Mark Tomasovic
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Investing in industrial software @EnergizeCapital | prev: @ExxonMobil | @Harvard MBA | Engineer
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Banff wildlife crossing. The installation of this crossing has reduced animal-vehicle collisions by 80%
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This is the longest continuous path you can walk in the world
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This apartment complex in Brazil has one of the worlds largest spiral staircases
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This is wild. Saudi Arabia is converting an oil rig into an amusement park for tourists. The park is called RIG
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Liebherr puts on an annual expo to showcase their construction equipment. Here, they showcase their cranes by lifting other cranes.
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Every six months this man in South Dakota climbs this communication tower to change the light bulb
He’s paid $20,000 per climb
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18,000 people live in this single building in St. Petersburg
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Because the owner fortified the house with a levee, this house in Vicksburg, Mississippi survived the Yazoo River flooding event in 2011
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If you don’t regularly water your wind turbines, they begin to wilt
Few understand this
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A man named David Hampton planted larch trees in a hillside of firs
Every fall, the larch trees change color, but the firs don’t
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Have you ever heard the story of Gunkanjima Island off the coast of Japan?
This small island was once the most densely populated place in the world.
Today, it’s a complete ghost town.
I wrote a 1 minute thread below on what happened 👇
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In Iceland, you can walk between two tectonic plates - called the Mid Atlantic Ridge
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The Mir diamond mine in Russia is right on the edge of a city
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Transporting a 67 meter wind turbine blade through Denmark
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Someone needs to get this dog working on i35 traffic 😂
If you like interesting pictures and videos of architecture and industry, give me a follow
@MarkTomasovic
I post a daily tweet with interesting pictures and stories from industry
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Thanks all! Every day, I post insane pictures, videos, and stories of maps, energy, and industry. Give me a follow at
@MarkTomasovic
if you want more
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Think you’ve had a rough day at work?
Try diving into a methane digester to fix a supply line
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Estonia has opened up its ice roads upon two conditions:
1) You must not drive between 25-40 km/hour. This range of speed increases cracking of the ice and can cause cars to fall through
2) You cannot wear a seatbelt. Drivers must be able to make a fast exit from their car
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Every now and then architects will have a sense of humor
Here’s 5 of the worlds most insane buildings 👇
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Bubble Deck is a structural support where massive plastic golf balls are placed between the rebar of a slab
It eliminates up to 35% of the structural concrete
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Strassenschildreinigungseinsatzfahrzeug is the German word for this road sign cleaning vehicle
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India is covering its irrigation canals with solar
The solar covered canals provide shade for water conservation and have the mutual benefit of reducing land use
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What it looks like when engineers travel out to the field
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Amazing photo of 14 wind turbines aligned in a row in Nevada
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The only picture ever taken of a Concorde flying at supersonic speed (1350 mph)
Taken in 1985 by Adrian Meredith in an RAF jet
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Known as the Loneliest House in the World, this house sits on a small island south of Iceland
Around 300 years ago, five families used to live on the island and survived by raising cattle and fishing
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The Thridrangar lighthouse was built in 1938 (before the use of practical helicopters)
The workers who built it had to scale the cliffs by hand
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Power lines over Lake Pontchartrain in Louisiana demonstrate the curvature of the earth
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What the inside of an LNG tanker looks like
The spherical vessels inside the tanker are used to contain the liquified natural gas. Sphere vessels are used because they contain no sharp edges, uniformly distributing pressure stress across the vessel
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Fish must climb fish ladders to get over hydroelectric dams
Here’s a quick thread of my five favorite fish ladders 👇
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Daisugi is an ancient Japanese technique to produce lumber where trees grow on top of trees
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Back in the early 20th century, earth excavators were getting too heavy and were sinking into the ground
To fix this, the Soviets built a walking excavator
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Mitsubishi closed the mine. Everyone left. The island city was abandoned and left to be reclaimed by nature.
