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Picture(s) of the day...Power Generation Plant Day!
The title of the World's Largest solar plant is constantly changing, I believe its held by India at the moment.
Obviously I havent been round the world with my instamatic attached to a suitable drone to supply any original photography for "Picture(s) of the day" so apologies for the extra effort of clicking on a link.
Some of these installations are strangely pleasing with a bit of decent camerawork, with this one the Crescent Dunes Solar Energy plant in Nevada, being a case in point. Its a Solar-Thermal Power plant (wiki article here.
http://breakingenergy.com/wp-content/up ... 4_hi-1.jpg
and this one has a beauty of symmetry and tranquility
http://www.sciencealert.com/images/stories/solar.jpg
I concede that power generation plants from other sources can have an awesome presence, even your coal-fireds can conjure up some brooding images, and the starkness of some nuclear power installations can appeal to some..even the incongruent Torness installation on the east coast as you drive up to Edinburgh has this quality.
So, if you fancy joining in let this be "Power Generation Plant Pictures day!" lets hope it gets more participants than "Milton Keynes Day"
Regards Neil
Obviously I havent been round the world with my instamatic attached to a suitable drone to supply any original photography for "Picture(s) of the day" so apologies for the extra effort of clicking on a link.
Some of these installations are strangely pleasing with a bit of decent camerawork, with this one the Crescent Dunes Solar Energy plant in Nevada, being a case in point. Its a Solar-Thermal Power plant (wiki article here.
http://breakingenergy.com/wp-content/up ... 4_hi-1.jpg
and this one has a beauty of symmetry and tranquility
http://www.sciencealert.com/images/stories/solar.jpg
I concede that power generation plants from other sources can have an awesome presence, even your coal-fireds can conjure up some brooding images, and the starkness of some nuclear power installations can appeal to some..even the incongruent Torness installation on the east coast as you drive up to Edinburgh has this quality.
So, if you fancy joining in let this be "Power Generation Plant Pictures day!" lets hope it gets more participants than "Milton Keynes Day"
Regards Neil
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Re: Picture(s) of the day....Power Generation Plant day
Geograph is always and interesting source of images witn images posted up for every 1km square in the UK.
Here's one Torness Power station starkly white and and boxy with the lighthouse comparitively small-scale behind it and the Bass Rock out at sea, and the Kingdom of Fife beyond.
Image by Walter Baxter
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Here's one Torness Power station starkly white and and boxy with the lighthouse comparitively small-scale behind it and the Bass Rock out at sea, and the Kingdom of Fife beyond.
Image by Walter Baxter
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Regards Neil
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Re: Picture(s) of the day...Power Generation Plant Day!
Challenge accepted But enough of this green and pleasantness, here's some good old fashioned oil burners with one thing in common - they're all either underground or in very large concrete boxesNewcastleFalcon wrote:
I concede that power generation plants from other sources can have an awesome presence, even your coal-fireds can conjure up some brooding images, and the starkness of some nuclear power installations can appeal to some..even the incongruent Torness installation on the east coast as you drive up to Edinburgh has this quality.
So, if you fancy joining in let this be "Power Generation Plant Pictures day!" lets hope it gets more participants than "Milton Keynes Day"
Regards Neil
First up is a couple of the old gensets under Gibraltar. Gib is basically hollow and has a very interesting history - as well as being very small and perfect for electric cars.... apart from the really steep bits The photo above is in Calpe.
The next two photos are in the area of Fire Control South. I don't know if it was preserved 'by accident', or if there was an intended further use for the genny. Whichever way, it was in lovely condition when I visited a good few years ago
In need of a bit of work with a wire brush, and the odd can of Plus Gas - these three gennies were in Tomson's Raise in Gib.
Coming a bit further forward in time, this was in an old Nato site in West Germany. It's one of four gensets in the hall, the second photo is of the air intake chamber - note the person at the back for scale
Going back to the 50s now, this is in an old Regional War Room which had a later use as a slightly more modern government bunker. An old Ruston and Hornsby generator with a 'Lancashire Dynamo + Crypto' alternator (at least I presume it's an alternator, not a dynamo !!) dating from 1953 lurks through the doorway.
The next one is in an old Post Office Protected Repeater location - basically a bunkered phone exchange.
To end with, a couple of foreign sites - the first one is from an old East German nuclear warhead store. These were where the battlefield warheads were kept very safe and very secure. There was a direct connection on the gate to the inner secure area back to Moscow, so if anyone opened the gate - an alarm would ring. So absolutely nothing to worry about there. Oh no.
And as a contrast, one from a neutral country - Switzerland. Some nice Sulzer engines in a rather lovely engine room
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Re: Picture(s) of the day...Power Generation Plant Day!
Thanks Bobins, that contribution has well and truly puts "Power Generation Plant Day" ahead of Milton Keynes Day already!bobins wrote: Challenge accepted But enough of this green and pleasantness,.......
