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Danjiang Bridge, Taiwan
The Huanghe Qinghai Delingha Solar Project is an 810-megawatt concentrated solar power (CSP) plant in northern China. The facility, which is still under construction, will contain six solar concentrating towers and is expected to supply electricity to more than one million people in the surrounding area. In a CSP plant, thousands of heliostat mirrors are arrayed in concentric circles and reflect sunlight onto a central “power tower,” where water is heated to 1,000°F, which generates steam, spins turbines, and produces electricity.
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Die Axamer Lizum in den Stubaier Alpen © @simonisfunk
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Rural settlement in Grampian Region: approaches and sources
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Pathways to a Shared European Information Infrastructure for Cultural Heritage
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Archaeology and the medieval towns of Norway [protected status of medieval towns, and research organization]
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Arguably London didnt exist before the first London Bridge around AD55 - this one is from 1973
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a world in which tiramisu gelato exists within easy reach of everyone is a world worth fighting for
This, completely seriously.
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MIA on planet Earth
Where President Donald Trump has truly been missing in action is on climate change, even as last month was the hottest in recorded history.Not only has he ignored what has become an existential threat to the United States and the world as global temperatures rise, but under the vaunted rubric of deregulation, Trump has all but worked to promote global warming. Our view.Opposing view.
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Bernie Sanders releases a blistering report on Donald Trump’s infrastructure package
In 2008, the city of Chicago sold the rights to its parking meters to Morgan Stanley for more than $1 billion. Over the next four years, the city’s parking rates skyrocketed by 800 percent.
In 2011, Virginia entered a 58-year contract with a private company to manage the tolls of the city of Norfolk’s midtown tunnel. The private operator jacked up tolls with a pricing scheme that gave low-income drivers bills as high as$18,000.
These stories are highlighted in a new report from Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), set to be released later on Wednesday, intended to warn of the dangers of President Donald Trump’s proposed infrastructure plan.
Like the Senate Democratic caucus, Sanders has embraced the idea of a big infrastructure spending bill to repair the nation’s roads and bridges. But, also like Senate Democrats, Sanders opposes the “public-private partnerships” Trump has proposed to accomplish this objective.
“Trump wants to hand over more critical public infrastructure to private investors who will squeeze profits from the American people by putting up new tolls and exorbitant user fees,” Sanders’s report says. “That would be unacceptable.”
As Brad Plumer explained for Vox about Trump’s initial proposal from the campaign trail:
What Trump has right now is an idiosyncratic proposal for Congress to offer some $137 billion in tax breaks to private investors who want to finance toll roads, toll bridges, or other projects that generate their own revenue streams. But this private financing scheme, experts across the political spectrum say, wouldn’t address many of America’s most pressing infrastructure needs — like repairing existing roads or replacing leaky water mains in poorer communities like Flint. It’s a narrow, inadequate policy.
For instance: “This is unlikely to do much for road and bridge maintenance,” notes Harvard economist Edward Glaeser. “And [economists] have long believed that the highest returns are for fixing existing infrastructure.”
Trump announced on Monday that it was “infrastructure week,” and is set to deliver an infrastructure speech on Wednesday afternoon in Cincinnati. On Thursday, he will meet with mayors and governors at the White House to discuss an infrastructure overhaul.
But his infrastructure plan may not go anywhere. On Capitol Hill, there are no signs that his ambitions for an infrastructure package will fare any better than his tax reform push or his health care plans. Trump started “infrastructure week” without so much as a bill, or any reported reassurance that Congress has the appetite or means to take up a major infrastructure overhaul amid its busy schedule.
Sanders’s latest report is an attempt to nip Trump’s infrastructure package in the bud. You can read it in full here.
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Throughout San Francisco, 175 underground cisterns still exist as part of a dedicated fire emergency system developed in 1908. Most of them can be identified by a distinctive brick circle on the road.
Following the 1906 earthquake, the Auxiliary Water Supply System (AWSS) - a separate and distinct water supply system for fire protection use only - was built. The system includes dedicated reservoirs, pump stations, fireboats, cisterns and hydrants. The cisterns are disconnected from the network, with no pipes, in the event of major damage to the distribution system.
Top photo: Robin Scheswohl, Bottom left Paul Mison, bottom right mailgirl333
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A new seawall along the English Bay coastline in Vancouver, BC, designed as an alternative to a purely functional infrastructures by landscape architects Paul Sangha, working with a biologist and engineers.
In addition to the angular wall, plantings and strategically placed boulders create a more porous edge, slowing the flow of water and the deposit of sediment, and building up a new sand beach
The seawall is designed as a functional piece of infrastructure but also becomes a careful steward of the greater landscape.
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Langs het tuinpad van Overschie,
A13 motorway in Overschie, Rotterdam
by Rick Messemaker & Arjo Rozendaal
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