I was up on Raccoon Mountain again today checking the project and while I was there got some pics:
- The cables are rated for 230 KV; the diameter is 4.68". THAT is some serious wire right there.
- The turbine is one of (4) that power the turbine generators. That is a solid casting of stainless steel.
- The generator room is carved from solid rock. The bright colors are for psychological effect (it gets grim working in a cave eight hours a day; this is no BS apparently).
- These are the cables exiting the generator plant and transitioning to the transmission tower (broom is for scale, and I didn't measure it but the feed pipe on that hydraulic cable-pulling winch looked to be 1-1/2").
- Last view is top of the Mountain, that lake water builds a serious head dropping 1,100 feet to the stainless turbines in the generators.
Hope you liked the show. And now back to the regular programming (and please pardon me pclausen for the sidebar):
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