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BR 47415 eases the Table 83 1E93 17:03 Holyhead to York into the Up platform loop at Abergele & Pensarn station back in September 1986.
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A change of pace
A few years ago I talked myself into an invitation to get a special tour of an old hydro power plant that is only a few miles from my house. It happens to be one of the first hydroelectric power stations built in the world, and as you can see by the date of the wall was turned on in 1898.
This is the first of several images I took there, but its also probably one of the best I got. It turned out to be a very challenging shoot. First of all the entire facility is two hundred feet down an open elevator shaft that was dug into the solid rock by the waterfall where this was built. I had to have an engineer with me at all moments and could only go in very specific places. (If you look closely you can see that this is spinning and actually generating electricity at the time I took this) Generators like this actually cast out fields of energy and if me or my tripod were to get to close the electricity could leap out and kill me. So I had to be a good boy and not climb all over the equipment like I wanted to. It was very hard to get the lens into good positions with these limitations. I also was not allowed to bring any lights down, So had to work with the very dark ambient light that was there, mostly open bulbs hanging from the ceiling. And since I'm in a deep dark cave, no windows of course, not any fill at all really. It was also *very loud* so I could not communicate very well with my minder. Given all those restrictions, I am happy with this result.
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If you want to geek out a bit about hydro power, read on: As I write these words, this particular power plant is being retrofitted with modern generators, so this old beast is now gone. This in fact was the oldest generator in the plant and even though it was constructed around 1898 was still functioning and putting out power that people in our region use. (Apparently the magnetos were rewound sometime in the 70's and they had to hire experts who could come in and rebuild this in the old school ways. There were I think 6 generators in the cave, but only two I think in the beginning. The man who built the power station had the foresight to use AC power (Westinghouse) rather than Edison's DC power. Edison built a plant at Niagara falls that made DC power but moving the DC power to the customers was very expensive and difficult, and it did not last long. The world chose AC power of course and DC power went away like sony's betamax. After building this power plant, the other challenge was that the power had to be carried by one of the first transmission lines ever built back to Tacoma. (some 45 miles I think) a massive task in its own for the times as they had to clear there way through wild forest. (Some of the key technology in this AC generator was made possible by the inventions of Nikolai Tesla who claimed to get his inventions completely realized in dreams or simultaneous flashes of insight. )
At this power plant they've added more generators about 4 times so they can capture more of the hydroelectric potential. Each time they added new versions the efficiency and capacity just about doubled. So if the first one made x power from x flow of water, the next generation drew 2x (twice as much) water and was twice as efficient. so each generation of new equipment meant quadrupling of energy efficiancy. And that has held true until this day. The most recent generators, are very powerful and effiecient relative to this old equipment. But until this last retro fit that started in 2009, they never replaced any of the old ones. So for the last hundred years are so they have been getting less than half of what could have been gotten from this precious clean resource. Why you wonder? Cheap petrochemicals made it more efficient to just burn more gas or coal rather than spend money to replace the old equipment. That era is coming to an end obviously and hence they are doing this major improvement. One of the reasons this is all of interest to me is that its revealing of how human societies make decisions. Choosing dirty fuels and not facing the hidden costs to health and the environment that when added up probably cost us more than just refitting the hydro power plant earlier. (It should also be noted that hydro power alone could not have given us all our energy needs so we probably would have been burning dirty fuels all along. But not facing real costs never gives us a chance to think about it in the first place. Maybe we would have developed other alternatives.)
So.... just across the mountains from this waterfall, on the eastern side of the Cascade range, is Grand Coulee Damn which still is one of the largest hydro electric power plants in the world. It was built during the depression with federal development money, (so sometimes government does get it right) and even though its only about 40 years later than this place, Grand Coulee generates electricity on a massive scale. (compare the generator above to this: scienceservice.si.edu/pages/010041.htm ) So much electricity, that when the aircraft industry started needing lots of aluminum for all the airplanes they were building because of world war II, They eventually turned to The Pacific Northwest because the amounts of electricity you need to smelt aluminum are vast. And that is why, my friends, Boeing is in the Seattle region today. Cheap electricity. Also of interest, they have since put a whole series of damns on the Columbia river and make lots and lots of power. Guess what the The 'Aluminum Plant' hog of electricity is today? Server Farms. Google, Microsoft and yes Yahoo/flickr all need massive amounts of power to store data, these very words and photos actually. And that is why they are building their server farms up here in the Pacific North West. Lots of relatively cheap electricity for spinning drives and the air conditioning to keep them cool. Server Farms take up more power than the largest Steel foundries. That always blows my mind a bit. So you see, in a strange ways you could never have imagined, this image here in my stream has many hidden meanings. Who could have predicted way back in 1898, that this machine would one day create the energy to preserve the image of itself and help spread those pixels across the world
Before using halogen bicycle lights, and today an LED light, I used this generator light set. No batteries to replace or charge, but the lights are lit only when you were moving.
