Gladstone
Gladstone power station has a generation capacity of 1,680 megawatts – not huge by world standards but big enough. It is powered by coal from Central Queensland’s huge coal reserves, burned at a rate of 800 tonnes per hour. 245 million litres of cooling water is drawn from the Auckland Inlet and discharged into the Calliope River every hour – the discharge is seen here, against mangroves lining the tropical river system.
Gladstone
Gladstone power station has a generation capacity of 1,680 megawatts – not huge by world standards but big enough. It is powered by coal from Central Queensland’s huge coal reserves, burned at a rate of 800 tonnes per hour. 245 million litres of cooling water is drawn from the Auckland Inlet and discharged into the Calliope River every hour – the discharge is seen here, against mangroves lining the tropical river system.