgHoYmS_3De8t/s400/BRAZIL.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323903094002872562" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqiN-hFCbbkjt5axDp5mdGHJrp_Gpzf6xZChKqW0rZ_8as3HRGlKqOSlMwtguWCelWi3aS0OXq7uN5o6xOPD5JknCv_6YGE-n8CHoI-mkMTj0zjjYvLm3xShezC_3FIZBx4XHlPEKHMxlC/s1600-h/brazil+2.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqiN-hFCbbkjt5axDp5mdGHJrp_Gpzf6xZChKqW0rZ_8as3HRGlKqOSlMwtguWCelWi3aS0OXq7uN5o6xOPD5JknCv_6YGE-n8CHoI-mkMTj0zjjYvLm3xShezC_3FIZBx4XHlPEKHMxlC/s400/brazil+2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323903716480215138" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">This thing takes you up 72 meters, and at the top you have a great view over the nearby bay.</span>TThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15147175927877791153noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2344881049866432665.post-90917844801274933892009-04-11T11:38:00.000-07:002009-04-11T13:01:41.761-07:00Deforestation of the Amazon rainforests<span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Deforestation of the Amazon rainforests:</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">There is no such species rich rainforest on the earth as <a href="http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=-7.493196,-63.105469&spn=31.707216,39.550781&t=h&z=5">the Amazon rainforest</a> in northern South America, but there is also no rainforest where the deforestation is so massive and also so well visible from satellite images. The jungle here is typically cleared to provide pasture for cattle, then soy farmers move in later, and after the soy is not profitable anymore they cultivate their crops. In all the state that are part of the Amazone forest the deforestation is best visible in the state of Mato Grosso in Brazil. 48 percent of Amazon deforestation that took place last years occurred in <a href="http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=-13.83808,-55.634766&spn=15.678372,19.775391&t=h&z=6">Mato Grosso</a>. Take for example this satellite image from google earth:<br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIPK61Tcqyxv9Ale4vn6dcopun-ZGhvHhkh6tNP8swp6ETicADFaHHEwowkeqYZ6NoKKYPoiLUv-Ko56EAapnjIqxPzdQjUSIMzJtdVNGw_uyNfbn0VY3PlGULxUn94Z4wNY2tkbNbC5Ch/s1600-h/Maso+grosso.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 255px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIPK61Tcqyxv9Ale4vn6dcopun-ZGhvHhkh6tNP8swp6ETicADFaHHEwowkeqYZ6NoKKYPoiLUv-Ko56EAapnjIqxPzdQjUSIMzJtdVNGw_uyNfbn0VY3PlGULxUn94Z4wNY2tkbNbC5Ch/s400/Maso+grosso.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323510826521674354" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />In 1992 this was one big forest, but now you see that the dark green color of the wood is largely taken over by agriculture. This is also the case in the state of Rondonia in Brazil. About 50 percent of the Amazon forest is felled <a href="http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=-11.544616,-62.29248&spn=7.927202,9.887695&t=h&z=7">here</a> during the past 20 years:</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIL2o0FKB9Z4hsEXcFrn-Ulz0qtreVwuAmJNwjmZ63cMrUIvtDhO6BhtJYzKBFbNettxeB3_dasUlL3sgHhF2GXYQ9E3aehslhqwsUDqKvkRoS305w6RKmkzCzwAWTEeLYzpnYX9OfsM1C/s1600-h/Rondonia.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 334px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIL2o0FKB9Z4hsEXcFrn-Ulz0qtreVwuAmJNwjmZ63cMrUIvtDhO6BhtJYzKBFbNettxeB3_dasUlL3sgHhF2GXYQ9E3aehslhqwsUDqKvkRoS305w6RKmkzCzwAWTEeLYzpnYX9OfsM1C/s400/Rondonia.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323512351436676098" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;" id="result_box" dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial;">The States of Amazonas and Para that cover most of the amazon forest are still largely covered by forest. But also here are large-scale logging projects going on. <a href="http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=-3.940981,-54.387817&spn=4.03807,4.943848&t=h&z=8">This</a> happens usually along a main road from where the rain forest continues to be cut away. This creates an elongated form as you can see in the picture below in the state of Para:</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI5HSMDNuriJbr-Sd-Lptj8XYSRBFBpmriiLRo2Z0PbRoq2kPZRZgDl_svECwOnhidFx7646wCt85HfKqOPSjOl5FJRPDZVQdyVklFqLmzrJjvt8zg8viqJNT4Z6Q4zHhV-SchWvdjtAbv/s1600-h/PARO.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 351px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI5HSMDNuriJbr-Sd-Lptj8XYSRBFBpmriiLRo2Z0PbRoq2kPZRZgDl_svECwOnhidFx7646wCt85HfKqOPSjOl5FJRPDZVQdyVklFqLmzrJjvt8zg8viqJNT4Z6Q4zHhV-SchWvdjtAbv/s400/PARO.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323514248921861554" border="0" /></a><br /><br /></div><span style="font-family:arial;">In the picture below you can see this deforestation process <a href="http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=-6.80099,-60.02655&spn=1.004982,1.235962&t=h&z=10">in an earlier state</a> in the Amazone state of Brazil:</span><br /><div style="text-align: left;" id="result_box" dir="ltr"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqx3z7XKLCZTFeemOuI3P4xOeJYW9q89Iewob_RRAlj9M8ZWPH0SVrxUVvoB01SJihEXJ59Ykf5JAI7twYMQ1gtqVzv4SW7oqTZgPYE4T8pavUhCMI9oG_lrZy2bdsVcg-y2qQZzf9kWfN/s1600-h/Amazone.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 387px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqx3z7XKLCZTFeemOuI3P4xOeJYW9q89Iewob_RRAlj9M8ZWPH0SVrxUVvoB01SJihEXJ59Ykf5JAI7twYMQ1gtqVzv4SW7oqTZgPYE4T8pavUhCMI9oG_lrZy2bdsVcg-y2qQZzf9kWfN/s400/Amazone.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323517061031978562" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">In eastern Bolivia this deforestation is <a href="http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=-16.673031,-62.819824&spn=0.969557,1.235962&t=h&z=10">also done</a> in some sort of agriculture circular crops to get the most efficient possible format for the farmers:</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjk4gBAqmIgamvvqdv9fZA9tbV77OAkyy8pXAQaQDGlgNpw9cs7LtGJlcg6bwijUOxh_Sd2ZFD3v-1_4kGIguhgI4HiWa0L65Pc1lYaaPALAilvNsfD8cPuU2eYNrUDSBi_fz-wF5Vo5BeI/s1600-h/Bolivia.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 321px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjk4gBAqmIgamvvqdv9fZA9tbV77OAkyy8pXAQaQDGlgNpw9cs7LtGJlcg6bwijUOxh_Sd2ZFD3v-1_4kGIguhgI4HiWa0L65Pc1lYaaPALAilvNsfD8cPuU2eYNrUDSBi_fz-wF5Vo5BeI/s400/Bolivia.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323517761191625698" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHm7SqhVpQlHHUgL1YiaufSjcK3yBAHvqxDNuuwQPOV_OX12lgcXF4EGv3vzWdzSiCEVsmV0z0GUEeTpFp9LW6lTEnXBskFPvcRl4mJCiXWEDo-5ADRcXfjCkeJC9DTGQuSMS73vGsmvMK/s1600-h/Bolivia+2.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 315px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHm7SqhVpQlHHUgL1YiaufSjcK3yBAHvqxDNuuwQPOV_OX12lgcXF4EGv3vzWdzSiCEVsmV0z0GUEeTpFp9LW6lTEnXBskFPvcRl4mJCiXWEDo-5ADRcXfjCkeJC9DTGQuSMS73vGsmvMK/s400/Bolivia+2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323517997529911410" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Not only humans are responsible for the deforestation of the Amazone forest. Often large forest fires occure. The most notable was the "Great Fire" that occurred in Roraima in 1998 </span><span style="font-family:arial;">and whose <a href="http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=1.526919,-55.8078&spn=2.023406,2.471924&t=h&z=9">scars</a> are still visible in the landscape:</span><br /><div style="text-align: left;" id="result_box" dir="ltr"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBacOefd0zBnO_bSXQbBINntI2bKEAHFGCk3x_0jvSd4uw_ssoafdFLtkAZr5DObnYFk2WlJe2dafIzqDrGPAqNCNOa7HaVClSHqJm5EVSOGvf3KSfEjLOZx0PYts4pRUCGi1LSYGaTOet/s1600-h/Scar.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 294px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBacOefd0zBnO_bSXQbBINntI2bKEAHFGCk3x_0jvSd4uw_ssoafdFLtkAZr5DObnYFk2WlJe2dafIzqDrGPAqNCNOa7HaVClSHqJm5EVSOGvf3KSfEjLOZx0PYts4pRUCGi1LSYGaTOet/s400/Scar.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323519481559536626" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;">The area in the picture above measures about 70 km by 120 km. This natural process is ,contrary to human logging, of course not damaging for the forest in the long term. If the human deforestation of this forest goes on in the same rate as now the Amazone rain forest will be 85% gone in the next 100 years. This could cause much more extreme weather on the planet and would contribute to the global warming. And maybe even more worse the loss of countless species and potential drugs against various diseases.</span><br /><br /></span></div> </div>TThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15147175927877791153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2344881049866432665.post-53638074216552385832009-04-11T02:30:00.001-07:002009-04-11T06:38:46.334-07:00Largest cooling towers<span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Largest cooling towers:</span><br />Cooling towers are heat removal devices used to transfer process waste heat to the atmosphere. These cooling towers are found at really big dimensions at most power plants. The primary use of large, industrial cooling towers is to remove the heat absorbed in the circulating cooling water systems used in power plants. These things have to be so big to be able to cool the water in a constant rate. If these things are not used you need an enormeous amount of cooling canals which for example can be seen <a href="http://pcgladiator.blogspot.com/2009/03/turkey-point-power-plant.html">at the Turkey point power plant</a> in Florida.<br /><br /><p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;">The world's tallest cooling tower is the <a href="http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=50.995986,6.670965&spn=0.004801,0.009656&t=h&z=17">200 meter tall cooling tower</a> of Niederaussem Power Station in Germany. The skyline of the villages nearby are all dominated by this thing:</p><p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><br /></p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz5oGNbM8HmN2nXM5dWSPqzM3gHOtyL9g8CGyI4YTeNPxCCnVapbO0HNTdkiluPkGXTn1m908kLPqOBF6nQwkXLn5gqfVsVKNl_VhhShgGayLUuSwWv014UfKIp5r3epfUU9n4y1cQ-Ocz/s1600-h/Niederausem.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgz5oGNbM8HmN2nXM5dWSPqzM3gHOtyL9g8CGyI4YTeNPxCCnVapbO0HNTdkiluPkGXTn1m908kLPqOBF6nQwkXLn5gqfVsVKNl_VhhShgGayLUuSwWv014UfKIp5r3epfUU9n4y1cQ-Ocz/s400/Niederausem.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323367309087646578" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7dGTt7-nR_NglPaqKCaiFt1icRySL1mIp7roHNW8fdEvyc0ttrUOhT3z6_2OW1Ua6DMNy0YVPTDXDUX_Fk74Z-D6HBHBZddJMwPlTuwDF09g8JPvmBdukm-020PgRySQqToilBlcXoDb6/s1600-h/Niederausem+2.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7dGTt7-nR_NglPaqKCaiFt1icRySL1mIp7roHNW8fdEvyc0ttrUOhT3z6_2OW1Ua6DMNy0YVPTDXDUX_Fk74Z-D6HBHBZddJMwPlTuwDF09g8JPvmBdukm-020PgRySQqToilBlcXoDb6/s400/Niederausem+2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323367311883176338" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=47.512541,2.87329&spn=0.005152,0.009656&t=h&z=17">The cooling towers </a>of the Belleville nuclear power plant in Billeville sur Loire in France are also giants. These cooling towers are 150 meters in diameter at the base, and are about 170 meters high:<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrIfKr63bM6GC2itNrdOYTdYlUaiUn8TEdNo6otLTwPBxdX1WroLO-v6GyuaXmlgVzR4ejv6YlXRDKGyEC9NzqmlFnqT_ksHY4UWBAHqM4lz5t2qAjLWeA_lQUKFDE6XiJxGBdWD7lCE4N/s1600-h/belleville+27987.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 337px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrIfKr63bM6GC2itNrdOYTdYlUaiUn8TEdNo6otLTwPBxdX1WroLO-v6GyuaXmlgVzR4ejv6YlXRDKGyEC9NzqmlFnqT_ksHY4UWBAHqM4lz5t2qAjLWeA_lQUKFDE6XiJxGBdWD7lCE4N/s400/belleville+27987.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323400946483122194" border="0" /></a><br /><br />These things were climbed by Greenpeace activists in 2007 as you can see in the pictures below. This way you can easily estimate how big these structures are:<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEVNaZGRiiDmPISiX4zy-Znn2TuYdfoghzTWSf9Sm7epXHFVM6UFkVqilapbeYEjZoN9xTiU0hQmYpYnJSOUH4Qd2TIKKCxyl1uYPJVJGEDWe0GsdVDAmBLYDvEUz8KE00w5Y_be-IX1eR/s1600-h/Belleville.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEVNaZGRiiDmPISiX4zy-Znn2TuYdfoghzTWSf9Sm7epXHFVM6UFkVqilapbeYEjZoN9xTiU0hQmYpYnJSOUH4Qd2TIKKCxyl1uYPJVJGEDWe0GsdVDAmBLYDvEUz8KE00w5Y_be-IX1eR/s400/Belleville.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323401551617471666" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-mzN_aTprBeWje6Ag5BDTksl13zA8Fl2PFuReyIInZzLsxQ0jgGkvpUSWm-lR_rMULtqxd_hypBPnfr6jUI8fL203cTb26oNb654IOvl5Us4F838OQUwYbF74MvCA-v9zI98jEJOfHREd/s1600-h/Belleville+4.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-mzN_aTprBeWje6Ag5BDTksl13zA8Fl2PFuReyIInZzLsxQ0jgGkvpUSWm-lR_rMULtqxd_hypBPnfr6jUI8fL203cTb26oNb654IOvl5Us4F838OQUwYbF74MvCA-v9zI98jEJOfHREd/s400/Belleville+4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323401556969016978" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Even the open structure at the base is taller then you would think:<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_qTLRLGnRJDOW2kPaMPqB4_Jrw1exkOuIy8Tej8wh58eIpwtQWf2DT3zl-EVrnDxsJc_b-BLkX9EEMF06St5MCSjhTTBJYocTEW6luByAKG49KIQTigU0-TFIzwGDDU7A3GTZX6Ohhbqf/s1600-h/Belleville+3.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_qTLRLGnRJDOW2kPaMPqB4_Jrw1exkOuIy8Tej8wh58eIpwtQWf2DT3zl-EVrnDxsJc_b-BLkX9EEMF06St5MCSjhTTBJYocTEW6luByAKG49KIQTigU0-TFIzwGDDU7A3GTZX6Ohhbqf/s400/Belleville+3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323401551444556706" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Other huge cooling towers <a href="http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=51.036118,6.63336&spn=0.009594,0.019312&t=h&z=16">can be seen</a> (not yet visible in google maps) at the new expansion of the Neurath Power station in Germany which was recently completed. The 2 cooling towers here are each 170 meters tall:<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhU5lZ5mf7W5GMa3ClHODhorcJKuOxlX80m8yX676D8ftVX074bHp-jI1LJyVu-soZV6luJPt51SdT4WxJSCBZPsAwwSKmlMB9wuYqX6XV4rYXvbl0nvzNxtoe3ywrbeXm7gxJwkMrYW40r/s1600-h/neurasth+2.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhU5lZ5mf7W5GMa3ClHODhorcJKuOxlX80m8yX676D8ftVX074bHp-jI1LJyVu-soZV6luJPt51SdT4WxJSCBZPsAwwSKmlMB9wuYqX6XV4rYXvbl0nvzNxtoe3ywrbeXm7gxJwkMrYW40r/s400/neurasth+2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323423298878356770" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpGtBxz9iiDDijihSeTxlGF9Ib2zKi-NzlvgB3_ZvAi8gduCFTjJbrOfmd7yLLC3aZgHLmDKx7PZYUyXvKX8bwiIX_QbMPcB3Zr_mlUSnXt-DFlMo3qnb12ztmVQ7CePZTyv8OObZqNsCK/s1600-h/Neurath.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 224px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpGtBxz9iiDDijihSeTxlGF9Ib2zKi-NzlvgB3_ZvAi8gduCFTjJbrOfmd7yLLC3aZgHLmDKx7PZYUyXvKX8bwiIX_QbMPcB3Zr_mlUSnXt-DFlMo3qnb12ztmVQ7CePZTyv8OObZqNsCK/s400/Neurath.