PhotoBlog - fuel

31
Jan
2011
8:31am, EST
Indian villager makes cow dung cakes used as cooking fuel
By Mish Whalen
In many parts of the developing world, caked and dried cow dung is used as fuel. Dung may also be collected and used to produce biogas to generate electricity and heat. The gas is rich in methane and is used in rural areas of India/Pakistan and elsewhere to provide a renewable and stable source of electricity.
Ajay Verma / Reuters
A villager makes cow dung cakes used as cooking fuel at Maloya village on the outskirts of the northern Indian city of Chandigarh on January 31, 2011.
Ajay Verma / Reuters
A villager makes cow dung cakes used as cooking fuel at Maloya village on the outskirts of the northern Indian city of Chandigarh on January 31, 2011.

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Prairie Patties have been used as fuel for centuries, good idea.
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22
Dec
2010
10:08am, EST
Rajesh Kumar Singh / AP
An Indian village woman arranges cow dung cakes to be dried in Allahabad, India, Wednesday, Dec. 22.
Poop: An eco-friendly alternative to firewood?
From AP: Cow dung cakes are a major source of domestic fuel for rural households and an environment friendly alternative to firewood.
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Hi, I was wondering who has made this picture. I am working on a trend/research book and very much would like to use this image in the publication. Please contact me if you are interested. Kind regards, Romy
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7
Oct
2010
2:48pm, EDT
B.K.Bangash/AP
Pakistani villagers collect oil leaking from torched NATO trucks near Peshawar, Pakistan on Thursday, Oct. 7. Gunmen in northwest Pakistan torched a dozen tankers carrying fuel to NATO troops, the latest strike against supply convoys heading for Afghanistan since Pakistan shut a key border crossing last week.
Mohammad Sajjad/AP
Pakistani villagers collect oil leaked from NATO tankers on Thursday. The trucks were waiting for the reopening of the Torkham border crossing, which was closed a week ago after NATO helicopters attacked a Pakistani post along the Afghan frontier.
Arshad Arbab/EPA
A boy collects fuel from a shouldering oil tanker carrying fuel for NATO forces in Afghanistan on Thursday. Firefighters in northwestern Pakistan were trying to extinguish fires engulfing at least 50 trucks carrying supplies for NATO troops in Afghanistan after the latest suspected militant attack on supply convoys.
Adrees Latif/Reuters
Residents on horse-led carts hurry past burning fuel tankers along a road near Nowshera, located in Pakistan's Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Province on Thursday.
A perilous plan
By Jonathan Woods, msnbc.com
Today's destruction of dozens of fuel tankers presented a remarkably audacious scene. Kids and adults alike turned out with any container they had to collect spilling fuel from the smoldering and burning trucks.
NBC News reports that NATO tankers have been attacked seven times since the border was closed. Meanwhile, hundreds of tankers, essentially sitting ducks, remain stranded without security.
Fore more photos and information, visit yesterday's post on the same topic.
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They should air strike and blow up the stranded tankers.
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14
Jul
2010
12:44pm, EDT
John Raoux / AP
The external fuel tank for the last scheduled space shuttle flight is transported to the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Wednesday, July 14, 2010. The tank is designated for space shuttle Endeavour's STS-134 mission scheduled to launch in Feb., 2011.
Space shuttle: the beginning of the end
“The future is not a result of choices among alternative paths offered by the present, but a place that is created--created first in the mind and will, created next in activity. The future is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating.” ~ John Schaar, scholar and political theorist who has published articles on patriotism, equality and authority.

Robert Hood says: I find myself surprisingly, deeply sad over the end of NASA’s shuttle program. I’ve always viewed the shuttle as part of what defined “the future”. I even had a shuttle poster on the wall of my bedroom all through my high school years. Seeing the program end reminds me that nothing lasts forever, and the future is just an idea.
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It looks like one of those useless pencils one can buy from an amusement park. Huge marketing opportunity on the side of that thing.
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6
Jul
2010
2:46pm, EDT
AP
Afghans collect fuel from a tanker shot up in an attack on a NATO supply convoy in Baghlan province, north of Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, July 6, 2010.
Would you risk your life for a bucket of gasoline?
This brings to mind the tragedy of the exploding fuel tanker in the Congo over the weekend, which killed 242 people.
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I wonder if the people getting the gas are the same people who did the shooting. There seem to be a lot of gas cans readily available for mere passerbys. But then again, I don't know the area personally. Maybe it's completely normal for everyone to carry around a gas can or two, you know, just in …
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