Syria YOU are NOT ALONE

“I was the only doctor in the area, so when ISIS captured our town, I knew that they would ask me to work for them. We should have left right away. One night five men came to our house. 

They were wearing masks and they refused to take off their shoes. Their Arabic was not with a Syrian accent. They claimed to be searching for weapons and went from room to room. They knew about me already, because they kept calling me ‘Doctor.’ When they finished searching the house, they arrested my husband. It was a night in January, so it was too cold for them to start their car. The engine kept turning over and over. I thought that maybe a miracle would keep them from taking him. 

But then I heard the engine start and they drove away. I paced in the street all night. At one point I heard a gunshot in the distance, and I thought for sure they had killed him. I thought it was all my fault. We should have left right away.” 

(Gaziantep, Turkey).. 

Ref: Humans of New York

Biggest Oil Platform - Okhotsk Offshore Russia

The world’s biggest oil platform is located in the Sea of Okhotsk offshore Russia. This giant is called Berkut and it is 105m long, 60m wide and 144m high. The unique drilling platform is designed to work in harsh Arctic conditions, has an autonomous power supply and can work even when temperatures go down to minus 44 degrees Celsius. Even floating ice up to two meters thick cannot damage its substructure. Very impressive.

Pearl Qatar - Incredible History of Qatar

Qatar has an incredible history. Before becoming one of the world's leaders in oil and gas industry, Qatar was a center of pearl trading and fishing. Oil was discovered in Qatar in 1940, in Dukhan Field, and this discovery completely transformed the state's economy. Now Qatar is the world's richest country per capita with one of the highest standards of living.

Giant Bucket-Wheel Excavator - Bagger 293

This giant bucket-wheel excavator, called Bagger 293, is the largest and heaviest land vehicle in human history. It is 315 feet tall, 740 feet long, and weighing over 31 million pounds. This excavator requires a crew of five to operate and can move over 8.5 million cubic feet of earth per day. To put that in perspective, that is the equivalent of digging a hole the length of a football field and over 80 feet deep in a day

Pearl Street Power Station, built by Thomas Edison

These three guys from 1889 are employees at the first power plant in the United States. In 1882 Pearl Street Power Station, built by Thomas Edison, sent electricity to 400 lamps at 82 customers. At that time people were initially afraid of electricity and parents would not let their children be near the lights

Combined-Cycle Power Plant- How It Works

Inner Workings of a Combined-Cycle Power Plant

A combined-cycle power plant uses both a gas and a steam turbine together to produce up to 50 percent more electricity from the same fuel than a traditional simple-cycle plant. The waste heat from the gas turbine is routed to the nearby steam turbine, which generates extra power.

GE Combined Cycle technology can reduce startup emissions of NOx and CO by 90 percent and provide a CO2 reduction of 19,000 tons per year. That's equivalent to taking 3,800 cars off the road.

How a Combined-Cycle Power Plant Produces Electricity

This is how a combined-cycle plant works to produce electricity and captures waste heat from the gas turbine to increase efficiency and electrical output.

1. Gas turbine burns fuel.
   • The gas turbine compresses air and mixes it with fuel that is heated to a very high temperature. The hot air-fuel mixture moves through the gas turbine blades, making them spin.
   • The fast-spinning turbine drives a generator that converts a portion of the spinning energy into electricity.
2. Heat recovery system captures exhaust.
   • A Heat Recovery Steam Generator (HRSG) captures exhaust heat from the gas turbine that would otherwise escape through the exhaust stack.
   • The HRSG creates steam from the gas turbine exhaust heat and delivers it to the steam turbine.
3. Steam turbine delivers additional electricity. 
   • The steam turbine sends its energy to the generator drive shaft, where it is converted into additional electricity.

Diamonds Interesting FACTS

• The word "Diamond" comes from the Greek word "Adamas" and means "unconquerable and indestructible"

• The diamond is the hardest natural substance found on the Earth

• Diamonds have very high melting point of 3820K (3547' C/ 6420' F) and a boiling point of 5100K (4827' C/ 8720' F)

• The diamond is a birthstone for people born in the month of April

• Most diamonds found in nature are between one to three billion years old

• The Earth is estimated at 4.5 billion years old. The oldest diamonds are believed to have been crystallized around 3.3 Billion years ago

• Diamonds were first discovered in India and then in Brazil

• Diamonds were originally found and mined in India, Brazil, South Africa, Angola, Botswana, Namibia and Congo; however today, diamonds also come from Guinea, Lesotho, Siera Leone, China, Tanzania, Ivory Coast, Guyana, Central African Republic, Canada, and Australia

• The top three diamonds mines in the world are: Botswana (24 million carats), Russia (17.8 million carats) and Canada (10.9 million carats)

• 80% of diamonds go toward industrial uses

• To produce a single one-carat diamond, 250 tons of earth will be mined

• The earliest record of man giving diamond to a woman was in 1477 when the Archduke of Austria gave a diamond to Mary of Burgundy. On average, each stone will lose 50% of its original weight during cutting and polishing

• Diamonds form 90 – 120 miles beneath the surface of the earth and are carried to the surface by volcanic eruptions

• The U.S. is the world’s largest diamond market. Although the U.S. accounts for less than one-percent of total global gemstone production, America buys more than half of the world's total gem quality diamonds

• There are white dwarf stars in space that have a diamond core. The biggest diamond known in universe weights 2.27 thousand trillion tons which is 10 billion trillion carats, or a 1 followed by 34 zeros

• The largest diamond ever found was the Cullinan at 3106 carats

• 80% of the world's diamonds are not suitable for jewelry

• Diamonds worn in ancient times were believed to promote strength, invincibility and courage

• Color of diamond is usually pale yellow to colorless, but can also be brown, blue, green, orange, red, pink and black

• The ancient Greeks believed that diamonds were splinters of stars fallen on the earth

• Romans believed that diamonds had the power to ward off evil and wore them as talismans. They inherited this belief from Indian mythology

• A law in Thirteenth-century France decreed that only the King could wear diamonds