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323420389930087522" border="0" /></a><br /><br />The cooling towers during construction:<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjedwtf87gL6d3VeVIBMrRP3kRkRimiCKx4JZoz37guwCIW6mZhZM5MJRsObkHJov03R9n8sPefQ8xd2rAMb9CMrOmnkvMxj9F5kL74zKbpjurj3T5oQPEIW8fqXXz0QBtGroJz0WfmO0WL/s1600-h/Neurath+4.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 283px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjedwtf87gL6d3VeVIBMrRP3kRkRimiCKx4JZoz37guwCIW6mZhZM5MJRsObkHJov03R9n8sPefQ8xd2rAMb9CMrOmnkvMxj9F5kL74zKbpjurj3T5oQPEIW8fqXXz0QBtGroJz0WfmO0WL/s400/Neurath+4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323425080933856386" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIxGL4V2P9B9ZrLKTjBgURkQ2YpQnjVKGDMe6IxWiolcKnIGdWlb18-ZRYgrbXyydI-m6UlzEvFGlMc3DRDyGtu3-CECKnecanYxP87w2kldkkhekXW0Ucd2yAXC8NNo_fSh-FuRHO-c5o/s1600-h/Neurath+3.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 290px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIxGL4V2P9B9ZrLKTjBgURkQ2YpQnjVKGDMe6IxWiolcKnIGdWlb18-ZRYgrbXyydI-m6UlzEvFGlMc3DRDyGtu3-CECKnecanYxP87w2kldkkhekXW0Ucd2yAXC8NNo_fSh-FuRHO-c5o/s400/Neurath+3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323425080223743954" border="0" /></a>TThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15147175927877791153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2344881049866432665.post-90761321829377855912009-04-10T02:16:00.000-07:002009-04-10T05:02:31.544-07:00The "elephant cages"<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">The "elephant cages":</span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:arial;">Elephant cages are what they called or in normal terms the Wullenwebers or the FLR-9 antennas (the original name introduced by Dr. Hans Rindfleisch was Wullenwever). I talk about the circularly disposed antenna arrays built by the United States during the 1960s. These are large circular antenna arrays used by the military to triangulate radio signals for radio navigation, intelligence gathering and search and rescues. Because of the immense sizes (370 meters in diameter and 40 meters high) and huge circular reflecting screens, the antennas are colloquially known as the elephant cages. </span><span style="font-family:arial;">In total there are 8 of these huge FLR-9 antennas build, spread over the world. They were constructed at:</span><br /></div><br /><p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; font-family: arial;">-<a href="http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=48.45135,10.863204&spn=0.010375,0.019011&t=h&z=16">Augsburg</a>, Germany. This one is not in use anymore:<br /></p><p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; font-family: arial;"><br /></p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKUyH1UfV59kLGbpKXlNpuYEPzYXZ4T1D_XMldarhxJkm82ruxJ1vOGsQLf1khh4l4xsnY9a7GWOhZ7hKAVdtGJG-eYWWJ6YWJZmB1rVdR2tcqakP6G6DHdyxl5wexzmF3kuvNeTy4rkix/s1600-h/augsburg-1987.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 265px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKUyH1UfV59kLGbpKXlNpuYEPzYXZ4T1D_XMldarhxJkm82ruxJ1vOGsQLf1khh4l4xsnY9a7GWOhZ7hKAVdtGJG-eYWWJ6YWJZmB1rVdR2tcqakP6G6DHdyxl5wexzmF3kuvNeTy4rkix/s400/augsburg-1987.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5322995301006490914" border="0" /></a><p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; font-family: arial;"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; font-family: arial;">-<a href="http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=52.044421,-0.389146&spn=0.004811,0.009506&t=h&z=17">Chicksands</a>, United Kingdom ( not in use anymore):</p><p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; font-family: arial;"><br /></p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPE14Ec-MLTjA91Dd7pNNjO-wutTPigkxs5_Ef8uKxSw-hgnqllMNQFEB5XAiCwc5RH2er5LvDdF93WpQBRuAFnun2JS5WBrvQ-RigbhO0gD1y3yFMD0Pi_9lJKeBkmdiVcvsiabxNiPf9/s1600-h/chicksands-1989-2.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 261px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPE14Ec-MLTjA91Dd7pNNjO-wutTPigkxs5_Ef8uKxSw-hgnqllMNQFEB5XAiCwc5RH2er5LvDdF93WpQBRuAFnun2JS5WBrvQ-RigbhO0gD1y3yFMD0Pi_9lJKeBkmdiVcvsiabxNiPf9/s400/chicksands-1989-2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5322997807880367042" border="0" /></a><br /><p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; font-family: arial;">-<a href="http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=15.2039,120.52739&spn=0.007548,0.009506&t=h&z=17">Clark AFB</a>, Philippines. As you can see in the picture below this elephant cage has been converted to a 35,000-seat fabric-covered amphitheatre:</p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAZCwYvVZgq7GaqAI-zu_AcmudioZ1R_OnM3Z443ls-dKbqC-zvps96AmqnJDNN_ikeIfko3lN-KSOvYVMWvOeGN1QPh9ZSxP3TDbKgWRO79GbEQUyjqxkfwRx77Wx-Ptpp03mlOE-SqWW/s1600-h/Philipinnes.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAZCwYvVZgq7GaqAI-zu_AcmudioZ1R_OnM3Z443ls-dKbqC-zvps96AmqnJDNN_ikeIfko3lN-KSOvYVMWvOeGN1QPh9ZSxP3TDbKgWRO79GbEQUyjqxkfwRx77Wx-Ptpp03mlOE-SqWW/s400/Philipinnes.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323000489107473298" border="0" /></a><p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; font-family: arial;"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; font-family: arial;"><a href="http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=61.263765,-149.849653&spn=0.007521,0.019011&t=h&z=16">-Elmendorf AFB</a>, Alaska. This one is still operational:<br /></p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4o1DSeQiCwHpZ2RhNLBcKnE_606w_o1f_7eCeXAB4YY7Ty0pmMEDzrTl66duf138LWBXR9PE4BukCS6A230c-J0zZh_-bEaogC7ZFtXt0JNQ1IySelH09Ph5HY9uUWLntHgYPwuBNmWDx/s1600-h/elmendorf.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 230px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4o1DSeQiCwHpZ2RhNLBcKnE_606w_o1f_7eCeXAB4YY7Ty0pmMEDzrTl66duf138LWBXR9PE4BukCS6A230c-J0zZh_-bEaogC7ZFtXt0JNQ1IySelH09Ph5HY9uUWLntHgYPwuBNmWDx/s400/elmendorf.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323001763971763090" border="0" /></a><br /><p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial;">- </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=40.709369,29.52713&spn=0.005929,0.009506&t=h&z=17">Karamursel</a><span style="font-family: arial;">, Turkey. This one is already overgrown by vegetation and is the least visible one. It looked identical as the other ones.</span><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; font-family: arial;">- <a href="http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=40.722266,141.328318&spn=0.005928,0.009506&t=h&z=17">Misawa,</a> Japan. This antenna is still active also:<br /></p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_WAnl_OkpwD04ccufwXhouLms6C-3EYJRYRBbw8PZFXo7GHabKQWEQCbrCxOcQjvr01XM4yAl5t3mfx0Os7YuCjE5ZTEdOg-LW5qaCuSz0HxMn34-Dv-aKldpG_YoMrQ3UR6ui-TBp8jY/s1600-h/Misawa.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 265px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_WAnl_OkpwD04ccufwXhouLms6C-3EYJRYRBbw8PZFXo7GHabKQWEQCbrCxOcQjvr01XM4yAl5t3mfx0Os7YuCjE5ZTEdOg-LW5qaCuSz0HxMn34-Dv-aKldpG_YoMrQ3UR6ui-TBp8jY/s400/Misawa.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323005268589076210" border="0" /></a><p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; font-family: arial;"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; font-family: arial;"><a href="http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=17.290168,102.869496&spn=0.029872,0.038023&t=h&z=15">-Ramasun</a>, Thailand (This one is not visible in google maps in highress).<br /></p> <p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; font-family: arial;"><a href="http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=40.646807,17.839866&spn=0.005934,0.009506&t=h&z=17">-San Vito dei Normanni</a>, Italy:<br /></p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuyhQLI-Y8tkdSmlXnJSpPCzmu26irHRtrqQKkeKvnmZtn96Zp5lszaz9BajuaCWG1cZCTu6-H1iK4AML241xbHrMVA1E-_PkogV_KURre4Jj7sP7oYr_dh3qOLD-KH1Kh3OfIuPp55uaz/s1600-h/Italy.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuyhQLI-Y8tkdSmlXnJSpPCzmu26irHRtrqQKkeKvnmZtn96Zp5lszaz9BajuaCWG1cZCTu6-H1iK4AML241xbHrMVA1E-_PkogV_KURre4Jj7sP7oYr_dh3qOLD-KH1Kh3OfIuPp55uaz/s400/Italy.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323007387976920434" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:arial;">As you can see in the pictures above all of these antennas excist of two major rings of HF antennaes. The outer ring is for monitoring shorter HF wavelengths and is is about 370 meters in diameter and contains some 120 sleeve monopoles. The inner ring is for monitoring Longer wavelength signals, and is typically some 100 meters in diameter with some containing 40 folded dipoles. A horizontal ground screen about 400 meters in diameter surrounds the entire site. The station's intercept operators work in an operations building </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=40.722669,141.329203&spn=0.002964,0.004753&t=h&z=18">in the center</a><span style="font-family:arial;"> of the array.</span><br /></div><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span>TThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15147175927877791153noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2344881049866432665.post-20157568941264006432009-04-09T11:11:00.000-07:002009-04-09T12:28:32.157-07:00The biggest "slide" in the world<span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">The biggest "slide" in the world:</span><br />Dam spillways are used to release water in case of a flood, but sometimes these spillways are also used as a slide for kayakers and even bikes. This is the case with Europe's largest dam <a href="http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=52.120065,-3.764985&spn=0.004802,0.00957&t=h&z=17">spillway</a> which is part of the LIyn Brianne dam in Wales: </span><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn5EgnI_5O5PlWypAtzsgSdvMSQjpJQ0J9nlenztd0FxDNz_CfYE14Vo_CSnlaQllC7gAv-fSYv06AjQWjyYBNczUK4hszhyphenhypheni24CGnw77xKplBlWUx0Lhp9ppm8bo8uvdnLGf78Nay1ZCX/s1600-h/Llyn_Brianne_Reservoir.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn5EgnI_5O5PlWypAtzsgSdvMSQjpJQ0J9nlenztd0FxDNz_CfYE14Vo_CSnlaQllC7gAv-fSYv06AjQWjyYBNczUK4hszhyphenhypheni24CGnw77xKplBlWUx0Lhp9ppm8bo8uvdnLGf78Nay1ZCX/s400/Llyn_Brianne_Reservoir.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5322758153979447074" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">This concrete monster the size of a main road plunges more than 330 meters to the valley below. It makes one of those terrifying Olympic ski jumps look like a speed bump. Standing on <a href="http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=52.121313,-3.764067&spn=0.002401,0.004785&t=h&z=18">the public walkway</a> at the top, looking down, is mesmerising and slightly nauseating. The water goes from looking-glass calm, over a lip, on to a shelf and then crashes down the slope, forming a beautiful foaming latticework all the way down:<br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKhN5s818Xo1sBWuxJFmwTS6zJTQGrx1UNzrI5ykm3Zq3JG_H0G1HtCEyPlbStiKzmp1bIg67gmiTIAKA-R7UrfaiKvsyYMnU4a0OQ1r7w-S3zLC24M7dL3_FE-J_w0RMKAMWOMkdcQncm/s1600-h/way+down+111111.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 359px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKhN5s818Xo1sBWuxJFmwTS6zJTQGrx1UNzrI5ykm3Zq3JG_H0G1HtCEyPlbStiKzmp1bIg67gmiTIAKA-R7UrfaiKvsyYMnU4a0OQ1r7w-S3zLC24M7dL3_FE-J_w0RMKAMWOMkdcQncm/s400/way+down+111111.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5322773909358739890" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">It cannot be overstated that it is madness to contemplate any sort of trip down Llyn Brianne, but still it is used by kayakers (and even bikers). </span><p></p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1CRq2qE7DvibNb0wATMoYL7kwUwkGqW1QuyagrOuK7XgsMo117UIMvoIJ_YZbQTU9FWi7c8ncc8LqEnaprHdGRh8Glv1ZnEqA5Bbe-tl3vTHO_US8O4o2Z30hEp1-7WcZTIxPtU3DAsvK/s1600-h/Kayaking.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 284px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1CRq2qE7DvibNb0wATMoYL7kwUwkGqW1QuyagrOuK7XgsMo117UIMvoIJ_YZbQTU9FWi7c8ncc8LqEnaprHdGRh8Glv1ZnEqA5Bbe-tl3vTHO_US8O4o2Z30hEp1-7WcZTIxPtU3DAsvK/s400/Kayaking.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5322770324451341634" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;"></span><br /></span><p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"></p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixdSaK_q_GdFts1YBZECkxnG7bBWU2SKLwfaCgtVi0xFrgzk5t9hV_eS3Vno0xp3uKrYQ1vIj8o2eJAGnapCGctL4fZBzb62D6Gr7i_kAR1CJSlvfmgrxbzl1zZSjlDl-xBv17g5Km9NCU/s1600-h/kayak_280_652775a.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 280px; height: 390px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixdSaK_q_GdFts1YBZECkxnG7bBWU2SKLwfaCgtVi0xFrgzk5t9hV_eS3Vno0xp3uKrYQ1vIj8o2eJAGnapCGctL4fZBzb62D6Gr7i_kAR1CJSlvfmgrxbzl1zZSjlDl-xBv17g5Km9NCU/s400/kayak_280_652775a.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5322761182181053810" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">These kayakers take the risk of being forced under water and thrown around like a pair of socks in a washing machine. Let's say it not a thing you want to plan for a vacation holiday.<br /></span>TThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15147175927877791153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2344881049866432665.post-23517522714296972172009-04-08T11:18:00.000-07:002009-04-08T12:27:02.534-07:00The steps of a giant<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">The steps of a giant:</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">The structure you can see in the pictures below is what they call the steps of a giant:</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhB6-xDmhUKdHt4SO-uYw-uuLWAFYIjKWiHAJHWl97uLvLKFX6HFhAdD4dZ56FCBFDdjbDB3l8gYU2iyB2cqBrXr3-c4nCnY-lSWp4ONr9jkvS7H0DPGPnWbjMsVjOcNmG232HCEiOxtvdZ/s1600-h/333333333333333333333.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhB6-xDmhUKdHt4SO-uYw-uuLWAFYIjKWiHAJHWl97uLvLKFX6HFhAdD4dZ56FCBFDdjbDB3l8gYU2iyB2cqBrXr3-c4nCnY-lSWp4ONr9jkvS7H0DPGPnWbjMsVjOcNmG232HCEiOxtvdZ/s400/333333333333333333333.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5322394778643137586" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMBYRoa968dgjd6kJv5L-jQq-m0T5wZaUgZQXj16gueM8BoNx8-x_2uH0akKeOB1BYZYDJQB9vPG-c19TTTVdhmBp0LmpqOGq0C4c1M7YIcDk-6ohT8u40l8GL2mV3kV_IQvnN1z9T_3sr/s1600-h/2222222222222222.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMBYRoa968dgjd6kJv5L-jQq-m0T5wZaUgZQXj16gueM8BoNx8-x_2uH0akKeOB1BYZYDJQB9vPG-c19TTTVdhmBp0LmpqOGq0C4c1M7YIcDk-6ohT8u40l8GL2mV3kV_IQvnN1z9T_3sr/s400/2222222222222222.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5322394580398145906" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlJ6MxW_cLoCqhBQSxyizqwzoq4j320YsE_2ur3DpiMCuS68IwuusQKAr7mIO9lz4gLk30tsU3nGSXNaNMxVW1rz-3tFVjMLfUTnH7DFKd97Qld24t2iBh1703J7W7KPCLU-8xFGsDzdON/s1600-h/4444444444444444444.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 299px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlJ6MxW_cLoCqhBQSxyizqwzoq4j320YsE_2ur3DpiMCuS68IwuusQKAr7mIO9lz4gLk30tsU3nGSXNaNMxVW1rz-3tFVjMLfUTnH7DFKd97Qld24t2iBh1703J7W7KPCLU-8xFGsDzdON/s400/4444444444444444444.