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whatdougsees:

A very interesting analysis by Galina Hale and Bart Hobijn of the San Francisco Fed concludes that very little of American personal consumption spending actually ends up in China. When Americans go buy stuff, they’re overwhelmingly buying things that are made in America.

And yes, here’s another rant about the traditional media which, rather than educate, repeats sensational headlines.

Somewhere on the 5 in California.
by Tim Navis on Flickr

Sunset above Singapore
the “ghost fleet” of the world recession

via Flickr user =Lonely.X.Poet=

After a storm the air is always so clear and bright. Great for photography. Taken at the entrance to the Houston Ship Channel in the Gulf of Mexico from the pilot boat as she made her approach from astern.
via OneEighteen on Flickr

Heavy ship’s section lifted off in Saint Nazaire ALSTOM Marine shipyard.
GIANT MARINE is a French registered company created early 1980 and specialised in the field of international marine transportation of heavy and oversized cargoes.

Emmert International’s custom built Dolly Beam Transport System is capable of transporting loads up to 700 tons safely across virtually any highway.
via Emmert International

The CBEX800 is a six axle schnabel car owned by Westinghouse, and is still in service. This is the largest schnabel car, and the largest freight car ever built. It was originally built for Combustion Engineering by Krupp Industries of West Germany, in 1982.
photo by Nathan Holmes taken in Trinidad, CO on April 9, 2005.
via railfan.net

thiscitycalledearth:

Photograph by Ken Ohyama, Yoshima, Japan.

xn—7xa:

The largest tidal turbine in the world, the AK1000, was unveiled yesterday. It weighs 130 tons and stands nearly 74 feet tall. It will be installed off the coast of Orkney, Scotland, where, if all goes according to plan, its “environmentally benign” low rotation speed will generate enough electricity for 1,000 homes on the local grid for decades.

ahmedsalman:

This is a part of the computer lifecycle rarely seen.

Troubled Times for Architecture Industry

The virtual evaporation of significant new construction projects in New York City is deeply hurting the architectural profession, forcing firms to lay off employees, cut their fees, diversify their practices and search for work in other cities and countries.

During the expansive 1980’s, architects came to enjoy near-celebrity status, as they remade the city’s skyline. Now, they are scrambling for work.

”Everyone is slowing down,” said Lenore Lucey, executive director of the New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects. ”Or, if they’re busy now, they are looking at slowing down by the end of the year.”

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by David Dunlap for The New York Times

Published: July 5, 1990

gracefulspoon:

http://m.ammoth.us/blog/2010/02/the-dead-sea-works/

The conveyor belt, at 18 kilometers the third longest in the world (at least at the time of its design), was planned by the Dead Sea Works to convey over a million tons of potash each year from the extraction site (400 meters above sea level) to the Dead Sea Works’ main factory on the banks of the Dead Sea (400 meters below sea level). The belt replaced a “tortuous 39-kilometer truck route where 200 semi-trailers a day loaded with potash once clogged traffic, created a safety hazard, damaged the road, and spewed diesel fumes”.
Israel’s Nature Reserves Authority at first opposed the project (which would span the entire South Judean Desert Nature Reserve, “known for the flora, wildlife, and archaeological sites of its unspoiled canyons and cliffs”), citing the fragility of the desert environment, but later approved it on the condition that the Dead Sea Works employed a landscape architect to design the conveyor belt.

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