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"Skrajnia" is currently the only non-passenger regular train using the Ostbahn, between Chojnice and Czersk. Not only is it an interesting train consist-wise, but it also is hauled by an SM31 locomotive, of which there aren't a lot anymore in Poland.
On 21.11.2024 the 753001 Gniezno Winiary - Somonino "Skrajnia" oversize load train arrived at Czersk with a fresh new SM31-021. I think it was the first train of this locomotive since the repair it had. (it had previously been owned by PKP Cargo).
The train's route from Wrocław, where large power generators are produced, leads through some of the least used lines in Poland, because it drives very slowly and, when running under overhead catenary, the power needs to be shut off in the catenary.
From Gniezno Winiary the train receives a new schedule and runs towards Kcynia, Nakło, Więcbork, Chojnice, Czersk, where it changes the direction of travel. From there onwards in goes to Bąk, to meet with the old coal mainline, and then to Kościerzyna and Somonino, where it waits for the night to come, so that the dense passenger traffic dies out. At night, it goes from Somonino to the harbour of Gdynia, where the power generator is unloaded and shipped overseas.
On the picture the SM31-021 is attaching to one of the 2 passenger/crew coaches in the train, in order to reshuffle the consist, as all the wagons and coaches constantly need to be in the same order. It would later shut down and sleep for the whole rest of the day, before launching around 9:30am on the 22nd. The sun only made a brief appeareance before dying out and leaving the entire station in complete darkness.
I was a little bit sad, as I had been expecting a lot of snow in Czersk that day. The entire city of Gdańsk and the whole area around the Ostbahn was completely white all the time, but when I came to Czersk, there had been absolutely no snow.
You can see how the whole train looks like here
Photo by Piotrek/Toprus
Excerpt from www.hamilton.ca/things-do/arts-music/public-art/hamilton-...:
Empower by Lilly Otasevic
One would be hard pressed to think about Nikola Tesla without thinking of waterfalls, and equally hard pressed to think about Hamilton without thinking about Nikola Tesla. The magnitude of growth and transformation of Hamilton into the Electric and multicultural city would never have happened without the force of Nature, the genius and mysterious inventor and a group of five businessmen with a vision ... in that order.
From experimenting with water wheels in the earliest days of his childhood, until many years later, before the thundering Niagara Falls, Nikola Tesla was in awe by the “wheelwork of Nature” as he called it, and what it can offer to humanity. The power of Nature and love for it remained in his heart till the day he died, leaving behind a world transformed by his mind over matter, countless pages of inventions that are yet to be understood and unlocked, and a flock of his beloved pigeons in a park near the New Yorker hotel.
The concept for Empower sculpture draws inspiration from Nature and enquiring human mind. It is inspired by humanity’s role in the higher order of things in the universe as nothing happens outside the context of interconnectedness. Empower is an interactive sculpture that incorporates lenticular-like effect -two images that coexist and inhabit same space and time but are never fully revealed at the same time.
The main ribbed wavy elements resemble fluid dynamics of a waterfall. Deeper inside therein hides a second form, a wheel-like pattern that forms an optical illusion of a rotational movement. This optical illusion, as an element of surprise and a perception challenge, reveals itself to a wondering viewer at certain angles.
As the angle of view changes, the waterfall partially disappears allowing the “wheelwork” to appear and vice versa. Besides the symbolic aspect, this inside element represents a connection to the Decew Falls power plant power generators that employed turbines, as part of Nikola Tesla’s ingenious patent, without which electric power transmission to longer distances would not have been possible.
The sculpture concept aims to represent complexity within simplicity (or is it simplicity within complexity?), to inspire a sense of wonder and a desire to unlock the mechanisms of the unknown. It emphasizes the importance of curiosity and a desire to learn, understand and - innovate. Responsibly innovate.
The title Empower is multilayered, referring to, among other possible interpretations, being empowered by enquiring mind, by mind over matter. It also refers to hydroelectric power, and the power of Nature to empower us - if we treat and nurture it with respect.
With a recent heavy snowfall, I discovered that I needed to clear the snow away from our permanent standby power generator. After getting back inside, I grabbed my camera and returned to capture the morning light and the tracks I had made earlier. Hi there!
Low-angle view of one of the 18 Supertrees in Singapore’s Gardens by the Bay. The Supertrees are 25- to 50-meter-tall tree-like structures that function as vertical gardens, solar power generators, and rainwater collectors, enhancing sustainability and hosting nightly light shows.
Chamonix 045N-1
Fujinon NW 135mm f/5.6
Ilford HP5+
Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 9mins @ 20°
West Burton A Power Station. One of the few remaining coal powered generators in the UK but decommissioned in 2023. Demolition is scheduled to take place in 2024.
