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PhotoHunt – Dirty

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30 Comments CherryPie on Jun 3rd 2011

30 Responses to “PhotoHunt – Dirty”

  1. jameshigham says:
    June 3, 2011 at 8:45 pm

    Funnels of the Titanic?

  2. jams o donnell says:
    June 3, 2011 at 8:46 pm

    Excellent photo Cherie. Had Blake been alive he would have talked of dark, satanic stacks

  3. Claude says:
    June 3, 2011 at 9:16 pm

    It gives one such a desolate feeling!

  4. jmb says:
    June 3, 2011 at 9:50 pm

    Ugh. We don’t see that so much anymore thank goodness. But we are still spewing stuff into the air.

    Happy weekend to you Cherie

    • CherryPie says:
      June 3, 2011 at 11:30 pm

      My more local versions of this, I find quite scenic from certain angles. These days such structures would have been banned from being built!

  5. ivan says:
    June 3, 2011 at 9:52 pm

    Steam rising from cooling towers is not pollution, sorry.

    • CherryPie says:
      June 3, 2011 at 11:40 pm

      I agree about the steam ;-)

      You might like the following link and the comments section on a photo (of a different power station) that I posted a long time ago.

      http://www.flickr.com/photos/-cherrypie-/413889747/

      From the other side of where that photo was taken, even though it is in an inappropriate place, I could make it look quite beautiful…

      • ivan says:
        June 5, 2011 at 1:19 am

        I like that picture but do think they could have painted the cooling towers a better colour to help them blend in.

        At least having a conventional power plant means that it covers a small area rather than the hideous, inefficient, blots on any landscape that are wind generators that have to cover dozens of square miles just to provide a fraction of the power generated by a normal plant.

        • CherryPie says:
          June 5, 2011 at 11:07 am

          It is the tall chimney I don’t like, it sticks out like a sore thumb (the second photo I showed you). It may have to close due to EU emissions policies.

          I have always wondered why half of the wind turbines in this country seem not to be working. Only a few at each site seem to be working at any one time…

          • ivan says:
            June 5, 2011 at 9:51 pm

            Regarding the odd wind turbine on a site turning, it usually means that the generator is being used as a motor to turn the blades in order to prevent serious maintenance problems. This means that all those on a site without enough wind will be turned over on a regular time scale by drawing power from the grid. Some sites can draw as much power as they generate over a year and that offends me as an engineer.

            • CherryPie says:
              June 5, 2011 at 11:14 pm

              Thank you for the explanation :-)

              I knew that wind turbines were not very efficient and cost effective in that they couldn’t store any extra energy and that the energy they generate has to be used immediately. But I didn’t know about what you just explained to me.

              I find the situation unacceptable on many levels!

              A slight aside from my post and our comments, although not completely unconnected – My role at work is tech support to the Engineers :-)

              • ivan says:
                June 6, 2011 at 9:34 pm

                A slight aside from my post and our comments, although not completely unconnected – My role at work is tech support to the Engineers

                Good for you, we engineers need some support, or maybe I should say a buffer, to stop the stupidity of some people that have no idea about engineering, telling us what to do. If they told us what they wanted then left us alone to do it the work would progress faster. (Sorry about the rant but I’ve just spent most of the afternoon trying to explain to an idiot why the very expensive equipment he just bought won’t do what he wants it to do – could be done for less than half the cost but that wouldn’t look ’sexy’)

                • CherryPie says:
                  June 6, 2011 at 11:14 pm

                  stop the stupidity of some people that have no idea about engineering, telling us what to do. If they told us what they wanted then left us alone to do it the work would progress faster.

                  That sounds very much like the daily conversations we have at work, so I can understand your frustrations.

  6. YTSL says:
    June 4, 2011 at 1:49 am

    Oh dear and yeah re the pollution… and yet, it’s hard to live without that power, isn’t it? :S

    • CherryPie says:
      June 4, 2011 at 10:09 pm

      We have become accustomed to modern living standards, there are ways to live without them. But we have mostly forgotten how too.

  7. Liz says:
    June 4, 2011 at 3:43 am

    Perfect find for the theme.

    Have a fabulous weekend!

    Liz @ MLC

  8. Birgitta - foto CHIP says:
    June 4, 2011 at 10:20 am

    Looks very dirty – something one doesn’t want to have around :)

  9. Luna Miranda says:
    June 4, 2011 at 11:28 am

    i like the vintage feel of this photo. wonderful take on the theme.

  10. Jerry says:
    June 4, 2011 at 12:09 pm

    yup – looks dirty. If that is a nuclear power plant one could talk about ‘dirty’ electricity . . .

    Great shot for this week’s theme.

    Have a good weekend.

    • CherryPie says:
      June 4, 2011 at 10:12 pm

      It isn’t Nuclear, it is a fossil fuel plant. I can’t remember exactly which one though…

      I was hoping someone would identify it for me.

  11. Susanne says:
    June 4, 2011 at 5:31 pm

    Great take on the theme.

  12. gitwizard says:
    June 5, 2011 at 4:16 pm

    Good take on the theme.
    As Ivan says, steam isn’t pollution (but is it only H2O in that steam?) but I wouldn’t like to live downwind of it.
    However, these power stations burn Dirty fuels to produce that steam, I used to deliver parcels to the massive industrial park that was Didcot Power Station in Oxfordshire.

    • CherryPie says:
      June 5, 2011 at 6:30 pm

      I can’t remember where the one in this photo is, but it was near or in Lincolnshire. I wouldn’t like to live downwind of it either!