Pic of the week game

[steve murdoch]

Nice! Thanks for the votes, Gents.

I think we may have done this one previously and who knows may do it again in the future. I rode past a new windmill farm this morning so how about "energy sources."
Could include dams, power plants, solar panels, windmills....heck maybe you have your Peleton bike hooked to a grid.
I will probably be changing this pic but it should get things started.

[marvinsc]

In the background you see the remains of the old power plant on the Kanawa River West Virginia.

WestVA2007014 by Scott Marvin, on Flickr

[Burque73]

[trevor]

[cowboyup3371]

An old Dayton Power and Light coal powered generating station in Miamisburg built in the 1940s and shut down in 2015

Sunset 29 Aug by Scott Baker, on Flickr

[Rich82GS750TZ]

Placeholder pic for now.

[kerrfunk]

The Catlettsburg Refinery is just 20 miles away.

[Redman]

At a 3 unit power station as viewed from a bridge over the railroad tracks.
When I was there Sunday I happend to catch it with coal cars comming and going out, which I think makes the picture.
So could say the coal is the power source, or could say the 3 power plants are the power source.
Each coal car is 100 tons. I find it interesting to look into empty car and think that somewhere in Kentucky there is a a void underground that same size, and well over a hundered of them a day.

The light brown/ dark brown taller part of the building is the unit 3 boiler house. THe lower part to the left is it's turbine/generator house. The stuff to the right is it's various ash precipitators and sulfur scrubbers. THe concrete stack is for unit 3 and is 650ft tall (I have been up there).

Unit 3 is 800MegaWatts and went online in 1980, and is the last power plant built by power companys (Consumers, or Detriot Edison, Indiana Michigan) in the state.
(anything since has been real small municipal plants, primarily natural gas. or private company small co-generation meaning maybe also produce steam for some other purpose. Or small wind turbines.).

Would be more obvious "power source" if could also see the transformers and switching station and transmission lines (375 Kvolts) that is further to the left.



With the bike, I could get into the construction lot in the back.
The red/white stack is for unit 1 & 2, the yellow building being the boiler house, and the blue stuff are their precipitators and sulfur scrubbers.
Unit 2 is from 1967 and is 385 MW. Unit 1 is from 1962 and is 265 MW.

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>>later note
Went that way again today, and stopped at same place.

First picture is the entry.

[gustovh]

A simple power line for me.



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[Baatfam]

[trevor]

Ok....mic drop! Awesome pic Bob

[steve murdoch]

Beautiful photo, Bob.

[Eli69]

[Baatfam]

Happy Friday Morning Everyone! Time to vote!

First the theme by steve murdoch...

...how about "energy sources."

More to follow....

[Baatfam]

And the rest....

And there they are....Thanks everyone for participating. And don't forget to vote!

(Of course if anything is missing, please let us know)