I'm glad that we're moving to cleaner forms of energy but I shall miss the sight of these towers when they are gone. They've been a landmark throughout my entire life.
Handheld. The wooly one wasn't going to wait for me to get my tripod. It was dark. I wanted a fast enough shutter speed to freeze the sheep, but slow enough to get some blur on the blades.
NZH A106 en A327 met daar tussenin een generator op wagen C117 op historische grond: Katwijk aan den Rijn. Tot oktober 1960 reden hier trams. De Oranjevereniging had bedacht dat het leuk zou zijn om hier een week weer trams te laten rijden. Er werden rails en trams geregeld en het was een groot succes.
A temporary track on an original location: NZH interurban trams used to run here until 1960. For a special celebration tracks were relayed and former interurban NZH A106 and city tram NZH A327 run with the aid of a power generator.
Xylzeb was very pleased with the new power generator. Soon the eggs would hatch and there would be many, many more of his kind ... enough to colonise the galaxy.
At its Palaestra building in London SE1, Transport for London exhibits the building's hydrogen fuel cell power generators next to the entrance. The £2.4m combined heat and power plant will generate cost savings of £90,000 annually. The six flatscreens run an animation explaining the building's CO2 reducing measures but one wonders if the message wouldn't have been more effective if it was shown on posters instead of burning some of the kWh saved on powering the flatscreens. Press release
I've always been intruiged by the original Daleks from their first two stories.
I have two basic theories regarding these guys:
Theory #1) These Daleks were not created by Davros. They are actual "natural" Kaled mutants who survived the destruction of the Kaled's domed city seen in "Genesis of the Daleks". It seems to me entirely plausible that there would have been survivors considering the fact that the Kaleds and Thals were at war for a thousand years, they should've had an extensive network of underground bomb shelters beneath their city. When the Thals fired their missile, some of the citizens, especially the government types, should've been able to make it to these shelters. Also, we know that the weapons used were neutron weapons, which leaves buildings intact but delivers a lethal does of radiation to an area. After the missile penetrated the outer dome and released it's radiation, I believe that most of the city inside the dome would've survived and that this is the same city we see in "the Dead Planet".
The Daleks seen in that story were living in the aforementioned network of bomb shelter tunnels the Kaleds built. I propose that the radiation from the Thal missile acelerated the mutations among the survivors to the point where they adopted Davros' Dalek travel machine designs in order to survive. The shame they feel about their mutated state made them bitter and angry and accounts for the "evilness" of this group of Daleks. Perhaps they hate and seek to destroy anything that reminds them of their old humanoid forms out a sense of self-loathing? Since the Scientific Elite were overseen by a government committee, and a neutron bomb would've left buildings intact, it isn't difficult for me to believe that there may've been blueprints of the Dalek casings in the city and that some government types who were aware of Davros' experiments would've survived and decided to use them.
The fact that these early Daleks used static electricity from the floor of the city as a power source may've been due to them only having access to an earlier, more primitive set of Dalek designs (Mark II Travel Machines?) or simply a conscious choice. Perhaps the cars in the city were powered via static electricity and they found it more practical to simply convert the Dalek casings to run off of the existing power grid rather than try and manufacture separate power supplies for each casing, which may've been impossible with their limited resources? Or perhaps these mutants were simply larger than the ones created by Davros and they needed extra room in the casing that was being taken up by the casing's power supply?
With Skaro an irradiated wasteland whose resources had been bled dry by a millenium of unending war, these Daleks set out to seek out new worlds to colonize, having come up with the "satellite dish" on the back system to beam power to Daleks who needed to leave the city confines. The main group of Daleks constructed a fleet of saucers and left only a skeleton crew of Dalkes behind in the city on Skaro. In time the Daleks forget about Skaro, which was pretty useless to them, and the Daleks left behind may've even started to devolve and lose some of their scientific knowledge as the best and brightest of their species left for the stars.
These "City Daleks" were then easily defeated by the first Doctor and the Thals, who then occupied the city and took advantage of Dalek science to reach out to the stars. Eventually Davros' original Daleks bust out of the bunker they were sealed in and are driven off world by the Thals. These Daleks then go on to create their own space empire (either wiping out or absorbing into their ranks the earlier group of Daleks who left Skaro ) which is the state of affairs seen in "Planet of the Daleks". The Daleks and Thals continue to war throughout space, until the Daleks eventually drive them from Skaro as seen in "Destiny of the Daleks" and the Daleks then go on to eventually reoccupy the planet until it is destroyed by the 7th Doctor in "Rememberance of the Daleks" or maybe in the Last Great Time War - take your pick.
