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from Bloomberg
Media/News Company
Companies are searching for ways to deal with the tens of thousands of blades that have reached the end of their lives.
A wind turbine’s blades can be longer than a Boeing 747 wing, so at the end of their lifespan they can’t just be hauled away. First, you need to saw through the lissome fiberglass using a diamond-encrusted industrial saw to create three pieces small enough to be strapped to a tractor-trailer. The municipal landfill in Casper, Wyoming, is the final resting place of 870 blades whose days making renewable energy have come to end. The severed fragments look like bleached whale bones nestled against one another. ... Tens of thousands of aging blades are coming down from steel towers around the world and most have nowhere to go but landfills. In the U.S. alone, about 8,000 will be removed in each of the next four years. Europe, which has been dealing with the problem longer, has about 3,800 coming down annually through at least 2022, according to BloombergNEF. It’s going to get worse: Most were built more than a decade ago, when installations were less than a fifth of what they are now.
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from Conciliar Post
I flew over the Great Plains. There I saw the grid of man laid out in straight lines marking plots and straight roads making access a higher priority than aesthetic.
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from The Hollywood Reporter
Magazine in Los Angeles, California
Kirk Douglas, Indomitable Icon of Hollywood's Golden Age, Dies at 103
Kirk Douglas, the son of a ragman who channeled a deep, personal anger through a chiseled jaw and steely blue eyes to forge one of the most indelible and indefatigable careers in Hollywood history, died Wednesday in Los Angeles. He was 103. “It is with tremendous sadness that my brothers and I announce that Kirk Douglas left us today at the age of 103,” son Michael Douglas wrote on his Instagram account. “To the world, he was a legend, an actor from the Golden Age of movies who lived well into his golden years, a humanitarian whose commitment to justice and the causes he believed in set a standard for all of us to aspire to.” Nominated three times for best actor by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences — for Champion (1949), The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) and Lust for Life (1956) — Douglas was the recipient of an honorary Oscar in 1996. Arguably the top male star of the post-World War II era, he acted in more than 80 movies before retiring from films in 2004.
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This brutal World War II battle holds lessons for future Pacific fights
An island invasion followed by a “bloody brutal urban brawl.” It’s one piece of a larger Pacific fight against a peer adversary that spread its control across the region, thwarting U.S. military might. The future fight against China or echoes of the past? This week marks the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Manila, an often overlooked fight that saw some of the war’s worst atrocities, heaviest urban combat and the U.S. Army diving into a Pacific island campaign that stretched across the theater.
Kirk Douglas, Indomitable Icon of Hollywood's Golden Age, Dies at 103
Kirk Douglas, the son of a ragman who channeled a deep, personal anger through a chiseled jaw and steely blue eyes to forge one of the most indelible and indefatigable careers in Hollywood history, died Wednesday in Los Angeles. He was 103. “It is with tremendous sadness that my brothers and I announce that Kirk Douglas left us today at the age of 103,” son Michael Douglas wrote on his Instagram account. “To the world, he was a legend, an actor from the Golden Age of movies who lived well into his golden years, a humanitarian whose commitment to justice and the causes he believed in set a standard for all of us to aspire to.” Nominated three times for best actor by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences — for Champion (1949), The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) and Lust for Life (1956) — Douglas was the recipient of an honorary Oscar in 1996. Arguably the top male star of the post-World War II era, he acted in more than 80 movies before retiring from films in 2004.
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from Military Times
and Air Force Times, Army Times, Marine Corps Times, and Navy Times
An island invasion followed by a “bloody brutal urban brawl.” It’s one piece of a larger Pacific fight against a peer adversary that spread its control across the region, thwarting U.S. military might. The future fight against China or echoes of the past? This week marks the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Manila, an often overlooked fight that saw some of the war’s worst atrocities, heaviest urban combat and the U.S. Army diving into a Pacific island campaign that stretched across the theater.
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from The Spokesman-Review
Newspaper in Spokane, Washington
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Bomb cyclone to drag atmospheric river to Europe, while jet stream may propel trans-Atlantic flights at speed of sound
A bomb cyclone is about to explode over the North Atlantic, and will help drag the weather system drenching the Southeast United States and its accompanying atmospheric river all the way to Europe. This weather system will smash into Britain after riding along a roaring jet stream reaching speeds over 250 mph. Air passengers hitching a flight along the same jet stream will have an extra-fast ride. The weather system forecast to slam into Britain has been named Ciara, and is expected to unleash heavy rains and strong to damaging winds. Ciara will have its origins from the storm in the Southeast United States, which has generated tornadoes, flooding rain and heavy snow.
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from The Washington Post
Newspaper in Washington, D.C.
Bomb cyclone to drag atmospheric river to Europe, while jet stream may propel trans-Atlantic flights at speed of sound
A bomb cyclone is about to explode over the North Atlantic, and will help drag the weather system drenching the Southeast United States and its accompanying atmospheric river all the way to Europe. This weather system will smash into Britain after riding along a roaring jet stream reaching speeds over 250 mph. Air passengers hitching a flight along the same jet stream will have an extra-fast ride. The weather system forecast to slam into Britain has been named Ciara, and is expected to unleash heavy rains and strong to damaging winds. Ciara will have its origins from the storm in the Southeast United States, which has generated tornadoes, flooding rain and heavy snow.
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