Sunday May 27, 2012

Idle days

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Idle days

A worker sprays water in front of idle machinery at a construction site at an industrial complex in Kawasaki.

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    some14some

    CoolBiz Campaign extended to J-machinery as well (?!)

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    alladin

    CooBiz with a water wasting practice. what an idea!!! Be cool and wast water at the same time. Water the ground so the machines can keep cool.

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    bobcatfish

    alladin - have you seen how much it rains in japan? have you seen how many rivers?

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    namabiru4me

    This is usually done at construction sites to keep down the dust, not for cooling purposes.

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    Lunchbox

    Kind of looks like a lion tamer, scaring the cowering diggers into the corner with his whip.

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    Foxie

    I just love all this purple machinery lately.

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    Kenchi

    "Kind of looks like a lion tamer, scaring the cowering diggers into the corner with his whip."

    haha love it

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    porter

    I have a hard time understanding the logic behind wasting water on pavement.

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    nimbus

    Hmmm..looks like a Constructicon hideout.

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    Carcharodon

    I have a hard time understanding the logic behind wasting water on pavement.

    It's an old trick, best used at dusk. You spray the water on to concrete and the evaporating water draws heat out of the concrete as it evaporates.

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    Disillusioned

    GET A JOB! A REAL JOB!

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    paulinusa

    The camera perspective makes those machines look tiny compared to the guy.

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    roomtemperature

    "GET A JOB! A REAL JOB!"

    Get a life! A real life!

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    electric2004

    Watch out for transformers!

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    Mikanojo

    Soft lavender, teal and maroon.. such beautiful colors the machines have!

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    gogogo

    Waste of water

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    porter

    It's an old trick, best used at dusk. You spray the water on to concrete and the evaporating water draws heat out of the concrete as it evaporates.

    I understand the effect but is the waste of clean water worth it?

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    Ranger_Miffy

    Amusing shot. Japan has lots of water. In this heat, it's a great use of water.

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    lostrune2

    Japan has lots of salt water. If water is any water, then California would never have a drought.

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    sam1633

    i don't get it!!!!!!!!!!!

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    Mikanojo

    California and its droughts and the waste of drinking water really have nothing at all to do with this picture. Droughts are most often in places where there is NOT an effective means set up to irrigate or allow for the creation or transporting of drinking water.

    Nihon is SURROUNDED by water, and there are several desalinization plants built to supply clean water for drinking and irrigation is not really an issue ANYWHERE in Nihon because that part of the Earth gets a LOT of rain, seasonal tsunami and monsoon and in the north there is much snow.

    So can we please stop arguing about if the person in the image is wasting water? In fact they are performing a necessary function of cooling down what is very often hot asphalt. It is GOOD for the people, the local wildlife and even the environment to cool down the artificial heat radiating asphalt. We should THANK that person.

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