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5322395352144490050" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTe4_QOsUqWaHb2Osm9erEa3fw7OcrWtI_ZV5xTDxc8DGWaimzH9HkgscbykRXEUZQYyQFqRoVEy-lOZ-ja1v1YsTbRnAmm31uk8OAsGTSJWoLr7hMIO6YJEkaMCTPdaToKoPzD_d3or7-/s1600-h/555555555555555.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTe4_QOsUqWaHb2Osm9erEa3fw7OcrWtI_ZV5xTDxc8DGWaimzH9HkgscbykRXEUZQYyQFqRoVEy-lOZ-ja1v1YsTbRnAmm31uk8OAsGTSJWoLr7hMIO6YJEkaMCTPdaToKoPzD_d3or7-/s400/555555555555555.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5322395859858195362" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">If you look at the pictures above that is a well chosen name if you believe in fairy tales. But in reality </span><span style="font-family:arial;">this is a man made spillway used to release water from </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=53.780826,-77.453785&spn=0.036971,0.076561&t=h&z=14">the giant Robert-Bourassa dam</a><span style="font-family:arial;"> in case of a flood. This giant Robert Bourassa dam can be seen at the right in the picture below ( the spillway is seen at the left side of the dam):</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQ43hyf7wAcSlcOD9zZ5RW7SIvCxxMXnxGLnYzDIGVMWfH-bk_q5_UZFMfYXreFxmliuAI8yrwNJ_V3kAl9T_0jHIFpk4Ui8Cnmok8Cc9UUoU8qs1T8_GS8AraFK88cVEvjFRWJMosutlZ/s1600-h/6666666666666666666666.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQ43hyf7wAcSlcOD9zZ5RW7SIvCxxMXnxGLnYzDIGVMWfH-bk_q5_UZFMfYXreFxmliuAI8yrwNJ_V3kAl9T_0jHIFpk4Ui8Cnmok8Cc9UUoU8qs1T8_GS8AraFK88cVEvjFRWJMosutlZ/s400/6666666666666666666666.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5322400861462236370" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=53.793503,-77.447433&spn=0.03696,0.076561&t=h&z=14">The spillway</a><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family: arial;">is almost 2 kilometers long and 150 meters wide and each step you see is 10 meters high. It is l</span>ocated in Quebec in Canada. Except during flood periods, water does not normally flow over this spillway. When there is a flood the gates, which can be seen at the top of the spillway in the picture below, can be opened and so the water can flow away very fast:</span><br /><a style="font-family: arial;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVn5lx1Rg_EH58SCz5jqZGaBJWmn_Xh0-XD9t6hO4CqtkueKDkGDQWmm35E0zBIzC90yU0vcxFwsDYsxJMJYseDxVNQUjUJH0TjdIMWwty2Mc3rLYFxptuV_y_8U47wpIZdSCoslYiKKGc/s1600-h/111111111111.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 299px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVn5lx1Rg_EH58SCz5jqZGaBJWmn_Xh0-XD9t6hO4CqtkueKDkGDQWmm35E0zBIzC90yU0vcxFwsDYsxJMJYseDxVNQUjUJH0TjdIMWwty2Mc3rLYFxptuV_y_8U47wpIZdSCoslYiKKGc/s400/111111111111.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5322394570833772242" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">This way it protects <a href="http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=53.735817,-78.581257&spn=0.074022,0.153122&t=h&z=13">other</a> hydroelectric dams down the river and some towns along this river such as the small village of </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=53.789751,-77.616091&spn=0.036964,0.076561&t=h&z=14">Radisson</a><span style="font-family:arial;">. The spillway and dam are part of the James Bay Project. This project refers to the construction of a series of hydroelectric power stations on the La Grande River in northwestern Québec, Canada. The project covers an area the size of the State of New York and is one of the largest hydroelectric systems in the world. The total project power plants has an installed generating capacity of 16,000 megawatts.</span>TThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15147175927877791153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2344881049866432665.post-65073156298845667472009-04-06T13:03:00.000-07:002009-04-06T14:25:07.949-07:00The Los Angeles Aqueducts<span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" >The Los Angeles Aqueducts:</span><br />Los Angeles has one of the most cool looking Aqueduct systems in the world. In the city itself the rivers flow through a concrete channel on a fixed course. This canal system forms one of Los Angeles most important city features and is wel known all over the world. There are 2 big river cannals running trough Los Angeles; the Los Angeles river, and the San Gabriel River. The Los Angeles river starts <a href="http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=33.762059,-118.200874&spn=0.026295,0.038624&t=h&z=15">here</a>, and runs as 1 river canal until <a href="http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=34.145748,-118.389852&spn=0.013088,0.019312&t=h&z=16">this</a> point (After this point it splits up in 2 canals). This river canal gives Los Angeles it's famous urban features:<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeQhUvTCJcXDcVARfB_JbYl9_EPxouku6ri0-V5gH3hktrDiOIS1QIXyb0RPPtr3Z90s5y2jXCaSLhD3KMu9n1EKNJVdA-mwDHqrTuHNWpPf2LNR-Fp0FEhTNUD_HCcgFJSyMXGl9zfCR7/s1600-h/823051.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeQhUvTCJcXDcVARfB_JbYl9_EPxouku6ri0-V5gH3hktrDiOIS1QIXyb0RPPtr3Z90s5y2jXCaSLhD3KMu9n1EKNJVdA-mwDHqrTuHNWpPf2LNR-Fp0FEhTNUD_HCcgFJSyMXGl9zfCR7/s400/823051.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5321679161705810594" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHhUSGAvqeppzEDi1MU9cIfW2n3jYAdq9KeCIbNgbys_4HF4fscahEHYiv1mpJs3dNnb6hv-fa4lwrSaRIeHeJe3LfOQ_dKONucRgj5c2VgpsKUbGE5WDbFjM_NnjlgOmL0xVddCmH3Khd/s1600-h/LA+RIVER.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHhUSGAvqeppzEDi1MU9cIfW2n3jYAdq9KeCIbNgbys_4HF4fscahEHYiv1mpJs3dNnb6hv-fa4lwrSaRIeHeJe3LfOQ_dKONucRgj5c2VgpsKUbGE5WDbFjM_NnjlgOmL0xVddCmH3Khd/s400/LA+RIVER.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5321678366031406018" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMMMC8W8i7_wUqNKLC2RhgrM1IvRDrPNtsjUguGHzXW4qs6nfhcHSgty-8eJfmjGKYMqEeM73Y8gpa-h6All8Ce97y_nKTatrvWJ1-eL2we2SsmrJd3DN29ksB3ZSzWR0kgtZJshpuOEsn/s1600-h/la_river5.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMMMC8W8i7_wUqNKLC2RhgrM1IvRDrPNtsjUguGHzXW4qs6nfhcHSgty-8eJfmjGKYMqEeM73Y8gpa-h6All8Ce97y_nKTatrvWJ1-eL2we2SsmrJd3DN29ksB3ZSzWR0kgtZJshpuOEsn/s400/la_river5.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5321678370965266002" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">In the dry season when no water is flowing trough the canal it becomes a recreation area:</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbD17SfJZSmtbRlmF-PCAzNYnW-KKIrouQGvhKWOev6g1xkhHbCeQPsHKk1OCmZ9oyGfjBaMAs316WmVlpeDiC4h0lZ4jYfBZZtkfBQN-eZMljGHPicCNakW6nG3gIJHWAwHNvS7RQpiy6/s1600-h/LA+RIver+6.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbD17SfJZSmtbRlmF-PCAzNYnW-KKIrouQGvhKWOev6g1xkhHbCeQPsHKk1OCmZ9oyGfjBaMAs316WmVlpeDiC4h0lZ4jYfBZZtkfBQN-eZMljGHPicCNakW6nG3gIJHWAwHNvS7RQpiy6/s400/LA+RIver+6.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5321678372019204930" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" >The San Gabriel River is the other big river canal running trough Los Angeles. It starts </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=nl&msa=0&msid=107191544827299187891.000451e7749c50ddb933b&ll=33.745717,-118.111653&spn=0.01315,0.019312&t=h&z=16">here</a><span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" > and runs in it it's concrete structure until </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=nl&msa=0&msid=107191544827299187891.000451e7749c50ddb933b&ll=33.874326,-117.748718&spn=0.006565,0.009656&t=h&z=17">here</a><span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" >. This river canal is also the most spectacular one because at <a href="http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=33.792759,-117.880232&spn=0.003286,0.004828&t=h&z=18">certain points</a> it is almost 100 meters broad.</span><span style="font-family:arial;"> This picture below was made after a winter storm. As you can see the water of this river is not very clean:</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5G7wDTJrc4CbB5i2uCgTq_xgdVPv9nAS-0JKaFhsl7j2QKLw9Jo0s_hkuXzPwvv00JqeZ44plJezCprBVwbREinyDuRoy9TjvTtefQycs-5O4YrN1wqfUYGKTktQWD8rhNWTDnxBBRIO2/s1600-h/11111111111.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5G7wDTJrc4CbB5i2uCgTq_xgdVPv9nAS-0JKaFhsl7j2QKLw9Jo0s_hkuXzPwvv00JqeZ44plJezCprBVwbREinyDuRoy9TjvTtefQycs-5O4YrN1wqfUYGKTktQWD8rhNWTDnxBBRIO2/s400/11111111111.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5321690977689137762" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" >These rivers were the primary source of water of Los Angeles until the Los Angeles aqueducts were build. Although the Los Angeles region still gets some of its water from the river and other local sources, most comes from several aqueducts serving the area. The aqueducts deliver water from <a href="http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=36.508946,-117.973423&spn=0.101688,0.154495&t=h&z=13">the Owens River</a> in the Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains into the city of Los Angeles. Most of these aquaducts consists of pipe lines running hundreds of miles trough the landscape. From time to time these pipe lines have to deal with very high mountain hills. The most spectacular of these "syphons" is <a href="http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=35.314451,-118.045135&spn=0.006452,0.009656&t=h&z=17">at Jawbone Canyon</a>. In the picture below you can see the water running up a very steep hill in this Jawbone Canyon:</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgqjra_yvAiNzoGg_kTmdfTehCTJ0jyAzMZPCVzKw5U2OreoQOlIOLfROips6A4G3Y3YnwZtYnG65oOCv70IM9RBsLzgVnmrPM4tipvj1i-XjvWcUueBWB4h8euA6tXihA0IbToDGP3vYj/s1600-h/Aquaduct+1.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 363px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgqjra_yvAiNzoGg_kTmdfTehCTJ0jyAzMZPCVzKw5U2OreoQOlIOLfROips6A4G3Y3YnwZtYnG65oOCv70IM9RBsLzgVnmrPM4tipvj1i-XjvWcUueBWB4h8euA6tXihA0IbToDGP3vYj/s400/Aquaduct+1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5321684297463460594" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" ><span style="font-family:arial;">The end of the aqueduct is a familiar site for LA commuters.<a href="http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=34.325664,-118.497124&spn=0.003265,0.004828&t=h&z=18"> Here</a> you can see the original "cascades" which sometimes has water running down from it. This was the original outflow from the aqueduct:</span><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxq39aM4ssV-PqZ-xgT78zOdgY1adNvKL5VNLAZn9qpFKSYy4dojV_pAjAaz3Qjxk_YsK26M26EmLMf5jykWqpO6SFUbl9rhMbBLgrONxur5oBIIcarr8xFd3z4-h_vLdh9Rx8tv9Ifb3C/s1600-h/LA_Aqueduct_Cascades.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 301px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxq39aM4ssV-PqZ-xgT78zOdgY1adNvKL5VNLAZn9qpFKSYy4dojV_pAjAaz3Qjxk_YsK26M26EmLMf5jykWqpO6SFUbl9rhMbBLgrONxur5oBIIcarr8xFd3z4-h_vLdh9Rx8tv9Ifb3C/s400/LA_Aqueduct_Cascades.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5321684062222770082" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbWOiGNBX4-YgCS4bqyWr5noeXu3JJi9Lj7SLqVvhychgPrNiTGUBibijRysx44y0fyQhnZ_ZE0ns0tEEt6AzDmZAMRU7Ct0UMogbjSMEXnLWjabNOzJVVcpX4m0VADzLAvHE9krJrvdU3/s1600-h/First_Los_Angeles_Aqueduct_Cascades,_Sylmar.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 396px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbWOiGNBX4-YgCS4bqyWr5noeXu3JJi9Lj7SLqVvhychgPrNiTGUBibijRysx44y0fyQhnZ_ZE0ns0tEEt6AzDmZAMRU7Ct0UMogbjSMEXnLWjabNOzJVVcpX4m0VADzLAvHE9krJrvdU3/s400/First_Los_Angeles_Aqueduct_Cascades,_Sylmar.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5321684050922302530" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" ><br /></span>TThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15147175927877791153noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2344881049866432665.post-8947532565680570112009-04-05T11:06:00.000-07:002009-04-06T10:25:47.530-07:00Cutler's VLF transmitters.<span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold;">The VLF Transmitter Cutler:</span> <span style="font-family:arial;"><br /><a href="http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=44.644536,-67.281389&spn=0.045006,0.077248&t=h&z=14">The VLF Transmitter Cutler</a> is the United States Navy's very low frequency (VLF) station at Cutler, in Maine. The station provides one-way communication to the United States submarine forces. These VLF transmitters can reach submarines 40 meter under the water. Most of the time the submarines itself are further underwater but they use an antenna floating 40 meter under the sea level which is attached to the submarine. This VLF transmitter is the second largest radio transmitter on the planet. It has a transmission power of 1800 kW, making it to one of the most powerful VLF-transmitters in the world. It also is one of the world's largest consumers of electrical power. In the picture below you can see the huge antenna's:</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKvTwdPM4zUww3h0VFA__4shT3o0h74LAgg-qKqlDtsdlh7SiwrnQLVIzHHuo9FxvPxJnysTY0JBUmXUnsQDechW4nQv7ixvcJaOJ9IUl7inONq41Tj7UVpEV4DWgvZO3DAibp8rBC8Z4-/s1600-h/1279901.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKvTwdPM4zUww3h0VFA__4shT3o0h74LAgg-qKqlDtsdlh7SiwrnQLVIzHHuo9FxvPxJnysTY0JBUmXUnsQDechW4nQv7ixvcJaOJ9IUl7inONq41Tj7UVpEV4DWgvZO3DAibp8rBC8Z4-/s400/1279901.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5321273542448087266" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; font-family: arial;">The extensive antenna system consists of two completely separate arrays. Each array consists of six diamond shaped panels supported by 13 towers. The central tower of each antenna system is 304 m tall, which is almost as tall as <a href="http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=48.857946,2.295231&spn=0.005202,0.009656&t=h&z=17">the Eiffel tower</a>. It is surrounded by six 266.7 m tall masts, placed on a ring with a radius of 556 m around the central tower. The remaining six towers of the array are 243.5 m tall and placed on a circle of 935.7 m around the central tower:</p><p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; font-family: arial;"><br /></p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhND3qDzUvtQJ5Fq3vHQZS_DwKwbGGmC15slmHrDZ7ekzHeDGRC8R48GpRPkp5mY2pRQgR9GfA45qLP0pwEDpRs5tP8Oesyuqh6x2035SQAmYP-l3G8h1z6ZGBDlOrtLSG69xiSvwX-nquV/s1600-h/navy_antennae.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 263px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhND3qDzUvtQJ5Fq3vHQZS_DwKwbGGmC15slmHrDZ7ekzHeDGRC8R48GpRPkp5mY2pRQgR9GfA45qLP0pwEDpRs5tP8Oesyuqh6x2035SQAmYP-l3G8h1z6ZGBDlOrtLSG69xiSvwX-nquV/s400/navy_antennae.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5321617461520419218" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJrPNQHzy9YGFe46rkXGVKRW3KZseOigcIkVokkiWJj8nW6ebdQbqS6vC5K0wNun0w1Z-QmgrNZjjwd1YIB76cAkRYTGr9cErayL-EHaCGnyvvzZqcDd9f4-YvzMOi6BWpKGJefNQ-efts/s1600-h/800px-Cutlervlf2.