Random Object Photographs

[THE PILGRIM]

And those Babies are Huge!
Here’s one in Mountainair, NM.
The Lady in the Blue Dodge is from Bee Branch, AR.

 

[Peak53]

Amphibious landing gear assembly for the C47.

Comes in handy when you are smuggling stuff onto beaches ...

 

[TXBryan]

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.

And just this year:
DOE Announces Phase One Prize Winners to Boost Recycling for a Circular Wind Energy Economy

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'.

 

[oldbrownhat]

I appreciate your reply. It's just a random photograph and really wasn't meant to spark debate ...

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.

 

[THE PILGRIM]

Here’s a NM Pumpkin Cannon.
It’s probably +P.

 

[Rustyt1953]

 

[oldbrownhat]

My cat quietly came in from his morning observations on the front deck and alerted me to visitors in my north field. Pics are a little grainy as they were taken with my iPhone from a respectful distance of about 50 yards.

 

[Rustyt1953]

 

[oldbrownhat]

Feeding time at the zoo today.

My neighbour's alpacas are always happy when I bring the excavator over, clean out the old hay and put in a new bale.
Heads down and fuzzy bums out

 

[THE PILGRIM]

Just another day in Paradise!

 

[soFlaNative]

 

[wood714]

Brought this from my mom's winter place last night and hung it up.

Saw 2 cardinals, a blue bird, and this rascal trying to get into it.

Ordered one similar to it, but metal and thick plastic and bought 22.5 pounds of bird feed.

 

[Rustyt1953]

Tea for three.

 

[ameridaddy]

Here’s a NM Pumpkin Cannon.
It’s probably +P.

+P for Paris Gun!!

 

[ladder13]

Didn’t work out well for Dominos in Italy. Franchisee went belly up, though very surprised he lasted 7 years. BIG mistake.

“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."

 

[oldbrownhat]

Didn’t work out well for Dominos in Italy. Franchisee went belly up, though very surprised he lasted 7 years. BIG mistake.

“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."

The expressions, "Coals to Newcastle" or "selling refrigerators to Eskimos" also come to mind.

 

[pmanton]

I forgot to post these on the 18th. That's the date Mt. St. Helens erupted.
One is looking down the crater. The other is Spirit Lake with the thousands of floating logs which are trees blown down by the eruption.

 

[TXBryan]

I do a little work with Border Patrol related to controlling Arundo donax, Carrizo cane, along the Rio Grande. Took this pic in the Westlaco HQ.

Bryan

 

[ladder13]

It’s a girl

It’s a boy

 

[wood714]

Went to the range today. First time shooting my SP5K. Sure ain't nothing to brag about, but considering the target was blowing all over the place, I'll take it. Put a 30 round mag into each target.

Went for a nice ride later when it cooled off. Got home just when it was getting dark.