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Ratcliffe on Soar Power station cooling towers, Now out of use, coal was King, but is now a dirty word.
Climate change.....now we import a large percentage of our electricity, mainly from France at extortionate rates. What bollocks.
Saturday 25th September 2022.
Camera: Linhof Super Technika III (1956).
Lens: Schneider 150mm Xenar f/4.5.
Film: Ilford Delta 100 4x5” sheet.
Exposure: 1 second @ f/22.
Development: Kodak HC-110 Dilution H 20C/12 minutes.
4x5 inch negative cropped to square ratio.
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Eggborough Power Station is still in operation at the time of my photograph.
As of 2021 it has been demolished and the railway feeding it has been lifted.
Eggborough power station was a coal-fired power station in North Yorkshire, which was capable of co-firing biomass. It is situated on the River Aire, between the towns of Knottingley and Snaith, deriving its name from the nearby village of Eggborough. The station had a generating capacity of 1,960 megawatts, enough electricity to power 2 million homes, equivalent to the area of Leeds and Sheffield. The station closed in September 2018, but there are plans to replace it with a 2,500 megawatt gas power plant.[2]
The station began generating power in 1967, making use of nearby coal-reserves. It was built for, and initially operated by the Central Electricity Generating Board.
The bent rail in the foreground is an electromagnetic contact that opens and closes the dump doors on the Ortner hoppers. A shoe on the side of the cars, when in contact with the rails' magnetic field, releases the air valves that control the doors.
Intermountain Power Project Delta plant, 24 August 2024.
A widefield shot under one of the cooling towers of Willington Power Station showing the inside meeting the outside.
The end-of-track device on the east side of the power plant caught my eye for its redundancy. A Hayes bumper, wheel stops, guardrails, AND a dirt pile? Curious what they were planning on stopping.
Representative of the entire plant, the rest of Intermountain Power is built the same way with backups for backups of backups. Everything is installed in duplicate and triplicate in case any emergency were to take out one part of the generation process, it won't affect the whole whole plant.
Intermountain Power Project Delta Plant, 24 August 2024.
While exploring this abandoned Belgian power plant, I was captivated by the silent majesty of its turquoise turbines. I wanted to capture the essence of this Belgian industrial heritage, a witness to the golden age of electricity production in the country. Natural light, filtering through the tall industrial windows, creates a pattern of shadows that emphasizes the site's geometry while revealing the weathered texture of the old turbines. The composition guides the eye from the massive generator in the foreground to the luminous perspective of the corridor, symbolizing the passage of time in these now deserted facilities. The touches of vegetation emerging from the ground tell the story of a place once vibrant with activity, now reclaimed by nature. Through this image, I wanted to pay tribute to Belgium's industrial heritage, capturing the melancholic beauty of these industrial cathedrals that once powered the nation.
The car dump control panel, virtually unchanged from its installation in 1984.
Intermountain Power Project Delta Plant, 24 August 2024.
Juxtaposition in Port Augusta: coal-fired steam power generation driving NM25 and its empty Afghan Express consist while behind are the renewable energy wind generators providing the power being distributed by the the huge new pylons and wires that dominate the landscape. Lake Knockout, Monday July 29th, 2024.
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Unknown date. This shows the powerhouse just below the dam.
Part of the Jackie Bleecker Album
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Another phone-pic of Ratcliffe-on-Soar Power Station, snapped tfrom the garden of The Trent Lock pub, on th oposite bank of the river
Bucket-wheel excavator, Tagebau Garzweiler, Garzweiler open pit mine, Germany
The Tagebau Garzweiler is an open pit lignite mine with a size of 110km² (27200 acres). The lignite is burned in power plants which generate about a quarter of the electricity used in germany.
Bucket-wheel excavators are used for continuous overburden removal in surface mining. The overburden is then delivered to the discharge boom, which transfers the cut earth to another machine for transfer to the central collection area where the material will be sorted. Then the remains of the overburden will be transported on a belt system to the spreader which then scatters the overburden at the dumping ground.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garzweiler_open_pit_mine
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Rays of golden sunlight stream down from the clouds onto a field of windmills.
The CSVIP23 train crawls through the car dump building.
Intermountain Power Project Delta plant, 24 August 2024.
Friday 3rd September 2021.
