This is the base section of a chimney - I caught it going east on I90 in Pennsylvania.  This section weights 46,000lbs and is about 22 feet in diameter.  

Wind turbine towers are fabricated at about  13 feet in diameter so they can be shipped on the interstate and clear the bridges which are about 13'6". 

But this chimney section demonstrates that there is another way to build wind turbine towers with much larger diameters (albeit shorter sections). 

The image above shows a tire plug installed right at the edge of the radial tread - just on the edge of the sidewall of a radial tire.

This is not a good place to plug a tire.

This isn't today's image, but it is a good image none the less. 

Ed's passing was just a year ago, the Port Authority is in flames, so it might be a good time to capitalize on those in the County who have a decent, honest vision. 

Ed was certainly one.

And, I believe, Paul Alsenas is another.

He looks good on May 16, 09 with Peter Griesinger and other civically concerned and committed citizens in this rainy image, anyway.

Come to Cleveland for a Draft, a coal fume down draft that is.  

Tonight the spotlight is on the nocturnal emission from the Cleveland Thermal steam plant - delivered fresh to East 4th Street just a few blocks away. 

Bend your elbow mates, inhale, it's all yours!

AHHHHHHhhhhaa

Sparks into a night sky like it was August!   No loss of strength of purpose.  Regenerate.  Focus. Unite.

I was walking in a boat yard on the shore of Lake Erie watching the crew put up sailboats for the winter and I hiked up over a 6 foot high mound to get a better view and found myself face to face with this gentleman.  

Two years ago Solon spent a half a million dollars to hire "sharpshooters" to kill 500 deer in Solon.

Whose City is it, anyway?

Every post I make to Realneo has me considering how much of me, how much of my heart,  is it sensible to put out there. ? 

And if  the time taken is to make a difference, should it be spent here on Realneo?

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We have a cadre of passionate bloggers in (Real)neo, and like him or not, Tim Russo is one of them.   So was  Adam Harvey - 'til he terminated Tremonter and pulled the server.  I felt a wince.  

The Indians in New York State have casinos.   I drove past the casinos and was pulled in by one of those dilapidated road side farmer's stands.   I spent 28 dollars on food raised on the Seneca First Nation.  I am eating the proceeds of my entertainment.   Dan Gilbert wants NEO to eat chips.  

 This Gallup study sits about right with me.  When you travel around the country, there is a State by State feeling which is in line with this list.

Unit trains of coal dead end at the Dunkirk electric power generating station on the shore of Lake Erie in Dunkirk, New York. 

No one minds  the tons of coal disappearing up the chimneys because  the wind picks up the effluent from the train cars and spins it off across Lake Erie to Toronto, Canada.

Ronn Richard, Richard Stuebi, and Prosecutor William Mason have successfully avoided this view in NEO for a half decade.  

Hat's off to their success!

Image 11.02.09 Woodland Beach State Park, NY.  7 of 8 Clipper turbines operational.

A friend brought this breaking news to my attention - knowing I am a conspiracy theorist.  I reluctantly link to the Dirty Dealer. 

Roldo knows.   

There are many, many materials and techniques available for building structures, yet there is very little variety in our commercial and residential construction.  

It has always struck me as sad that almost every house on every street across North America has four walls, a shingled peak roof, and a front door.  

In the past week I have had three interesting observations of red tail hawks.  

Last week one swooped over a cat - sized up the cat (too big) - and landed back on a low tree limb.  

Two days ago I watched another hawk swoop across a wetland - and this time it was a duck which was the target.   The duck turned upside down in the water and shook its feet in the air to avoid the hawk.

Just a friendly reminder not to waste any of your leaves' "solar power" by raking them to the street curb.   You can mulch them in place with a mower, or compost them in your back yard.   This is the third year for this lawn - didn't have to water all summer because of the organics now built up like a sponge at the base of the grass - never had any burn out either.   Forget Scotts.

Being in this environment must be therapeutic.   Cleveland's social serviced should consider aerosol therapy.

The W 14th street I 90 ramp had an accelleration lane added on the Innerbelt Bridge after the bridge was built.  The accelleration lane added weight and cantilever forces on the trusses which the Bridge was not originally designed to withstand.