Month: January 2013

They spoilt it with the Danish a few years ago and last week with the Belgians and Dutch too.

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It is the factory in the centre that I am after…

With a total of 12 telescopes, the Siding Spring Observatory is the main optical telescope site in Australia and was originally set up in 1924.

Last week a raging bushfire destroyed some of the support buildings on site, but the telescopes were not damaged, as it seems.

Those who put the fire out

• mccrumplair
• hhgygy
• steve willis
• rob de wolff
• Gillian B
• Petesafe
• ACG
• Chris Nason
• Cloudspotter
• LawnBoy
• Marty
• Adam Macer
• Felix Bossert
• Farceur
• mehmet durmus
• ewen
• Noisette
• Keith M
• Sasha Smith
• Paul Franson
• krenek

– Hint –

• Paul Voestermans
• Dennis S.
• Shelly
• Rosella
• Wista
• kevin45
• Mik
• Pascal Gilbraith
• Rolando Marín Monge
• Colin
• David Kozina
• Sandworm
• Ernesto Posse

Nearly destroyed by fire, last week

The concept is simple: take some 2650 mirrors, a 140m high tower filled with molten salt and a lot of sunshine and you have a solar power plant that is capable of producing electrical power 24/7.
As a bonus you get a wonderful picture as shown in this contest.

Those who stood out in the sun

• David Kozina
• Felix Bossert
• LawnBoy
• Farceur
• Cloudspotter
• ACG
• Pascal Gilbraith
• Paul Voestermans
• steve willis
• mehmet durmus
• Paul Franson
• Marty
• krenek
• hhgygy
• Iah
• Lelie
• Petesafe
• Skip
• Sasha Smith
• Rolando Marín Monge
• Steve Hoge
• aldabra
• Colin
• Adam Macer
• mccrumplair
• Sandworm
• rob de wolff
• Andy Geoghegan
• Wista
• Shelly
• Alonso Alfaro
• Enrique
• Rosella
• john rhea
• ewen
• Marcel
• Sarah G.

– Hint –

• Ben
• Andy M, USA
• sanjuro74

Keeps on working, even when it is dark.

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If there was a contest about the most polluted city in the world, Linfen would probably win it hands down.

Over 3 million people living in the cite are affected by the pollution, causing chronic illness and premature deaths.

Once renowned for its rich agriculture and called “The Modern Fruit and Flower Town”, nowadays coal burning power plants have covered the city under a smoke and dust blanket.

Those who managed to stay healthy

• Walter_V_R
• steve willis
• Paul Franson
• Sasha Smith
• hhgygy
• mccrumplair
• mehmet durmus
• Farceur

– Hint –

• Pascal Gilbraith
• Wista
• rob de wolff
• Steve Hoge
• Cloudspotter
• David Kozina

The haze you see in the picture are not clouds…