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJrPNQHzy9YGFe46rkXGVKRW3KZseOigcIkVokkiWJj8nW6ebdQbqS6vC5K0wNun0w1Z-QmgrNZjjwd1YIB76cAkRYTGr9cErayL-EHaCGnyvvzZqcDd9f4-YvzMOi6BWpKGJefNQ-efts/s400/800px-Cutlervlf2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5321617465979529074" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">It is proven that people in the surrounding area of the antenna's have a higher chance of getting cancer. This is why a lot of people left the nearby town of Cutler. The people of the house seen in the picture below would for sure be in the danger zone:</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1QhRedwLl3_c7KGrtiS-Cr4mbqx2C4xmHCOS0nJbIYAWtt4_GthQtZwV-M-eVxcRzlm7Xdmi1l1dAfRpRR0kGsi49mEpYK_J3bL93SFCX8DtvzCH0lnGvddFj2T1aD6S6rp4nAkNYLM9J/s1600-h/1EastportME211.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1QhRedwLl3_c7KGrtiS-Cr4mbqx2C4xmHCOS0nJbIYAWtt4_GthQtZwV-M-eVxcRzlm7Xdmi1l1dAfRpRR0kGsi49mEpYK_J3bL93SFCX8DtvzCH0lnGvddFj2T1aD6S6rp4nAkNYLM9J/s400/1EastportME211.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5321617465712400146" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><br /></p>TThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15147175927877791153noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2344881049866432665.post-48977842992017703002009-04-04T11:27:00.000-07:002009-04-04T12:23:00.564-07:00The Troll A platform<span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-family:arial;" >The Troll A platform:</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">The Troll A platform is a condeep offshore natural gas platform <a href="http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=60.258892,4.235229&spn=2.008497,4.943848&t=h&z=8">located</a> ( not visible in google maps) in the Troll gas field 70 kilometers west of the city of Bergen in Norway. It is the tallest construction that has ever been moved to another position, relative to the surface of the Earth, and is among the largest and most complex engineering projects in history:</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4tG1QuYYRMGxr5vJQ4AzqXKPcv2xdpOuT_hosSl1RSy8PsdvIBGMApsVHYCeeKCA8BOn9SzUu7I682EWWCX3YrTX5Y3rHgSpRQHKrlFR_INcu42sjaI_FvjjfEDvgzgUPbQHFZthRzH_l/s1600-h/Troll_A_Platform.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4tG1QuYYRMGxr5vJQ4AzqXKPcv2xdpOuT_hosSl1RSy8PsdvIBGMApsVHYCeeKCA8BOn9SzUu7I682EWWCX3YrTX5Y3rHgSpRQHKrlFR_INcu42sjaI_FvjjfEDvgzgUPbQHFZthRzH_l/s400/Troll_A_Platform.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5320912047347418866" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />The Troll A platform has an overall height of 472 meters and weighs 656,000 tons. You may ask yourself how this thing can be 472 meters heigh as you look at the picture above. This is because the largest part of the giant structure is placed below sea level. The platform stands on the sea floor on 4 303 meters (994 feet) high concrete legs. In the pictures below you can see the structure when it was stilll above sea level and </span><span style="font-family:arial;">was being towed by tugs to it's final destination:<br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieZhSC4huyDbUinnc4mV0X5S_byEgXBFc6NJZcmbiMVhrwmXAeAyXCwa1fwwgUNMHxNal1HUC1gDfUGGcWQXFTwufh-197ydXFwygwLg2XNiJluAwYgyxQNZr4HwymUPGbZbjMv0y1ZZJV/s1600-h/subsurf03b.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 219px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieZhSC4huyDbUinnc4mV0X5S_byEgXBFc6NJZcmbiMVhrwmXAeAyXCwa1fwwgUNMHxNal1HUC1gDfUGGcWQXFTwufh-197ydXFwygwLg2XNiJluAwYgyxQNZr4HwymUPGbZbjMv0y1ZZJV/s400/subsurf03b.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5320916920727223506" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjor-VMFRmE2Fw4mm1SwnxU5XJQWRkrPhv2Zn5-DY8C4At-B7HrLovGQgpMJmNXz7SjiRZFSDpVxwQONPC4KQfSgtYT60nW-iX-jNv7GGTo0SQJqp9eo1tsQDgQqm7cxo1ZfKOB8rkPTZJG/s1600-h/troll.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 311px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjor-VMFRmE2Fw4mm1SwnxU5XJQWRkrPhv2Zn5-DY8C4At-B7HrLovGQgpMJmNXz7SjiRZFSDpVxwQONPC4KQfSgtYT60nW-iX-jNv7GGTo0SQJqp9eo1tsQDgQqm7cxo1ZfKOB8rkPTZJG/s400/troll.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5320915736465341554" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span><span style="font-family:arial;">Here are some pictures of people standing at the bottom of such a concrete leg:</span><br /><p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbv64_Kmaxl06aOdX538gAFiKNdLPgijKRnmkYxSMhZgFUgOebL1-qW7mw4A6V2K68UKKCin1OsNR8RuwE-QnwFro738caEsTL9K-U6QxEcDIWsvrGmN85s4ZaLLZPZifkX3sjn_GZ84Sc/s1600-h/troll+dalam.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbv64_Kmaxl06aOdX538gAFiKNdLPgijKRnmkYxSMhZgFUgOebL1-qW7mw4A6V2K68UKKCin1OsNR8RuwE-QnwFro738caEsTL9K-U6QxEcDIWsvrGmN85s4ZaLLZPZifkX3sjn_GZ84Sc/s400/troll+dalam.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5320911248695816594" border="0" /></a></p><p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; font-family: arial;"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; font-family: arial;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEWLL_DUksoY7-LlfiTvmc97z8tatPTrY7WrKLcvty6GYTQI7VZZuq7fgDHlJbY28LHCPfEuO2SBnkNo4BuG5wkqjiDczIh_Ehlh4Hr-E0WYjKyYQo4CAwfUcsUdXGN93z2Xo_wBoFgIen/s1600-h/trolla1.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 260px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEWLL_DUksoY7-LlfiTvmc97z8tatPTrY7WrKLcvty6GYTQI7VZZuq7fgDHlJbY28LHCPfEuO2SBnkNo4BuG5wkqjiDczIh_Ehlh4Hr-E0WYjKyYQo4CAwfUcsUdXGN93z2Xo_wBoFgIen/s400/trolla1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5320918251471292242" border="0" /></a></p> <p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; font-family: arial;">These people are standing more as 300 meters below sea level but the 1 meter concrete walls of the "legs"can handle this pressure. The structure was built by Norwegian Contractors for Norske Shell, and there are about 200-300 people working on this gas platform.</p>TThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15147175927877791153noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2344881049866432665.post-2881332434330815822009-04-04T02:19:00.000-07:002009-04-09T12:34:32.169-07:00Cool cable cars<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-family:arial;" >Cool cable cars</span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">:</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><a href="http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=12.208622,109.228134&spn=0.030913,0.038624&t=h&z=15">The cable car track</a> towards the vacation island of <a href="http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=12.215039,109.293365&spn=0.12365,0.154495&t=h&z=13">Vinepearl </a>near Nha Trang in Vietnam is the longest cable car to cross a sea in the world. It is 3310 meters long. The system excists of 9 pillars each with a height of about 55 meters measured from the orange foundation structures (seen in the pictures below) to the top. This foundation structure is 8 meters above sea level so you are basically hanging 63 meters above the sea:</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiklaX6tGnOLyQhgAn5ZRtkcPotJ6ujslXKKIc8Sq9qF5FZ5jncy0NCUPDRiy36DHo3upbFcCYuwkCgaP-QjZR2zyRv3w28gk4GJ0ybhUX9rI9MQYUmv3yQSZRUyPf5vO-jJKJvOjak7Sek/s1600-h/vinpearl.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiklaX6tGnOLyQhgAn5ZRtkcPotJ6ujslXKKIc8Sq9qF5FZ5jncy0NCUPDRiy36DHo3upbFcCYuwkCgaP-QjZR2zyRv3w28gk4GJ0ybhUX9rI9MQYUmv3yQSZRUyPf5vO-jJKJvOjak7Sek/s400/vinpearl.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5320764083655352914" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw5z-LhOthq2qY7Yi3Xu6vvgNLeK0yWLtvJO7NpjVDLpCATagvljPLGwocGNpKt16kjtmboRVDUJ-Ow99Ko9hMy8SWzbzuAPk7SSuNd6anpiojtIwKh-Uh0jH-HZXVeRoD14CeKQ8Swtrh/s1600-h/Vinpearl+2.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw5z-LhOthq2qY7Yi3Xu6vvgNLeK0yWLtvJO7NpjVDLpCATagvljPLGwocGNpKt16kjtmboRVDUJ-Ow99Ko9hMy8SWzbzuAPk7SSuNd6anpiojtIwKh-Uh0jH-HZXVeRoD14CeKQ8Swtrh/s400/Vinpearl+2.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5320768321099907986" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">From this ideal height, sitting in the cabinet, visitors can enjoy the panorama of pretty Nha Trang city embraced by meandering beaches and the paradise-like beauty of Nha Trang bay, one of the world’s most beautiful and famous bays:<br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgb5QkNydXB9D1bU0EprQHVxB6aN-YS9QEhyFfklaPGiYbxhB6k4X_rIbfztekONKnrvHRTgIKdA4_ZTjAWB2cZP5BvILLE3vL1xyzS3e05bwQCdydtGg5pr-d3NmmJmBj0ZqPfMS1lOqxx/s1600-h/081221_rfoster_mp_geo_viet_551.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgb5QkNydXB9D1bU0EprQHVxB6aN-YS9QEhyFfklaPGiYbxhB6k4X_rIbfztekONKnrvHRTgIKdA4_ZTjAWB2cZP5BvILLE3vL1xyzS3e05bwQCdydtGg5pr-d3NmmJmBj0ZqPfMS1lOqxx/s400/081221_rfoster_mp_geo_viet_551.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5320774347779896498" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span><span style="font-family:arial;">The system can transport 1000-1500 people an hour in 60 cabins, each of which contains 8 people. A similair cable car is <a href="http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=1.261416,103.817861&spn=0.007905,0.009656&t=h&z=17">this</a> one in Singapore. This thing brings people from the main land of Singapore towards the resort island of Santosa. The cable cars start at the harbour front tower:<br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfRLm9fO5Rxwvo12ydljwmJUj-kURTl2w4osPp3R_FognCUp923XEfAXPfViwrNms56dK7W2j4QCFQa2rq6CmEMhJh8ihwXy7B6DloUhCyjTe-2OyAK0TVVdCdD8qQ_ZE47-3SwodQP3hp/s1600-h/Singapore+2.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfRLm9fO5Rxwvo12ydljwmJUj-kURTl2w4osPp3R_FognCUp923XEfAXPfViwrNms56dK7W2j4QCFQa2rq6CmEMhJh8ihwXy7B6DloUhCyjTe-2OyAK0TVVdCdD8qQ_ZE47-3SwodQP3hp/s400/Singapore+2.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5320799518586272322" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">They are hanging 85 meters above sea level offering a great view over the skyline and harbour of Singapore:</span><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4HzXQiJ4F8NVwI-3r6CoLVA_liK7n0rHHsqC8FnpjEYvylXWn6oxqCJ7r__IauR_XJpWc6yKwY7vjSdhw2v9tE7f78eO8u5t3iFpYpGBJpkZUhEakQ8B8jn6eUWzl80tjSql2vHSggqRn/s1600-h/Singapore+3.bmp"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 294px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4HzXQiJ4F8NVwI-3r6CoLVA_liK7n0rHHsqC8FnpjEYvylXWn6oxqCJ7r__IauR_XJpWc6yKwY7vjSdhw2v9tE7f78eO8u5t3iFpYpGBJpkZUhEakQ8B8jn6eUWzl80tjSql2vHSggqRn/s400/Singapore+3.bmp" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5320799522033124978" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">And what about the cable cars that are going <a href="http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=6.386,99.663886&spn=0.003929,0.004828&t=h&z=18">to the Langkawi sky bridge</a> on the island of Langkawi in Malaysia. This sky bridge is 800 meters above sea level:</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhobjPP04wxghUPTsjmmVV90dWRvZIkuxh7NHJ-VD54zeXySTtaPXKWRZWFC744x_SFgo-p4bOEWwhPVsuMd5zYWSc7cxzu4BZHlQ1mOnriErh9BxzmTYK6IlvA9Mtg1KoAyJwl2s0tRpIi/s1600-h/malaysia-air-bridge-09.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhobjPP04wxghUPTsjmmVV90dWRvZIkuxh7NHJ-VD54zeXySTtaPXKWRZWFC744x_SFgo-p4bOEWwhPVsuMd5zYWSc7cxzu4BZHlQ1mOnriErh9BxzmTYK6IlvA9Mtg1KoAyJwl2s0tRpIi/s400/malaysia-air-bridge-09.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5320804572823895298" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">To get there you first have to travel from the<a href="http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=6.371099,99.672647&spn=0.003929,0.004828&t=h&z=18"> village</a> to the <a href="http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=6.385056,99.665576&spn=0.003929,0.004828&t=h&z=18">middle station</a> 700 meters up in the sky. You can see that station all the way up the mountain in the picture below:</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2i4nMFRAnDcyImddP5b4AjtIHIqflWbiG4HVVDhIZGk0UddTSYaboE3Icyf4uGVq6KqosN8kmRhx3wxgoANhZHPEtSRgVJo9V1ASXw2TcXSYw0984VKTcG7QVHnHc8AXeIjpYmW4VQGd_/s1600-h/Malaysia+44444.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2i4nMFRAnDcyImddP5b4AjtIHIqflWbiG4HVVDhIZGk0UddTSYaboE3Icyf4uGVq6KqosN8kmRhx3wxgoANhZHPEtSRgVJo9V1ASXw2TcXSYw0984VKTcG7QVHnHc8AXeIjpYmW4VQGd_/s400/Malaysia+44444.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5320806590268705074" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">And from there you have to go to <a href="http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=6.38577,99.66202&spn=0.003929,0.004828&t=h&z=18">the top station station</a> where the sky bridge is located.</span><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;"> If you are afraid of heights this is probably one the most stupid things you can do:</span></span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-Sj4r3Jiv6g_4R7SCXqTKn5feiyUwac9pmFKUxLWDRj7E2g3yb7BgDqZCyco532X_WFvt9mSDOVsZUzvLyOGmS8AByt_TLrAVCOVfEKoJQtl2wWWw1J_EIvIKpO4LyypRGOVGvexLDlwe/s1600-h/Malesia+1.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-Sj4r3Jiv6g_4R7SCXqTKn5feiyUwac9pmFKUxLWDRj7E2g3yb7BgDqZCyco532X_WFvt9mSDOVsZUzvLyOGmS8AByt_TLrAVCOVfEKoJQtl2wWWw1J_EIvIKpO4LyypRGOVGvexLDlwe/s400/Malesia+1.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5320806066776301250" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Probably the most scary cable car in the world <a href="http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=45.877297,6.887827&spn=0.01101,0.019312&t=h&z=16">is situated</a> near the mountain of Aguille Di Midi in France. This thing is also officaly the heighest cable car in the world and is going to the summit of this mountain:<br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDp2EDIuVUi_fWquzH9gkbY1606auNZQIYAh8qzfcagIsNZTYuOI0XX9ZDpE0rpYixaGzH3JbZbndLrLZ2d9sI8zWXqrsU2YbM-1C74_-iSwD7NFX2D5nmI7TCCjXGMNFGS3-nvs1rGDIM/s1600-h/FRANCE+11.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDp2EDIuVUi_fWquzH9gkbY1606auNZQIYAh8qzfcagIsNZTYuOI0XX9ZDpE0rpYixaGzH3JbZbndLrLZ2d9sI8zWXqrsU2YbM-1C74_-iSwD7NFX2D5nmI7TCCjXGMNFGS3-nvs1rGDIM/s400/FRANCE+11.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5320811702817497570" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjK7eoDYFF5N363LleDkpUK87BPWWSoKoAr0TJ4pG0JI9DNi4GCmYtI2oSEFdUHhx873lRSWdJ-2AlA8a2RNZiRhFoaOM_kFbliG0dXhL_ipXX1oXWzR39Fgu1zOqciINvwXkVj2i31wMVk/s1600-h/France+4444.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 293px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjK7eoDYFF5N363LleDkpUK87BPWWSoKoAr0TJ4pG0JI9DNi4GCmYtI2oSEFdUHhx873lRSWdJ-2AlA8a2RNZiRhFoaOM_kFbliG0dXhL_ipXX1oXWzR39Fgu1zOqciINvwXkVj2i31wMVk/s400/France+4444.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5320813200956143138" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">This thing is going ridiculously steep and brings you 2800 meters in the sky measuring from the start point in <a href="http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=45.919692,6.869073&spn=0.022003,0.038624&t=h&z=15">Chamonix </a>to the end station ( seen in the pictures below):<br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTq93Ou8dV7-PmIV6TaHHsPekz2Aa9Y6QxQP4_bd0l_ub0b2ZUnqbX3PpgeKoJfvvZIjs6Brzvh-a9MfXuAxCWjY8rkCjPGWARMEhqO6H7FalBK6RJ9KuOrYaIWe6x4sy3YKYosAaz6k20/s1600-h/FRance+2222.