Probably not long for this world... as everything in this room seems to be getting scrapped. The copper coils of a similar-looking machine nearby had already been sawed off.
This is my first attempt to build a Flickr "Toy".
Flickr Slideshow Generator allows you to easily get the HTML necessary to insert a custom Flickr Slideshow in your page.
As you may have gathered I was a Generator fan, 25th June 1974 sees 47418 heading south at Cockburnspath on the 1E25 16.00 Edinburgh to Kings Cross.
Generator Class 47 D1516 is running into York on the 6th of June 1970 on the 1S35 down express.
The loco became 47417 and is now preserved.
So at last I can reveal the shield generator! However I have a confession: It's only half a shield generator. And at that, the two rings I have built are only finished on one side. It will take many more Bricklink orders to complete. I added some flames to suggest the empire at in the middle of destroying it! I hope you enjoy what I've done so far. I'll be displaying it at a show in Ireland next weekend.
Former BG modified as a Generator Van as used on the Inverness -London Sleeper Service with pairs of "no heat" Class 37/0's or 37/5's
The Hickok electrical instrument Co.
Cleveland, Ohio
Signal generator Model # 188x
serial # 1-6463
A signal generator, also known variously as function generator, pitch generator, arbitrary waveform generator, digital pattern generator or frequency generator is an electronic device that generates repeating or non-repeating electronic signals (in either the analog or digital domains). They are generally used in designing, testing, troubleshooting, and repairing electronic or electroacoustic devices; though they often have artistic uses as well.
There are many different types of signal generators, with different purposes and applications (and at varying levels of expense); in general, no device is suitable for all possible applications.
Traditionally, signal generators have been embedded hardware units, but since the age of multimedia-PCs, flexible, programmable software tone generators have also been available.
The tops of six hydro-electric generators at Boulder Dam outside of Las Vegas, Nevada, as seen from the viewing platform during the visitor tour.
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Another "Generator" diverted over the Blyth & Tyne line on 19th April 1984 was 47420 which worked 1S15, the 15:55 Carlisle to Edinburgh service. I am not absolutely sure of the location, probably Seaton Delaval. The steam heating boiler was clearly operating effectively.
Scan from a 35mm negative on Ilford FP4 film.
So at last I can reveal the shield generator! However I have a confession: It's only half a shield generator. And at that, the two rings I have built are only finished on one side. It will take many more Bricklink orders to complete. I added some flames to suggest the empire at in the middle of destroying it! I hope you enjoy what I've done so far. I'll be displaying it at a show in Ireland next weekend.
Westinghouse motor-generator set for carbon-arc lamphouses.
Shot with a Canon AE-1 (IIRC). 35mm slide digitized with the improved version of my Poor Man's Slide Transfer Rig.
20190216_1689_7D2-41 Smokai smoke generator
The salmon I caught the other day was processed several ways. One side was half steaked and fried or grilled, the other side put through a cold smoke using the hooded barbeque as a smoking chamber, and using a Smokai smoke generator for the smoke (see next photo).
I taped over the rotisserie openings on the hood.
The Smokai (combination of Smoke and the Maori word for food "kai") unit runs off an aquarium pump and I was using Manuka sawdust for fuel.
A cold smoke takes between 10 and 15 hours depending on thickness. I had initially brined the pieces with a 50-50 mix of sea salt and brown sugar. This was a further 12 hours.
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Self made dirty visual synthesizer based on a VGA Signal Generator's circuit, modified in order to be audio reactive.
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