Weekend Snapshot
By admin on Apr 7, 2008 in Featured, Weekend Snapshot
my weekend snapshot entry no. 19
Our place is surrounded with open-cut mining which involve digging a large open hole into the earth’s surface to reach the coal/lignite. The opencast mines supply energy for the entire households and industry of this land and 29% of the country’s power generation is based on coal. Yesterday, we went to see the newly develop area and the excavator was in time working. The excavator is the world’s largest mobile machine. That have a gigantic bucket wheel excavators that dig the brown gold out of the earth. It stands 90 meters tall and 200 meters long and weighing some 13,000 tons. Around 10% of the coal is upgraded to produce solid fuels, such as briquettes, pulverized lignite and fluidized bed lignite for industry and households.
That’s a ginormous machine! Wow!
Natalie | Apr 7, 2008 | Reply
Ow, that is a big and mean machine
I have some machines featured too, but these are
smaller: Lancer Evo X
Precision Driving
Have a great week, J
julie | Apr 7, 2008 | Reply
that’s very interesting, mousey!
check out my WS here and tell me what you think
infinityedge | Apr 7, 2008 | Reply
We do some brutal things to our planet. So hard to see and accept. Thanks for sharing this information. Great photo!
SandyCarlson | Apr 7, 2008 | Reply
This post reminds me of a Julia Roberts movie, Erin Brockovich.
Lynn | Apr 7, 2008 | Reply
That is a very huge hole! It must be dusty living near to the site.
eastcoastlife | Apr 7, 2008 | Reply
Everyday, napapalibutan din ako ng mga machine, cranes etc sa work ko
Nice photo Ju…
Happy monday to you. Muah!
nona | Apr 7, 2008 | Reply
i’ve seen such machines but only on discovery channel or national geo….wow, mousey..lucky you to see it!
thess | Apr 7, 2008 | Reply
wow … ganda ng colors! parang nkakatakot yung machine .. higante!
snippets | Apr 7, 2008 | Reply
Yay, ang ganda mukhang cheesy din ang dating ah.
Sexymom | Apr 8, 2008 | Reply
Ang laking see-saw naman niyan… ahihihi
Happy Tuesday! Aww!
wendy | Apr 8, 2008 | Reply
That’s a huge and intimidating looking machine. Must take getting used to all the noise generated by it.
I wasn’t able to participate on WS but I’d like to invite you to see the photos taken during our weekend getaway.
Rach (Heart of Rachel) | Apr 10, 2008 | Reply