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Ever wonder what a coal mine fire would look like ...
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Air quality continues to deteriorate at Morwell, Traralgon, as mine fire continues to burn
Updated Wed 19 Feb 2014, 1:59pm AEDT
Aerial of fire burning in Hazelwood open cut mine at Morwell
PHOTO: The fire has been burning in the open cut mine since February 9. (ABC News)
The air quality in communities in eastern Victoria continues to deteriorate as officials battle a big fire in the Hazelwood open cut coal mine.
The air quality at Morwell and Traralgon has hit a record low for the second time in a week.
The Environment Protection Agency (EPA) says any air quality index reading above 150 is very poor.
On Sunday the air quality reading at Traralgon deteriorated to 460 and this morning it hit a high of 702 at Morwell.
Deputy Premier Peter Ryan has instructed the Fire Services Commissioner Craig Lapsley to open a special centre in Morwell to answer health-related and business questions for residents.
Thick smoke from the blaze continues to engulf the town and has spread as far as Sale, 65 kilometres away.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-02-19/fears-dousing-hazelwood-mine-blaze-may-impact/5268862?section=vic
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Ever wonder what a solar panel or wind turbine fire would look like ... well, you can stop wondering because I could not find one .... !!!!
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Bring your own grahams and chocolate.
Come on, folks, let's make S'mores!
The clum banks were old, so at night they glowed blue, Anthracite blue.
Clum banks. Mountains of "almost Coal" created by processing into sizes and grades..
A coal breaker is a coal processing plant which breaks coal into various useful sizes. Coal breakers also remove impurities from the coal (typically slate) and deposit them into a culm dump. The coal breaker is a forerunner of the modern coal preparation plant.[1]
Generally speaking, a coal tipple was typically used at a bituminous coal mine, where removing impurities was important but sorting by size was only a secondary, minor concern.[2][3] Coal breakers were always used (with or without a tipple) at anthracite mines.[3] While tipples were used around the world, coal breakers were used primarily in the United States in the state of Pennsylvania (where, between 1800 and the mid-20th century, many of the world's known anthracite reserves were located).[4][5][6] At least one source claims that, in 1873, coal breaking plants were found only at anthracite mines in Pennsylvania.[7]A coal breaker is a coal processing plant which breaks coal into various useful sizes. Coal breakers also remove impurities from the coal (typically slate) and deposit them into a culm dump. The coal breaker is a forerunner of the modern coal preparation plant.[1]
Generally speaking, a coal tipple was typically used at a bituminous coal mine, where removing impurities was important but sorting by size was only a secondary, minor concern.[2][3] Coal breakers were always used (with or without a tipple) at anthracite mines.[3] While tipples were used around the world, coal breakers were used primarily in the United States in the state of Pennsylvania (where, between 1800 and the mid-20th century, many of the world's known anthracite reserves were located).[4][5][6] At least one source claims that, in 1873, coal breaking plants were found only at anthracite mines in Pennsylvania.[7]A coal breaker is a coal processing plant which breaks coal into various useful sizes. Coal breakers also remove impurities from the coal (typically slate) and deposit them into a culm dump. The coal breaker is a forerunner of the modern coal preparation plant.[1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_breaker
Once the "wealth" was taken the 'Breaker" would be abandoned and something like this would remain.
Great backyard slag pikes where kids could play. Could even make "whizbams' , today called IEDs.
Of course now and again this would happen.
Too bad the EPA put an end to all that great fun.
This is the country Teapublicans want to take us back to.
