My commute from work to home at the South Pole, in Antarctica.

Here's me walking from the brand new Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station to the summer camp area, where I sleep.

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[regulargonzalez]

@fernandoalemus The computer you typed that on contains gold and aluminum, both of which cause environmental impacts when mined. You should probably recycle it and stop using computers so you can save the planet.

[awes141]

@TalksWithDirt hmm well lets see, probobly no solar power becasue its dark 1/2 the year ?

Just a suggestion

[iceland707]

It's funny they go yo the south pole for the clear air and sky free from pollution. To study the affects of our green house gasses but the used diesel fuel and big machines pumping out all that fume just to keep warm and equipment from freezing go figure! For as much sunshine and high winds the south pole gets they should use more alternate fuel like solar and wind power

[TalksWithDirt]

@awes141 Right you use both. Its easy to throttle a diesel. Its hard to throttle a coal plant. During the 'day' or during storms you burn less diesel. At 'night' and when its calm, you burn diesel at the rate you would have anyway. Yes, I would imagine that the extra UV would shorten the life span of solar panels. 

[awes141]

@TalksWithDirt What they could do is build a power station, Plus use solar panels in the summer, but a question would the hole in the ozone layer over antarctica have any effect on the solar panels ?

[TalksWithDirt]

@awes141 But consider this. Say you transport in a ton of diesel. In so doing you probably burn about 50 lbs of jet-a. When you burn that ton of diesel, you have to do it again. However if you bring in a ton of solar panel or a ton of wind turbine, every watt of solar or wind means that much less diesel you have to bring in, and you don't destroy the solar or wind hardware when you use it. As for wind turbines moving about with the ice. So does the station.

[awes141]

@TalksWithDirt True because if they do transfer to Solar and wind power you have to weigh in, the amount of money it would take to buy and all the equipment, plus installing it in all of the ice, also the wind towers would have to move every year considering the ice cap moves every year as well.

[TalksWithDirt]

@awes141 Of course, just as when you average the day night cycle at any latitude it's dark half the year. The point is a combination of solar and wind would help reduce diesel consumption which they have to do day or night. I'm not saying solar and wind to replace diesel, just to reduce the amount over a year you have to bring in. I'm sure the analysis was done, and maybe it does not pay off. The Belgians are already doing this at the Princess Elisabeth Antarctic Research Station.

[chancellor89]

*crunchcrunchcrunchcrunch*

[TalksWithDirt]

Hummm no solar and wind power. You'd think they'd have some on hand to conserve all the diesel the place must suck down.

[regulargonzalez]

@elementsk8punk I'm not the one moaning about pollution