Half a mile long mysterious crack splits the ground in Northern Mexico. Scientists in Mexico are puzzling over a giant fissure that has split the ground in the northern part of the country.
The crack, which runs for nearly two-thirds of a mile, measures close to 30 feet deep and is just more than 15 feet across at its widest spot. Locals found the geographical oddity Tuesday night when it split a rural road in half 50 miles west of the city of Hermosillo in the Mexican state of Sonora, according to Excelsior, a Spanish-language news source. A video of the split, recorded from a drone, follows the arc of the chasm, which in some spots looks wide enough to swallow a truck. Check out the video above. While some believe seismic activity is to blame — the USGS reports Mexico is one of the world’s most seismically active areas, and a magnitude 5.0-quake occurred earlier this month off the coast near Hermosillo — others point to an underground stream that eroded the ground above it.
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Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. There's something lurking deep under the frozen Arctic Ocean, and if it gets released, it could spell disaster for our planet. That something is methane. Methane is one of the strongest of the natural greenhouse gases, about 80 times more potent than CO2, and while it may not get as much attention as its cousin CO2, it certainly can do as much, if not more, damage to our planet. That's because methane is a far more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, and there are trillions of tons of it embedded in a kind of ice slurry called methane hydrate or methane clathrate crystals in the Arctic and in the seas around the continental shelves all around the world. If enough of this methane is released quickly enough, it won't just produce the same old global warming. But here's where it gets really scary.
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Upper floors are residential. Photo: Alex Wilson Click on image to enlarge. The July 2010 issue of Environmental Building News asks whether we should end our love affair with all-glass buildings. The short answer is "yes. " With most large commercial buildings there is an energy penalty associated with increasing the glazing area beyond 20 to 30 percent. The energy penalty of more glazing In researching and writing this article, "Rethinking the All-Glass Building," I got energy modeling support from Fiona Cousins, P.E., Scott Bondi, P.E., Ph.D., and Cameron Talbot from the New York City office of Arup, one of the world's leading engineering firms.
Summary results of that modeling are shown in the graphs below. 50 Stunning Examples Of Architecture Photography. Wind Farms Create Their Own Clouds. Wind farms receive a lot of praise in the fight against climate change. Along with solar, they're often pitched as our last hope for energy independence. Ironically, not only do they "fight" climate change but they also create micro-climates . Like giant egg mixers, off shore wind farms blend warm sea air with the cooler air above. Water in the air then condenses as droplets, making it visible. The result is a misty blanket of clouds hovering over the farm even when the nearby coastline is sunny and clear.
Of course, all it takes is a windy day to clear the cloud cover. Studies has shown that large wind farms can even change weather patterns. However, researchers "acknowledged the hypothetical wind farm was far larger than anything humans are likely to build," but if Department of Energy projections for wind farming are met by 2030, "it could probably have an effect," says James McCaa of 3Tier, Inc. , a renewable energy forecasting company based in Seattle.
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