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 281px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTq93Ou8dV7-PmIV6TaHHsPekz2Aa9Y6QxQP4_bd0l_ub0b2ZUnqbX3PpgeKoJfvvZIjs6Brzvh-a9MfXuAxCWjY8rkCjPGWARMEhqO6H7FalBK6RJ9KuOrYaIWe6x4sy3YKYosAaz6k20/s400/FRance+2222.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5320811708616103954" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span>TThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15147175927877791153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2344881049866432665.post-39577358523228045842009-04-02T08:42:00.001-07:002009-04-09T12:31:06.545-07:00The Angkor barays<span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-family:arial;" >The Angkor reservoirs:</span> <span style="font-family:arial;"><br /><a href="http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=13.434704,103.864403&spn=0.246104,0.30899&t=h&z=12">Angkor</a> is an ancient city that served as the seat of the Khmer empire that flourished here from approximately the ninth century to the fifteenth century A.D. This was te largest pre industrial city in the world and it is still very good visble from satellite images. Nowadays only the temples and the contours of the city remain:<br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMtB0vHo09z_VNIazQFIjCJf4l28p-4TvMaLb73GOCKbbGfytx31AlnhHpk2Q2vsr0c-Xm1vx_InFShOX9mPWjELHExlA_2K_r4RSZvxrJwpnrIds_v5ZxESZgoDg_7pRepLLN-r2AuHgO/s1600-h/1111111.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 258px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMtB0vHo09z_VNIazQFIjCJf4l28p-4TvMaLb73GOCKbbGfytx31AlnhHpk2Q2vsr0c-Xm1vx_InFShOX9mPWjELHExlA_2K_r4RSZvxrJwpnrIds_v5ZxESZgoDg_7pRepLLN-r2AuHgO/s400/1111111.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5320120110917884226" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">The temples of the Angkor area number over one thousand, ranging in scale from nondescript piles of brick to the magnificent <a href="http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=13.412351,103.866473&spn=0.007691,0.009656&t=h&z=17">Angkor Wat</a>, said to be the world's largest single religious monument</span> <span style="font-family:arial;">(seen in the picture below):</span> <span style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivV6FtSqmvbWLDsRMv1Mqr7IAJXGEhJL7b_fuC0GBAFe8EKvQo1wApkXsfHmT1jMl9IQ5gZhDsgTwdttRNA70ee19e4svw_R6SjigRleKN_NUGIe3M_dbzQaRK6W7hHGlGsiWdc5Wc7jG8/s1600-h/bot_Angkor-Wat-sunset_lg.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivV6FtSqmvbWLDsRMv1Mqr7IAJXGEhJL7b_fuC0GBAFe8EKvQo1wApkXsfHmT1jMl9IQ5gZhDsgTwdttRNA70ee19e4svw_R6SjigRleKN_NUGIe3M_dbzQaRK6W7hHGlGsiWdc5Wc7jG8/s400/bot_Angkor-Wat-sunset_lg.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5320120113584855442" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />The remains of this city which are now the most prominent are especially the large barrays/ reservoirs on the west side and on the east side of the city.These barays have functioned as a vast holding tank for water that fed irrigation canals in dry times. Many later studies, however, theorize that the barays had mainly symbolic functions, serving as a vast earthly depiction of the Hindu Sea of Creation. No matter for what reason these barrays were created they are impressive for sure. The largest baray is the <a href="http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=13.434704,103.799686&spn=0.061526,0.077248&t=h&z=14">West Baray</a> oriented east-west and located just west of the walled city Angkor Thom. It is Rectangular in shape and measuring approximately 8 by 2.1 kilometers:<br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvQIzkNYksBalU6js7HZmcfeh5PdwpDoBYGcl-m_QijWyZ6chivP71f7kBCi2Ei4hK6WEH0qxNmqr0kqDZd_JF0r0_my__Ql0vH8N5hHAX2X-EgKsFcsCDAWs4CTWnPEAeqcgLCnN13i83/s1600-h/West+Barray.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 242px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvQIzkNYksBalU6js7HZmcfeh5PdwpDoBYGcl-m_QijWyZ6chivP71f7kBCi2Ei4hK6WEH0qxNmqr0kqDZd_JF0r0_my__Ql0vH8N5hHAX2X-EgKsFcsCDAWs4CTWnPEAeqcgLCnN13i83/s400/West+Barray.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5320120119698343362" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span><span style="font-family:arial;">Its waters were contained by tall earthen dikes. Today a part of this baray is still underwater. In the center of the baray is<a href="http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=13.434099,103.800416&spn=0.003845,0.004828&t=h&z=18"> the West Mebon</a>, a very small Hindu temple built on an artificial island.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><a href="http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=13.449396,103.919334&spn=0.061522,0.077248&t=h&z=14">The East baray</a> is the second-largest baray in the Angkor region, measuring roughly 7,150 by 1,740 meters. The labor and organization necessary for its construction were staggering: Its dikes contain roughly 8 million cubic meters of fill. The East Baray today contains no water; farmers till crops on its bed. But its outlines remain clearly visible in satellite photographs:</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW_rthOOtStAudPol9_Di3LEmL9BlKxYaIeUjbYsDiSpKTgHxoMWtRv61GJ3wjEpwcz2i_n6Ia17dPT6O0Xhbe71Rs1REzJIh9S0AOcxzLWXztgBd6V7NRNioVSYv7VwUNia2JOmjc7fso/s1600-h/East+Barray.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 256px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW_rthOOtStAudPol9_Di3LEmL9BlKxYaIeUjbYsDiSpKTgHxoMWtRv61GJ3wjEpwcz2i_n6Ia17dPT6O0Xhbe71Rs1REzJIh9S0AOcxzLWXztgBd6V7NRNioVSYv7VwUNia2JOmjc7fso/s400/East+Barray.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5320120115264646818" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">In the middle of this baray is <a href="http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=13.44671,103.919887&spn=0.003845,0.004828&t=h&z=18">the East Mebon temple</a>, located on elevated ground that was an island in the days when the baray contained water. There is also another large barray which is called the <a href="http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=13.462293,103.893757&spn=0.03076,0.038624&t=h&z=15">Preah Khan Baray</a> which is 4 kilometers by 1 kilometer. This one also has a temple in the middle, which is called <a href="http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=13.463191,103.894857&spn=0.003845,0.004828&t=h&z=18">Neak Pean</a>. </span>TThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15147175927877791153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2344881049866432665.post-69638864188576307062009-04-02T03:30:00.001-07:002009-04-02T03:49:01.883-07:00Giant radio telescopes<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-family:arial;" >Giant radio telescopes:</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">A radio telescope is a form of directional radio antenna used in radio astronomy and in tracking and collecting data from satellites and space probes. Radio telescopes are typically large parabolic ("dish") antenna used singularly or in an array formation. Radio observatories are located far from major centers of population in order to avoid electromagnetic interference (EMI) from radio, TV, radar, and other EMI emitting devices. When you are talking about a radio telescope observatory in an Array formation then <a href="http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=34.07719,-107.619066&spn=0.026197,0.038624&t=h&z=15">the very large Array observatory</a> </span><span style="font-family:arial;"> (Check out the<a href="http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=34.07719,-107.619066&spn=0,359.961376&t=h&z=15&layer=c&cbll=34.073215,-107.628057&panoid=o15rFzl9LDwmR5GBldi74g&cbp=12,203.81154507334173,,0,-27.100000000000005"> streetview</a> also)</span><span style="font-family:arial;"> in New Mexico in the U.S is the biggest in the world. In this place 27 independent antennas, each of which has a dish diameter of 25 meters and weighs 209 metric tonnes, are placed in an Y-shaped formation:</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1hoKCwi2IwrUIrVvnUxD_nUxzd1ZUZIo6hx3POqPkr8ZK789wgkS1voOplMdvMFXJtNewuclwqVBfwPiJH840ga081mGTix3tXvqEYdqXquuS1gEJ_aabLGpCIgaVXOOh6A37f23UjNSZ/s1600-h/Very+large+array+1.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1hoKCwi2IwrUIrVvnUxD_nUxzd1ZUZIo6hx3POqPkr8ZK789wgkS1voOplMdvMFXJtNewuclwqVBfwPiJH840ga081mGTix3tXvqEYdqXquuS1gEJ_aabLGpCIgaVXOOh6A37f23UjNSZ/s400/Very+large+array+1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5320040024336723858" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTcTMqvHwGq6xsHQpIP-Y5pttxe9ig1cHAN14lgTsriI1oWpyysf4uBcxheGECbEeShP7oEBr4AVh4HHq8zsgRyq3ScNlEruvQpZO1ROv47bxGlkMQd5BwiaBX8WxNHcMWPFzVVeif450h/s1600-h/VLA730B_lo.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 269px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTcTMqvHwGq6xsHQpIP-Y5pttxe9ig1cHAN14lgTsriI1oWpyysf4uBcxheGECbEeShP7oEBr4AVh4HHq8zsgRyq3ScNlEruvQpZO1ROv47bxGlkMQd5BwiaBX8WxNHcMWPFzVVeif450h/s400/VLA730B_lo.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5320040032318280930" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuz8BQjEH_fFEoJd5kBoD6PMt3sgzCfRm-wT3rIyoNhpS8fzuB1QKPwoCbkQHLPse_cBhyphenhyphenSAkwJ3djkTUVVqNhXOpUBKeEbgvE7pa2NzI1srtiy8CjiNEpcTArtm89kWB9GwcDRFSPRgq2/s1600-h/untitled.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuz8BQjEH_fFEoJd5kBoD6PMt3sgzCfRm-wT3rIyoNhpS8fzuB1QKPwoCbkQHLPse_cBhyphenhyphenSAkwJ3djkTUVVqNhXOpUBKeEbgvE7pa2NzI1srtiy8CjiNEpcTArtm89kWB9GwcDRFSPRgq2/s400/untitled.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5320040028931596642" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; font-family: arial;">The largest individual radio telescope of any kind is<a href="http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=43.823072,41.588144&spn=0.045639,0.077248&t=h&z=14"> the RATAN-600</a> located near Nizhny Arkhyz in Russia. It consists of a 576-meter circle of rectangular radio reflectors, each of which can be pointed towards a central conical receiver:</p><p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; font-family: arial;"><br /></p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiesbskKQXJaLfeAlaVdNE4Nmb0NAZWbmzAdRal5yHgsV3QGG_pB-ndQjzhqMuNBZ-BaIw_fmkrCZjwK4hsmkG6Ta6jW9peFc8p7vCjQXxm3Q3_QdwcscvUH1AjJhudnp1WZ4zQWYGtLveL/s1600-h/ratan.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiesbskKQXJaLfeAlaVdNE4Nmb0NAZWbmzAdRal5yHgsV3QGG_pB-ndQjzhqMuNBZ-BaIw_fmkrCZjwK4hsmkG6Ta6jW9peFc8p7vCjQXxm3Q3_QdwcscvUH1AjJhudnp1WZ4zQWYGtLveL/s400/ratan.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5320040291843513746" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; font-family: arial;">If you look at a single radio telescope <a href="http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=18.343752,-66.752747&spn=0.007505,0.009656&t=h&z=17">the Arecibo Observatory</a> in Puerto Rico is the biggest in the world. This thing has a diameter of 305 meters and was also featured in the James Bond movie Goldeneye:</p><p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; font-family: arial;"><br /></p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEu9nppd2cZ1U9zKMQpkU_Dsaa_eoEN8PNNl0waWA2CusFcfAc10n_aQ1Mr-kUsxQrXrI_aNE14z-5IkGkB6cv1ebW4yvhS1baqVAcrF2mXYcRm9Wq9roFNSUoMW9YyL_IYq6HX9rAwqej/s1600-h/puerto+rico+2.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 191px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEu9nppd2cZ1U9zKMQpkU_Dsaa_eoEN8PNNl0waWA2CusFcfAc10n_aQ1Mr-kUsxQrXrI_aNE14z-5IkGkB6cv1ebW4yvhS1baqVAcrF2mXYcRm9Wq9roFNSUoMW9YyL_IYq6HX9rAwqej/s400/puerto+rico+2.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5320040505467085170" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBHIykv2S6lkHABg8RY77YwuNxLus8A5L98GQTURhtzysmA_F8ROr4idG3qASj__MX-K1tA3w6wqSy8ouba7EEc1YqAOTpaYoaieCOsdbRIJXAkwhnLpTVHRmkUPeuwYsYOpyX7dWMXue8/s1600-h/Puerto+rico.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBHIykv2S6lkHABg8RY77YwuNxLus8A5L98GQTURhtzysmA_F8ROr4idG3qASj__MX-K1tA3w6wqSy8ouba7EEc1YqAOTpaYoaieCOsdbRIJXAkwhnLpTVHRmkUPeuwYsYOpyX7dWMXue8/s400/Puerto+rico.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5320040505573018226" border="0" /></a><br /><p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; font-family: arial;">That thing floating in the air is the reciever. It is located on a 900-ton platform which is suspended 150 m in the air above the dish by 18 cables running from three reinforced concrete towers, one of which is 110m high and the other two of which are 80 m high (the tops of the three towers are at the same elevation). Another very big single radio telescope is <a href="http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=35.425768,-116.889832&spn=0.006443,0.009656&t=h&z=17">the Goldstone radio telescope</a> not far from Barstow in California in the U.S. This thing has a diametre of 70 metres:</p><p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; font-family: arial;"><br /></p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkZYQfO5aI3DEeAj1CTPbKT2l7AZQzmSDsLh092I3xE3CHpdo-l_U6F5ysmN7X5OXClb__MN-GDuEsL9tUnI1T-4cQA50It18yP5WRAU6CN-cB2xg6vqRCJ1SXDyJ2bkjRTak9Cn7capVH/s1600-h/dss14-large.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 388px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkZYQfO5aI3DEeAj1CTPbKT2l7AZQzmSDsLh092I3xE3CHpdo-l_U6F5ysmN7X5OXClb__MN-GDuEsL9tUnI1T-4cQA50It18yP5WRAU6CN-cB2xg6vqRCJ1SXDyJ2bkjRTak9Cn7capVH/s400/dss14-large.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5320040696254583202" border="0" /></a><p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; font-family: arial;"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; font-family: arial;">And what about <a href="http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=38.432715,-79.839385&spn=0.012388,0.019312&t=h&z=16">the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank radio telescope</a> in West Virginia in the U.S. It has a diameter of 100 meters and is the world's largest fully steerable radio telescope and the world's largest land-based movable structure:</p><p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; font-family: arial;"><br /></p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2hwJg1DdVbQWHKzyS4BEAMefgOn172GN8kNYGedeoqokGH1UbYYBQN_f-Yr9KrNBQWlJ0SMK_-yZkWsnMYaC8VBgV0ypEmuGtl82royMMUN7TGFx-xeERUjfG2O5P-k3rkeopvFqRo2Gh/s1600-h/1111111.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2hwJg1DdVbQWHKzyS4BEAMefgOn172GN8kNYGedeoqokGH1UbYYBQN_f-Yr9KrNBQWlJ0SMK_-yZkWsnMYaC8VBgV0ypEmuGtl82royMMUN7TGFx-xeERUjfG2O5P-k3rkeopvFqRo2Gh/s400/1111111.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5320040904485115522" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg939u9Wr4NEUQiaqRw488FGU3RfkQPGdNbEx34RR6JRF7L-4nwVoRmkk5ryiIt6JYKq9Q3hOKLJMj_oFv71CCw3MpyQKRi_2xndKQKxKt6wD_v6Tq1fNwUCdFGCIBSrACe5buHj5o8HO7S/s1600-h/GBTHorizArm.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg939u9Wr4NEUQiaqRw488FGU3RfkQPGdNbEx34RR6JRF7L-4nwVoRmkk5ryiIt6JYKq9Q3hOKLJMj_oFv71CCw3MpyQKRi_2xndKQKxKt6wD_v6Tq1fNwUCdFGCIBSrACe5buHj5o8HO7S/s400/GBTHorizArm.