Theory # 2 ) These Daleks are of the same group created by Davros but for some reason they convert their shells to work off of a centralized static electricity power system while in their city and rely on power being beamed to them from another source for out of city excursions. Perhaps, as is often theorized, the "slats" on the upper part of the Daleks are solar power collectors, then this might account for the change in power supply. Since the first Daleks were buried in a bunker by the 4th Doctor, they would've been unable to recharge themselves while stranded deep underground and therefore had to adapt their casings to run off of the bunker's power generator - thus creating the static electricty system we see in "the Dead Planet".Maybe the Dalek city grows up around the bunker and since all their casings have already been converted to run off of the bunker/city generator, they just keep the system created when they were trapped underground, beaming power to themselves via satellite dish when they need to leave the city, and eventually installing in their saucers mini generators that can broadcast power for when they leave Skaro to conquer the universe. As in my previous theory, the bulk of them leave Skaro to conquer the universe and leave a skeleton crew behind to occupy the city should they ever need to return home. While out trying to conquer the universe, they eventually come to the conclusion (some time after their invasion of Earth obviously) that having power beamed to them from a central power source is a tactical weakness, since all one has to do is destroy that power source to defeat them - so they go back to using Davros' original casing designs.
UP 4617 leads 73 cars through the countryside of Benjamin, Utah along Union Pacific's Sharp Subdivision. The mighty Wasatch Front mountains mark the eastern boundary of the Great Basin from here westward. This train is UP's 58 local that shuttles natural gas liquids to and from Sawtooth Caverns near Lynndyl, UT. The facility stores petroleum products in large underground salt caverns, a unique venture that turns several trains per week. The covered hoppers on front are bound for Intermountain Power Project to be filled with fly ash from it's soon to be shuttered coal-burning power generators. March 23, 2025.
Somewhat minimalist approach, the black spots you might notice on the far right are the fumes from the boat's power generator.
A scene from New Darband village in Mansehra.
The indus river gets widened into a reservoir near this point due to Tarbela Dam. The village is now called New Darband since old village is now deep under the water after the lake was formed. The lake is also an alternative route from Mansehra to Haripur and Swabi through these boats.
Even Tater is going green and supporting wind energy!
Wind power is the conversion of wind energy into a useful form, such as electricity, using wind turbines. At the end of 2007, worldwide capacity of wind-powered generators was 94.1 gigawatts. Although wind produces about 1% of world-wide electricity use, it accounts for approximately 19% of electricity production in Denmark, 9% in Spain and Portugal, and 6% in Germany and the Republic of Ireland (2007 data). Globally, wind power generation increased more than fivefold between 2000 and 2007.
The principle application of wind power is to generate electricity. Large scale wind farms are connected to electrical grids. Individual turbines can provide electricity to isolated locations. In the case of windmills, wind energy is used directly as mechanical energy for pumping water or grinding grain.
Wind energy is plentiful, renewable, widely distributed, clean, and reduces greenhouse gas emissions when it displaces fossil-fuel-derived electricity. Therefore, it is considered by experts to be more environmentally friendly than many other energy sources. The intermittency of wind seldom creates problems when using wind power to supply a low proportion of total demand. Where wind is to be used for a moderate fraction of demand, additional costs for compensation of intermittency are considered to be modest.
niederaussem - germany 03/2011
listening to thom yorke - hearing damage
U can also try www.flickr.com/photos/polomar/4414810882/ if you like a b&w vision...
The second room of the Classic Space Monorail Station I am currently working on. What do you think of the power generators?
I bought a lightly used 2014 Chevy Volt to replace my 2011 Jetta TDI that I'll be selling back to VW as part of the "Dieselgate" settlement. The Volt is a great around town car with an ~40 mile all-electric range. It also has a gas-powered generator that allows the car to go as long as you have gasoline in the tank.
This is a picture of Yaciretá hydroelectric power plant. Yaciretá is a binational power plant which belongs to Paraguay and Argentina. Its 20 generators can deliver up to 3200 MW. It is located on the Paraná river, between Ayolas (Paraguay) and Ituzaingó (Argentina).
Esta é uma foto da hidroelétrica de Yaciretá. Yaciretá é uma empresa binacional pertencente ao Paraguay e à Argentina. Seus 20 geradores podem produzir até 3200 MW. A usina fica localizada no rio Paraná, entre Ayolas (Paraguay) e Ituzaingó (Argentina).
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An classic generator in Central Electrique Ohm, an old power station in Belgium.
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Due to the location on a peninsular jutting into the Pacific Ocean, Chôshi City is a windy place as evidenced by wind power generators above the cliff and a windsurfer on the sea.
