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CaliforniaPeggy

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February 17, 2022

Flowering Succulents









February 14, 2022

My wish for DU!

February 13, 2022

Engineers are building bridges with recycled wind turbine blades.

This is an article that I found on the Verge, a periodical that covers several different sorts of fields. This article was in Science/Energy/Environment.

An excerpt:

On a former train track bed connecting the towns of Midleton and Youghal in County Cork, Ireland, workers recently excavated the rusted remains of an old railway bridge and installed a pedestrian one in its place. The bridge would have been an unremarkable milestone in the development of a new pedestrian greenway through the Irish countryside, if not for what it’s made of: recycled wind turbine blades.

That makes it just the second “blade bridge” in the world. The first, installed last October in a small town in western Poland, officially opened in early January. The engineers and entrepreneurs behind these bridges are hopeful they represent the beginning of a new trend: repurposing old wind turbine blades for infrastructure projects.

It keeps them out of landfills and saves energy required to make new construction materials. When civil engineer Kieran Ruane first saw concept designs for a bridge built with wind turbine blades, he said the idea was “immediately appealing.”

“It was a no-brainer that this needed to be investigated and trialed, at least,” Ruane, a lecturer at Ireland’s Munster Technological University and a member of Re-Wind, the research network behind Ireland’s new blade bridge, tells The Verge.


The rest at the link:

https://www.theverge.com/2022/2/11/22929059/recycled-wind-turbine-blade-bridges-world-first



February 10, 2022

First Quarter Plus




February 7, 2022

Fern Studies










February 6, 2022

Textures













February 4, 2022

The New Moon

February 1, 2022

Macro Studies

Thanks to AndyS' wonderful video on shooting macro, I was inspired to take these photos. Hope you all enjoy!













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