Just got set up to chill for the evening. Got my stereo, my Jim beam and some mexi-brick. Got an invite to come tour a coal fired power plant today.
So I went. Went 850 feet up to the top of a cooling tower. Man I was almost sick from the height. Didn't help the tower was designed to sway and not be rigid. Stood above one of the boilers. Below my feet was 1,100 degrees at 2,400 psi pressure. What amazed me was the vibrations. Low frequency where you felt the floor below yiu move to the high frequency feeling it in your sternum like a tuning fork.
They have 3-5 trains a day come in with 135 cars. Each car holds 200 tons of coal. I never knew so much was involved in my power.
Learned one fact today. Pure H2O will not conduct electricity. Had a row of anhydrous ammonia on site for the selective catalyst reduction system that scrubs out emissions. Same style we use on semi trucks. Only four stories high.