Wind turbine on every farm 'within five years' | News | Farmers Guardian

WIND power expert Mark Newton believes every farm in the UK will have a wind turbine in five years’ time.

Abandoned Windmills and Defunct Architecture | Design + Ideas on WU

Windmills were one of humanity’s prime sources of electricity before the technological revolution. Monuments to the technology of simpler times, these structures come in all shapes in sizes, from massive stone giants to small steel towers. Here is a great collection of amazing shots of abandoned windmill photography!
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Located in South Point Hawaii, this windmill farm was erected in 1986. It has recently been shut down and abandoned and now fourteen of these giants stand just off of highway 11.

Newsmax - More Snow Due As Fed Gov Shuts Down

With this season's total so far at 45 inches (114 cm), according to NWS figures, more snowfall in the coming days could peak out the 1995-96 season's 46 inches (116.8 cm) and the all-time deepest snow dump of 1898-99, at 54.4 inches (138 cm).

Washington residents struggled Monday to get to work, slipping on icy sidewalks and spinning wheels on snow-trapped cars, as hundreds of emergency personnel battled to clear roads of snow.

"This snow is so deep and so heavy that the traditional snow plows can't shovel in some areas. So bulldozers are physically having to lift it up and away," Laura Southard from the Virginia Department of Emergency Management told AFP.

Afghan avalanches kill dozens, trap hundreds | Top News | Reuters

SALANG PASS, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Dozens of people died and hundreds were trapped through the night in freezing cold and darkness after avalanches swept over a mountain highway and closed a landmark alpine tunnel in Afghanistan.

Passengers trapped in the Salang pass, the main route across the Hindu Kush mountains, said by telephone on Tuesday they were freezing to death and being suffocated by car fumes, and had seen cars filled with dead bodies after being stuck through the night.