Monday, March 17, 2008

Power to the People!

We shift gears again and return to some photography taken while stack testing at a power plant. This plant is undertaking massive construction of pollution control modifications to minimize its harmful emissions, these images will give a scope of the structures and environment.

Enjoy...


These four fiberglass composite stacks each measure 20 feet across and are contained in a single concrete 'stack'. They receive flue gases from the four main boilers that provide the power to generate electricity.


Looking up the interior of the larger exterior stack wall.


Here is our only transportation. We squeezed personnel and equipment into it to take us 420 feet above! (I made at least 30 trips on it during our three days of testing.)


The coal yard and cooling ponds alongside the muddy Ohio River.


Coal barges are constantly navigated to the site for offloading 24 hours a day.


Fellow stack testers set up their monitoring equipment.

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