I think Ferrybridge C is no more, but green and pleasant it was not! Still...probably fairly depressed house prices nearby!
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Re: Picture(s) of the day....Power Generation Plant day
Really impressive photos, Bobins. I've done the 'tourist' bits The Rock a few times, and even into the Joint Services area (when our RAV4 got rammed by a trainee Wireless driver wrestling unsuccessfully with his Defender handbrake at full throttle in reverse), but never into the depths of the services caverns. As you say, most of what you don't see on Gib is out-of-sight . . . . rather like Switzerland!
Perhaps we should include the vast underground hydro power station under Ben Cruachan on the upcoming 500 North excursion?
Perhaps we should include the vast underground hydro power station under Ben Cruachan on the upcoming 500 North excursion?
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We were fortunate enough to be able to arrange a complete walk through in one go from one end to the other on one occasion. It took a bit of arranging, and we had the surreal experience of a military police vehicle following us at a slow walking pace at the 'interesting' end of The Rock. I'm pretty sure they've opened up more bits of underground Gib since I was last there.white exec wrote:Really impressive photos, Bobins. I've done the 'tourist' bits The Rock a few times, and even into the Joint Services area (when our RAV4 got rammed by a trainee Wireless driver wrestling unsuccessfully with his Defender handbrake at full throttle in reverse), but never into the depths of the services caverns. As you say, most of what you don't see on Gib is out-of-sight . . . . rather like Switzerland!
As for Switzerland - an Eye-Spy fanatics wonderland
Now you see me.......
Now you don't......
And that's just the sites built into the mountains. Their 'Falsche Chalets' are amazing. What you think is a lovely barn in a tranquil setting turns out to hide a great lump of a weapon
Now that sounds like an interesting diversionPerhaps we should include the vast underground hydro power station under Ben Cruachan on the upcoming 500 North excursion?
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Re: Picture(s) of the day....Power Generation Plant day
Inspired by a book I am reading and your posts I looked at our local-ish power station and it is proper dismal.
Have seen it in the distance when testing some electronics, probably about three miles away but not much to see from that distance.
No better close up
ETA: Hartlepool - couldn't remember that name of the place earlier.
Have seen it in the distance when testing some electronics, probably about three miles away but not much to see from that distance.
No better close up
ETA: Hartlepool - couldn't remember that name of the place earlier.
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Thanks for those pictures Bobins Really enjoyed them... Wish I had pictures of the generating plant I've been involved with over the years but sadly no photography was ever allowed...
Everything from Deltics providing standby power for Short Wave broadcasting transmitters right down to little 15KVA plants powered by twin-cylinder diesel Listers...
Those of yours are so evocative I could immediately smell that wonderful oily diesel aroma present in all generator houses
Lots of happy memories brought back
Everything from Deltics providing standby power for Short Wave broadcasting transmitters right down to little 15KVA plants powered by twin-cylinder diesel Listers...
Those of yours are so evocative I could immediately smell that wonderful oily diesel aroma present in all generator houses
Lots of happy memories brought back
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Re: Picture(s) of the day....Power Generation Plant day
Jim - there's every chance you've seen this maintenance board before.... I believe you may have started out here many years ago. It was for 'a very large transmitter' site
Sadly the gensets have long since gone
Sadly the gensets have long since gone
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Yes, I reckon there's a very good chance In the summer of '76 Happy days! Standing by a Deltic and witnessing it start up and run at that location changed my life irrevocably - I fell hopelessly in love and remain so to this daybobins wrote:Jim - there's every chance you've seen this maintenance board before.... I believe you may have started out here many years ago. It was for 'a very large transmitter' site
Only last week I was nattering with a colleague who used to work there and we had a very enjoyable stroll down memory lane
Even to the point of being keener on early diesel railway locomotives than steam ones... I love steam but I love diesel more
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Re: Picture(s) of the day....Power Generation Plant day
A fair collection of cooling towers, in 2006 anyway, and a power station with a nice bit of alliteration in the name.
The Cheshire contingent should know what it's called.....
From geograph by Alan Godfrey
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The Cheshire contingent should know what it's called.....
From geograph by Alan Godfrey
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That's Fiddler's Ferry! As a student, I spent a very memorable winter's evening with a young woman in the pub of the same name, way back in 1967, gazing out across the river at the distant lights. Six foot, ash-blonde, legs that went on for ever . . . will never forget you, Miss Crookes
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The Malaga contingent gets the right answer. The white building is that very pub Chris.
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Just a couple more before we say au revoir to Power generation plant day..
From Dungeness ( geograph...oak house archive....Creative Commons https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/)
Ticks the lighthouse box as well.
And from the same grid square Dungeness station on the R.H. And D railway
By Ron Hann, Creative Commons as above
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From Dungeness ( geograph...oak house archive....Creative Commons https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/)
Ticks the lighthouse box as well.
And from the same grid square Dungeness station on the R.H. And D railway
By Ron Hann, Creative Commons as above
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