Located east of Chilliwack BC Canada, Bridal Veil Falls Provincial Park is a scenic day-use area. The landscape encompassing the park is characterized by low elevation valleys and lush, rounded mountains. Visitors can enjoy picnicking, hiking, and viewing the spectacular Bridal Veil Falls, which tumbles 60 metres (196 feet) over a smooth rock face, creating a “veil-like” effect.
Prior to the park attaining Provincial Park status in 1965, Bridal Veil Falls was used to generate electricity in the early 1900s for the Bridal Falls Chalet. Today, only traces of the concrete foundation for the power generator can be found.
Bridal Veil Falls Provincial Park is located at the site of the ancient village of Popkum which has settlement records dating back to the 1700s. Popkum is a First Nations word meaning “puff ball”, a plant which grows in the area in abundance.
The park is situated in the Coastal Western Hemlock biogeoclimatic zone. Western red cedar, western hemlock, broadleaf maple, and red alder form a dense canopy over a sparse understory of western sword fern and spiny wood ferns. The significant wildlife species in the park are primarily songbirds and small mammals. Songbird species include the varied thrush, black-throated gray warbler, and red-breasted nuthatch. Transient species include porcupine, Columbia blacktail deer, and black bear.
-Technical specifications-
Length - 31 meters
Height - 13 meters
Maximum speed - 35 km/h
Maximum altitude - 4 meters
Engine unit(s) - Kuat Premion Mk. II power generator
Armament - Two Rotatable Twin blaster cannons
Crew - 4 OOM battle droids, Pilot, Co-pilot, Rack operator and Overseer
Passengers - 112 B1 battle droids or 20 Droidekas or 12 Super battle droids
Cargo capacity - 12 tons
this Moc has about 3250 pieces and between making it in ldd, ordering the pieces and actually building it took me about 2 years to build.
It's measurements are:
length - 57.6cm or 72 studs
height - 25.6cm or 32 studs
Width - 17.6cm or 22 studs
I tried to capture all the angles of the haul and am pretty happy with the result!
It has a full interior based on the crossed sections book from episode I.
An old switchboard for the power generators of a factory.
If you have time you are welcome to have a look at all my other pictures as well: www.flickr.com/photos/christianmeister
Designed by Italian architect Renzo Piano and finished very recently.
It is meant to host the Athens Opera and the National Library of Greece.
The construction of that flat roof, which is a huge photovoltaic power generator, was supervised by our Flickr friend maksid
Not long after midnight, SM31-025 and its special train with a power generator roll slowly on the railway line 201.
This railway line was always used for the oversized transports, which appear circa twice monthly. The conditions here are perfect, because there is no traffic between Wierzchucin and Kościerzyna aswell as no catenary, which could be a danger during the transports. The problems start after Kościerzyna, where regular services to Gdynia and Gdańsk run. The train usually halts there for an hour and around mid-day it has a free spot in the schedule to jump all the way to Somonino, where it waits for the night. After starting up around 11pm, the train runs from there via Gdańsk Osowa to Gdynia Główna and the Gdynia harbour.
Though after the modernisation of the line between Gdynia and Gdańsk Osowa, a problem appeared - the new high platforms located on a curve in Gdynia Karwiny would make it impossible for the train to pass them without scratching the edge. And thus, a new invention was born.
Shortly before the passenger stop in Karwiny, a new, weird type of switch is located, which moves the train slightly further from the platform edge and locates it on another track, which is not fully separate from track no. 2, which can be seen on the picture. After passing the entire stop, the train comes back to the normal route and continues downhill.
Photo by Piotrek/Toprus
Lake Minnewanka is but a short distance from the town of Banff. At this time of the year the water level is at it's lowest. The lake is a reservoir for a small hydroelectric power generator. The island on the left side of the image is not an island today, but later in the year it will be.
Impressions of an abandoned Place
...One of the few rooms that were not mostly emptied. This was probably the emergency power generator, otherwise there were many cables, tubes, devices, old fuses, etc....
About the Series: All photos of the series were shot at an abandoned furnirure-store, similar to the well-known stores of ikea. The complex is about to be demolished and I guess there is no reason to make a big secret of the location. It’s located in the city of Fürth (Germany) and with a little investigation, everybody should find it. Of course I wasn't inside myself and I only got the photos by accident ;)
About the post-processing: For editing I've used the Lightromm plug-in "Silver Efex Pro". More precisely: Preset Nr. 28 (in German: "kühle töne"), but partly with adjustments: I didn’t use the artificial grain and sometimes I omitted the blue color filter. The selected sequence of photos should give the viewer the impression of a walk through the complex and it corresponds mostly to the actually gone way. For the frame I used the free lightroom plug-in “mogrify”.