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5320040901850604882" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; font-family: arial;">Looking down from it:</p><p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; font-family: arial;"><br /></p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNW5RXsLveQpS1YMRZJaJRs0yadf87Sfpf1E9FA8netQzVb7x_aO8S8Vfq3LDSpdXmc_RQuRuvOfyoiIQlqV_txI3BXWnkWGVkc-4MwXd0BvNdb3WAX5uKh9OsI8-UL6YHxzJex7eKX1a-/s1600-h/GBTLookingDown.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNW5RXsLveQpS1YMRZJaJRs0yadf87Sfpf1E9FA8netQzVb7x_aO8S8Vfq3LDSpdXmc_RQuRuvOfyoiIQlqV_txI3BXWnkWGVkc-4MwXd0BvNdb3WAX5uKh9OsI8-UL6YHxzJex7eKX1a-/s400/GBTLookingDown.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5320040907667350370" border="0" /></a><p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; font-family: arial;">The largest radio telescope in Europe is <a href="http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=50.524525,6.883053&spn=0.005027,0.009656&t=h&z=17">the 100-meter diameter antenna</a> in Effelsberg, Germany:</p><p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; font-family: arial;"><br /></p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtRzP5nrH6YDUl_j9xKyaE8d65e1A0cq6JN8z72z7gCYR3jUHwL8GHmrUtP4lKM0ELSfI9MsrUj6ANemEc0WoJ0VDtyYCmoy-wv2Qv3hgPbxHy-QUIx24kkSLkNx-keAdFgSZrLN4j_u0U/s1600-h/Effelsberg100m.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtRzP5nrH6YDUl_j9xKyaE8d65e1A0cq6JN8z72z7gCYR3jUHwL8GHmrUtP4lKM0ELSfI9MsrUj6ANemEc0WoJ0VDtyYCmoy-wv2Qv3hgPbxHy-QUIx24kkSLkNx-keAdFgSZrLN4j_u0U/s400/Effelsberg100m.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5320041098285714274" border="0" /></a><p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; font-family: arial;">This was also was the world's largest fully-steerable telecope for 30 years until the slightly larger Green Bank Telescope mentioned above was opened in West Virginia, United States, in 2000.</p> <p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><br /></p>TThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15147175927877791153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2344881049866432665.post-24046954342537526722009-04-01T01:53:00.000-07:002009-04-01T03:08:42.762-07:00The stepwells of India<span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">The stepwells of India:</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">The stepwells in India are some pretty amazing structures which cannot be found anywhere else in the world. Stepwells, are called bawdi or baoli in India and are basically wells in which the water can be reached by descending a set of steps. The biggest of such a structure, with a lot of these steps, is found <a href="http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=27.007271,76.607237&spn=0.003522,0.004828&t=h&z=18">near</a> the town of Bandikui in India. This is a large touristic attraction and the most famous stepwell in the world. It look's like some sort of an Escher drawing:<br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYVcC-ZqS3IRWn9EU9QnBSO3EzOvKaiG28Jt7v5dJiWkfHfHHiGAz0GWxVkd4TbSy20fgVJwXEuiWC5oY6BH0YzdSOQdpt_tze0-ZO_nRz5pVdNOCeTYlgOz8HiNkR1WuCuPHM3MFhk9HI/s1600-h/Stepwell+111.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 260px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYVcC-ZqS3IRWn9EU9QnBSO3EzOvKaiG28Jt7v5dJiWkfHfHHiGAz0GWxVkd4TbSy20fgVJwXEuiWC5oY6BH0YzdSOQdpt_tze0-ZO_nRz5pVdNOCeTYlgOz8HiNkR1WuCuPHM3MFhk9HI/s400/Stepwell+111.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319645845418088306" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJDpKyVkbJ36hkoToYWUdVl4Ml8rpbVsqgC82Yp5rvjsjV_ng6ZUmWEG6iLVZZALMZeFKJTPz_Se8I-C3iZBRMmFRFEzvpfQkwAjbhltsU90rUi0LRNT7U5tiIOK1fXtC5cfjzi_xPUsW8/s1600-h/chandbaori.png"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 287px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJDpKyVkbJ36hkoToYWUdVl4Ml8rpbVsqgC82Yp5rvjsjV_ng6ZUmWEG6iLVZZALMZeFKJTPz_Se8I-C3iZBRMmFRFEzvpfQkwAjbhltsU90rUi0LRNT7U5tiIOK1fXtC5cfjzi_xPUsW8/s400/chandbaori.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319645856592222290" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;font-family:arial;" >In the picture below you can see some people standing in it so you can better estimate the size of the structure:</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiR34-ald7Nejc1pAQR9JMZFx9BuPCYj_GnBuvdFwBoX9TtMec4-wS_EmWy50146MuU1TXfDYj7rj6UGJyzQ23EVupQkBxZWQFpZVz142J_9_58468npkJTc9OApHrgPsFMpoexsa8MQWGB/s1600-h/17+Ranthambore+%282425%29+Chand+Baori+Step+Well.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiR34-ald7Nejc1pAQR9JMZFx9BuPCYj_GnBuvdFwBoX9TtMec4-wS_EmWy50146MuU1TXfDYj7rj6UGJyzQ23EVupQkBxZWQFpZVz142J_9_58468npkJTc9OApHrgPsFMpoexsa8MQWGB/s400/17+Ranthambore+%282425%29+Chand+Baori+Step+Well.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319645849923068066" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">A stepwell which is widely considered as the most beautifull of India and which ones also was one the biggest in India is </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=23.858838,72.102&spn=0.003616,0.004828&t=h&z=18">the Queens stepwell</a><span style="font-family:arial;"> near the town of Patan. Not the whole structure is visible nowadays because much of it got silted up:</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8o6WRuKw053qYTZOC-W6IDCUBQ-YItSwvVjSM0KJWWRkooFrCmQ2i46_TKNoiS86UvYpjDdgl0csT29f5xBotgZ7sGbXvDn4ZY0TBG501J2y-Q0L_E9MFu5QdZizuPhXs9D0D99tVL-lq/s1600-h/Queens+22.bmp"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8o6WRuKw053qYTZOC-W6IDCUBQ-YItSwvVjSM0KJWWRkooFrCmQ2i46_TKNoiS86UvYpjDdgl0csT29f5xBotgZ7sGbXvDn4ZY0TBG501J2y-Q0L_E9MFu5QdZizuPhXs9D0D99tVL-lq/s400/Queens+22.bmp" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319650725929711906" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid-8p4_fL1tZeprV15Sii1v1YBSM0_1mPBSzhR8Ijpma3_4DdDnwrIWVvO_XcrutnMaQ3qOz5aVIHuH9sG2H3_SvJWHvzmPStYP5YBZn2_uox3Xxv3z-mtAF1x22Wv5A8mnByMDI12TABd/s1600-h/Queens+33.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEid-8p4_fL1tZeprV15Sii1v1YBSM0_1mPBSzhR8Ijpma3_4DdDnwrIWVvO_XcrutnMaQ3qOz5aVIHuH9sG2H3_SvJWHvzmPStYP5YBZn2_uox3Xxv3z-mtAF1x22Wv5A8mnByMDI12TABd/s400/Queens+33.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319650729047646866" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Also take a look at this section view to better visualize how it is structured:</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDwS7aUlofFz0q0jkmIIfaOKcu04joPY9KmVL5n4hVBrHEddd6Me99AqqdxtsCGxNdM9S87s82A5dwSg_cmoveo2DJmLaG73hH2pJJOkjojFK0-z-3D0SSAqLnseHzzl5ECBW5C2Six5s3/s1600-h/Queens+1.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 298px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDwS7aUlofFz0q0jkmIIfaOKcu04joPY9KmVL5n4hVBrHEddd6Me99AqqdxtsCGxNdM9S87s82A5dwSg_cmoveo2DJmLaG73hH2pJJOkjojFK0-z-3D0SSAqLnseHzzl5ECBW5C2Six5s3/s400/Queens+1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319651049122542034" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Another big stepwell (similair to the one mentioned above) <a href="http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=23.166773,72.580238&spn=0.003635,0.004828&t=h&z=18">is found</a> in the village of Adalaj. This thing is slightly less big as the one in Patan but it is in a better condition:<br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnARmiYuucMtr6UoOT1yEQ2rGfCjQfMpt-ud1lFo02DrcE6D36fwDKVaXw085wwZZn8ggAIRr9O_g1do23WJdJYNORUr-1k9877FndBgXwkocpiCArj4fttdyARNLNQhEZhwfj9JxOa7lP/s1600-h/Adalaj+stepwell.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnARmiYuucMtr6UoOT1yEQ2rGfCjQfMpt-ud1lFo02DrcE6D36fwDKVaXw085wwZZn8ggAIRr9O_g1do23WJdJYNORUr-1k9877FndBgXwkocpiCArj4fttdyARNLNQhEZhwfj9JxOa7lP/s400/Adalaj+stepwell.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319661513480401938" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">In my opinion the most beautifull stepwell is found </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=23.583443,72.134417&spn=0.003623,0.004828&t=h&z=18">here</a><span style="font-family:arial;"> near the Modhera Sun temple near Modhera town. This stepwell is part of this temple complex and is one of the biggest in India:</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKHSJp2B8RJc0_J9LaFr1IOBJsp2j98QXG4DwtiLLBh3tyQj0yTyaA1-FI8fWpY73pdTEPZBx0re4BWbfKQmhoImWzJ2MpuUAMWERWdpZtqZYQVHui_V2SyW_gKqfzs_lkrfpHRUxaWad2/s1600-h/The+sun+temple.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKHSJp2B8RJc0_J9LaFr1IOBJsp2j98QXG4DwtiLLBh3tyQj0yTyaA1-FI8fWpY73pdTEPZBx0re4BWbfKQmhoImWzJ2MpuUAMWERWdpZtqZYQVHui_V2SyW_gKqfzs_lkrfpHRUxaWad2/s400/The+sun+temple.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319653082399243346" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">As you can see in the picture below the temple itself is not as large as you might think:</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiNb2A9WK9p9d2fPQMUTWjhwDTjBYto39RGhPw2R9SqNtmviGMFKG43u6ELrhiMfkI5OOTleaguDS8l6nrD8ZRgAj4ciYZS2k6tpILC5Qh25LynauL2DxxGXn6fYp38XDnXa8AjIm0gI7P/s1600-h/Sun+temple.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiNb2A9WK9p9d2fPQMUTWjhwDTjBYto39RGhPw2R9SqNtmviGMFKG43u6ELrhiMfkI5OOTleaguDS8l6nrD8ZRgAj4ciYZS2k6tpILC5Qh25LynauL2DxxGXn6fYp38XDnXa8AjIm0gI7P/s400/Sun+temple.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319653864819033170" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">There are of course a lot more of these stepwells in India, but the ones mentioned above are the biggest and most famous. </span>TThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15147175927877791153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2344881049866432665.post-79670487637100164732009-03-31T01:58:00.000-07:002009-03-31T04:01:16.522-07:00Living on the water<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-family:arial;" >Living on the water:</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">People all over the world like to live on the water. So they can have a boat in front of their house and have their own small "beach"in front . Urban planners have constructed whole cities and neighburhoods to fulfill this need. The most famous examples of such neighbourhoods are the manufactured palm islands in Dubai. In the pictures below you can see <a href="http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=25.121041,55.141668&spn=0.056652,0.108404&t=h&z=14">Palm Jumeirah</a></span>:<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjL7uSyZtJuc-DfTdnFyhzJCojaVyR9JUXefm-FXvJNYqhHBJ9nTKE1zITQXyXhNe_xG-QErXXURvCv9UCTZqEyMacvFKzBSZWkQeWtU2sD3qsgq5gOb4YdyRdMnRzhmL8Yxjw_RCDWKnp/s1600-h/6og9vm.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 194px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjL7uSyZtJuc-DfTdnFyhzJCojaVyR9JUXefm-FXvJNYqhHBJ9nTKE1zITQXyXhNe_xG-QErXXURvCv9UCTZqEyMacvFKzBSZWkQeWtU2sD3qsgq5gOb4YdyRdMnRzhmL8Yxjw_RCDWKnp/s400/6og9vm.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319286903246906882" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVbKOj07WRijn52QiVlRhrUERhwHbxQ9P-Nakisw2-b9Vh2j3Hf0QyGYcCfgCn6QSNO0cAgOrTsa4SX97_0ZNzfB86hCPpWmOJhmHXitDQXDY7onLZ6kOp2lxy7ojd9hNVNWC0GNSBqsL6/s1600-h/2duy0l2.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 301px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVbKOj07WRijn52QiVlRhrUERhwHbxQ9P-Nakisw2-b9Vh2j3Hf0QyGYcCfgCn6QSNO0cAgOrTsa4SX97_0ZNzfB86hCPpWmOJhmHXitDQXDY7onLZ6kOp2lxy7ojd9hNVNWC0GNSBqsL6/s400/2duy0l2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319286624276163586" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">All the houses here have their own "private" beach:</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlNTVU5R-kHEi-ytT_Jn1O6xwhLL5pnsKg2S6r4QZxEi69h9rxci2wYheClAg3i4KsGIDAeZq7E_Glp5d75BKXSlYMxeoGy5ITCLAZGnm9CXU2-ChS6vKmpinMtInhE-vkY-QIGIH_Ww2z/s1600-h/beach+2.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlNTVU5R-kHEi-ytT_Jn1O6xwhLL5pnsKg2S6r4QZxEi69h9rxci2wYheClAg3i4KsGIDAeZq7E_Glp5d75BKXSlYMxeoGy5ITCLAZGnm9CXU2-ChS6vKmpinMtInhE-vkY-QIGIH_Ww2z/s400/beach+2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319287544947277282" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Al though it look's cool you need a lot of money to buy a house here because they coast 3 million dollars on average. </span><span style="font-family:arial;">And you don't have much privacy as you can see. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Another place where such "living on the water" neighbourhoods are very common is the State of Florida in the United States. This state attracts people from all over the U.S because of the sun and the water. So whole cities were build here to provide people the option to live on the water. The biggest of such a city in Florida with only this purpose is <a href="http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=26.633036,-81.985817&spn=0.223726,0.303154&t=h&z=12">Cape Coral</a>. Thousands of canals were created here so as many people as possible could have their house on the water and could have a boat in front of their house:</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiluKEofJJrwmNP7NQhNZUhwNvAkQHGLe0G72zuDhZlR-ff1eIOAv4YmNkKReESz94TAfGZ0bUmK4AnXj7aBWlgXxSxejIlvTELK4AO390TLqrdVMfp_RVdvhsP_DWN5fWfsHBU-4nmQKTL/s1600-h/Cape+coral.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 350px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiluKEofJJrwmNP7NQhNZUhwNvAkQHGLe0G72zuDhZlR-ff1eIOAv4YmNkKReESz94TAfGZ0bUmK4AnXj7aBWlgXxSxejIlvTELK4AO390TLqrdVMfp_RVdvhsP_DWN5fWfsHBU-4nmQKTL/s400/Cape+coral.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319290238813998498" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Also notice the many bay windows with the glas roofs in the picture below. Sun is what people brings to Cape Coral:<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiIF7CTuu0-XvVonXz7ffTsDXHg13Bgb5My-VBENdl9iwmKnnvKHQwayQD0ui9NF7AKJZ0d1KfEaSGSYTTuhE0dLwqiRkSC-CiVyiFwe8dxNQz91HCql8OltoJwgj6wu33ZYIdimiWvYNS/s1600-h/cost+coral.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 254px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiIF7CTuu0-XvVonXz7ffTsDXHg13Bgb5My-VBENdl9iwmKnnvKHQwayQD0ui9NF7AKJZ0d1KfEaSGSYTTuhE0dLwqiRkSC-CiVyiFwe8dxNQz91HCql8OltoJwgj6wu33ZYIdimiWvYNS/s400/cost+coral.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319291844979869314" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA7EujWN6a3Uk2BxiELY8M7eL-jY2U7J0GF4eIEQx7xhzayGBeIWcnW1dsBk0DCFtypW-64cENE4Ndfes9gM1dFFSj134ECPVKeMgQvBF9p7a8VkShDIx0-V22UtDF4rOKmxj7Uoamem3-/s1600-h/Cape+coral+3.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 209px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA7EujWN6a3Uk2BxiELY8M7eL-jY2U7J0GF4eIEQx7xhzayGBeIWcnW1dsBk0DCFtypW-64cENE4Ndfes9gM1dFFSj134ECPVKeMgQvBF9p7a8VkShDIx0-V22UtDF4rOKmxj7Uoamem3-/s400/Cape+coral+3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319292224934671298" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Cape coral might be the biggest of such a city in Florida the layout of the city itself</span><span style="font-family:arial;"> is certainly no exception in Florida. These layouts are found everywhere along the coast of Florida (especially the West coast). Take for example the restricted community of <a href="http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=26.891761,-82.276268&spn=0.055804,0.108404&t=h&z=14">Rotonda West</a>. It has an diameter of 5km and is shaped like an incomplete wagon wheel. A closed, fresh-water canal system surrounds the outside of the "wheel" and travels inside each of the pie-shaped wedges forming the subdivisions of the development:</span><br /><div style="text-align: left;" id="result_box" dir="ltr"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-cmFN8Njb9rVxbfJ4U8EfpyOJRPKkBMV2Yaaj05P8_oJ5-oFml-X4Yy7uLIJq8XTsO1AZ2tMswHXL5mXTxzQriKkXHo04NFbXU-G98URfN4WEoAM6seOsBWVa9YIaWE3w7UpUNNUoFsUk/s1600-h/Rotonda.