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Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Year book yourself

Cool e viciante

Vão a http\\\www.yearbookyourself.com

Monday, August 24, 2009

Monday, July 6, 2009

Monday, April 27, 2009

Saturday, March 21, 2009

Matilde

A Matilde nasceu no dia 7 de Março de 2009, pelas 18:50 com 3.570 Kg e 52 cm de comprimento !

Hoje faz 15 dias !

Monday, February 23, 2009

My last birthday party before Matilde´’s birth

Monday, January 26, 2009

The Kárahnjúkar Hydroelectric Project it’s now near to is completion.
The construction of the Kárahnjúkar dam, started about 6 years ago in late 2002.
I had the pleasure to work in this project in its early beginning in 2003. I’ve lived a wonderful and very rewarding experience, not only professionally but personally to.
Iceland it’s a wonderful country, that’s passing a bad moment at the time.
To my Icelandic friends, I wish then a swift recovery.

Project résumé
The Kárahnjúkar Hydroelectric Project arrangement and construction

The dams
The key to the economical development of the Jökulsá í Fljótsdal and Jökulsá á Dal glacial rivers lies in the region’s topography and geographical conditions. In places extremely low-lying, the Fljótsdalur valley traverses the highland plateau north of Vatnajökull, creating ideal conditions for power production. As a result, the project is based on a head, or drop, of about 600 metres.
The installed power of the Kárahnjúkar project is 690 MW, produced in six generating units.

Maximum flow is 144 m3 per second, and the annual generating capacity is about 4,600 GWh.
To generate this energy, the Jökulsá á Dal river is dammed by three dams at Fremri Kárahnjúkur. The largest, Kárahnjúkastífla, is located at the southern (upper) end of the Hafrahvammar canyon and is about 730 metres long and 193 metres high.

The structure is of the concrete-faced rock fill dam (CFRD) type, and when complete will be the highest of its kind in Europe and among the highest in the world. The rock fill used in its construction is quarried just upstream of the dam in the reservoir area, and is placed in compacted layers. During construction, the river flows through two diversion tunnels under the western bank of the dam.

The reservoir
Completing the trio are two smaller saddle dams which will also be built at Kárahnúkar. These are the Desjarárstífla dam to the east, and Sauðárdalsstífla dam to the west. Both will be rock-fill dams with an earthen core, and together the three will combine to feed the main 57km2 Hálslón storage reservoir. When full, its water level will reach a height of 625 metres above sea level, and its shores will reach the edge of the Brúarjökull glacier.

It is estimated that the Hálslón reservoir will be filled by late summer in most years. Surplus water will be then diverted through a spillway chute at the western end of the Kárahnjúkastífla dam down to the edge of the Hafrahvammar canyon, and from there via a 90 metre-high waterfall down to the canyon floor.

On the east side of the mountain Snæfell, the Jökulsá í Fljótsdal river is dammed about 2 km downstream of the Eyjabakkafoss waterfall on the north side of the Eyjabakkar wetlands. The intake pond this creates has been named Ufsarlón, and water from three tributary rivers on the eastern side of the Jökulsá is also diverted into it.

The tunnels
From the Hálslón reservoir, the water runs through a tunnel under the Fljótsdalsheiði moor to a junction with another tunnel running from the Ufsarlón pond, and from there is carried north-east through a combined headrace tunnel to an intake at the Valþjófsstaðafjall escarpment. The total length of the headrace tunnels is 53 km, and they vary in average depth from 100-200 metres.
Two steel-lined vertical pressure shafts lead the water from the intake to the underground powerhouse. Each shaft is 420 metres high, and the total head of the project is 599 metres. The powerhouse houses six Francis turbines, each with a rated output of 115 MW. When water exits the powerhouse, a tailrace tunnel and canal take it to the course of the Jökulsá í Fljótsdal river at a point just east of the farm Valþjófsstaður, which lies at a height of 26 metres above sea level.
The total length of the tunnels involved in the Kárahnjúkar project is about 73 km.