Camera: 1956 Linhof Super Technika 4 x 5".
Lens: Schneider 90mm Angulon f/6.8.
Film: Ilford Delta 100 4x5" sheet black & white negative.
Exposure: 30 seconds @ f/22; lens focused to 5 metres.
Development: ID-11 1 + 3 22 min/20C.
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The stacker piles the coal emptied from the train.
Intermountain Power Project Delta plant, 24 August 2024.
I have found it quite irresistible these past mornings to go straight to work without first diverting towards Redhill Marina to capture the rising sun glinting through the iconic cooling tower structures of Ratcliffe on Soar Power Station. The station has been generating at full capacity these past few days as the cold weather has has increased the UK energy demands. What a great way to start my working day.
Thanks for your visit and comments, I appreciate them very much! Please don't use this image on websites, blogs or other media without my explicit permission. © Nigel Stewart
The photograph captures a scene of industrial infrastructure set against a muted, overcast sky. Two massive, cylindrical cooling towers dominate the frame, their concrete structures a stark contrast to the soft, gray sky. One of the towers is actively releasing a plume of white smoke, suggesting ongoing operations. The overall composition is characterized by a low contrast, with the gray tones of the towers and sky blending together. The scene evokes a sense of industrial presence and potentially environmental impact.
Two views of one of the interesting technological sights as you head closer to Port Augusta. This is Sundrop Farm - consisting of this amazing 127 metre tall solar collector tower, combined with 24,000 mirrors aiming the plentiful sunlight at the collector. It produces electricity to provide power for desalination of the salt water from the nearby Spencer Gulf and provide heat and cooling to the 200,000 square metres of greenhouses, all of which help produce a continuous and sustainable supply of food. I believe, if you have eaten truss tomatoes purchased from Coles supermarkets, there is a good chance that they were grown right here. There is some great information and video of this amazing place on the Sundrop Farm website if you are keen to learn more. I was suitably amazed.
Being a very long lens, and taken from some distance away, this has picked up the amazing shimmering heat haze being generated on the day, and highlights how much the sun can heat the area when it was only a mild 18 degrees C.
An industrial shot at the Rocky Point Sugar Mill between Brisbane and the Gold Coast. Given the sugar cane harvest is over for another year and the cane fields that support this mill are surrounded by development and there has been a bit of chat about if and when the mill shuts entirely, I thought I should get this shot up promptly. Strangely though, getting a shot of the core of the mill, the old bit that crushes the cane was difficult, we ended up around the back where the mill has an electricity co-generation project in operation. It burns bagasse which is the left over leaves from the harvested cane and having come from the electricity industry, I had an idea that at one stage it may have also burnt other bio waste. That is confirmed in the internet snippet below.
"The Rocky Point-3 cogeneration project is supplying 30MW to power the Rocky Point Sugar Mill in south-east Queensland, Australia. When built, it was Australia’s largest biomass power plant. Construction was by a joint venture between W H Heck & Sons Pty Ltd (who own the Sugar Mill) and the government owned Stanwell Corporation.
The A$55m project was started in 2000 in the factory, which is 40km south of Brisbane. It uses a 30MW Alstom steam turbine and generator, using bagasse as primary fuel with some wood waste and green wood firing. The plant came on line in 2001, and is being operated by Stanwell. It generates up to 160,000MWh annually – enough to supply around 18,000 homes. Reductions in greenhouse gas emissions are estimated at 155,000 tons per year, the equivalent of taking more than 20,000 cars off the road".
"Rocky Point Green Power Plant is located at Woongoolba
near Beenleigh, Northern End of the Gold Coast.
The plant was originally designed, owned and operated by
Stanwell Corporation.
In June 2006 the power plant was sold to Babcock and
Brown who have successfully operated it until mid 2010 ,
Brown who have successfully operated it until mid 2010 ,
Plant is now owned by National Power Partners.
The Power plant uses Bagasse, approved wood waste and
other biomass materials to generate renewable electricity
and supply process steam to the Rocky Point Sugar Mill.
Rocky Point Green Power operates under strict
guidelines as defined by the National Green Power
Accreditation rules, The Renewable (Electrical) Energy Act
(REC’s), and the New South Wales Greenhouse Gas Abatement Scheme".