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It isn't running, otherwise the shot would be of him walking on that conveyor belt. Other images had logs, but the guy gives better scale, and that isn't the biggest.. A top fed one can take in large stumps with roots. It is also used for construction waste, and can grind the nails and screws.

Back to the storm waste. Some of the trees and branches will just pushed off the road to rot on public lands. Some will go to a power plant if the transport cost isn't high. Most will end up as mulch, compost, or fire wood.

 

Reminds me of:

Bob Wilson

 

'wood' ya have it any other way?

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looked like a nuke

 

The first pass (northeast bound on this continent) was 0.03-0.04 in-hg at my house, or 1-1.3 hPa. 0.02 in-hg at the family farm very far from the coast.



Second pass (southwest bound) possibly as much as 0.02 in-hg at both, but noisy and indistinct, thus uncertain. Humans have too much ability to find desired patterns in white noise, so one would need to average together or correlate the readings of many stations to determine if the signal is really there, or is just human imagination.

This one likely created and held a very large volume of very hot water, 200 C (390 F) at 150 meters underwater, or hotter down deeper, kept liquid by the pressure of the depths. Then, like a geyser eruption, as the density above reduces slightly from expanding hot water or even some frothing bubbles of minor boiling, at some point the pressure is no longer quite enough to keep that deep water from boiling. Some boils to steam, more water mass above is displaced, pressure drops a bit more, and suddenly a lot more deep but uncorked hot water flashes to steam in a runaway 'explosion'.

If a (simple wild-assed guess) cubic kilometer of extremely hot water suddenly flashes into very many cubic kilometers of steam, it pushes away a huge amount of atmosphere that was occupying that space moments earlier. We see a big pressure wave and mushroom cloud.

With a peak well above water level, Pinatubo didn't have anywhere near as much hot water to flash all at once.

 

they reported that it was the loudest natural event in over a hundred years, and more powerful than a nuke

 

john lennon had a similar hope, then they shot him.

it is a nice idea, but who is gonna convince russia, china, nk, etc?

'war is over, if you want it'

 

because of our political system, less money actually get spent on weapons than china and russia

we do buy a lot of hammers and toilet seats though

 

Examples here, from a higher level than 'citizen science', showing 4 passages of the wave:
https://twitter.com/akrherz
Iowa Environmental Mesonet

But it would be nice for citizen-level enthusiasts to make use of the far larger installed base of amateur instruments, and covering the other countries and continents too. Some decent signal processing applied to very large numbers of local sampling stations should partially make up for their lower resolution.

 

For those with internal clocks synced daily through NTP time servers, as I believe mine are, it seems the drift between syncs ought not be large enough to excessively smear and hide the wave signals. Though longer recording intervals could mean many stations undersampling and missing the signal.

While the first pass of the wave is clearly visible even on low resolution instruments, I'd be trying to find how many passages could be detected as the fading wave repeatedly circles the globe. Herzmann (linked above) has already illustrated 4 passes across the U.S. While it should quickly become too weak to be picked up on any single low-res station, I wanted to remind folks that with lots and lots of samples (and meeting certain other conditions), signal processing can bring out events much smaller than the minimum resolution of the individual sample(r)s. But the deeper one tries to look, the more samples are required, in an N^2 proportion for some much simpler stuff I used to do.

 

i agree, but the stars don't. with ukraine in the offing, just another excuse to spend more