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Whilst on a mind numbing slow drive home a few nights back I decided to pull off the main road and drop into Zouch for sunset, it turned out to be a good move with the sky turning nice. The big bonus was two fold, one a massive puddle in the field by the river Soar and the other was a massive plume of steam coming out of Ratcliffe on Soar power station which had started to turn pinkish in colour, the puddle made for fantastic reflections of the pylon and steam cloud
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Een van de drie electriciteitshuisjes in Amsterdamse Schoolstijl in Woerden.
De huisjes komen uit de jaren 20. Woerden kreeg voor het eerst elektriciteit in 1922, aanvankelijk via een leiding uit Gouda. Daarvoor zat de straatverlichting en verlichting in huizen op gas.”
Het betreft transformatorhuisjes waar de spanning op het stroomnet wordt verlaagd van 10000 naar 400 volt.
High voltage power transmission lines in a thunderstorm. Salt Lake County, Utah. For the Telegraph Tuesday group. HTT!
Only a small section of the dam, but beautiful at night. Grand Coulee Dam is a concrete gravity dam on the Columbia River in the U.S. state of Washington, built to produce hydroelectric power and provide irrigation water. It is about one mile across and 670 feet tall. Constructed between 1933 and 1942, Grand Coulee originally had only two powerhouses. The third powerhouse, completed in 1974 to increase energy production, makes Grand Coulee the largest power station in the United States by nameplate-capacity at 6,809 MW. However, in terms of yearly power production, Grand Coulee places fifth after a number of nuclear facilities to the south, like Palo Verde west of Phoenix. This is because river flow varies throughout the year. For example, while the dam may generate at nameplate-capacity in the spring, decreased river flow in the fall means less power can be generated the rest of the year, resulting in a lower capacity factor.
This just looked cool on my drive home from a trip last winter. Something different, but hope you like it. Windmills and the electricity transportation lines with some pre-storm clouds overhead. The horizon is purposefully not level in case you're wondering. Somewhere in North Texas, USA, December 2016
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Got this fine sunset by the railroad tracks in my hometown. A lot of sunsets and no blue hours this summer, as I have to sleep early. I love being an archivist, but being away for 13 hours a day has its drawbacks.
High voltage power lines bracing for a thunderstorm with half o the power headed underground. Orem, Utah.
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A big shoutout to all the linemen working in icy cold and dangerous conditions to keep our electric grid running to feed us our essential power fix! Thank you guys and gals!
Orem, Utah County, Utah! Mount Timpanogos and Baldy Peak in the background.
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Transporting power from the Shoshone Falls power station. Twin Falls County, Idaho. Happy Telegraph Tuesday!
High voltage lines making a right angle turn with tap offs headed underground. Happy Telegraph Tuesday!
The sunrise in the east silhouettes these power lines near rural Fairfield, Montana.
The sunrises are glorious here in Montana. When you know the sunrise will be magnificent it is often hard to find something to silhouette against the colorful sky. Luckily these power lines came into view just as the sky came to life.
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Snow, electricity and a starling for the Telegraph Tuesday Group. Utah County, Utah.
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High voltage feeders headed underground to serve a local area. Utah County, Utah
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Power plant making hydroelectric power from falling water on the Snake River at Shoshone Falls, Twin Falls, Idaho.
There are around 22,000 pylons stretching over more than 7700km (4300 miles) of high-voltage overhead lines in England and Wales. In addition to pylons, National Grid's high voltage transmission network comprises of 4,500 miles of overhead line, 1,500 miles of underground cable and 350 substations.Electricity pylons (also known as towers) have been part of the British landscape for almost 100 years,The UK's first electricity pylon was built in Scotland in 1928. The tallest electricity pylons in the UK are on each side of the River Thames.National Grid is working to erase the impact of pylons and overhead lines in some of the country’s most beautiful landscapes, by constructing electricity tunnels underground through the Visual Impact Provision Schemes. These schemes are chosen by independent stakeholders – including the National Trust, Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) and the Ramblers Association
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High power lines taking electricity from the Rifle Gap Dam hydroelectric power plant about three miles from here to Rifle, Colorado about three miles down stream from here. Rifle Creek is visible along the close tree line. Garfield County, Colorado. Happy Telegraph Tuesday!
Huge pylons taking power from the Glen Canyon Dam hydroelectric power station. The dam and this supporting infrastructure produce 4,717 Gigawatts of hydro power annually.
The Full Moon of July 31, 2023 rising at the end of a long line of high tension towers across the prairie near Milo, Alberta. Some smoke in the air made the rising Moon even redder than normal, making it look like an eclipsed Moon. This night the alignment of the rising point of the Full Moon coincided with the angle of the powerlines off to the southeast at 135° azimuth.
This was the evening before the day of actual Full Moon, which ocurred at midday August 1, so the Moon the evening before was almost as full as it would be the next night, and the alignment was better this night. This was also a "supermoon," being a Full Moon close to lunar perigee.
This is a single exposure with the Canon RF7-200mm lens at 200mm anf f/4 on the Canon R5 at ISO 100. A mild soft focus effect added with Nik Collection 6 Color EFX.
Though both the high voltage transmission line support pole and the smelter stack seem to be of similar heights it is an optical illusion. Both serve the Rio Tinto/Kennecott smelter. Happy Telegraph Tuesday!
The Kennecott Garfield Smelter Stack is a 1,215 feet (370 m) high smokestack west of Magna, Utah near the Great Salt Lake. It was built to disperse exhaust gases from the Kennecott Utah Copper smelter at Garfield, Utah. The Garfield Smelter Stack is the tallest free-standing structure west of the Mississippi River, the fourth tallest smokestack in the world and the forty-third tallest free-standing structure on earth. It is the only operating smelter chimney left in Utah.
Remnants of the electrical distribution system for the defunct Castle Gate Power Plant in Castle Gate ghost town.
Carbon Power Plant, also known as Castle Gate Power Plant was a small, 190-MWe coal-fired power station in Utah, operated by PacifiCorp. Its units 1 and 2, rated at 75 and 113.6 MWe, were launched into service in 1954 and 1957. The plant was located in Castle Gate, now a ghost town and was about 3 km (2 mi) north of Helper, Utah, on the east bank of Price River.
The plant was decommissioned on April 16, 2015 and has now been totally demolished with complete environmental mitigation of the site. All that remains is these aging and unused bits of the distribution system.
Glen Canyon Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam on the Colorado River in northern Arizona, near the town of Page which was built to support the construction of the dam. The 220 m high dam was built by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation from 1956 to 1966 and forms Lake Powell, one of the largest man-made reservoirs in the U.S. with a capacity of 27 million acre feet. The dam is named for Glen Canyon, a series of deep sandstone gorges now flooded by the reservoir; Lake Powell is named for John Wesley Powell, who in 1869 led the first expedition to traverse the Colorado's Grand Canyon by boat. Though the dam is in Arizona, most of Lake Powell in in Utah. The produces 4,717 Gigawatts of hydroelectric power annually.