cooling towers
We went on a field trip to Didcot Power Station yesterday, which was pretty interesting and worth doing if you get the chance. I don't know whether it's possible to visit other power stations. There are two stations there: Didcot A which is coal and Didcot B which is gas. Didcot A was built earlier so they built six massive great cooling towers which are a blot on the landscape that you can see from ten miles in each direction. When they came to build Didcot B, the local residents did not want to see any more cooling towers, so they built about 17 much lower condensing units, which aren't visible from far away. The only problem is that each one of those units takes about 1MW to run. From an environmental point of view, it was probably better to have the cooling towers.
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