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Scale

Scale

This blurry faced person helps show how massive this place really is!
Taken from down in "the pit", in front of what I assume to be a boiler, which sits underneath a turbine.
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Holy cow!
Bri
Thu 12-01-2005
Hey! Hey! I think I reck-a-nize that guy! Geez, he does look purty small, huh?
Lynne
Thu 12-01-2005
That's impossible, his face is blurred out... :)
Motts
Thu 12-01-2005
Massive there are no other words.
Truckie
Thu 12-01-2005
Holeeeeee mamma! Now I am beginning to understand the massive size of these things. Oh yeah Motts you can't hide behind a measly blur! Look at those familiar Popeye arm "muskles"!
Jude
Thu 12-01-2005
Oh. Well, never mind my previous question about scale! Wow!
Virginia
Thu 12-01-2005
Wouldn't it be fun to play Hide and Seek there?
Rebecca
Thu 12-01-2005
It would be more like Hide and Never Find (or get lost)...this place is HUGE!
Bri
Thu 12-01-2005
I'm still not allowed to comment on how big anything is. :-(
Lynne
Thu 12-01-2005
Iv'e always wondered what those little doors are for. I think thats where the pilot flames are located
RedDragon
Thu 12-01-2005
Reminds me of the turbines/engines on the titanic..
Mona Lisa
Thu 12-01-2005
That's like the photo of the shipbuilders standing next to the giant propellor screws from Titanic!

This photo makes those boilers look....elegant in design.
AutumnTwin
Mon 12-05-2005
That is a big assed boiler!!!!
Ed
Tue 12-06-2005
DAMN!!!!! That is stunning!
TheKid
Mon 12-12-2005
There have no doubt that its a big size multi-pass surface condenser with 20 nos. of man-holes for tube inspection, but no scaling could be observed through the opened man-hole of this photograph.
Asoke
Tue 12-20-2005
Wow its extremely huge compared to the person in the photo.
Andy
Sat 01-21-2006
If this was a film I'd expect a giant hand to burst out and grab 'super blurry faced guy'. Looks like a cage for a gaint creature to me...
Jimi B
Sun 02-12-2006
Amazing stuff. I worked for a few months at a power station once and the noise once you got down to these deep sections of the station was absolutely deafening, even wearing ear-protectors and all. It must be quite something to be there when the place is absolutely silent like this.
Alex B
Sun 04-23-2006
hmmm, i wonder who that blur faced person with a hawk like hair cut and slevless shirt could be...
steve
Fri 09-01-2006
Hey What is that bluish thing towards the top-right of the boiler/condenser that blurry face guy seems to be looking at????

I also love the shot of the roof trusses..great photo.
DaveWilly
Tue 09-26-2006
It looks like a piece of duct tape that fell off something and caught the cap so it's just hanging there.
Motts
Wed 09-27-2006
Kinda looks like an industrial toilet seat cover.
Patrick
Sat 01-26-2008
Thats Not a boiler, its a condenser. It converts the exhaust steam in the turbine back to water to be boiled again. Those manholes are for workers to go in when sticks and debris plug the cooling water tubes inside.
ScubaSteve
Thu 04-17-2008
Looks like a massive dorrway to the coal soaked burned up Flame flilled UNDERWorld

Open Sesameee
Tara
Wed 05-14-2008
Turbine condenser
Shawn
Tue 01-26-2010
its a condenser http://www.jsmea.or.jp...-e/showa/indexE.html
Hawkeye
Tue 11-02-2010

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