Interesting thread that I somehow expect to get hate because no wilderness
Contributing

Background: least efficient and most polluting coal plant in Europe.

>>2784017
Took this in an outdoor strip mall parking lot

>>2784041
Nice, did you just find that shit in the middle of the woods?

>>2784050
excellent composition

>>2784058
Thanks dude same traffic light on a different night, also your pic is haunting tbdesu

>>2784058
>Build on a 100 year flood plane :D
>100 years pass and it floods :O
I'm tired of idiots building on water or cliffs then acting surprised when nature does the predictable.

>>2782949
I'm sure it's cancerous to live next to but it still looks better than filling that view with dozens of wind turbines.

>>2784048
I was on a bike tour and saw it on the horizon so obviously I had to investigate. This thing sticks out from really far away, I thought it was a ferris wheel or some radar installation at first.
Turns out it's a wind turbine a guy was building in his backyard for 30 years.

>>2784184
I'm guessing dude aged out and died before it was operational? One could be so lucky for their legacy to include a giant 5 story tall broken oscillating desk fan.

>>2784210
He completed the windmill but didn't find a suitable turbine and died before it generated any electricity. There is a video of it spinning though.

Radar

>>2782922
You going outside at all is doing better than 80% of this board

>>2782949
im guessing poland or serbia?

>>2782867
damn if you think that is suburban sprawl then you are lucky. this is suburbia here

Basement of an AT&T Long Lines communications facility.

Nothing says "Scenic" like an abandoned asbestos mine and a bunch of wind turbines.

>>2784750
too bad about the haze, otherwise quite a lovely view
new england I assume

>>2784715
>/out/
>Basement
Are you a goofus?

>>2784804
>new england I assume
Guilty as charged, this is the view from the fire tower on Mt. Belvidere, VT.
Apparently you can even see Mt. Washington on clear days from the top.

>>2784809
>pic
The ancient romans wanted to commemorate auto fellatio? Source?
What's it called?

>>2784810
110ft off the ground
better?

>>2785047
hmm you might be the same guy that posted his harness setup in the other thread maybe a few months ago how many tower repair people could there be here

also your thoughts on why they just leave up 100 year old fire towers instead of putting in a new one (next to the comm towers) that tourists can use without doing something dangerous to get nice views?

>>2785048
probably me, i know there's one or two other industrial climbers on this board though. I'll shitpost in climbing threads on occasion.

Costs money to take fire towers down, costs even more to put a new one up (not to mention nepa studies, engineering reviews, bid process, etc), and forest service/blm doesn't have money. So they stay up. Not dealing with parks service out here, where they can charge admission and recoup the cost of building that stuff.

>>2785049
>costs money
is not the point of the forest service to maintain the land for recreational opportunities?

>and forest service/blm doesn't have money
hmmm who is against giving them more funds?

Trestle on abandoned logging rail line, Oregon.

>>2785049
What’s required to get into tower repair? Do you need to be good at math and take a bunch of college classes?

>>2782949
Weird. By any reasonable estimate, about 80% of the electricity where I live is nuclear, and almost all the rest is generated by wind. Have no pix of them, but they hardly make a dent on the horizon--those huge windmills slowly turning 300 feet above faraway corn fields seen mostly from car windows. Also, beautiful thread, one of the best ever

>>2785049
Ayy fellow towerfag. I haven't posted here because I didn't think anyone would be interested but I'll dump some if I'm not rangebanned

>>2785539
2/?

I'll post a few more and then see if there's any interest

>>2785541
3/?

>>2785542
4/?
This was a cool trip. It was foggy the whole time. Everything past like 6k feet was covered in rime ice. Our guide stopped at one point, right at the beginning of this super sketchy avalanche zone, and walked off into the mist to check on things. It was cool to watch this grizzled old cowboy disappear into the mist like a ghost. The work itself sucked balls, the tower was covered in rime ice that was really frozen on, I think it got down to -20°F after wind chill, we actually weren't even able to finish our work because we were hitting our per-person climb limit quicker than usual. But the ride down (which is when this pic was taken) was cool because the fog never lifted and the sunset colored the fog so the entire world turned cotton candy colors inside our warm little vehicle. I remember drifting in and out of consciousness and being so appreciative of it all.

