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Sleeping giants on a mountain top.

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Posted on September 2, 2024 at 10:29:48
ghost of olddude55
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These big boys weren't turning today but their brothers and sisters facing north were very busy indeed.
Taken on Big Savage Mountain in Pennsylvania near the border with Maryland.






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What the Sierra Club calls, posted on September 2, 2024 at 10:37:05
E-Stat
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 "Cuisinarts of the Air"!

Saw lots of them in Southern UK.

 

They're a plague upon the beauty of the landscape, posted on September 2, 2024 at 11:18:34
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 but I guess are a good alternative to living in soot filled air and higher temperatures.

 

Re: Windmills, posted on September 2, 2024 at 11:19:29
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  		Just like any other mechanical device with moving parts, they have a duty cycle and a maintenance cycle. I suspect there is a circuit which turns them off at the appointed time. That's to be expected.

My complaint about windmills is that they're a blight on the landscape. And, as you well know, they're another way for billionaire contractors, and the politicians they've bought, to steal our money so they can get even richer.

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It was a windy day., posted on September 2, 2024 at 11:24:34
ghost of olddude55
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 I caught a head wind all the way back to the car. The eastern portal of a long tunnel is just past where I took the picture. Normally, it's a fast ride through because the surface is paved but today, it was funneling the northerly wind right into my face.
The windmills ain't beautiful but they're a damn sight better looking than a strip mine.



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Mining coal doesn't do much for the landscape, either., posted on September 2, 2024 at 11:32:55
MWE
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 At least windmills don't tear up the earth.


Mark in NC
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Then there's this:, posted on September 2, 2024 at 12:14:56
ghost of olddude55
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That's iron oxide from an old mine that filled with water and blew out. The picture's a few years old but the falls are still going strong. They're along the bike trail and the pollution is flowing into the Youghiogheny River.
Coal mining is mostly gone from the Pittsburgh region but streams like this one are still all too common.
And there's mountaintop mining which is just what it sounds like. Longwall mining that causes major surface subsidence.
I'll take windmill farms any day.
BTW, no idea who the rider is in the pic. She just happened to be riding through when I snapped the shutter.




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Stopped. , posted on September 2, 2024 at 13:40:20
grantv
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 Her foot is down, she ain't riding. Your wife?

 

Nope, just another rider who happened to intrude on my shot. , posted on September 2, 2024 at 15:26:34
ghost of olddude55
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 No idea who she is.



The blissful counterstroke-a considerable new message.

 

RE: Nope, just another rider who happened to intrude on my shot. , posted on September 2, 2024 at 17:44:24
www.records
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 Maybe she wasn't aware of who you think you are. :)

 

Rumour has it they are very bad for whales, birds and now... , posted on September 2, 2024 at 22:58:08
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 bacon prices.



"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination"-Michael McClure



 

I was across the trail..., posted on September 3, 2024 at 03:33:06
ghost of olddude55
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 There's a place to park a bike in order to take pictures. She was rolling through, stopped at the last second, put a foot down.
There's another set of falls about 3 miles further down the trail. Known as "White Falls" because of the aluminum oxide in the water staining the rocks.
Another mine blowout.



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RE: Sleeping giants on a mountain top., posted on September 3, 2024 at 10:25:33
421a
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love them

 

RE: Sleeping giants on a mountain top., posted on September 3, 2024 at 10:36:09
robert920rogers@gmail.com
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 Is that the San Gorgonio pass wind farm? I just moved out there two weeks ago,can see them from my house,as soon as it cools down I want to take a tour.

 

RE: Mining coal doesn't do much for the landscape, either., posted on September 3, 2024 at 22:22:13
Postal Grunt
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 Some of the farmers here in Kansas are being offered up to $10,000 a year to lease an acre plot for wind mills. However, there is a great deal of resistance to building transmission lines to distribute to other states. A case in point is the proposed Grainbelt Express transmission line from W Kansas to Chicago. The line would run through N Missouri where the farmers are opposed. Some say that they don't want to sell the rights to build through no matter what the offer might be and others are saying it's only a matter of time before the money is good enough.

 

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