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Coloured postcard showing "Power House, Dam, and Canal System, Trenton, Ont."
View of the Trent river north of Trenton, Ontario.
Donated by Norma Lentz in November 2017.
Colt supplied and installed a smoke control system with natural ventilation to the Energy from Waste power generation facility based in Moerdijk which provides more than 200,000 households with sustainable energy.
More information on this project:
www.coltinfo.co.uk/projects/power-generation/power-genera...
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
This civil engineering project is near the East Coast Mainline north of Hitchin. I know some people deny the Global Warming Effect, I don't know the truth but I do support green energy because it makes sense to me and I hope the project is a great success. You will notice some window reflection from the train window.
Always looking for ways of making engines more efficient and more robust, MTU experts from Rolls-Royce have come up with a new solution: They coat the heart of the engine, i.e. the crank drive comprising crank shaft, conrod and pistons, with a special material that's as hard as a diamond. bit.ly/3kkzArD
Photograph from an album for Broadstairs, including Viking Bay, Broadstairs promenade, parks and green spaces, Broadstairs streets and roads, Broadstairs pubs and pub patios, bars and hotels, Broadstairs shops, stalls and shop displays, Broadstairs buildings, architectural elements and details, and street furniture including plaques, street lights, beaches and beach huts, Broadstairs views out to sea, including sunbathers, holidaymakers, tourists, canoeists, swimmers and surfers, boats, yachts, fishing craft, pleasure craft, HMCPV Border Force patrol vessels, RNLI lifeboats, pilot cutters, Thames sailing barges, and ocean-going shipping including container ships and dredgers, and also Thanet Wind Farm and stormy clouds and weather. There is a separate album for Broadstairs Folk Week.
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Fast for a freight train, anyway.
A shot from the archives, something I've dredged up mainly because of coming across a few factoids that seem like a perfect match to go with the image.
It's an empty coal train passing through Huntsville on Norfolk Southern rails. After delivering its load of low-sulfur western coal to a huge power plant in central Georgia, it's on the way back to the Powder River Basin in northeastern Wyoming, where it'll be reloaded and the round trip will begin all over again.
There's a fascinating story here, and writer John McPhee did a great job putting it down on paper, in a 2-part series published by The New Yorker in October 2005.
"This 1,800-mile haul on Union Pacific and two other railroads is the nation's longest unit-train coal run."
-- from a Union Pacific SEC filing, 11-9-94
The most noteworthy thing about the coal train business, it seems to me, is that it can actually be economically viable to haul thousands of tons of coal that far, and then -- with the same three locomotives that were necessary to drag such a string of fully loaded hoppers -- pull all those empty cars 1,800 miles back to the starting point. But it is viable. The railroads are making money these days, while competing transport industries struggle to stay afloat.
"If you're pulling empties, a north wind can take you from 50 miles per hour to 18," Scott said.
-- Union Pacific engineer Scott Davis, quoted in McPhee's article
Coal trains like this pass through here several times a day, hitting the 50-mph speed limit when they're empty and slowing almost to a crawl when they're eastbound, since you then have to pull a significant grade on the way out of town.
Norfolk Southern operates the trains from Memphis to Plant Scherer in Georgia, but NS does so under a subcontract with Burlington Northern Santa Fe, which now has the big contract to haul Powder River coal for Georgia Power.
BTW, the key reason why this long haul business does make sense economically is that low-sulfur coal from Wyoming allows big coal-fired power plants to meet EPA emission requirements -- without use of scrubbers. Coal from eastern mines, while conveniently close, has high sulfur content.
The train operations supervisor took some time to greet the train crew of Union Pacific's CSVIP-23 (Coal, Savage Loadout to IPP, originating August 23) before they pulled their train forward through the thaw shed and dump building. On August 22 the lead locomotive was fueled in Grand Junction, Colorado, for its trip west to Helper Utah, probably on an empty oil train; somebody wiped the date and location into the grime on the fuel tank. The next day it was assigned to an empty coal train from Helper to the Savage Loadout near Price, which once loaded, traveled to Provo, took a crew change, then continued here to the IPP plant north of Delta, Utah. Not a bad bit of mileage for three days of a locomotive's service!
Intermountain Power Project Delta Plant, 24 August 2024.
Loch Glascarnoch is a 7-kilometre-long reservoir in the highlands of Scotland between Ullapool and Inverness
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.
Labyrinth roof mounted natural ventilation is used to disperse heat from the production process in the power plant.
More information on the project:
www.coltinfo.co.uk/projects/power-generation/power-genera...
A Colt Shaft solution installed in the Hydro Electric Power Station in Ireland.
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Duke Energy's Crystal River power complex, as viewed from the Withlacoochee River, Levy County, Florida. The complex consists of a coal-fired plant to be phased out, a natural gas-fired plant under construction and the deactivated CR-3 nuclear power plant.
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"Anderson Collection 313B Hydro substation at Sulphide" [Ontario]. There are railway cars in the background.
Eritrea, Asmara, woman walking on an empty street by gas station with a building in the background
Eritrea, Asmara, gas station with a building in the background
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
It's about three kilometers from the highway to the beach, most of it dirt road with long stretches of the road deserted. So I was so glad to hitch a ride on the Bangui Police Patrol car out on routine patrol in the area, just as I was walking only a short distance off the highway. It costs P200 round trip to hire a tricycle to get to the windmills; this is OK if I got one or two with me to share the fare. After mulling it over - it was a very hot humid afternoon - ignoring the touts and a few stares I decided to walk, and rewarded with a free ride and new friends! These are the only police I ever felt comfortable with, I salute Ilocos for the absence of corruption. — in Bangui, Ilocos Norte.
Wall mounted natural ventilation at Gluckstadt Power Plant was provided and installed by Colt.
More information on the project:
www.coltinfo.co.uk/projects/power-generation/power-genera...
"View of Dam looking up river. Width of Dam, 700 feet; height, 17 feet; estimated horse power, 26,000. The Dam is also utilized for a railway and foot bridge. Gilmour & Co's Sluice and Power House to the right; Trenton Electric and Water Co's Sluice and Power House to the left."
Dam on the Trent river north of Trenton, Ontario.
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.
An open picnic area with tables on a raised area where several paths converge, also includes these small, open-ended shelters if you want out of the wind, sun or rain (or snow!). I quite liked the almost Gothic arch shape of the shelters.
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