in SW BC I have worked in the rain 90 days straight.
in alberta It is pretty dry. this is where I am living now. Rain would be nice for the forest fires we are having right now
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in SW BC I have worked in the rain 90 days straight.
in alberta It is pretty dry. this is where I am living now. Rain would be nice for the forest fires we are having right now
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&t=p&ie=UTF8&ll=54.803653,-126.156693&spn=0.093203,0.219727&z=12
babine lake
So Seattle gets on average 942mm of precip each year.
Terrace on the other hand gets 1295mm.
Yikes! :)
At least everything is going to be really green there. And trees will grow fast. ...
don't move to terrace unless you love rain. Terrace makes seattle look like a desert
well I dusted off my old chemistry muscles. here we go.
1gal= 3.785kg water, water is 1/9 H by weight so there is 0.4205 Kg of H per gallon
H2= 143 MJ/Kg so there are 60.14 Mj per Kg.
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Unfortunately I noticed the the foundation on the last day I was working in in the area, and I will not likley be in the area any time in the near futu
Today I was working near an abandoned North West Mounted Police outpost that was built sometime near the end of the ninteenth century (prior to 1896).
I noticed that the builders had moved six...
This is a few years off yet but is somthing worth watching for if you live in a low wind area.
http://www.expressnews.ualberta.ca/article.cfm?id=6792
Anthracite is coal that has been compressed and heated by the earth into a metamorphic rock. Other types of coal have undergone less compression and are still considered sedimentary rocks. both...