mine Archives - Mechtraveller https://mechtraveller.com/tag/mine/ Mechanically-minded travel Wed, 29 Oct 2025 09:14:39 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Mining disaster memorial garden in Wales given national memorial status https://mechtraveller.com/2024/03/mining-disaster-memorial-garden-in-wales-given-national-memorial-status/ https://mechtraveller.com/2024/03/mining-disaster-memorial-garden-in-wales-given-national-memorial-status/#respond Tue, 12 Mar 2024 09:03:48 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=9841 A memorial garden in Senghenydd, which commemorates those who died in the worst disaster in the history of British mining, has been given the “recognition it deserves” and formally acknowledged by the Welsh Government as the National Mining Disaster Memorial Garden of Wales. The garden was officially opened in 2013 on the 100th anniversary of […]

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]]> https://mechtraveller.com/2024/03/mining-disaster-memorial-garden-in-wales-given-national-memorial-status/feed/ 0 Using gravity to store energy https://mechtraveller.com/2020/09/using-gravity-to-store-energy/ https://mechtraveller.com/2020/09/using-gravity-to-store-energy/#respond Tue, 08 Sep 2020 14:03:16 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=6338 Edinburgh-based Gravitricity are starting work on a scaled down demonstrator tower to test the response of their design for a gravity driven energy storage system. It’s not exactly a ‘new’ idea – I keep thinking of my dad’s fabulous 18th century grandfather clock – but it is deliciously simple and elegant. Gravitricity plan to re-purpose […]

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]]> https://mechtraveller.com/2020/09/using-gravity-to-store-energy/feed/ 0 VR Experience Enables Everyone To Go Down Geevor Tin Mine https://mechtraveller.com/2019/07/vr-experience-enables-everyone-to-go-down-geevor-tin-mine/ https://mechtraveller.com/2019/07/vr-experience-enables-everyone-to-go-down-geevor-tin-mine/#respond Fri, 19 Jul 2019 16:34:43 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=5013 A visit to the the historic Geevor Tin Mine in Cornwall includes a chance to walk down into part of the tin mine itself, if you can do it under your own steam, but not everybody can – until now. A new 360-degree virtual reality tour launched today will open the mine up to a […]

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