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Manufactured landscapes: Open pit coal mines
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Tuesday, January 20, 2009. Open pit coal mines. Coal mining is the extraction or removal of coal from the earth by mining. When coal is used for fuel in power generation it is referred to as steaming or thermal coal. Coal that is used to create coke for steel manufacturing is referred to as coking or metallurgical coal. Most of the open pit coal mines are found in the black areas in the map above. The biggest open pit coal mine is the Correjon coal mine. Proven reserves will be mined out by 2040 and the ...
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Manufactured landscapes: Container terminals
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Friday, January 16, 2009. The biggest container terminals in the world:. The Kwai Tsing container terminal in Hong Kong. PSA container terminal in Singapore. Is the world's second largest container hub. PSA handled 15 millon TUES last year. The third biggest container terminal in the world is. Keppel harbour container terminal. In Singapore. This is the other big container terminal in Singapore and handles about 12.1 million TUES each year:. The Yantian Container Terminal. The HHLA container terminal:.
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Manufactured landscapes: May 2009
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Friday, May 22, 2009. Largest ammunition storage sites in the world. The largest ammunition storage sites in the world:. The Hawthorne Army Depot. In terms of storage capacity the ammunition storage site at the village of Haywood in Oklahoma in the U.S seems to be the largest in the world. It covers. An area of 12 kilometers by 12 kilometers, and was built because of the involvement of America in World War II:. At Tooele, located in Utah. It covers an area of 8 kilometers by 7 kilometers:. It is 800 mete...
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Manufactured landscapes: June 2009
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Monday, June 8, 2009. The Aachen health " factory". The Aachen health "factory":. One of the weirdest looking buildings in Europe could easily be the large hospital of Aachen. This is due to the huge striped ventilation pipes that are attached to the outer walls and the 24 " towers" that protrude above the main building:. This building was designed as a health factory, the product enters the "factory" sick and leaves it healthy. The Aachen health " factory". Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Living on the water.
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Manufactured landscapes: My favourite links:
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Saturday, January 3, 2009. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Paper and Pulp mills. Open pit coal mines. The Feedlots of the USA. 4Largest open pit coal mines. 5The giant feedlot's of the U.S. Choose stuff by Category:. The Aachen health factory. Living on the water. Deforestation of the Amazon rainforests. The crowdy Northern Chinese plain. The cattle feedlot's of the USA. The Khofra farming communities. The stairway to heaven. Biggest coal power plants. Biggest nuclear power plants. Out of the earth:.
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Manufactured landscapes: February 2009
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Saturday, February 28, 2009. Alumina, or aluminium oxide is refined from bauxite in a caustic soda/high temperature process. Caustic solution is used to dissolve the alumina, which is settled out, filtered and heated to evaporate the water. The resulting fine white granular substance is then smelted in so called aluminium smelters. The biggest alumina refinery in the world has opened in 2008 in the northern Brazilian town of Barcarena. The refinery. The third biggest in the world is the. Alumina refinery...
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Manufactured landscapes: Diamond mines
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Wednesday, February 4, 2009. The richest mine in the world. Is found in Jwaneng in Botswana about 100 miles west of the city of Gaborono. It is the richest diamond mine in the world when measured by value of recovered diamonds:. When measured by the volume of the diamond production. The Argyle diamond mine. In the Kimberley region in Western Australia is the biggest. Due to the low proportion of gem-quality diamonds, is not the leader by value:. South Africa's Venetia Diamond Mine. The Catoca diamond mine.
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Manufactured landscapes: Vehicle cemeteries
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Monday, January 19, 2009. The Davis Monthan Air force. Base has by far the biggest airforce "parking lot" in the world. The precision in the way they are parked is impressive. It is difficult to comprehend the size of the "Bone yard" and the number of aircraft stored there. Of course the important thing to remember is that they are all capable of being returned to flying condition if the need ever arises. The Bay of Nouadhibou. Recycle approximately half of all ships salvaged around the world. The ya...
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Manufactured landscapes: April 2009
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Saturday, April 18, 2009. The new valley project. The new valley project:. The New Valley Project. In southern Egypt is one of the biggest irrigation projects ever constructed. It consists of a system of canals to carry water from Lake Nasser. Are build in the middle of this desert in the hot sun. First, the channels are dug in the middle of the desert sand:. After that the first layer of concrete. Is poured on it:. One of the most inhospitable deserts. The new valley project. Sunday, April 12, 2009.
