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Kuşadası

 

Kuşadası is a half hour drive from Selçuk, on quite a good road, peppered with speed cameras. It has an attractive Corniche and a variety of markets from: 'designer' outlets to a large tourist trap near the port.

 

 

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Kuşadası in 1988 (top left) and now

 

I was here on a cruise ship in 1988 when I took the (older) photo above. While most of Ephesus from that trip remained quite familiar, I found Kuşadası almost unrecognisable.

One thing I did remember was buying 'Lacoste' or 'low-cost' T-shirts in Kuşadası that lasted quite well.  So history repeats itself, as you can see if you look carefully in Ephesus above.

And markets being markets we had to make a second trip from Selçuk, on our way to Pamukkale.

 

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Darwin after Europe

 

 

On our return from Europe we spent a few days in Darwin and its surrounds.  We had a strong sense of re-engagement with Australia and found ourselves saying things like: 'isn't this nice'.

We were also able to catch up with some of our extended family. 

Julia's sister Anneke was there, working on the forthcoming Darwin Festival.  Wendy's cousin Gary and his partner Son live on an off-grid property, collecting their own water and solar electricity, about 120 km out of town. 

We went to the Mindl markets with Anneke and her friend Chris; and drove out to see Gary, in our hire-car, who showed us around Dundee Beach in his more robust vehicle. Son demonstrated her excellent cooking skills.

 

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The Wedding Party

January 29th 2011

 

See some of it on YouTube (some websites may block this)...

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Opinions and Philosophy

Carbon Capture and Storage (original)

(Carbon Sequestration)

 

 

 


Carbon Sequestration Source: Wikimedia Commons

 

At the present state of technological development in NSW we have few (perhaps no) alternatives to burning coal.  But there is a fundamental issue with the proposed underground sequestration of carbon dioxide (CO2) as a means of reducing the impact of coal burning on the atmosphere. This is the same issue that plagues the whole current energy debate.  It is the issue of scale. 

Disposal of liquid CO2: underground; below the seabed; in depleted oil or gas reservoirs; or in deep saline aquifers is technically possible and is already practiced in some oil fields to improve oil extraction.  But the scale required for meaningful sequestration of coal sourced carbon dioxide is an enormous engineering and environmental challenge of quite a different magnitude. 

It is one thing to land a man on the Moon; it is another to relocate the Great Pyramid (of Cheops) there.

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