Now, over 40 years later, the island remains an uninhabited ghost town in the middle of the ocean
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Wow - 42,000 electricians are on standby waiting to go into Florida after Hurricane Ian
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The Airbus Beluga is a wide-body airliner modified to carry aircraft parts and outsized cargo
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The Rambiz heavy lift vessel installing a 500 ton Siemens wind turbine offshore Scotland
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Siberia’s Lake Bikal is the world’s oldest and deepest lake
When it freezes, methane bubbles (from the lake’s hydrothermal vents) get trapped in the ice
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Oklahoma City manhole covers show where you are within the city
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Thyssenkrupp built this building in China to test their elevators after they manufacture them
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In fact, this isn’t the only home who survived the flood
Here’s a few more pictures of Mississippi levee houses 👇
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Jubail in Saudi Arabia is an industrial city that is expected to be completed in 2024 after 22 years of construction
It will comprise of over 100 industrial plants, house over 100,000 people, and produce 7% of Saudi’s GDP
It is one of the largest engineering projects in history
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Stadium seats become a cloudy color when they’re oxidized from UV exposure
Applying a torch melts the top oxidized layer, and restores the red color
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Construction bubbles reduce the amount of concrete needed in a slab, while still maintaining strength
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What happens when you have a wire fence out in the wind and snow
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In the event of an emergency, dams have a relief valve which opens to relieve excess hydropressure
When this relief valve is opened at the Verbund dam in Austria, it unlocks 20,000 liters/second
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In honor of Earth Day, here’s a picture of the Earth centered on the Pacific Ocean
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Those pipeline hackers that were paid in Bitcoin must be furious right now
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LNG tanker at shore
Tankers store liquified natural gas in spherical containers to evenly distribute the stress of the gas vapor within the vessel
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Balloon testing factories ensure that balloons meet a rigorous quality control standard
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Solar panels need to be cleaned to maintain power production
Solar in dusty environments require more frequent cleaning
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Architecture firm Choi+Shine submitted this concept to Iceland’s High-Voltage Electrical Pylon Design Competition
Their concept was dubbed “The Land of Giants”
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This avenue is called the Dark Hedges in Northern Ireland
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This bizarre zipper boat was recently seen cruising the Sumida River in Tokyo
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This is a real thing.
It’s called laser rust removal
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The Dujiangyan Zhongshuge bookstore in China is one of the most incredible bookstores in the world
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Gwangju, South Korea has self cleaning roads. Rain water is stored and sprayed through a hydraulic system in the centerline of the street
The water also has cooling benefits to prevent cracking from heat stress
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Want to be tough? You could buy a Ford F-150
Or, you could buy a $3 ticket on the MBTA
With 3000 tons of high-strength, military-grade aluminum alloy bolted to a steel frame, it’s the most capable heavy duty vehicle in America
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There’s a group of people on the internet that photoshop trains into triangular shapes
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Seriously impressed by the subway stations in Europe
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A molten slag truck carries molten metal between various parts of a foundry
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Subscribe to Ryan Randomness on YouTube for more of his rail cart content 👇
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This is what it looks like when you fly over west Texas
Each one of these gray squares is a site for an oil well
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Just two generations ago, my family were immigrants who worked in the steel mills of PA
This is Bethlehem, Steel - the factory that built New York
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Boeing’s Vertol 107 helicopter being used to pull a barge 50 miles through ice
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If you're interested in learning more about energy, industry, or investing, send me a message.
Or, if you know someone who's interested, retweet this.
The more people that are part of this community, the better.
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Saudi Arabia’s Al Naslaa rock is split perfectly in half
No one knows the exact cause
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A “flare” is a safety stack used in oil and gas facilities to burn excess gas during an equipment failure
Because flares are 100 feet tall, this is how you have to light them
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The purpose of twitter is to gain enough followers that you can post a big bolt and have 40 people reply saying hell yea
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In 1933, they invented a car with a 5th wheel to help with parallel parking
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After a short break, I'm back on twitter curating industrial content 🛠️
This is a train ferry. Its used to move trains across the water in Mobile, Alabama
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Jacob’s Ladder on the island of St. Helena is a 550ft straight stairway. One of the longest straight stairways in the world
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Visualization of the amount of copper in a mine site
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This is what happens when you hit a metal inert gas weld with a hammer
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The city of Holland, Michigan has heated streets and sidewalks
Hot water from a nearby power plant circulates through 120 miles of piping underneath the pavement. The streets melt 1 inch of snow per hour
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The Weather Channel is so much more interesting with augmented reality
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Maintenance worker fixing power distribution lines in Cambodia
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