The Off Topic Topic

[Zanza]

So does Sweden build a dinosaur submarine train or what? That seems to be a cool project.

[Jacob]

So does Sweden build a dinosaur submarine train or what? That seems to be a cool project.

It's an American show - a Jim Henson production in fact - http://pbskids.org/dinosaurtrain/

[Barrister]

I know exactly what show that is from as well...

  As soon as they talked about the Pteranadon family and tickets, it had to be Dinosaur Train.

[Zanza]

Germany - the land of green energy 

[mongers]

Germany - the land of green energy 

Nice escarpment or is that slag heaps?

[mongers]

Nothing like reading the bbc HYS comments to restore one's in humanity. 

[Zanza]

Germany - the land of green energy 

Nice escarpment or is that slag heaps?

Based on other photos of the same powerplant I would say it's a forest. I found some photos of the plant that show how perspective is relevant. One is from Vattenfall, who operates it. One is from opponents of the plant. Guess which. 

[The Brain]

Good thing you guys are getting rid of nuclear.

[DGuller]

  What's the message for the second pic?  That radioactive emissions make geese dumb enough to congregate near a wind turbine?

[Malthus]

Germany - the land of green energy 

Presumably, that's steam from the cooling towers, so it is in fact pretty 'green'. 

[Syt]

 

[The Larch]

Germany - the land of green energy 

Presumably, that's steam from the cooling towers, so it is in fact pretty 'green'. 

When I was doing my masters degree, one of the teachers that talked about air polution showed us a similar picture, with huge cooling towers belching steam to the same reaction that you've said. Then he told us that in these cases we should always look for the much smaller chimneys that are almost always eclipsed in these pictures, as those were the ones that would make the really polluting emissions.

[Zanza]

Good thing you guys are getting rid of nuclear.

At least we managed to sell some of the plants to the Swedes before deciding to shut them down.

[The Brain]

Good thing you guys are getting rid of nuclear.

At least we managed to sell the plants to the Swedes before deciding to shut them down.

[Zanza]

Presumably, that's steam from the cooling towers, so it is in fact pretty 'green'. 

Yes, of course. But it looks cool.

Anyway, that's a 3 GW lignite power plant, so I am sure it creates an ungodly amount of greenhouse gases and toxins.

EDIT: And there is the massive lignite open pit mining:
https://goo.gl/maps/1QLq21xBP8B2