For the second time in three years, Amsterdam’s famous canals have frozen. You know what that means? It’s time to lace up the ice skates. After temperatures dropped to 14 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 10 degrees Celsius) this past weekend, Dutch young and old flocked to the city’s famous waterways, gliding across the frozen surfaces on …
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For the second time in three years, Amsterdam’s famous canals have frozen. You know what that means? It’s time to lace up the ice skates. After temperatures dropped to 14 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 10 degrees Celsius) this past weekend, Dutch young and old flocked to the city’s famous waterways, gliding across the frozen surfaces on …
Continue reading “Amsterdam's famous canals are frozen – time to lace up those ice skates!”
I recently encountered a state-of-the-art wind tower on the freeway. The base was separated into three parts and the turbine into another three. Carried by six trailers flagged with “wide load” and trailed by escort cars. Yeah, it was big. The current trend in wind power is to go bigger and bigger with more complex …
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