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British scientists stranded in freezing Antarctic research station
Mail Online ^ | 8 August 2014 | Dan Bloom

Posted on 08/10/2014 11:37:26 AM PDT by citizen

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To: citizen
It does not truly freeze it evaporates, the brown powder that hits the ground is "freeze dried coffee".

Collect it and put it in hot water and "presto!" instant coffee.

41 posted on 08/10/2014 1:05:48 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Proud Infidel, Gun Nut, Religious Fanatic and Freedom Fiend)
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To: citizen

Need solar panels to trap the intense sun on nice days and wind turbines to trap the blizzard winds.

Oh, and a hugh, hugh battery to store the created energy.


42 posted on 08/10/2014 1:13:16 PM PDT by upchuck (It's a shame nobama truly doesn't care about any of this. Our country, our future, he doesn't care.)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

http://www.jacklondons.net/buildafire.html

To Build A Fire

Day had broken cold and grey, exceedingly cold and grey, when the man turned aside from the main Yukon trail and climbed the high earth- bank, where a dim and little-travelled trail led eastward through the fat spruce timberland.


43 posted on 08/10/2014 1:18:49 PM PDT by abb ("News reporting is too important to be left to the journalists." Walter Abbott (1950 -))
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To: upchuck

Now why didn’t they think of that?? Solar panels and windmills lol


44 posted on 08/10/2014 1:35:39 PM PDT by citizen (There3 is always free government cheese in the mouse trap.....https://twitter.com/kracker0)
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To: abb

I froze my butt off reading that. Almost as bad as the time I watched Dr. Zhivago in a theater that had the AC way too low.


45 posted on 08/10/2014 1:36:38 PM PDT by CrazyIvan (I lost my phased plasma rifle in a tragic hovercraft accident.)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

I’ll take your word for it ;)


46 posted on 08/10/2014 1:36:45 PM PDT by citizen (There3 is always free government cheese in the mouse trap.....https://twitter.com/kracker0)
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To: citizen

Did they not think to have a Plan B, C and D for heat?


47 posted on 08/10/2014 1:38:37 PM PDT by bgill
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To: puppypusher
Sounds like a plot right out of Ice Station Zebra.

...or The Thing

48 posted on 08/10/2014 1:38:48 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (Is there such a thing as a vegan zombie?)
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To: upchuck
Oh, and a hugh, hugh battery to store the created energy.

You want to buy a battery built by the good people at “Hugh-Jazz” laboratories.

You know when you've got one because everyone who sees it says “Now that's a Hugh-Jazz Battery!”

49 posted on 08/10/2014 1:41:14 PM PDT by Rides_A_Red_Horse (Why do you need a fire extinguisher when you can call the fire department?)
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To: citizen
WDSD?

What Did Sheldon Do?

50 posted on 08/10/2014 1:44:44 PM PDT by Slyfox (Satan's goal is to rub out the image of God he sees in the face of every human.)
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To: citizen

Studying global warming, eh?


51 posted on 08/10/2014 1:53:30 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: Rides_A_Red_Horse; citizen

LOL to both of you!


52 posted on 08/10/2014 1:54:33 PM PDT by upchuck (It's a shame nobama truly doesn't care about any of this. Our country, our future, he doesn't care.)
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To: Slyfox

Doubt they have a library’s tax codes books to burn... but, you can keep an igloo liveable with the heat from a candle if you’ve insulated.... good luck, guys.


53 posted on 08/10/2014 1:56:36 PM PDT by txhurl (2014: Stunned Voters do Stunning Things!)
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To: citizen

Current weather conditions at Vostok, Antarctica - http://www.wunderground.com/weather-forecast/zmw:00000.1.89606


54 posted on 08/10/2014 2:04:03 PM PDT by Perseverando (In Washington, it's common knowledge that Barack Hussein Obama is ineligible to be POTUS.)
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To: citizen

They need at least one module lined with thin sheet aerogel, which exists, and is an astoundingly efficient insulator. A sheet just 3 millimeters thick insulates as well as several feet of fiberglass.

http://www.jetsongreen.com/2010/02/aerogel-ultra-thin-super-insulation.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sw1tNeJ0Rw


55 posted on 08/10/2014 2:05:32 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

I’m curious how they’re still tweeting.


56 posted on 08/10/2014 2:07:19 PM PDT by txhurl (2014: Stunned Voters do Stunning Things!)
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To: Calvin Locke

here is the story. faeroe islands.

http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=91731


57 posted on 08/10/2014 2:14:50 PM PDT by beebuster2000
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To: upchuck
Need solar panels to trap the intense sun on nice days and wind turbines to trap the blizzard winds.

I'm wondering why they don't paint the outside of the buildings black to help them absorb heat...
58 posted on 08/10/2014 2:15:18 PM PDT by rottndog ('Live Free Or Die' Ain't just words on a bumber sticker...or a tagline.)
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To: cynwoody; mountainlion
"The coldest official temperate in Colorado was -61."

"According to the Wikipedia, that was in 1985 at Maybell, elevation 5992 ft, population 70, in northwest Colorado. I would have expected the summit of Pikes Peak or such."

There aren't many properly covered temperature sensors up here, and the reporting can be a little off (tourism: of utmost importance). I saw -39 F once at a little above 9,000 ft. a couple of years ago (just downwind from some 14-ers). There are small area cold spots like this here and there on the Range. Only a few miles to the east, for example, it's much warmer. There are no reporting stations here (too far from less costly grid energy).

We'll see if it gets more interesting between 3 and 9 years from now (extended solar minimum so far and possible unusual weather pattern shifts with the deviated flux field). I'll be working on getting a little more power installed (powerlines too far away) and continue work on getting transducers installed.

High winter winds and spraying ice make that a challenge. It's difficult to find time with the many other preparations needed to get through winters. Non-standard, unapproved (re. corporate-government regulations) power, heating and other utility systems will be necessary. Systems and components that work well at lower elevations will be useless here sometimes in December, January and February (useless: forced air, propane for some appliances, low oxygen shut-off switches, standard vehicle coolant mix, standard oil weights, large, passive battery intake and exhaust vents, etc.).


59 posted on 08/10/2014 2:29:44 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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To: upchuck; citizen
"Need solar panels to trap the intense sun on nice days and wind turbines to trap the blizzard winds.

Oh, and a hugh, hugh battery to store the created energy.
" "Now why didn’t they think of that?? Solar panels and windmills lol"

Would you buy it for a quarter?” ROFLMAO! Thx fer the laff, moogs!


60 posted on 08/10/2014 2:40:22 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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