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Fort MacMurray is the heart of the Canadian Tar Sands operation. The locals took this as a sign from god that they should re-build. <sigh>
 
These dust storms happen across a lot of Australia. I wouldn't call them common but they happen quite regularly. They are normally running in front of a large thunderstorm so first you get inundated with dust and then it rains. Residents hate it because of the mess it makes but farmers love it, it replenishes some of their topsoil.

 
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These dust storms happen across a lot of Australia. I wouldn't call them common but they happen quite regularly. They are normally running in front of a large thunderstorm so first you get inundated with dust and then it rains. Residents hate it because of the mess it makes but farmers love it, it replenishes some of their topsoil.

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The western US has dust storms, too. I've been in them in Arizona and New Mexico.
 
Mary Terry said:
The western US has dust storms, too. I've been in them in Arizona and New Mexico.
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Here it's usually coming in off of our central desert regions and we get them all across the south of the country and up in to central Queensland. Sometimes we get a really big one that makes it over the Great Dividing Range and then Sydney gets it too. Melbourne Adelaide and Perth are much more open to those central regions and so they more common. To put the word "common" in to context though, it would be unusual to see more than one in a decade. That dust generates an incredible amount of lightning too.
 
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Here it's usually coming in off of our central desert regions and we get them all across the south of the country and up in to central Queensland. Sometimes we get a really big one that makes it over the Great Dividing Range and then Sydney gets it too. Melbourne Adelaide and Perth are much more open to those central regions and so they more common. To put the word "common" in to context though, it would be unusual to see more than one in a decade. That dust generates an incredible amount of lightning too.
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It is almost impossible to prevent the dust from entering buildings and cars. I've pulled over on the side of roads to wait it out, windows tightly closed, engine off, vents closed, but the dust still gets inside.
 
Mary Terry said:
It is almost impossible to prevent the dust from entering buildings and cars. I've pulled over on the side of roads to wait it out, windows tightly closed, engine off, vents closed, but the dust still gets inside.
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A guy took a new car and drove up the Alaska Highway when it was gravel. At his destination, he opened his trunk, and his suitcase was covered in dust. He opened his suitcase, and his clothes were covered in dust. He opened his zippered shaving kit from amid his clothes, and his razor was dusty.
 
Mary Terry said:
It is almost impossible to prevent the dust from entering buildings and cars. I've pulled over on the side of roads to wait it out, windows tightly closed, engine off, vents closed, but the dust still gets inside.
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We've got a really fine dust here we call Bull Dust, even when you're no in a dust storm it gets everywhere. It even happens on bitumen roads up north but far worse on a dirt road. Even in brand new cars it finds it's way past the door seals. Red dust everywhere.
 

Fatbergs turned into perfume​


"Fatbergs are accumulated lumps of fat from cooking oils, toilet and other food waste that people put down their drains. Prof Wallace gets his from a company that specialises in fishing them out of sewers and turning them into biofuels. They arrive at the lab in a tube.

The first step is to sterilise the material in a steamer. Prof Wallace then adds the specially modified bacteria to the remnants of the fatberg. The bacteria have a short section of DNA inserted, to give the bacteria their particular properties.

The fatberg gradually disappears, as the bacteria eat it, producing the chemical with the pine-like smell - this can be used as an ingredient in perfumes."


Fatbergs turned into perfume: Britain's new industrial revolution
 
That's actually remarkably similar to the sort of models I used to make in clay at school, things like an ashtray that looked like a mouth with yellowed crooked teeth (you stubbed the fag out on the tongue of course!), and similar gruesome items. Should have kept that up really.
 
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