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Ravenswood Power Station ("Big Allis"), Queens, NYC, 2024. (fedia.io)

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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

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[–] rbellinger@mastodon.social 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

@mattblaze@federate.social Though I was small at the time, I'm pretty sure I remember seeing coal barges there in the 80s.

[–] mattblaze@federate.social 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

@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).

[–] rbellinger@mastodon.social 1 points 6 months ago

@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.