>>2785539
I don't remember this exact trip but it looks like it was actually a pretty mellow one. Climb up, wack ice, get tired, come down.

>>2785541
This was a summer trip. Those kick ass. It was always like 50-60°F at the peak, and you'd get these insane views. The only shitty part was that the mountain formed a sort of ramp, so once you got more than 30 or 40' up in the air you'd get blasted with nonstop wind. But at least it was nice out.

>>2785542
I think tbis trip was the same as picrel. Those are pine trees under there. I always thought they looked like dog poops. The snow here had a 3" layer of ice and then about 7-8' of snow below it.

>>2785545
Great pic

>>2785153
The Forest Service was conceived under the department of agriculture in the early 1900s with the goal of maintaining a healthy supply of timber and water resources for the United States. Their most recent goals and mission statement speak to the tune of maintaining/restoring healthy ecosystems, but they still cut timber as per their original function. Timber is going to be cut for better or worse. Some areas near me would see me dead before I see trees cut. Some place can handle it. Public access and recreation are a side effect of the federal government having more land than it could ever possibly manage. Hundreds of millions of dollars are run through the Forest Service every year and a majority of it gets dumped into the wild fire money grinder. Federal dollars spent to protect the private property of retards that build expensive homes in tinder boxes. People getting payed exorbitant amounts of money to ruin their bodies doing dangerous busy work or sit on ass and do nothing. Either way achieving practically nothing. Most people I see in fire camp are either adrenaline junkies who think they’re badass because they cut big snags or money chasing sheep who are happy to be payed $15,000 to get bossed around for two weeks. I’m one of the sheep and I’ll probably run my chainsaw unit I’ll can escape the matrix or my body gives out. At least I get to be outside, even if I have to look the sprawl.

Thank you for reading my blog
Good thread op

>>2786963
>Thank you for reading my blog

h-how did you know I read it
are you watching me

>>2787139
bright sun is the enemy of good foliage pictures

>>2787143
Your Mountain House™ spaghetti with beef marinara camping meals are about to expire anon. Better get on that.

>>2784809
Ohh clutch

>>2782867
this is a satelite map showing nj in the 1930s vs today. the complete change from an almost entirely agrarian state to suburban sprawl is hellish.

https://newjersey.maps.arcgis.com/apps/instant/media/index.html?appid=fcad50ae41634cd1aa293e3e47ce1c00

>>2791037
hmm there's gentle hills and the colors say eastern us
could be pa, could be somewhere maybe further south like tn

>>2790793
Very cool

>>2791040
close, ct

just last week.guess the place and i'll give you a cookie.

>>2792328
Animas City Mountain. Overlooking beautiful Durango, Colorado. USA.

>>2792320
connecticut looks like that??

>>2792351
Yea, we do get nice fall foliage in some places.

>>2782867
Post /in/ photos

>>2790793
>1930s satellite map
wait what?

>>2794899
they had satellites in the 1930s apparently, pretty cool eh, preceding sputnik and all that
anyways i think he means a historical survey/topographical map

>>2794899
>https://newjersey.maps.arcgis.com/apps/instant/media/index.html?appid=fcad50ae41634cd1aa293e3e47ce1c00
>>2794905
how would they get imagery that accurate over an entire state without satellites?see for yourself and tell me how they did that. you expect me to believe they flew a plane with a high qualiTY CAMERA in 1930 over very inch of ground?explain how and why

>>2794905
>i think he means a historical survey/topographical map
you can look at the link yourself to see what i mean

>>2785001
Nantucket

>>2796481
whats this?

>>2796536
A grain silo/terminal/elevator, facilities set up to receive grain by land transport, store it in the silos, and then load it onto vessels for water transport or vice versa.

