No one denies that volcanic ash can cause jet engines to fail in flight.
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Both BA and KLM, after all, had direct experience of what flying through volcanic ash can do to a high-bypass turbofan jet engine.
Fine ash can travel farther than the heavier stuff, but still does a lot of harm to engines if encountered in significant quantities.
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Collectors of American Art don't consider Alice Neel part of the Ash Can School or the American Modernist School, and the glitzy works by Abstract Expressionists attract the Post-War collectors.
"Light volcanic ash fall can be anticipated downwind of Tongariro", it said, potentially affecting the Waikato, Hawkes Bay, Gisborne and Bay of Plenty areas.
If it gets into the water, into the drinking water, and the heavy metal leaches out of the ash that can be hard to deal with.
Coal ash is captured before it can escape at a smoke stack into the air, it's channeled into ponds near the river and contained there by earthen dikes.
The operator should use an independent risk evaluator for weather and other environmental conditions like volcanic ash or even heavy pollutants which can effect helicopter operation and pilot visibility.
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It's just IHOP, an acronym that throws its pancake heritage on to the ash heap of pancakery just so we can throw down to tilapia hollandaise in a place that's not exclusively a house of carbohydrate gorging of global proportions.
Ash dieback is spread by airborne spores and can also be moved long distances by the transport of infected material.
Now, if the heavy metal sticks to the ash, stays with the ash, then it may not be so bad because that can be filtered out pretty easily.
The flight bans came amid fears that the ash - a mixture of glass, sand and rock particles - can seriously damage aircraft engines.
Firewood over 4-feet long can also move outside the zone because at that length the ash is easy to recognize and remove, Lambert said.
Some tools were sandwiched in ash from the eruption of the Toba super-volcano in Indonesia that geologists can date very accurately to 74, 000 years ago.
On a shoe string, Mary Kay Ash did it, Debbie Fields did it, I did it, and you can too.
Lambert said businesses can still transport wood to mills in New York, which has emerald ash borer quarantines in counties that border Berkshire County.
Recent events including the Japanese earthquake and tsunami, the floods in Thailand and the ash clouds caused by the Icelandic volcano have demonstrated how far the consequences of such risks can extend.
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He says half of the ash coming out of U.S. waste-to-energy plants is glass and metal, stuff that can be recycled.
"Ash in my opinion is one of the players who has developed a lot, but he is also someone who can go a lot further, " said Sousa.
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