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Free energy, and lots of it. Between this thing, wind turbines, geothermal power, tidal turbines and wave converters, power lines around the world need never run dry. Throw algae and halophyte-based third-generation biofuels in the mix, and we can have our cake and eat it too when it comes to reducing carbon emissions AND still having the benefits of a high-energy society.
Taken on Burlington Beach in Burlington. Ontario.
Douglas Point Nuclear Generating Station CANDU Model. Seen at the Museum of Science and Technology, Ottawa, ON. Storage Facility. Artifact no. 1980.0108.
Photo by: D. Maillet
Cut-away interior view.
eines der 7 Kraftwerke der Harlander Coats Zwirnfabrik -St.Pölten Niederöstereich
one of the seven power plants in the Harlan Coats thread factory - St.Pölten lower austria
The Black Mesa Mine, operated by the Peabody-Southwest Coal Company. Inactive since 2005, when the Mojave Generating Station it supplied ceased operations. The mine was unique in the means it transported coal: by pulverizing it and mixing it with water, then pumping by slurry pipe to the Mojave plant. The line is 273 miles long. The system worked for 34 years. Land here belongs to the Hopi Tripbe and the Navajo nation. Some more history.
A view from a different angle of this new gas fired power station been built alongside the old coal fired one at West Burton, Nottinghamshire, viewed from across the River Trent whilst stood in Lincolnshire.
Transmission Lines at sunset with fast moving clouds. Shot using a Mamiya RB67 with 127mm lens on Fuji Provia 100F film.
Douglas Point Nuclear Generating Station CANDU Model. Seen at the Canada Science and Technology Museum, Ottawa, ON. Storage Facility. Artifact no. 1980.0108.
Photo by: D. Maillet
Rear right view
The bagasse loft (left) and the extension to the powerhouse (right) for the M.V. Turbo-Alternator are well advanced for the 1965 season. The components and shipping cases can be seen inside the building. Some of the frames for the Burnett Diffuser can be seen left of the power poles.
The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco was built using steel from five different Bethlehem Steel plants including the Bethlehem facility. The steel was loaded onto rail cars, railroaded to Philadelphia and then shipped through the Panama Canal to San Francisco
Steam driven turbine drives the power generator through a gear box in the powerhouse at Millaquin Sugar Mill.
Bollards in the Ohau River riverbed after the spillway on the Ruataniwha Dam. The dam forms Lake Ruataniwha and is located in the Mackenzie Basin in New Zealand's South Island.
An artificial lake, it was formed as part of the Waitaki hydroelectric project. It lies on the traditional boundary of the Canterbury and Otago provinces with the town of Twizel two kilometres to the north.
It is named after Ruataniwha Station, a large sheep station in the area, part of which was purchased by the NZ Electricity Department as the site for the township of Twizel.
The lake is approximately 4.5 km in length and covers 3.4 square km.
It was formed by the New Zealand Ministry of Works as part of the Upper Waitaki Power Project between 1977[2] and 1981 in a gorge created by the Ohau River. The gorge was blocked by the building of the Ruataniwha Dam whose crest carries State Highway 8 between Twizel and Omarama.
Lake Ruataniwha is fed by the output from the Ohau A power station and also by an overflow discharge from Lake Ohau down the normally dry bed of the Ohau River.
The lake functions as a surge reservoir for the power scheme. If, during excessive inflows into Lake Ohau which Ohau A is unable to pass or, when there has been a failure of the Ohau canal, Lake Ohau can overflow a weir into the normally dry bed of the upper reaches of the Ohau River and thus into Lake Ruataniwha. Also, if water cannot pass down the canal to Ohau B then the excess inflows into the lake can be diverted by the spillway down the bed of the lower reaches of the Ohau River to Lake Benmore. While limited the storage capacity of the lake also ensures that the flows through Ohau A do not have to be exactly matched to those through Ohau B and Ohau C.
Ruataniwha discharges through a natural gap in the dam into a canal which feeds the Ohau B power station.
Before construction of the dam could start the Ohau River was diverted by cutting a channel through a low, rocky extension of the Benmore Range and building three diversion gates there which consumed 100,000 cubic metres of concrete. The Ohau River was diverted in August 1980 so that water passed through Ohau A and then back down the river bed. Later that year, downstream of Ohau A, the river was again diverted, this time away from its natural channel and through the completed gates. An earth dam with gravel shoulders was then built on its upstream and downstream sides. The main dam, which blocks the original river channel, is 240 metres long while an adjoining wing dam is 480 metres. When the dam was completed the diversion gates were closed which, beginning in March 1982,[5] impounded the water behind the dam up to and over a temporary weir which had been built downstream of Ohau A. In 1984 the lake was temporarily lowered by 3 metres while this weir was removed to improve the performance of the Ohau A power station. The diversion gates now function as spillway gates to allow excess water to pass safely through the dam.
As we were driving from Loomis to Oroville something caught my eye. I convinced Mel to turn around and drive down some crazy 4x4 road to the river to check out a damn.
www.okanoganpud.org/Enloe/Enloe Home Page.htm
Project History: Construction of Enloe Dam was completed in 1920 by the Okanogan Valley Power Company. The dam was constructed for power generation purposes.
Okanogan PUD purchased the hydropower project in 1942,and eventually ceased operation in 1959. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC or Commission)has previously issued licenses to Okanogan PUD for constructing and operating a hydropower project at Enloe Dam.