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-cmFN8Njb9rVxbfJ4U8EfpyOJRPKkBMV2Yaaj05P8_oJ5-oFml-X4Yy7uLIJq8XTsO1AZ2tMswHXL5mXTxzQriKkXHo04NFbXU-G98URfN4WEoAM6seOsBWVa9YIaWE3w7UpUNNUoFsUk/s400/Rotonda.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319295554862759458" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">A protected wetland to the south prevents development of that area. Alligators, bald eagles, great blue herons, egrets, and many other birds and animals inhabit the area. So it is not very rare that you have an alligator in your swimmingpool here.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Other cool layouts like this in Florida are found </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=26.905615,-82.070875&spn=0.055797,0.108404&t=h&z=14">here</a><span style="font-family:arial;"> at Punta Gorda:</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnLilND-deQACElu4umRXCoypbG8Hl_A91p9iVx2_WATrK7qtkWZ_PezVjFIBb0JnWM4HVN63ZtgnxPKPllI-2e5ZY_LINdKIACEh6mOPqxAV86KgAfQ5mIamY5TMFSkWuU_dper_LHODv/s1600-h/11111.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 308px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnLilND-deQACElu4umRXCoypbG8Hl_A91p9iVx2_WATrK7qtkWZ_PezVjFIBb0JnWM4HVN63ZtgnxPKPllI-2e5ZY_LINdKIACEh6mOPqxAV86KgAfQ5mIamY5TMFSkWuU_dper_LHODv/s400/11111.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319298004595750290" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">, </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=28.235251,-82.753444&spn=0.027563,0.054202&t=h&z=15">here</a><span style="font-family:arial;"> at Holiday:</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_4rVIayf8iLItKY9RenhD-L_kuoPwLVcKiZqN1phTYd8EZ-TOoFqtHow7GpTNhxZ8sDuDcXfNU5H3xeAAcI2XLDtxNttVxEX0HihqXsLYlqqHDMu8GabLdiFSzRXYozK1Q1Bn5DqlCFS8/s1600-h/22222222.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 324px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_4rVIayf8iLItKY9RenhD-L_kuoPwLVcKiZqN1phTYd8EZ-TOoFqtHow7GpTNhxZ8sDuDcXfNU5H3xeAAcI2XLDtxNttVxEX0HihqXsLYlqqHDMu8GabLdiFSzRXYozK1Q1Bn5DqlCFS8/s400/22222222.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319298776231053010" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">And </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=25.933965,-81.720085&spn=0.05627,0.108404&t=h&z=14">here</a><span style="font-family:arial;"> at Marco island:</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSU3MaNL5HLRxGsiQqFhMU4l8IKvXfmmMeHXrnmZn55XWPGiwJOK9dykQIkedQGs4FavpVxgtPwbP4Nf4ZWV7R5r2qiDCwjlthvb3HPmZiGzEE-OHDEvLuAhM0z52eTeN3XMBbfEfHt0-_/s1600-h/333333.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 273px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSU3MaNL5HLRxGsiQqFhMU4l8IKvXfmmMeHXrnmZn55XWPGiwJOK9dykQIkedQGs4FavpVxgtPwbP4Nf4ZWV7R5r2qiDCwjlthvb3HPmZiGzEE-OHDEvLuAhM0z52eTeN3XMBbfEfHt0-_/s400/333333.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319299344073567890" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">These city layouts are not always found at the coast but also further land inwards. Near Miami<a href="http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=26.092092,-80.394001&spn=0.112388,0.216808&t=h&z=13"> the layout</a> you can see in the picture below can be found everywhere:</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdFtH_gZEIQy_DmlAvQ53GM6IYR7XUnfV57mO1LOlhFd8tKplhTLNAywi_rsqMy-N3xc_plOUZaYWMIRCPB4lAfj2L355Zfd_Ei-3eRJUb2Xg9QZ42j3tBmMJFPg8bKUORa-BUzQdzZVB5/s1600-h/4444444.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 310px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdFtH_gZEIQy_DmlAvQ53GM6IYR7XUnfV57mO1LOlhFd8tKplhTLNAywi_rsqMy-N3xc_plOUZaYWMIRCPB4lAfj2L355Zfd_Ei-3eRJUb2Xg9QZ42j3tBmMJFPg8bKUORa-BUzQdzZVB5/s400/4444444.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319300222874788658" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">These city layouts can of course also be found in Europe and other places around the world but by far not in the scale as in Forida. Maybe only </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=52.370149,4.894152&spn=0.019101,0.054202&t=h&z=15">the canals of Amsterdam</a><span style="font-family:arial;"> can be compared in size (now also visible in google street view). But these were more designed for commercial trade rather than to provide sun and water. </span><br /></div>TThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15147175927877791153noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2344881049866432665.post-63691406145261518972009-03-30T11:21:00.000-07:002009-03-30T13:53:51.213-07:00Floating fish farms<span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Floating fish farms:</span><br />A floating sea fish farm is used to breed sea fish.</span> These floating fish farms are especially common in Asia and they come together in large numbers mainly at the coasts of China and Japan. These Chinese floating fish farms consist of a floating raft with different "fish pens". Each of these rafts generally have their own house on it for the owner. In the pictures below you can see such typical Chinese fish farms:<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhExmUJBMQXqHMIGFsLRq4z-wtWkZC8GtolN__yl28lnPiH9nccpqZmyDHS7MSRQnuHQUTwBg9A4bgvK9aw5Pqi6biUfnRYMilapUR2bJT3CSoQWkvceHC5gjUyDvkLyz6RNncoGLhcJe9E/s1600-h/261148190_e6178c8ba7.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhExmUJBMQXqHMIGFsLRq4z-wtWkZC8GtolN__yl28lnPiH9nccpqZmyDHS7MSRQnuHQUTwBg9A4bgvK9aw5Pqi6biUfnRYMilapUR2bJT3CSoQWkvceHC5gjUyDvkLyz6RNncoGLhcJe9E/s400/261148190_e6178c8ba7.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319048291228755330" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh7jLZMTXcMVt1aF3uNmwDgKqo4EVK8uOwDjBfClXkIQH4kuQcgDAQpL2x8_3nWDpipPdtc6UpO6d0G_WIbeTtMY73623VtyRTJ7PNuShbRlPHMuTMwsn5HnHHjGJyKNWBi3lzb00bh0Qa/s1600-h/261147901_3eaa9ba475_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh7jLZMTXcMVt1aF3uNmwDgKqo4EVK8uOwDjBfClXkIQH4kuQcgDAQpL2x8_3nWDpipPdtc6UpO6d0G_WIbeTtMY73623VtyRTJ7PNuShbRlPHMuTMwsn5HnHHjGJyKNWBi3lzb00bh0Qa/s400/261147901_3eaa9ba475_o.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319048286230384098" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">When they are together in large numbers it look's like a floating village:</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKbtBWEUmHeABbPMc-AhR-f_pFRgoF_tZZDLqNJ_ibULHUr-bwyqwzYu_IWNfr0J_OfOABDtrWJOC1oYfhoTD46cGB6Yy3ekM6bXVvkuue2tMdrajREsdCXkwh5-0CxPAxuM4wHygU0r4W/s1600-h/aquaculture-3.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKbtBWEUmHeABbPMc-AhR-f_pFRgoF_tZZDLqNJ_ibULHUr-bwyqwzYu_IWNfr0J_OfOABDtrWJOC1oYfhoTD46cGB6Yy3ekM6bXVvkuue2tMdrajREsdCXkwh5-0CxPAxuM4wHygU0r4W/s400/aquaculture-3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319048295785154610" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">The biggest number of floating fish farms close together in the world are found not far from the city of Shantou in China. </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=23.600565,116.972165&spn=0.028669,0.03828&t=h&z=15">At this point</a><span style="font-family:arial;"> thes<span style="font-family:arial;">e farms stretch for almost 12 kilometres. Thousands of such farms are floating in the water here:</span></span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzJi2W4YW4u-rVl0vWPFDWr_U7hwmfU3LTxFbQhEt2WudlaICF18FmQpVL54YC9fxQGDPrwJu1I_q9EICTZnD_6PGglgikqrGD2p4JrLZ07a-9fAWRko-_2y9exVSVF-bHFdFfJWix5Ss1/s1600-h/Bay+2.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 356px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzJi2W4YW4u-rVl0vWPFDWr_U7hwmfU3LTxFbQhEt2WudlaICF18FmQpVL54YC9fxQGDPrwJu1I_q9EICTZnD_6PGglgikqrGD2p4JrLZ07a-9fAWRko-_2y9exVSVF-bHFdFfJWix5Ss1/s400/Bay+2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319053741069144738" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Each of these fish farms you see in the pictures below are generally 30 by 30 metres but sometimes they are almost 250 metres long:</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfsFwcmRfNQoO1dCnuKeDm_6BUpCun5rzv8UZZiae4lt2jnwwuTmr0ZR48Q9hvXf_s_1qlkNLhG-CxwR-hhZhQ0kNviUpgs9WkgtNXOKcNcXoat-Z28CYhJCKokokoCUDbfWaXRHNw0B8s/s1600-h/Bay+6.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 331px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfsFwcmRfNQoO1dCnuKeDm_6BUpCun5rzv8UZZiae4lt2jnwwuTmr0ZR48Q9hvXf_s_1qlkNLhG-CxwR-hhZhQ0kNviUpgs9WkgtNXOKcNcXoat-Z28CYhJCKokokoCUDbfWaXRHNw0B8s/s400/Bay+6.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319068100941796514" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGdZcZ_dBepjxrqR8yMqtK-rf3GP_TRusJ1oai1B-zCV9QddKCThQEaCQl3rHGg_SD4Am284vUDLWM0d_8Ce1NGFdxvrH2yINv5aPNJjlJnPe5ecJDfLLQpMAzWZFtKEyhjO3Xg7Y7SZ77/s1600-h/Bay+5.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 321px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGdZcZ_dBepjxrqR8yMqtK-rf3GP_TRusJ1oai1B-zCV9QddKCThQEaCQl3rHGg_SD4Am284vUDLWM0d_8Ce1NGFdxvrH2yINv5aPNJjlJnPe5ecJDfLLQpMAzWZFtKEyhjO3Xg7Y7SZ77/s400/Bay+5.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319067645536080418" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">The chain of floating fish farms at this bay "begings"</span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=23.5997,116.956512&spn=0.007167,0.00957&t=h&z=17"> here</a><span style="font-family:arial;"> and ends all the way </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=23.573142,117.053264&spn=0.007169,0.00957&t=h&z=17">here</a><span style="font-family:arial;"> (12 kilometres further</span><span style="font-family:arial;">). </span><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;">The formations can sometimes be very chaotic, and there seems not to be really thought of a </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=23.601371,116.957681&spn=0.014334,0.01914&t=h&z=16">logical structure</a><span style="font-family:arial;">:</span><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcbuearEY9NuyNf9OMGEg36zZNVtY0_6cPvyeU3HQewnvr5W66K-PCwfb5rp5g5384w2mxzrxOpN4TICHu7BFHQecLCPgX9ft2br8C32HohehCTC13vsz40NMpBumFBdyCuG36WagRX_BB/s1600-h/Bay+3.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 314px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcbuearEY9NuyNf9OMGEg36zZNVtY0_6cPvyeU3HQewnvr5W66K-PCwfb5rp5g5384w2mxzrxOpN4TICHu7BFHQecLCPgX9ft2br8C32HohehCTC13vsz40NMpBumFBdyCuG36WagRX_BB/s400/Bay+3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319056963931679586" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">If you wonder how they reach these farms take a look </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=23.608592,116.96127&spn=0.003583,0.004785&t=h&z=18">here</a><span style="font-family:arial;"> where you can see all the boats used to reach the farms. </span></span><span style="font-family:arial;">Another place i found where a lot of them float together is <a href="http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=23.775173,117.408099&spn=0.02863,0.03828&t=h&z=15">here</a> (Not far from Xiamen):</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnhAcR1Ycm8qNp8F6yvfhAqj3ms_x0LZLDtXc0F4aJDI2ZFUNZbqOUntFceEawbZp1NkgGA5TKXamb-sqc5h4xg0DVNC9AoMC6Qj5Bj_I5fh3A318rbU8zbtHgytjwu1VWX2speavan4ki/s1600-h/bay+4.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 293px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnhAcR1Ycm8qNp8F6yvfhAqj3ms_x0LZLDtXc0F4aJDI2ZFUNZbqOUntFceEawbZp1NkgGA5TKXamb-sqc5h4xg0DVNC9AoMC6Qj5Bj_I5fh3A318rbU8zbtHgytjwu1VWX2speavan4ki/s400/bay+4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319058283993311826" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">This farming complex stretches for almost 5 kilometres.</span><span style="font-family:arial;"> </span><span style="font-family:arial;">At the coasts of the fish eating country number one; Japan they also use these floating fish farms a lot. Al though they look different from the Chinese ones. They don't have the small houses on it and they generally use nets in Japan which are supported by floating</span><span style="font-family:arial;"> circle-shaped or rectangular girders. Like you can see in </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=32.232969,130.183976&spn=0.013232,0.01914&t=h&z=16">this </a><span style="font-family:arial;">bay in Southern Japan:</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMROSTaXvvKgLc7lSQ92B0_EdxDtSc5YHKuHHvJ14ibySa0UOvGiAr5vg2TY8nkUzxPoMn37XlIPd9peK4nyCU6IBnWgAxUEtD_RbDV3GIDulsUm0rrYHh21Sr7KF1hhE0RZhqjgiBE7_L/s1600-h/Japan.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 390px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMROSTaXvvKgLc7lSQ92B0_EdxDtSc5YHKuHHvJ14ibySa0UOvGiAr5vg2TY8nkUzxPoMn37XlIPd9peK4nyCU6IBnWgAxUEtD_RbDV3GIDulsUm0rrYHh21Sr7KF1hhE0RZhqjgiBE7_L/s400/Japan.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319062592588533794" border="0" /></a>TThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15147175927877791153noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2344881049866432665.post-77609380097822530062009-03-30T01:52:00.000-07:002009-03-30T13:54:31.833-07:00Turkey point power plant<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">Turkey Point power plant.</span><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><a href="http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=25.435136,-80.331581&spn=0.014281,0.019312&t=h&z=16">Turkey point nuclear power plant </a>south of Miami in the U.S look's like an ordinairy nuclear plant when you first look at it:<br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7Nvo-cbBXCP6KOoO7fWxA5E7ELE9r1S4xmCM6y2wOsirFWiJ6Ps4MuQHTSpliOjGPVNAbXdA0pwC3i3GGYTBtyXOn2h7BkNhlpF5YeffB8zo8ksY3zcDAZzZzyFvSuCUWJC3OTK9jm-Mg/s1600-h/308-844993.embedded.prod_affiliate.56.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 316px; height: 204px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7Nvo-cbBXCP6KOoO7fWxA5E7ELE9r1S4xmCM6y2wOsirFWiJ6Ps4MuQHTSpliOjGPVNAbXdA0pwC3i3GGYTBtyXOn2h7BkNhlpF5YeffB8zo8ksY3zcDAZzZzyFvSuCUWJC3OTK9jm-Mg/s400/308-844993.embedded.prod_affiliate.56.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5318903958494721122" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />But when you look "better" you can find<a href="http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=25.389318,-80.339413&spn=0.114295,0.154495&t=h&z=13"> a huge terrain</a> south of the plant with a lot of canals. This terrain is 8km long and 4 km wide:</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQpOLlpFa3T9Bnko5uYIdoMS2tWrwzLx_liQwzcFurzn8vYgvWV9Lggg0zqCU7woCFCG0xJGStCJ3Beff_xkvIfTz4eQMlklCb3dzs0nRKF7uN9KGFq8IdVx0NDoftBANO7txQGb14w06u/s1600-h/2980736152_b0f7a26a22_o.