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Surplus aircraft 1948
Anybody want to buy a surplus B-24 Bomber, a C47 or a couple of P38's?
Surplus aircraft auctioned by the US Government after WW2, (1948). From Chicago Tribune January 1948 edition.
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Shot this down on Ted Turner’s Armadeus Ranch.
It’s 360,000 acres down in South Central NM on the Rio Grande.
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St. Augustine, TX Constable, 1939.
Taken by noted photographer Russell Lee.
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My black cat, Smudge, has a couple of alternate names, "Mr. Nibbles" being one of them. I went to bed around 11 and he came and curled up in my extended arm, as he often does. After a while he decided he needed a little "dental excercise" and began working his teeth down my arm The rest of the night was uneventful.
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I recently read somewhere that a piece of citrus dropped
in the hot oil will reduce or eliminate the flavor of the food fried.
Mini seedless orange 2-2.5 minutes at 350+F.
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At Galveston Recently
Galveston, TX. Load of wind turbine blades. I believe the country of origin is Denmark. Soon to be trucked inland, erected, in the breeze for 20 years, and buried in a Texas landfill. What a racket.
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I read an article last year (?) about recycling turbine blades in the US. Can't remember where and I didn't bookmark it, but there are definitely plans to recycle them.
If those blades in the pic are from Vestas in DK, they have come up with recycling solution.
And Carbon Rivers in Knoxville TN also has a recycling program.
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DOE Announces Phase One Prize Winners to Boost Recycling for a Circular Wind Energy Economy
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And those Babies are Huge!
Here’s one in Mountainair, NM.
The Lady in the Blue Dodge is from Bee Branch, AR.
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I appreciate your reply. It's just a random photograph and really wasn't meant to spark debate but what the heck. I live in a county that is wall to wall with the things and they all got here after I did - full disclosure.
There is a "solution" for recycling that involves mulching the blades and using them as aggregate in concrete. It's the only one I've heard of (so far) that is being seriously considered for adoption as high density plastics, epoxy resins, fiberglass and carbon fiber are just doggone difficult to recycle. At any rate, mulching them for concrete is wayyyy more expensive than using conventional aggregate (rocks) and has yet to prove the resulting concrete is as strong or durable. The whole blades are being placed in landfills all over the country as the cheapest and best (so far) solution to getting them outa' sight. There is no currently available recycling technology of turbine blades that is remotely cheap enough to be practical. Just sayin'.
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No worries. I wasn't trying to be "contrary." As you say, there are all sorts of potential solutions for our environmental problems but finding ones that tick all the requisite boxes, esp.as regards cost and practicality, brings up another whole set of problems in themselves. Our Feds have just sunk billions into supporting a massive Honda EV battery manufacturing plant. But I have yet to see any announcement as to who is building the sophisticated recycling facilities needed to support the mad push to replace ICE vehicles, which have been around long enough now that batteries are just beginning to need replcement.
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“Italians seem unsurprisingly unbothered by Domino's closure. "There was no point in opening it...we were talking about it just this morning," one Bologna resident told Reuters. "It didn't make sense. Maybe an American pizza chain would have made sense for tourists, but for an Italian, it doesn't make sense. It's like me going to England and making fish and chips, it doesn't make sense."
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Didn’t work out well for Dominos in Italy. Franchisee went belly up, though very surprised he lasted 7 years. BIG mistake.
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