Posted on 06/23/2015 1:28:40 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
You beat me to it!......................
That's just rich.
>> Is there such a thing as a sand that is too fine?
Ah, you think that “pounding sand” is a sand-MAKING operation.
I used to think so too... until I learned that pounding sand is a sand-CONSUMING operation:
http://www.quora.com/Where-does-the-phrase-go-pound-sand-come-from
+1
Libya looks dry....
>>”Half the sand used for construction in Morocco is estimated to be mined illegally;”
That’s another way of saying that somebody’s angry that they didn’t get their cut.
Vega$ has lots of $and.
“...are trying out a new concrete formula in India that replaces some sand with tiny plastic particles. And breakthroughs in self-healing bioconcretes...”
I doubt that will have much impact on the illegal mining. Their isn’t a shortage of sand, there is a disparity in the price of the sand versus the penalty for illegal mining.
Make the penalty $2000 and a year in jail per truck and the illegal activity would go down.
A developer behind us cut down every single fir tree on his mulit-home development - against the town rules. He was fined $200 for each tree and had to wait a few months before he could resume developing. Each one of those trees (80-100 years old) probably got him $6,000 to $8,000 on the market.
If liberals ever started to put some kind of subsidy on sand, in five years the Sahara would be barren rocks and there would be a world shortage.
No prob. We can simply start buying sand AND oil from our Saudi Arabia terrorists.
The story goes that Chopin, when he first saw her, thought she was what we would today euphemistically call transgendered.
(Sorry, I couldn't help myself)
Yeah, I figgured it had something to do with hard labor in penetentuaries. They could eventually run out of rocks in some locations.
I’d suspect there might be some types of recycling ops.
Well this is good news for ISIS, who are poised to corner the market on sand.
Why is that deceptive commie trash posted here?
Autumn Spanne is a New York creative writer with no known background. She spins man-caused global warming propaganda for the artificial scarcity operations of global corporations. Then other hens with no scientific backgrounds continue disseminating those myths through rags like Scientific American and Mental Floss.
Examples:
Climate Clippings: Heavy crude, crowdsourcing, and being a low-carbon rock star
New and noteworthy for 8 December 2010
The heavy footprint of unconventional crude
Compiled by Autumn Spanne and Douglas Fischer.
http://www.dailyclimate.org/tdc-newsroom/2010/12/heavy-crude-crowdsourcing-and-a-low-carbon-rock
Colombia’s unexplored cloud forests besieged by climate change, development
By Autumn Spanne
http://www.dailyclimate.org/tdc-newsroom/2012/12/colombia-andes-biodiversity
Global meat demand plows up Brazil’s ‘underground forest’
By Autumn Spanne
http://www.dailyclimate.org/tdc-newsroom/2014/11/brazil-meat-cerrado-deforestation
Mother Frackers.
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