The headrace tunnels and parts of the access adit tunnels will be drilled using three full-face (TBM) boring machines, while the remainder will be excavated by drilling and blasting. Each TBM machine requires about 3 MW of electricity to drive it, and the crushed rock the drills produce will be transported on electrically driven conveyor belts to disposal areas near the adits. The estimated average rate of drilling for each machine is about 25 metres per day.

Project Latest photos

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Lego Inauguration- Obama 20.09.2009

No need to comment....

Monday, January 19, 2009

Vacas na praça de Espanha

Registo de uma campanha publicitária infeliz…

Colocar as pobres das vacas no meio de uma das artérias mais movimentadas de Lisboa, sujeitas ao barulho e á poluição é uma má ideia.

Senão, repara-se que, no Saldanha não foi colocado um aquário gigante para albergar um cachalote em plena via pública, ao invés colocaram um dummy a imitar o bicho!

Podiam ter feito o mesmo com as vacas que, provavelmente até nem são dos Açores…

Que os Açores são bonitos e reúnem uma série de paisagens únicas, nós já sabemos todos, quanto ás vacas…

Não havia necessidade.

O quarto da Matilde 2

Matilde o “teu quarto” já está pronto!!!

Daqui a seis semanas cá te esperamos !

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

o quarto da Matilde

Ainda não chegou mas já está a criar mudanças na nossa vida.
A Matilde já leva 30 semanas na barriga da mãe e já tem quarto !
Bem para já o quarto da Matilde também é o nosso.
Hoje começaram a chegar as primeiras mobílias da Matilde, fica aqui o registo fotográfico da primeira cómoda/banheira da Matilde.

Thursday, October 9, 2008

Excerto de artigo da newsletterr IVA by Cão Azul

"ANTIGO BONECO DO MULTIBANCO TEM REFORMA DE 3.500€ , CASA DA CML E É NOVO ADMINISTRADOR DA CAIXA GERAL DE DEPÓSITOS"

"O multibanco mudou de imagem e o antigo boneco foi substituído por um novo.

IVA sabe que depois de 23 anos de trabalho o antigo boneco conseguiu uma reforma antecipada que lhe permite receber cerca de 3.500€ mensais, para além disso descobrimos que há 15 anos que beneficia de uma casa da CML, sendo vizinho de Baptista Bastos na zona de Benfica, com uma renda que ronda os 35€. Os colegas e amigos dizem que Multi, como é conhecido, é uma pessoa divertida, trabalhadora e séria pois nunca divulgou um único código pessoal dos milhões de clientes que lhe passaram pela frente.

Todas estas características aliadas a uma boa relação com PS e PSD, bem como uma posição de destaque na Maçonaria Portuguesa, foram fundamentais para chegar a administrador não executivo da Caixa Geral de Depósitos, lugar que vai ocupar a partir do próximo dia 3 de Novembro."

Tuesday, October 7, 2008

O cantinho do Andre

Na minha visita periódica ao meu cantinho deparei-me com uma crónica bem antiga agora reeditada pelo André.

Trata-se de uma descrição fantástica da nossa viagem a Londres em Março de 2001 para ver é só clicar aqui.

Obrigado André, foi um bom momento de descontracção para mais tarde recordar.

Monday, October 6, 2008

Pile Up

Apartment Blocks
A Pile Up building in Rheinfelden, Switzerland.

With L-shaped units fitted one on top of another, the patented Pile Up design is meant to bring spaciousness, light and flexibility to multifamily buildings.

Each home is an L-shaped unit with flexible floor plans, made possible because the exterior walls of each "L" are the only load-bearing walls. The L-shape also allows every unit to have a second floor or double-height room, making the most of spaciousness and natural light.

Fantástico ! Simplesmente genial, em Portugal só estaria ao alcance de muito poucos, na Suíça, felizmente para eles, está ao alcance de qualquer um...