Every now and then architects will have a sense of humor

Here’s 5 of the worlds most insane buildings 👇 The Solar Furnace in Odeillo, France

Stand in the wrong spot and you’ll experience what it’s like to be a bug under a magnifying glass

Sheep dog clears traffic jam Someone needs to get this dog working on i35 traffic 😂

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In 1993, a mining company found an ENORMOUS gold deposit in Indonesia

The land was estimated to contain 6,900 TONS of gold. The company's stock price soared 900x.

But then, it all disappeared

Gold, greed, betrayal, & mystery. A story of the fraud that rocked the mining world👇 East Kalimantan is a rainforest-covered province in Indonesia. It's known for its vast quantities of coal, oil, natural gas, and....gold

Remote. Unknown. Limited access. The perfect formula for deception.

There are over 12,000 offshore oil and gas platforms in the world

When the oil runs out, some call for the immediate removal of these structures

But many conservationists are demanding otherwise

A 1 minute story of oil and water👇 Above the water, these platforms may just look like rusting steel

But below the surface, they are some of the most bountiful marine habitats in the world

A dumpster fire led to the abandonment of this Pennsylvania town in 1962

Today, the fire is still burning

A 1-minute thread 👇 In the early 19602, nearly 1,100 people lived in the coal mining town of Centralia, Pennsylvania.

The town sat on top of one of the largest deposits of anthracite coal in America called the Mammoth Vein

Have you ever heard the story of Gunkanjima Island off the coast of Japan?

This small island was once the most densely populated place in the world.

Today, it’s a complete ghost town.

I wrote a 1 minute thread below on what happened 👇 This tiny island sits just off the coast of Nagasaki. The island is surrounded by a fortress-like sea wall and filled with closely packed buildings.

However, it’s been completely uninhabited for more than 40 years.

In 2019, the industrial sector accounted for 35% of U.S. energy consumption

The single biggest opportunity to reduce industrial energy consumption is by optimizing industrial pumps

"Edge" technology can help solve this problem 👇 Pump systems - specifically in the chemicals, paper, and petroleum products industries - account for over 6,000 GW-h/yr of energy consumption

Why do gas turbines (and other plant equipment) fail in the winter?

A 2-minute thread on the "brains" behind a power plant: instrumentation A typical plant can have over 10,000 "instruments" - electrical sensors used to monitor pressure, temperature, vibration, flow rate, etc.

Arguably the most common sensor is a pressure sensor

What is carbon capture? And how does it work?

While carbon capture is regularly discussed in the media, no one really ever explains what it is.

Below is a quick thread discussing the technology behind traditional carbon capture 👇 Carbon capture is broadly the "capture" of CO2 emissions from a power plant or other type of industrial facility.

Technology is connected to the "tailpipes" of these facilities and is used to remove CO2 from the plant exhaust.

“The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights”

How the son of a goat farmer went from selling stationery to building a city that is now home to the world’s largest energy companies.

A thread (1/22) 👇 George Phydias Mitchell was born in 1919 to Greek immigrant, Savvas Paraskevopoulos, in Galveston, TX.

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Savvas, with no land and limited English, immigrated through Ellis Island and quickly became a railroad laborer after he disembarked.

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