>>2796549
nice, but whats that got to do with satelites in the 1930s?

>>2796550
I don't know. I didn't post it.

>>2796551
somewhere in eastern arizona

>>2796550
I accidentally replied to your post, sorry.

>>2796549
much appreciated, thanks, was wondering what it is

>>2796549
So what is the difference between what the cylindrical towers to, and the hemispherical shaped buildings?

>>2796666
The squat semispheres are called Grain bins and they store dry grains, such as wheat, corn, oats, seeds, basedbeans and barley, most commonly used for human consumption or to make fuel. On the other hand, silos are ideal for storing the fermented pasture grasses known as silage, which feed livestock throughout the winter.

bump

>>2782925
the final boss of cairns

>>2784166
Oh yeah, wind turbines are just horrible

>>2800316
deep souf?

>>2800317
Cologne, Germany

>>2800329
Ah, the famous German countryside.

>>2800329
Is this coal strip mining? Are those gas or coal power plants?

>>2800332
Lignite coal, yes. The powerplants are coal fired.

>>2800333
I've never seen a powerplant next to a strip mine. That's definitely the biggest strip mine I've seen and I've driven near/through plenty.
Usually it is more converting over to natural gas here and coal power plants are increasingly rare.

>>2800344
When you have a tiny amount of countryside to work with, it all gets mashed together.

>>2790793
thats insane

>>2800344
its the world's deepest open-pit mine relative to sea-level
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hambach_surface_mine

>>2800344
I thought it was pretty common. Why waste energy transporting the fuel somewhere else (especially when it's not as energy dense as black coal) when you can burn it on the spot and transport the energy instead.

>>2800491
i will always find it funny how they closed all nuke plants and switched to burning coal

>>2800492
Coal doesn't explode and irradiate half your country.
Yeah yeah, modern nuclear is 100% safe, until one day it isn't.

>>2800491
It isn't as flat in eastern America as it is is in Germany. There's generally going to be some distance involved in transporting it to a valley with a river that can host a power plant, and there's been a big transition to natural gas here for the most part, but definitely still some coal
and apparently some of the coal here is metallurgical grade, which means it is low in unwanted byproducts so that gets shipped to china where they make steel with it
So I think maybe eastern american coal is more exported than burned on site

>when you can burn it on the spot
*coff coff*

>>2800494
Instead you burn it and irradiate half your country, great tradeoff

>>2800511
i'm pretty sure they use filters for the airborne shit so it's not that big a deal
wonder how much ash is produced per kg of coal and where they put all of it
iirc it can be used in concrete to make it stronger but at the cost of curing speed

>>2784211
>There is a video of it spinning though
Come on, you cant just say that without a link brother

>>2790793
crazy

>>2800607
>59kb
wat

>>2800647
>image compression format designed for photos
>very good at compressing photos
crazy

>>2800660
jpg is a terrible compression algorithm
you can barely make out any details in your photo

>>2800664
not my photo but for sixty kilobytes it's remarkably good
lot of pics in this thread are 3-4MB (60 times larger) but don't have that much more detail
jpeg is definitely terrible for screenshots and computer-drawn stuff and i will never not be upset when i see a greentext story saved lossily at twice the filesize and crusted to shit compared to the original

>>2800514
>i'm pretty sure they use filters for the airborne shit
they do not.

>>2800677
oh no they definitely do have scrubbers, since the 1970s, i went on the tour of the disused Carrie Furnace in Pittsburgh, and the guide was saying in part due to competition from Asia, and in part due to EPA requirements that companies install scrubbers to filter pollutants, a lot of steel works were simply abandoned rather than updated to comply. As to whether those scrubbers actually filter out most of the radioactive gunk, I'm not sure, but I'm pretty sure any coal plant built in the last 30 years has to have them.

>>2800494
there has never been a case of a single death in this country due to nuclear power. chernobyl was a case of russian negligence and incompetence that is impossible to replicate in our safety prone risK averse country. Fukushima is the result of building a plant in a hotbed for fucking tsunamis