Very nice.
Via this post from the Arizona Geology Blog (a regular read) I learned that hot brine from a mining operation is generating electricity.
This post from Treehugger has more info.
Even more can be found at the company website. The pilot studies look pretty good At using lower temperature hot water to create electricity. There are thousands of opportunities to use this tech to add to the grid.
Make more of them, please.
Press Release from Rio Tinto, operator of this huge open pit:
11 April 2013
Kennecott Utah Copper’s Bingham Canyon Mine pit wall slide
At 9.30 pm local time on 10 April 2013, Kennecott Utah Copper’s Bingham Canyon Mine experienced a slide along a geotechnical fault line of its north eastern wall. Movement on the [read more...] replies: 2
If you haven’t seen this most excellent panel discussion on the role of story telling and science, I highly recommend it.
Part one consists of the panelists each telling a science story.
Part two is the Q and A session, which i [read more...] replies: 1
This answers the question of where is Curiosity drilling? Via Wired there’s the 360 mars Curiosity Panorama:
http://www.360cities.net/image/mars-panorama-curiosity-solar-day-177?utm_campaign=clickback&utm_content=viewon360&utm_medium=embed_image&utm_source=embed#-371.93,58.61,85.0
It’s brilliant!
replies: 2Getting bad here along the Front Range of Colorado. Fires everywhere, 100+ degrees, dry thunderstorms and their outflow winds.
There’s one burning six miles south of Chez Podrock, lightning strike, hundreds of acres in two hours.
Thirty miles north, 90,000 acres burned in a fire that started three weeks ago. 200 + structures lost.
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I’ll be thinking about these folks next time I’m waiting for a package.
“You look way too happy,” an Amalgamated supervisor says to me. He has appeared next to me as I work, and in the silence of the vast warehouse, his presence catches me by surprise. His [read more...] replies: 5
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/01/120126115127.htm
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I’ll have to read that another dozen times to figure it out.
replies: 2Well Folks, the ship’s been through an upgrade, Robert the designer-engineer, has added and or modified our little spaceship and once again handed us the keys. It’s a Win-Win thing – much as I loathe the term – for he builds the best ships and we are his test pilots.
Robert handed me a [read more...] replies: 1
Y’all might have seen the story a few weeks back, but I don’t recall it showing up on the Zone. Recently, that intrepid rover Opportunity studied a neat little outcrop:
Tests reveal that it is gypsum (which requires water to occur) and that the rocks are insitu. That’s where the [read more...] replies: 2
just another test.
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