Saturday, 22 December 2012

solar-powered boat schools

In Bangladesh, India, during monsoon season, rain pour over the city and hundreds of schools have to shut down.

The organization Shidhulai Swanirvar sangstha built solar powered boat schools to provide uninterrupted education year round.The simple floating structures are made of locally-sourced natural materials, and each boat is equipped with rooftop solar panels, a small library with electronic resources, and a laptop with internet connectivity.

 
 
 
 
 
Coal Mining

Coal mining is to obtain coal from the ground. Coal is valued for its energy content and it had been used to generate electricity since 1880s. The main types of coal are bituminous (soft coal), anthracite (hard coal), and subbituminous coal.

Bituminous coal is very common and has several uses, while subbituminous coals like peat have limited uses.

Coal mining at Kalimantan
 
Coal mining at India
 
 



Red Hot

27th November 2012, an explosion eruption began at Tolbachik volcano. The ash was reported to a height of 33,000 ft drifting north and northwest of the volcano. The height of ash emission was estimated from seismic records. Ashfall was reported at villages 35 km west of the Tolbachik to a depth of 4 cm.

During the peak activity at Tolbachik on 28-29 November 2012 eruptive fissures spread over tens of kilometres, and the eruption was heard 60 kilometres away.

Lava glows bright red- an indication of superhot temperature - in a false colour satelite image of Russian's Tolbachik Volcano taken on 1st December.
 
 
Icehotel in Lapland

Ice hotel is the hotel made up by snow. The Icehotel in Lapland located in swenden, in Jukkasjärvi, a tiny little town 200 km north of the Arctic Circle.  Although it's not the cheapest, it is the biggest and best and the sight of this hulking structure of snow and ice on the banks of the Torne river is certainly impressive.

Every winter, ice is cut from the frozen Torne River in Jukkasjärvi. Builders and artists get to work with mammoth sized ice blocks and at the end of frenzied months of chopping, cutting, sculpting and probably a lot of schnapps drinking, you get one ICEHOTEL and an ICEBAR. And a lot of tendonitis injuries. Then to add insult to injury, it melts every spring.

The northern lights flash above a guest outside the icehotel, the largest frozen hotel in the world.
 


 

Bermuda Triangle

Bermuda triangle can also called Devil's triangle.The places whereby the formation of Bermuda triangle are Miami (Florida peninsula), San Juan (Puerto Rico), and in the mid-Atlantic island of Bermuda.

Resources:http://adventure.howstuffworks.com/bermuda-triangle.htm
 
This picture shows the location Bermuda Triangle. In this part of area, a lot of natural evidence unexplainable by scientist.

There's a lot of notable incidents such as Ellen Austin,USS Cyclops, Carroll A. Deering, Flight 19, Star Tiger and Star Ariel, Douglas DC-3, KC-135 Stratotankers, and Connemara IV.

Flight 19
resource:http://surviving-history.blogspot.com/2012/07/into-thin-air-mysterious-story-of.html

Flight 19
resource:http://surviving-history.blogspot.com/2012/07/into-thin-air-mysterious-story-of.html

Flight 19
resource:http://surviving-history.blogspot.com/2012/07/into-thin-air-mysterious-story-of.html
 
 
 
 
However, scientists have finally pointed the rest of the more plausible cause.

The presence of methane hydrates indicates enormous eruptions of methane bubbles that would swamp a ship, and projected high into the air- take out flying airplanes, as well.
"Any ships caught within the methane mega-bubble immediately lose all buoyancy and sink to the bottom of the ocean. If the bubbles are big enough and possess a high enough density they can also knock aircraft out of the sky with little or no warning. Aircraft falling victim to these methane bubbles will lose their engines-perhaps igniting the methane surrounding them-and immediately lose their lift as well, ending their flights by diving into the ocean and swiftly plummeting."
 
Reference:http://www.neatorama.com/2010/08/08/bermuda-triangle-mystery-solved/