Not a cold war rocket 28/365

This is actually a stack from the Dry Creek Power Station, on the corner of cavan road and grand junction road down here in Adelaide Australia. Back in the late 1960's this was one of the biggest gas fired power plants in Australia with 3x 55MW generators. This powered most of Adelaide while they built the bigger power plants at Torrens Island. Believe it or not but this power plant is still used during peak periods and it can also be used to help start the larger power plants on Torrens Island in case of major grid failure. When i took this shot it was actually in full swing thanks to a warm 35C day, and it was almost silent apart from the whistling of the natural gas pipes.

 

This is for @dailyshoot s assignment #ds438 Make a photograph that features a very distinct curved line or surface today. I love the swirls on the stacks i also love the way it looks like an rusting rocket from the old cold war days and to think this old building still works at 100% of capacity is fairly amazing.

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