Traversing - A Poem By Paul Vincent Cannon
Traversing - a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon
Photo: Looking out from Augusta over the bay and the Southern Ocean. Augusta has become a popular site for wind surfing. “In Jeju Island, the wind speaks” Kinsley Lee TraversingThe southerly swirled across the bayas it often does in early December,firm but not malevolent as in July,spring's embersa latter day offering beforeJanuary's oven,I mused over this with my friendwho questioned my…
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The Tree Of Earthly Delights - an Etheree by Paul Vincent Cannon
At dVerse Laura is hosting Meeting The Bar with an invitation to write an Etheree poem in the form of a fir tree. For more detail follow the link below: dVerse Poets – MTB – An Etheree Tree Image: vogue.com “Stooped in the still and shadowy air lips unseen – and kissed me there” Walter De La Mare The Tree Of Earthly DelightsOhelloms xmasI see you thereunder mistletoeunder no illusionjust a…
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Tanglish - a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon
At dVerse Mish is hosting the Quadrille (44 words sans title) with an invitation to write using the word or a derivative of tangle. dVerse Poets – Quadrille – Untangle It Photo: co.pinterest.com “Past the entanglement where hopes lay strewn” Wilfred Owen TanglishI speak tanglishlike a cradle cat gone bad,I speak pythonthough nothing of codejust a twistingcontortedelectrical cord,I speak…
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Startup converts used wind turbine blades into boats, recycling fibreglass and resins
Individual sheets of fibreglass are notoriously difficult to recycle. Once layered together with resin — to form bathtubs, roofing panels, or aircraft components — peeling them back apart usually means shredding the end product into tiny pieces, then submerging them in tubs of heated solvent under high pressure. Needless to say, the recovered shreds of fibre and glass are not especially useful, or cheap.
This is a problem for the wind industry, whose turbine blades are essential hundred-metre-long, fibreglass tubes. Once they’ve served their 30-year-lifespans, unloading them on landfills is unpopular at best, banned (in some countries) at worst.
Getting around the “submersion problem” took a team of boatbuilders from Pleasantville, Nova Scotia to work out. While researching sustainable boat materials, Nick Bigeau — a professional boatbuilder for 15 years — came across recyclable resins, and the possibility of recovering and reusing intact sheets of fibreglass from otherwise inseparable end products.
“I had this idea of building a 17-foot boat with these resins,” says Bigeau. “Then I’d recycle it and build a replica from the recycled materials.”
Their “eureka moment” came in December 2022, and by September 2023, their new recycling method — called ReceTT — was patent-pending under the auspice of their new venture, Resolve Composites. It’s around this time that Bigeau became aware of the wind industry’s plight, and the potential of ReceTT to change the game. Why recycle a boat into a boat, he thought, when they could recycle a blade into a boat?
Siemens Gamesa is the second largest wind turbine manufacturer on the planet, and is leading the charge on recyclable resins in the wind industry. Recognizing the potential of ReceTT, in October 2023 they gifted Resolve Composites a 20-foot section of blade, 27 layers of fibreglass deep, held together by recyclable resin. By January 2024, Bigeau and his team had broken the blade into 162 kilograms of reuseable fibreglass sheets.
With this fibreglass, they’re constructing the hull of a Bantam Bay 17 Skiff, a project equal parts demonstration and experimentation — showing off the work of ReceTT while at the same time refining their methods.
(via What A Drama - a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon)
Breaching The Fog - a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon
Photo: adobestock.com “Many things cannot bear explaining …” Ha Jin Breaching The FogSometimes sharing a thought can be like talking to a room full of people who aren't listening,just staring into their distanceremembering their last great moment or a song on the radioreminding them of somethinglong forgotten, of meanings now irrelevant that plague the mind's fog of jumbled picture shows,a…
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Every Flake - a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon
Art: ‘Ikegami Honmonji Temple’ by Kawase Hasui (1931) found on tumblr “Who made the snow waits where love is” Kenneth Patchen Every FlakeEvery flakenever to be repeated ,blossom like no othercrisp whitenessadorns the cherry trees,fleetingdriftingsilent,such lightness of beingdissolves to returncomplete surrenderutterly detached,the eternal paradoxevery flakeoblivious to the great strugglein the…
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Meanwhile - a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon
Photo: taken at Lake Margarette, September 22 – bobtail lizard. “And the lizards each gone to his dwelling” Percy Bysshe Shelley MeanwhileI left the leavesdidn't rake,a small thing caught my eyebobtail's skinonce comfortablenow shedfor something new,I skirted round left it there as testimony to sacrednesshow life is up and down,as I stoodperhaps as witness,birds came byfrogs, lizards,native…
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Time Traveler - a poem by Paul Vincent Cannon
Image by Susann Mielke from Pixabay “How many others are in this place? I don’t know.” Nazim Hikmet Time Traveler Can I ever be that sure whenlife is as tenuous as mothsin heavy rainfall,what is permanencebecause time travelseems to be an everyday event,only yesterday I was deep in conversationand a word,doesn't matter which word,had barely landed in my earwhen I was transported to themoment of…
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