Friday Consumerist Flickr Pool Finds
Here are five special photos that readers added to The Consumerist Flickr Pool this week, chosen because they're both neat and could possibly be used in a Consumerist post. Our Flickr Pool is the place where Consumerist readers go and upload photos for possible use in future Consumerist posts. Just be a registered Flickr user, go here, and click "Join Group?" up on the top right, and start hitting "send to group" on your individual photos you want to add to the pool.
By: j.buck
Title: "Electric Car"
By: Artnchicken
Title: "Jack Colker Union 76"
By: nailmaker
Title: "13 sept cooling tower"
Caption: "it swallows all those fossil fuels, sends light through all its wires;
metabolized, digested, gone, exhausts to heaven, then expires."
By: Wayne Gunn
Title: 1987
By: Rushup Edge
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Comments:
The Ring Bell for Service reminds me of Clerks.
@zentex: I wonder if that really is a nuke plant, because I have seen similar looking cooling towers at a coal plant.
I guess I don't get why the tomato one is called '1987'
Doesn't look like a nuke plant to me. No containment building, and seems small.
Yes, we are re-open.
From the last paragraph of this section in the Wikipedia article on Cooling Towers, we find:
Hyperboloid (aka hyperbolic) cooling towers (Image 1) have become the design standard for all natural-draft cooling towers because of their structural strength and minimum usage of material. The hyperbolic form is popularly associated with nuclear power plants. However, this association is misleading, as the same kind of cooling towers are often used at large coal-fired power plants as well. Similarly, not all nuclear power plants have cooling towers.
Title: "13 sept cooling tower"
Caption: "it swallows all those fossil fuels, sends light through all its wires..."
someone please explain how a nuclear power plant uses fossil fuels to generate power. I'm always fascinated by 'new science'.