In 1956,the Federal Power Commission (FERC ’s predecessor agency)issued a license to the PUD for the Oroville Project No.2062.In 1959,the PUD ceased operation of the project because the generating equipment had become obsolete and repair or modernization of the power facilities was not economically feasible. In addition,BPA transmission lines had extended into the area at this time.
In 1974,the Commission rescinded the order issuing license and dismissed the license application,without prejudice to the future rehabilitation of the project for powergeneration.
In 1981,the PUD filed a new application to license a project at Enloe Dam,then referred to as the Enloe Project,but also designated as Project No.2062.The Director of the Office of Electric Power Regulation issued a new 50 year license for the Enloe Project in 1983.Based on pleadings filed by the PUD and other parties,the Commission,in 1986,rescinded the license on the grounds that the anadromous fishery issues had to be resolved before a licensing decision could be made.
On May 30,1991,the PUD filed another application for an original license for the Enloe
Hydroelectric Project,also to be located at Enloe Dam.Subsequently,the Commission prepared and issued an Environmental Assessment of the project in December 1992 (See Appendix A). By order issued September 13,1996,the Commission issued an original license for the proposed 4.1 MW project,Project No.10536 (See Appendix B).Upon the PUD ’s request,the Commission stayed the license on June 30,1997.
On February 23,2000,the Commission rescinded the license and denied the license application due to the increased likelihood that the licensee would be forced at its own expense to develop upstream fish passage in advance of reaching a regional consensus on the need for such fish passage.
Over the past several years,Okanogan PUD has engaged in informal consultation with tribes and interested agencies,including FERC staff,to reach a regional resolution on the issue of upstream fish passage.It now appears feasible to reach a resolution on major outstanding fish passage issues on a regional basis,and consequently the PUD has renewed interest in developing this valuable water resource.
On January 21,2005 the PUD filed an Application for Preliminary Permit for the Enloe
Hydroelectric Project with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission which was designated as Project No.12569.The permit will give the PUD priority for filing a development application while conducting engineering and environmental feasibility studies.The PUD intends to file an application for a “Major Project-Existing Dam ” with a total installed capacity of 5 MW or less
(18 CFR § 4.60)).
Douglas Point Nuclear Generating Station CANDU Model. Seen at the Canada Science and Technology Museum, Ottawa, ON. Storage Facility. Artifact no. 1980.0108.
Photo by: D. Maillet
rear right view
The 1250 kW Parsons Turbine & Alternator originally installed for the 1940 crush at a cost of 585 Australian Pounds (exchange rate - 125.5 Aust. Pounds to 100 Pound Sterling). Conversion taken from the contract documents. Equates to $1170 in Australian dollars.
Horseshoe Falls - Canadian side of Niagara Falls from the Skylon Tower in the City of Niagara. Don't know how we afforded dining in the revolving restaurant at the152m (500ft) level of the Skylon Tower 229m (750 feet) but it sure was worth it.
CHINA SHANGHAI HONGQIAO 19MAY10 - Installation of solar photovoltaic panels on the roofs of the Hongqiao Passenger Rail Terminal in Shanghai, China. There are a total of 23000 solar panels planned for the CECIC-funded project, each panel with a production capacity of 280 KWh to feed into the electricity grid.
jre/Photo by Jiri Rezac
© Jiri Rezac 2010
A view of the Melancthon wind farm near Shelburne, Ontario. It is one of the largest wind projects in Canada with 133 wind turbines. The windmills tower over beautiful farms for as far as you can see.
Also known as the Ford Dam, Lock and Dam No. 1 includes this powerhouse located just under the former Twin Cities Assembly Plant in St. Paul, Minnesota. Closed in 2011, the plant will be razed and redeveloped, with the power plant now owned by the nearby Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport.
Dad and I recently went for another visit - on a brilliantly bright day - to Whitelee Wind Farm, the largest onshore wind farm in the British Isles (covering some 55 square kilometres of moorland just southwest of Glasgow).
There are some 215 of these enormous Siemens wind turbines, which stand some 65 metres tall (110 metres if you include the rotors at full height arc), and those enormous blades create a rotor diameter of 93 metres. Quite staggering to stand right underneath one as the blades turn in slow rhythm above your head, whooomp, whooomp, whooomp...
Very impressive bits of kit when you get right up close, and as the moorland just south of Glasgow (near Eaglesham village, where, famously, Rudolph Hess bailed out on his bizarre mission during the Second World War) has had some 90km of looping paths and tracks for walkers (and their dogs!), cyclists and horse riders to enjoy - the turbines go right out of site, covering such a large area. Glasgow Science Centre runs an annexe here, providing the visitor centre, especially good for letting younger visitors fiddle with things to learn what's going on.
Douglas Point Nuclear Generating Station CANDU Model. Seen at the Canada Science and Technology Museum, Ottawa, ON. Storage Facility. Artifact no. 1980.0108.
Photo by: D. Maillet
View of identification plates.
"Chalk River Research Laboratories no. 44034"
"Scale Model by: Harvie Thompson and Steven Waring Limited, Toronto, Canada"
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Demolition of last three Didcot A cooling towers. Blast cladding at base of left tower took out high-tension cables causing a fireball and power cut.
Whole set in my Didcot Power Station album: