The amazing and cool photo thread

[DQuaN]

Isn't it the Buran?

 

[axletramp]

Russia's urban explorers (from BBC website):

 

[Liquid]

I liked this.

 

[gnomefromnome]

Yes that is the Stanley Cup along a highway in Alaska

 

[Solid Lifters]

 

[xXKingJoshXx]

Abandoned nuclear power plant just south of where I'm at right now in Tennessee

 

[terminator363]

Awesome ^ It's probably a tad radioactive but you'll be fine

 

[xXKingJoshXx]

Awesome ^ It's probably a tad radioactive but you'll be fine

Luckily (I guess) they never even finished building. They put millions (I heard billions but that doesn't sound right) of tax dollars into it and they didn't even finish it. It's about 2-3 miles south of here. It was in the 70's when they started and finished building.

 

[TRLWNC7396]

Pretty neat shots. I'm glad you didn't slip when you were hanging off the edge...

I know there is a power plant that is still used on the Ohio/Indiana border that was converted to coal when people complained it was going to dump radioactive waste into the river. The cooling tower is still used. It's fun to drive by and say, "Oh, that's right, it's not a nuclear plant...."

 

[APIOQM]

Abandoned nuclear power plant just south of where I'm at right now in Tennessee

I have a mate who would love to explore this place. Awesome pics!

 

[xXKingJoshXx]

Pretty neat shots. I'm glad you didn't slip when you were hanging off the edge...

Oh, they're not my pics! I've been to the place but I don't have a camera nearly as good as the one used to take those pictures. Sorry for the confusion. 👍

 

[Danoff]

Oh, they're not my pics! I've been to the place but I don't have a camera nearly as good as the one used to take those pictures. Sorry for the confusion. 👍

Pretty neat shots. I'm glad you didn't slip when you were hanging off the edge...

I know there is a power plant that is still used on the Ohio/Indiana border that was converted to coal when people complained it was going to dump radioactive waste into the river. The cooling tower is still used. It's fun to drive by and say, "Oh, that's right, it's not a nuclear plant...."

This and the photos posted are depressing.

I can't believe anyone would prefer coal to nuclear.

 

[TRLWNC7396]

I can't believe we use either..... A high efficiency piston engine could put in a good argument for taking over both.... Plus, they can be small enough to go in more places....

 

[Danoff]

I can't believe we use either..... A high efficiency piston engine could put in a good argument for taking over both.... Plus, they can be small enough to go in more places....

Nuclear is better efficiency and cleaner.

 

[PeterJB]

Coal is more obvious with it's pollution, but when Nuclear goes up it really goes up.

 

[TRLWNC7396]

Nuclear is better efficiency and cleaner.

Nuclear has a thermal efficiency of under 40%. The most efficient piston engine has a thermal efficiency of 50+%. (Google "The largest engine in the world".)

 

[FoolKiller]

I can't believe anyone would prefer coal to nuclear.

Unless their job, and major economy driver, is digging up coal.

Maybe with legalizing industrial hemp Kentucky will change, but right now building a nuclear plant in Kentucky would be like flipping the bird to about half the population.

 

[Danoff]

Nuclear has a thermal efficiency of under 40%. The most efficient piston engine has a thermal efficiency of 50+%. (Google "The largest engine in the world".)

String together enough of those to output what a nuke plant makes and then talk to me about efficiency.

Coal is more obvious with it's pollution, but when Nuclear goes up it really goes up.

You mean like Fukushima? That was a testament to just how amazing nuclear plants really are. That thing was hit with a ridiculous earthquake followed by a ridiculous tsunami and the result was relatively benign by comparison to what people normally think of when they think nuclear disaster.

 

[R5]

String together enough of those to output what a nuke plant makes and then talk to me about efficiency.



You mean like Fukushima? That was a testament to just how amazing nuclear plants really are. That thing was hit with a ridiculous earthquake followed by a ridiculous tsunami and the result was relatively benign by comparison to what people normally think of when they think nuclear disaster.

The extreme is Chernobyl. What makes it worse is that the effects are more than just immediate, they can last literally near the end of this millennium.

 

[Danoff]

The extreme is Chernobyl. What makes it worse is that the effects are more than just immediate, they can last literally near the end of this millennium.

Chernobyl (worst accident in the history of the technology) is not a very good example when comparing to the current state of technology.

 

[PeterJB]

You mean like Fukushima? That was a testament to just how amazing nuclear plants really are. That thing was hit with a ridiculous earthquake followed by a ridiculous tsunami and the result was relatively benign by comparison to what people normally think of when they think nuclear disaster.

In the end Fukushima was controlled, but people get put off nuclear energy because if a plant has a full-blown meltdown the consequences could be disastrous, no matter how incredibly efficient the energy output is.

 

[R5]

Chernobyl (worst accident in the history of the technology) is not a very good example when comparing to the current state of technology.

I know, but the point is Nuclear power is a difficult beast

 

[Danoff]

In the end Fukushima was controlled, but people get put off nuclear energy because if a plant has a full-blown meltdown the consequences could be disastrous, no matter how incredibly efficient the energy output is.

1960s plant, magnitude 9 quake, 4 (I believe) magnitude 7 quakes, Tsunami, and it still didn't go full-blown meltdown. I don't know what would make people more comfortable than a test like that.

 

[PeterJB]

1960s plant, magnitude 9 quake, 4 (I believe) magnitude 7 quakes, Tsunami, and it still didn't go full-blown meltdown. I don't know what would make people more comfortable than a test like that.

I don't think exposure to radiation makes people very comfortable. That and Chernobyl were relatively mild, and yet some 300,000 were evacuated from Fukushima, and God only knows when people will allowed to return permanently to anywhere within a 19-mile radius of Chernobyl. We haven't had a meltdown yet, bu that doesn't necessarily mean we won't. Wind and Solar farms on the other hand, are squeaky clean.

 

[Bopop4]

 

[GT5Redsucker23]

 

[Solid Lifters]

 

[Flex0r]

^ Lousy photoshop

 

[GregTheStig]

^For sure.

Since we're on planes, I'll xpost this from the plane thread because reasons. This is a Spitfire "wingtipping" or nudging a V1 Buzz Bomb off course. That means this guy flew up next to an unmanned flying bomb and got his wing close enough to either gently tap it or just to disrupt the airflow, causing the V1 to ultimately miss its target. *Not shown: immense levels of testicular fortitude*

Reindeer antlers sprayed with a reflector to reduce traffic accidents in Finland.*

*I mean, RUDOLPH THE RADIOACTIVE REINDEER


Untitled by Michael McCawley, on Flickr

Lofoten Islands, Norway

 

[Danny]