Coal Cooling Towers Come Crashing Down (VIDEOS)

11 years ago Zachary Shahan
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As clean energy options like wind and solar grow around the world, coal-fired power plants are being shut down. Perhaps the most deadly industry in the history of humankind (one of the deadliest, at least) is losing to clean wind and clean solar in the US, Europe, and elsewhere. Capturing that in a unique way, here’s a wonderful slow motion video of some coal-fired power plant cooling towers getting blown up (thanks to Peter Sinclair for the share):

Of course, this video immediately made me think of this even cooler video of coal and nuclear towers (made to look like living beings) coming crashing down:



 
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Zachary Shahan

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4 thoughts on “Coal Cooling Towers Come Crashing Down (VIDEOS)”

  • calebcrawford
    February 6, 2013 at 8:32 am
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    No love lost on the coal plants, but cooling towers are amazing architectural spaces. It would be great to re-purpose them rather than demolish them.

  • Nice post Zach…always enjoy the slo-mo guys and enjoyed seeing coal cooling towers being decommissioned.

    • Thanks. Not sure if I’ve seen their stuff before, but cool (no pun intended). 😀

  • agelbert
    February 6, 2013 at 12:47 pm
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    Exactly as I stated in an article I wrote last July, the EROEI (energy return on energy invested) numbers pumped out by Hall and Associates from their “scientific” study of fossil, nuclear and renewable energy products is a pack of lies and distortions purchased by the fosiil fuel corporations that vociferously deny that their pollution and disease effects are a cost of doing busines thay have excreted on to the biosphere. It’s a long article and I go into a lot of detail. For those interested in reading it, go here:
    http://www.doomsteaddiner.org/blog/2012/07/17/hope-for-a-viable-biosphere-of-renewables/

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