433 Comments for Franklin Power Plant

I heard the CD player in the computer works as well RD haha ;-)


haha yes yes

Yup thats correct. Those grey circular plates are tha actual fan blades that super high pressure steam was forced and then re-forced into. The resulting spinning of the turbine created the electricity. And Motts when are you going to put up you pics of the "other" power plant ? I cant wait to see those.

Well, now, thank you. Who else would find something quite so consoling?

That machine is actually a small turbine, powered by steam to turn a generator... to make electricity. There'd normally be a giant housing around it.

This would be called "The Ash Pit"

Colin, Makes sense.

BTW, this, and your other comments, are bringing some interesting insight to these power plant pictures!

Thad,

You will find all kinds of rigging in power plants. There is always some sort of work being done. Looking at the length of the chain attached, I'd say that it's hooked up to a hoistup on a higher elevation on the boiler where there was maintenance being done. It could have been used to bring up toolboxes, planks for scaffolding, piping, beams, welding machines etc. Probably not necessarily for a single piece of equipment.

About the lights being on -- Plants don't directly use the power they generate to operate... itself. They're all tied into a "grid." Suppose one of the plants comes offline for maintenance, they still need electricity to perform whatever maintenance, and to get back up and running. They use power from the grid just like your house, or anywhere else does.

No way to be sure unless I was there, but 17 is probably the elevation above sea level. In most of the plants, instead of the floors going 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 etc. They will go 19, 31, 51, 61, 81, 100.

Wow, do you think someone was in there shortly before you? I mean, lights have to burn out eventually...and leaving them on isn't all too bright, either...I'd think it could be a fire hazard.

No, the lights were on already, I try to avoid flipping switches in a power plant that's still juiced!

I remember someone telling a story where they were messing around with some old controls to a giant conveyor belt and it actually started up and began to move... you never know.

at least your hands would be clean when you plucked them out.

Nice, I like the lighting in this one. What's that pile in the lower left? Just sediment?

The composition of this is great!

This is just inexplicably creepy how it looks like a meeting just adjourned no less than 5 minutes ago...

Motts, did you turn the lights on? Or were they *on*? *shudder* I'd be scared to test light switches cause I'm always thinking they be connected with some elaborate alarm system or that the building would crumble around me...