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"Industrial Sunrise"

Had this on my hardrive for some time and just stumbled upon it so i thought i would share it with you.

 

"Industrial Sunrise" Facts

Fiddlers Ferry is one of the biggest power stations in the north of England.

The station has a total power output of 1,961 MW.

The coal plant stores up to 25 trainloads of coal every day.

The coal-fired station holds a stockpile of 1.75 million tonnes.

Fiddlers Ferry can process up to 3,000 tonnes of coal per hour.

The station burns 16,000 tonnes of coal a day.

The station uses 195 million litres of water from the Mersey River.

Each cooling tower can cool up to 8,400 litres of water per second.

In total, the station's cooling towers can cool up to 67,200 litres of water per second.

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