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Friday 4th 45-52F, rather cloudy. A walk to the lanes under leaden skies. Though it was unusually clear. So that I was able to see local and more distant towers from different perspectives. It's odd how one's sense of scale, direction and distance can be changed by a single, large lorry moving along a distant road previously unseen.Local hills shrink to insignificance with a person standing or walking on them. The gently humped nature of the landscape exposes and obscures. All depending on the season and even the height of the crops. There was a little sunshine at 16.45 after a long, grey day.
In breaking climate news: Tsar Putin has criticized St.Greta Thunberg for simplification of the climate problem. He complains that she didn't take into account political corruption and his vast wealth. Both of which would be at risk with his private portfolio heavily dependent on oil and gas. Experts believe Putin has siphoned off at least 200 billion during his reign as Tsar at the expense of ordinary Russians. Making him the world's richest man and his peasants some of the poorest.
Saturday 5th 41F, clears skies but no sun yet. The local news story is about a giant gas pipe [80cm Ø] crossing Denmark on its way to Poland. Farmers are complaining about the damage to their land. Archaeologists have their work cut out as the pipe line runs roughshod over historical sites. The nature lobby are unhappy about the loss of habitat.
The irony is that most of those directly affected by the pipeline aren't able to have a gas supply to their homes. It isn't economically feasible to supply gas to scattered rural homes. Which might well aid Denmark's troubling promise to reduce its CO2 contribution. There have still not been any announcements on how they intend to do it.
A walk to the lanes in bright sunshine. Definitely chillier on exposed hands in the north-easterly breeze. Not much to report beyond a few seagulls. All sitting like identical wind vanes out on the fields. The sun seems able to tidy the landscape as it makes it appear more uniform. Aided and abetted by the low, grass-like crops already sprouting from the bare earth. They stay like that all winter. Giving a pleasant, lawn-like finish to the landscape. It starts with a green blush. Which tints the rolling fields. Only when it warms up does the "grass" gain in height. Taking some months more to clearly differentiate the various crops.
Sunday 6th 38-50F, clear with only a little cloud and a fitful breeze. I walked to the village and back. The neighbour's smoke was belching from their chimney. So that the entire area was filled with the acrid reek of burning pallets. I was still choking as I walked along the main road to the sound of the other neighbour's dog. It works on a hair trigger and has been known to bark [loudly] at the sound of a footfall at 500 yards.
The sky was solid grey from just before 11am to at least 12.15. The same was true throughout the afternoon with only brief sunshine.
A Danish project is producing power from a small turbine powered by waste water from a treatment plant. Instead of passing straight into the sea the power from the 35m of fall for billions of litres of water is being harnessed. No doubt such schemes could be applied elsewhere now that a Dane has independently invented the micro hydro power plant.
Saturday 5th 41F, clears skies but no sun yet. The local news story is about a giant gas pipe [80cm Ø] crossing Denmark on its way to Poland. Farmers are complaining about the damage to their land. Archaeologists have their work cut out as the pipe line runs roughshod over historical sites. The nature lobby are unhappy about the loss of habitat.
The irony is that most of those directly affected by the pipeline aren't able to have a gas supply to their homes. It isn't economically feasible to supply gas to scattered rural homes. Which might well aid Denmark's troubling promise to reduce its CO2 contribution. There have still not been any announcements on how they intend to do it.A walk to the lanes in bright sunshine. Definitely chillier on exposed hands in the north-easterly breeze. Not much to report beyond a few seagulls. All sitting like identical wind vanes out on the fields. The sun seems able to tidy the landscape as it makes it appear more uniform. Aided and abetted by the low, grass-like crops already sprouting from the bare earth. They stay like that all winter. Giving a pleasant, lawn-like finish to the landscape. It starts with a green blush. Which tints the rolling fields. Only when it warms up does the "grass" gain in height. Taking some months more to clearly differentiate the various crops.
Sunday 6th 38-50F, clear with only a little cloud and a fitful breeze. I walked to the village and back. The neighbour's smoke was belching from their chimney. So that the entire area was filled with the acrid reek of burning pallets. I was still choking as I walked along the main road to the sound of the other neighbour's dog. It works on a hair trigger and has been known to bark [loudly] at the sound of a footfall at 500 yards.
The sky was solid grey from just before 11am to at least 12.15. The same was true throughout the afternoon with only brief sunshine.
A Danish project is producing power from a small turbine powered by waste water from a treatment plant. Instead of passing straight into the sea the power from the 35m of fall for billions of litres of water is being harnessed. No doubt such schemes could be applied elsewhere now that a Dane has independently invented the micro hydro power plant.
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