Indeed. I posted on this just a week or so back. It poses the question, should we be flying at all? Bringing the Cambo Field (Shetland) on stream is a big talking point just now. Cambo Is a new oil field climate change hypocrisy? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-57762927 Taken from the BBC article. I have worked next to a flare like that. It is called, not unsurprisingly, flaring off. It don’t half kick out a lot of heat.!
Building more wooden sailing ships that take months to get anywhere seems so appealing now. How modern life changed so quickly since the Wright Brothers started motor operated flights at the beginning of the twentieth century.
Sailing ships: I have some ambient drone music (Nurse With Wound "Salt Marie Celeste") which has the sounds of a creaking wooden ship inspired by the "Mary Celeste" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Celeste As far from top forty music as is reasonable to hope for. Headphones Required
I have amazing shots of flares of oil rigs also but sadly still in slides and not film. (Both pre-digital). I MUST do this as my son is becoming more curious in an exponential way.
I wish I had photos. But most of the time they wouldn’t allow cameras to be used as they can create a spark in the presence of gas. We’re your shots onshore? Yes, I was never into photography so I have so few of my past, it was only till the smartphone came in that I started to take photos and keep them.
Which photo? The shot in the news article? Could easily be. I have been close up and personal to the same in the North Sea on quite a few occasions. The noise is so loud that ear defenders have to be worn. And the heat so intense that a deluge of water spray is needed to keep everything adjacent to it cool. I have worked alongside flaring onshore but typically they run to a more remote spot simply because they can.
Didn't Alan whicker take a number of days to fly to Hong Kong? I remember seeing it as a kid and was enthralled by the journey.
It seems so old fashioned to light it like that when we have piezoelectric that work without firing a gun. There must be a good reason to do it with a gun but it seems a bit silly to me.
The other method I have come across is by crossbow. Not sure why they don’t use piezoelectric. I believe it’s when that method fails. The other method I saw onshore was oiled up rags on a stick
