Architecture is poofy, I mean just look at the polo necks and rimless glasses architects wear.

Real men want POWER STATIONS.

My local polluter/lagoon filler for starters:

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Anyone posting up anything HE in the Alps will get a prize 😛

If I look out the wrong side of my office…

Oxford’s dreaming spires 🙂

Agecroft

…and the valley is a much cleaner and greener place.

TSY – Is that Didcot? If so I reckon you work next door (ish) to my Dad.

Yep, it is. I work pretty close to that place. Thankfully live a little further away.

It looks good and has an interesting history – It is an oil fired power station that was completed just before the OPEC oil price hike and so ahs never been used to capacity and was moth-balled fairly quickly.

Carrington Power Station. I can just see the new one (gas turbine) from my office window. This is on the site of a previous power station (coal) that was demolished after having been closed in 1991.

There’s always this beauty down the road from the Cockenzie plant. Thank goodness nuclear power is a safe and reliable method of power generation.

I’m lucky(?) enough to get to go to a couple of my local power stations for work. I love big engineering!

Neither of these pics show the flue gas desulphurisation plants that have effectively allowed them to stay open. They’re also burning more “biomass” which helps reduce some of the nasties from the stacks too.

Fiddlers Ferry, Warrington

Ferrybridge C, Ferrybridge

Pieface whassat?

Cougar – LOLs, I have the first album on vinyl – the 2nd was crap 😡

” trouble at t’mill “[/b]

Is that Sellafield/Windscale BSB?

Al – Inverkip power station, a favoured haunt of 28DL et al

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverkip_power_station

Al, we’re not interested in looking at your cockenzie………..

beautiful, huh?

this was a much more interesting panorama when the land between the viewfinder and the power station was filled with over 12 000 assorted hippies travellers and ravers for four days over the weekend of the queens golden jubilee..

another shot

Grand Dixence dam in Switzerland. 285m tall.

It’s around twenty years since I visited and I still haven’t gotten over how preposterously huge it is.

These ones are diesel powered 😀

Always liked the detailing on Fasnakyle power station, especially the pictish beasties.

Fasnakyle Hydro Station, Glen Affric

Blimey, I wouldn’t want the cleaning contract there bigjim 😐

From Saturdays ride

Our own ickle Scottish version of the Hoover dam
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Flowing through about seven miles of tunnel to this, tucked away nicely underground
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Open tunnel, so very, very hard to resist
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