i've seen a 26% before. there's an 18% not too far from my house on mosquito ridge road (about an hour an a half from sonora pass).
A few from the Dalton Hwy. (Haul Rd.) - Alaska Denali Hwy. On someone's property on the way to Homer........
Here is some of the signs from a trip in the middle of Europe. The area is very popular for motorcycle drivers, known with some thousand hairpins... And I arrived to the hairpins of Passo del Stelvio(Stilfserjoch)-every place has two names here, one in Italian, one in German- : This picture is look like a road sign, isn't it? The top of the passage: And the other side: Here is the view on the map: Another view from non-existing borders between Italia and Austria, 60km/h is the sign of Austria, the next one, 50 is Italian border... --------------------------- Another one, not releated with Europe, from Ozbekistan, a road sign that I took the picture on the road Tashkent to Buhara : I add "Berlin" myself, the rest is original. Sinan Ozgen Berlin
They actually have a road sign indicating the way from Tashkent/Uzbekistan all the way to Hamburg Germany?? :huh that's several thousand miles... pretty straightfoward sign
The worrysome thoughts are that this picture was taken just 1 mile from the second picture. Yes, that is a neucular power plant, the relative size of the bike has made those towers look rather small.. but I was told by worker in the plant that you could fly a Boeing 747 into the tower and it wouldn't suffer much damage.
those are just natural draft cooling towers ... not unique to nukes they would not withstand an aircraft strike, they only cool the secondary loop water (non-radioactive loop) from the turbine. what would withstand an aircraft strike is the containment structure or CAN (not visible here) in which the reactor, steam generators, etc are housed. those wall thicknesses are measured in FEET of reinforced concrete and steel plate. this is like that damn Superman movie where he flies over the cooling tower and there's a glow deep inside ... totally uninformed media bullshit ... some coal-fired power plants have towers like those and not all nukes have natural draft towers, some have forced draft, some have none at all. point Crystal River, FL there are 4 coal-fired (dirt burners) and one nuke on site the media comes down to make a report on something, the camera is pointed AWAY from the nuke (that the story was on) instead is focused on 2 big natural draft cooling towers (just like these) that serve the 2 big dirt-burners. The nuke uses a cooling canal from the Gulf. these are Crystal River 4 & 5 coal-fired, not nuke and before you ask ... I put in over 15 years in over 20 different commercial power reactors across the country as well as several production reactors. And yes I do have a hot button on the subject
Thanks for the primer XTphreak. I only spent 2 years as a engineering co-op in a coal/oil station. We had one of the largest oil fired burner/turbines in the country. Didn't get fired much. Back on topic...
Yeah, me too. Contract Health Physics Tech for about 13 years and got a belly full. Nice write up and explanation. The utilities should have spent more time educating people like this back in the early 80's. got to go find a sign...