NASA Spots Details Of [Abandoned] US Army Base [Camp Century] Lost Under Greenland Ice [remote sensing]
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https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/25/camp_century_nasa_images/ <-- shared article
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https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/153616/new-view-of-the-city-under-the-ice <--shared NASA post
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https://ahf.nuclearmuseum.org/ahf/history/camp-century/ <-- shared details of Camp Century and Operation Iceworm
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https://youtu.be/1Ujx_pND9wg?si=lUKSafROLBaD6TMf <-- shared U.S. Army 1950s video on Camp Century
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https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2022.112 <-- shared paper
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https://cires.colorado.edu/news/greenland-and-legacy-camp-century <-- shared technical article
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #USArmy #CampCentury #OperationIceworm #Greenland #climatechange #contamination #risk #hazard #ColdWar #nuclearreactor #dieselfuel #risk #hazard #waste #PCBs #radioactive #wastewater #ICBM #radar #UAVSAR #NASA
#dieselfuel
#TrainDerailment spills 1,200 gallons of #DieselFuel near #PenobscotRiver
Maine Public | By Nick Song
Published July 3, 2024 at 5:13 PM EDT
"About 1,200 gallons of diesel fuel spilled during a train derailment near #Mattawamkeag on Tuesday.
"The derailment occurred at 4:55 p.m. on Tuesday at a rail yard in Penobscot County according to railway operator #CSX Transportation. The Lincoln Fire Department which responded to the scene reported a train engine had collided with a parked boxcar on the rails. While no one was injured, the collision upended one boxcar and derailed another.
"The derailed car proceeded to sideswipe the locomotive’s fuel tank according to CSX, rupturing the tank and causing the fuel to spill approximately 1,200 gallons onto the ground. The Maine Department of Environmental Protection said cleanup crews managed to safely transfer an additional 2,450 gallons out of the damaged fuel tank.
"The #MaineDEP said the department flew a drone from the sheriff's office and a Maine Forest Service aircraft to see if any fuel ended up in the nearby Penobscot River. Both did not see any fuel sheen on the river, indicating no fuel ended up in the waterway.
"CSX and the Maine DEP both said they are working together to clean the fuel and will continue monitoring the site through the holiday weekend. CSX said the cause of the incident is under investigation."
Fuel taxes, principally on #gasoline, #dieselfuel, and heating fuels, are far more common than taxes on electricity. Explicit #carbontax are relatively rare and are highly concentrated in Europe.
https://visualizingenergy.org/where-do-energy-taxes-have-the-largest-macroeconomic-impact/
5,000 Gallonen = knapp 19.000 Liter Diesel im Indianer-Reservat in #Washington nach GĂĽterzug-Entgleisung ausgelaufen. #accident #Anacortes #usa #swinomish #BNSF #dieselfuel https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/bnsf-train-derailment-spills-diesel-fuel-tribal-land-washington-rcna75387
So while the rest of #India seems to have moved on form the #farmersprotest & the historic #TractorRally; I can't seem to get over the fact that Utter-Train-Wrek-of-a-Pradesh Govt. in cahoot's with the state police were able to prevent #Farmers from buying toxic #DieselFuel; prices of which are at new record levels! Having utterly failed to implement #Biodiesel policy intentionally for the benefit of who else - but makes bhai - and other Oil Marketing dhandha type companies!
Consumers may do as much as regulators to propel the car sector into the electricity-powered age foreseen by Tesla Inc., according to the European Union’s industrial-policy chief.
European Commissioner Elzbieta Bienkowska said the EU has had a “breakthrough moment” since Germany-based Volkswagen AG admitted in 2015 that it fitted diesel engines with software to cheat U.S. checks on smog-causing discharges of nitrogen oxides. This deeply affected “the emotions in society toward emissions and cleaner cars,” she said.
“Diesel cars are finished,” Bienkowska said in a May 24 interview in her ninth floor Brussels office. “I think in several years they will completely disappear. This is the technology of the past.”
The auto-emissions scandal may help the EU gear up for a technological revolution in road transport. Europe is seeking to retain leadership in the worldwide market for passenger cars in the face of competition from the U.S., where Tesla is based, and China, which accounts for about half of electric-vehicle sales.
The issue has been politically thorny in Europe because around half the cars in the region are powered by diesel — which causes more urban pollution than gasoline while having less global-warming impact — and because many member states have struggled to meet clean-air goals meant to reduce human sicknesses and premature deaths.
“People have realized that we will never have completely clean — without NOx — diesel cars,” said Bienkowska, who comes from Poland.
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#diesel mybroadband.co.za/news/motorin… #dieselfuel #Tesla #Motoring