Ravenswood Power Station ("Big Allis"), Queens, NYC, 2024.
All the pixels with none of the respiratory ailments or climate impact at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/53732990785
#photography
this post was submitted on 02 Dec 2024
3 points (100.0% liked)
Photography
0 readers
40 users here now
All things photography. Share your own original photos, your questions, your inspiration.
Rules
Share your own original photography. No NSFW images. Be Nice.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Known locally as "Big Allis" (after Allis-Chalmers, the manufacturer of the largest of the four generators in the plant), Ravenswood is fired by both natural gas (now the primary fuel) and oil, and also has the capability (never used, as far as I know) to burn coal.
Ravenswood has been linked to a spike in asthma and other respiratory disorders among local residents. There is pressure to decommission the generators and replace them with battery banks to store renewable energy from upstate.
@mattblaze@federate.social And yet they chose to shutter Indian Point Nuclear Plant instead of this...
@mattblaze@federate.social Though I was small at the time, I'm pretty sure I remember seeing coal barges there in the 80s.
@rbellinger@mastodon.social It was apparently never actually coal fired, though it was built with that capability. Oil is delivered by barge, though. (And there's a lot of other barge traffic in the East River).
@mattblaze@federate.social Perhaps my child self confused it with the Domino Sugar plant, which received bulk barges of sugar into the 2000s. Big Alice has such extensive coal handling infrastructure -- including a giant clamshell bucket out front -- for a plant that never burned any.