Honestly, I don't know why I sit here day after day 'working my fs to the bs' as I tap my way round this internet-thingie to find you good news to start your day. I have already provided you with a naked female cast playing The Tempest so it's a tough job coming up with something better than that. However, as you all know, D&N is the blog that keeps on giving! So, now let me tell you about the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System, the biggest - and I do mean the BIGGEST - solar plant in the world.
It just caught fire!
And the fire was caused by one of its mirrors!
Oh, stop it! You're making me laugh all over again and my keyboard almost blew a fuse with the tears dripping from my face!
According to the report at Popular Science, the frightfully brainy types who designed it all misaligned some of the mirrors which concentrated the heat of the sun in the wrong place. All this reminds me of an equally funny story concerning a high-tech and equally 'Greenie' building owned by [cr]Apple where the solar panels in the roof caught fire, According to the pv-Tech site, "[cr]Apple shifted the building’s purpose into that of a data centre, touting its green credentials."
Cue: hysterical laughter from deepest, darkest 'Zummerzet'!
self immolation?
Posted by: Whitewall | Saturday, 21 May 2016 at 13:32
Thanks for the link Duff.
http://www.popsci.com/chinas-new-carrier-gets-ski-ramp
Posted by: JK | Saturday, 21 May 2016 at 17:25
I imagine your interest lies in the wrist alcohol sensor, JK?
Posted by: Andra | Saturday, 21 May 2016 at 19:51
Not until after the 8th of next month Andra, last November I "flunked" part of what my job-functions require. So it was Come back in six months and we'll re-test!
The first five months waiting isn't so bad - but the final thirty days before any re-testing - I add total abstention up to and including alcohol spirits to my list of "whats not to do."
(I have taken the precaution of hiring myself a driver for my little trip at one o'clock Wednesday June 8th - the testing place is not in a dry county!
For others than Andra & Whitewall who might find themselves confused:
"Prohibition, the effort to limit or ban the sale and consumption of alcohol, has been prevalent since Arkansas’s territorial period. The state has attempted to limit use of alcoholic beverages through legal efforts such as establishing “dry” counties, as well as through extra-legal measures such as destroying whiskey distilleries. Since achieving statehood in 1836, prohibition has consistently been a political and public health issue."
http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?search=1&entryID=3002
And a map for SoD's convenience:
http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/media-detail.aspx?mediaID=7974
Posted by: JK | Saturday, 21 May 2016 at 21:54
Very character building, JK, or so I'm told.
Posted by: Andra | Sunday, 22 May 2016 at 07:44
Well, if they didn't have 'dry counties' how would Barney Magroo make a buck?
Posted by: David Duff | Sunday, 22 May 2016 at 07:51
David
Enjoy
https://youtu.be/z0O_VYcsIk8
Posted by: Hank | Sunday, 22 May 2016 at 13:12