Flight to look at power plants

[JG3]

There's lots of discussion about new power plants lately.

 

There are several power plants of different types near here, so I went for a look.

 

https://flighttoviewpowerstations.blogspot.com/2019/07/blog-post.html

 

 

[spacesailor]

just a note.

 

I notice the New plants are only a third of the output of the first smokey power plant !.

 

 " max power 1400 mW, with lots of smoke." & " On the right is the Tarong North power plant, 443 mW, on line 2003. With a much cleaner exhaust due to the more modern supercritical design",

 

spacesailor

 

 

[kgwilson]

A picture is worth a thousand words. Even the newer coal fired plants are highly polluting as well as a blight on the landscape. Solar supplemented by gas is a good interim solution until we can transition to 100% renewables. Coal seam gas has its problems and even though they have tidied up their act the fracking process still carries a pretty high risk of ground water contamination.