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 269px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQpOLlpFa3T9Bnko5uYIdoMS2tWrwzLx_liQwzcFurzn8vYgvWV9Lggg0zqCU7woCFCG0xJGStCJ3Beff_xkvIfTz4eQMlklCb3dzs0nRKF7uN9KGFq8IdVx0NDoftBANO7txQGb14w06u/s400/2980736152_b0f7a26a22_o.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5318902193180196338" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">This is the largest cooling canal system in the world. The large area of cooling canals have been constructed at the Turkey Point power plant to cool the circulating water. A separate supply of water that cools the turbine steam supply for reuse comes from a unique system of 36 interconnected canals. The canals act like a giant radiator to cool the water in a two-day, 168-mile journey before it is circulated back to the condenser for reuse:<br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3WyCqOGl6ILijCemAyRZ9of3aJNtD_dX9R-WSHuF3wWpSOdr8YjRLg7MJeevR2o3zjpY7tqc_a2XdKiUki8eht54r9qEXBiDvlTrwl-CMHplmmzp3FqBZCB6GFI_DApPzP_6rjtKuFWP8/s1600-h/Naamloos.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 342px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3WyCqOGl6ILijCemAyRZ9of3aJNtD_dX9R-WSHuF3wWpSOdr8YjRLg7MJeevR2o3zjpY7tqc_a2XdKiUki8eht54r9qEXBiDvlTrwl-CMHplmmzp3FqBZCB6GFI_DApPzP_6rjtKuFWP8/s400/Naamloos.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5318904186085552466" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><br />It also happens to be an habitat for the endangered North American Crocodile. As their numbers teetered on extinction, crocodiles found refuge in the warm, salty water of the cooling canals. Here the placid water, filled with turtles, fish and crabs, suits them. </span><p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><br /></p>TThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15147175927877791153noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2344881049866432665.post-34647330331511686832009-03-28T15:43:00.001-07:002009-03-30T13:56:00.933-07:00LNG storage tanks<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">LNG storage tanks:<br /></span><span style="font-family:arial;">LNG tanks are the biggest type of storage tanks in the world. LNG stands for liquid natural gas. These tanks are specially designed to maintain the -163 degrees celcius temperature to keep the natural gas liquid.<span style="font-family:arial;"> </span></span><span style="font-family:arial;">The relatively high cost of production of LNG and the need to store it in expensive cryogenic tanks ( to maintain the low temperatures ) gives the need of big tanks ( larger then in the oil industry ) to minimize costs. </span><span style="font-family:arial;">LNG tanks are always of double-wall construction with extremely efficient insulation between the walls. Large tanks are low aspect ratio (height to width) and cylindrical in design with a domed roof.</span><span style="font-family:arial;"> There are a lot of safety measures to these tanks because if it escapes from a storage tank or ship, it can quickly vaporize. If this vapor ignites, it can create an immense fireball that would incinerate everything in its path. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">The biggest LNG storage tank in the world <a href="http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=32.085065,-80.996157&spn=0.00335,0.004828&t=h&z=18">is situated</a> on Elbas Island near Savannah in the U.S.</span><span style="font-family:arial;"> Below you can see some pictures ( from live search maps birdview) during it's construction:</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuT_ZfAOKIPkJfUQ9OGkpToR33hlHucANLvdSeNUJfamqCw-qnIfL-0za0fbgEiUxbNHCuo7rQ-khTluKwkQptbodKBZQ6X2LJPEelHFIrz12rRGWDUijktHqfoMxxsk6W7oRXjs3dsMvs/s1600-h/savannah+2.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 241px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuT_ZfAOKIPkJfUQ9OGkpToR33hlHucANLvdSeNUJfamqCw-qnIfL-0za0fbgEiUxbNHCuo7rQ-khTluKwkQptbodKBZQ6X2LJPEelHFIrz12rRGWDUijktHqfoMxxsk6W7oRXjs3dsMvs/s400/savannah+2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5318633179222153186" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOU0X2CZjmDpXcVFpvvHTBVH-yF6O3ZlUuqk-Yl6qhyOezw5qlwQNjCFkZyVAwhrQusOqVoPqiTM8_yVK1mz6AeWD6MylWr-tzJdIDfH5Da9x0B1_F1cqhIelqXjnOwmzn_TymZZYOghkm/s1600-h/savannah+1.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 272px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOU0X2CZjmDpXcVFpvvHTBVH-yF6O3ZlUuqk-Yl6qhyOezw5qlwQNjCFkZyVAwhrQusOqVoPqiTM8_yVK1mz6AeWD6MylWr-tzJdIDfH5Da9x0B1_F1cqhIelqXjnOwmzn_TymZZYOghkm/s400/savannah+1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5318633173807885346" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">The world's largest LNG export terminal is called the Sakhalin II terminal and <a href="http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=46.626438,142.922773&spn=0.010861,0.019312&t=h&z=16">is situated</a> on the Sakhalin island in the Russian Far East. The storage tanks on this project belong to th<span style="font-family:arial;">e largests in the world and have a </span></span><span style="font-family:arial;">storage capacity of 1.2 mln barrels (190,000 m</span><sup style="font-family: arial;"><small>3</small></sup><span style="font-family:arial;"> ), The picture below shows what a giant impact these structures have on the once peaceful beach of the village nearby:</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiijP08570bYnNNGvpqUiy_uwcqGpphp9cKlYIHZfIls1fBY1GJLJfDrcpS-dE1VDZkQ-rWWGHvrCHcSBwmHLy8UuwZkaSl_SzxHZ1y6d0AUDmWycjdwC44J5aRHjqYBbglD7sXvgWW83jP/s1600-h/Sakhalin+terminal+construction_1.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiijP08570bYnNNGvpqUiy_uwcqGpphp9cKlYIHZfIls1fBY1GJLJfDrcpS-dE1VDZkQ-rWWGHvrCHcSBwmHLy8UuwZkaSl_SzxHZ1y6d0AUDmWycjdwC44J5aRHjqYBbglD7sXvgWW83jP/s400/Sakhalin+terminal+construction_1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5318610692808942834" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;">Another large LNG terminal is the<a href="http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=0.099907,117.472858&spn=0.015814,0.019312&t=h&z=16"> Bontang LNG Plant</a> in Bontang in Indonesia. The 6 tanks on this site are all more then 80 metres in diameter:<br /><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3zzKWvYeCRvrCJOuauJCMiYkJjEY-g4W87e8vbumU2LScXd42JPMDJO4BrbJZEMsYgAKMpqQPzVaxErhiyrsbIB_hrgPOrxrJl4dCPBtra832QTwA41fCQgrxNeyV9sDqmYTajngpbteK/s1600-h/BONTANGLNGPLANTphoto40f4-full.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 313px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3zzKWvYeCRvrCJOuauJCMiYkJjEY-g4W87e8vbumU2LScXd42JPMDJO4BrbJZEMsYgAKMpqQPzVaxErhiyrsbIB_hrgPOrxrJl4dCPBtra832QTwA41fCQgrxNeyV9sDqmYTajngpbteK/s400/BONTANGLNGPLANTphoto40f4-full.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5318637083048849714" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">And what about the liquefied natural gas storage tanks at the Yemen L.N.G project which was recently build<a href="http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=13.9776,48.179458&spn=0.007673,0.009656&t=h&z=17"> near</a> (not yet visible in google maps) Balhaf in Yemen. These storage tanks are aboslutely huge as you can see in the pictures below (Click to enlarge)</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfwi6ihCkGcZIxHW20D_0-jKAWJprYTxadJR7X0kB1wJ8wot65NzN6Ak0iPX8YF6iY7mvnR7t7Q_SDseZ45DIcvk3uq-jy2dFPomsd9DTEZ0jSNoI-ihDkAEF3XyatQ2OJYRYpnoSfYq2B/s1600-h/yemen+lng.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 254px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfwi6ihCkGcZIxHW20D_0-jKAWJprYTxadJR7X0kB1wJ8wot65NzN6Ak0iPX8YF6iY7mvnR7t7Q_SDseZ45DIcvk3uq-jy2dFPomsd9DTEZ0jSNoI-ihDkAEF3XyatQ2OJYRYpnoSfYq2B/s400/yemen+lng.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5318599708812188002" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3yP4qZvRkZwOb5hgZVWI5T0vna9I6hU9uL_gdnVwLdhzT_yshEgijgJ2muGff_oq7kemYW38S0HDFgCD2vzSV1GLbcHLkVeRsEZFsTOuu4QixqIJvQxWu95ZScbrHKcKreoU545a3YirU/s1600-h/26500645.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3yP4qZvRkZwOb5hgZVWI5T0vna9I6hU9uL_gdnVwLdhzT_yshEgijgJ2muGff_oq7kemYW38S0HDFgCD2vzSV1GLbcHLkVeRsEZFsTOuu4QixqIJvQxWu95ZScbrHKcKreoU545a3YirU/s400/26500645.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5318599709283409906" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Here you can see a worker who walks through one of two main storage tanks:</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7tAJzrbD35ClT3mOldArJZWD-uqhesssdg_waQsWpAmm7aZjt9Gqx_xAXmA-UTSkSK-XgxBHWJthyphenhypheneN7yBhNAkvuwsR5SY_FolxuAimuQCYNBqLXQI2vSV-VoXVFCYwqGk4xxAMKbW5bi/s1600-h/26500985.JPG"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7tAJzrbD35ClT3mOldArJZWD-uqhesssdg_waQsWpAmm7aZjt9Gqx_xAXmA-UTSkSK-XgxBHWJthyphenhypheneN7yBhNAkvuwsR5SY_FolxuAimuQCYNBqLXQI2vSV-VoXVFCYwqGk4xxAMKbW5bi/s400/26500985.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5318599704748584210" border="0" /></a><br /><p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><br /><span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span></p><p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; font-family: arial;">Another large liquid gas storage tank was build in the Senboku LNG terminal II in the harbour of Osaka. <a href="http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=34.536205,135.402718&spn=0.003257,0.004828&t=h&z=18">This thing </a>was build in 2000 and was the world's largest aboveground LNG storage tank for a long time. This thing is 60 metres high and has diameter of 80 metres.</p><p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px; font-family: arial;"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family:arial;">To view the size of these LNG tanks even better you can enlarge the picture below by clicking on it. The people on top are dwarved by the huge tank. This thing stands </span><span style="font-family:arial;"><a href="http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=22.617606,114.386306&spn=0.00365,0.004828&t=h&z=18">here</a> in the harbour of Guangdong </span><span style="font-family:arial;">in China:</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDbm0K0fHy93M9MyhdOVArCG_amuLpT8tXY0Wvz-Mty5-t78a8UOOyY65WicciRwDUhtLDuRz9iut92ZoNfWtawQJu8TM5Za-c_EXf-lU5Gcck0hOO6Y-eQ2OHypVNBpwR-ZZ3MYQi8Jn9/s1600-h/Guangdong.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDbm0K0fHy93M9MyhdOVArCG_amuLpT8tXY0Wvz-Mty5-t78a8UOOyY65WicciRwDUhtLDuRz9iut92ZoNfWtawQJu8TM5Za-c_EXf-lU5Gcck0hOO6Y-eQ2OHypVNBpwR-ZZ3MYQi8Jn9/s400/Guangdong.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5318625776416326562" border="0" /></a><br /></p><p style="margin: 0px; text-indent: 0px;"><br /></p>TThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15147175927877791153noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2344881049866432665.post-42601680578005366892009-03-28T05:26:00.000-07:002009-03-30T13:56:46.365-07:00Space launch sites<span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);font-family:arial;" >Space launch sites:</span> <span style="font-family:arial;">
<br />There are not many spaceports around the world. Fewer than two dozen have been constructed during the Space Age. Over the decades since 1957, some 5,000 satellites have been boosted above the atmosphere from these sites. The space programs of the United States and Russia have been comparable in size and are by far the world's largest. They are followed in size by the space programs of the ESA, France, Japan, Germany, Italy, India, the United Kingdom, Canada, Brazil, Belgium and Spain.</span>
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<br /><span style="font-family:arial;">The </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=45.827364,63.298416&spn=0.352631,0.617981&t=h&z=11">Baikonur space launch site</a><span style="font-family:arial;">, also known as Tyuratam ( A city in Kyzylorda Province of Kazakhstan rented and administered by Russia ), is the world's oldest and largest working space launch facility. The first man made satellite to orbit the Earth was launched from here. For decades, the facility was shrouded in secrecy with the Soviet authorities refusing to confirm its precise location.The site has a diameter of 90 km:</span>
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<br /><span style="font-family:arial;">There are a number of big launch pads on this huge complex. </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=45.96368,63.308158&spn=0.010993,0.019312&t=h&z=16">Here</a><span style="font-family:arial;"> is the biggest launch pad on the site. Another big one is found <a href="http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=46.008483,63.305272&spn=0.005492,0.009656&t=h&z=17">here</a></span><span style="font-family:arial;">. </span><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family:arial;">A huge </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=46.010219,63.306967&spn=0.002746,0.004828&t=h&z=18">movable service tower</a><span style="font-family:arial;"> equipped with cargo and passenger elevators and a crane here, allowes access to the rocket in vertical position on the launch pad:</span>
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<br /><span style="font-family:arial;">With so many years of launching missles and satellites into space the surrounding steppes are littered with spent boosters, many with toxic propellants still on board - although clean-up plans are underway. </span> <span style="font-family:arial;">The second biggest space launch site is the <a href="http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=28.530242,-80.631752&spn=0.222302,0.30899&t=h&z=12">The John F. Kennedy Space Center</a> from NASA on Merritt Island, Brevard County, Florida, United States. It is 34 mi long and around 6 mi wide, covering 219 sqmi. The huge vehicle assembly building is the most well known landmark on the huge site.</span><span style="font-family:arial;"> The 160m tall building is the largest one story building in the world and is still the tallest building in the United States outside an urban area:</span>
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<br /><span style="font-family:arial;">The site has two very big launch pads and a lot of </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=28.501772,-80.551672&spn=0.027795,0.038624&t=h&z=15">smaller launchpads</a><span style="font-family:arial;">. The biggest launch pad is found </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=28.627031,-80.620884&spn=0.006941,0.009656&t=h&z=17">here</a><span style="font-family:arial;"> ( Launch pad 39B):</span>
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<br /><span style="font-family:arial;">And </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=28.608185,-80.603921&spn=0.006942,0.009656&t=h&z=17">here </a><span style="font-family:arial;">launch pad 39 is situated. This 105 meters high structure can be seen from miles away:</span>
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<br /><span style="font-family:arial;">There are more of these space launch sites but none of them are comparable in size with the 2 mentioned above.</span>
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