While the dependant plants in Trigun Stampede look cool as combination of angelic alien orchids and some sea creatures in their little aquariums, im intensely bitter because of how literal they made it (oh they really are plants plants huh) and the lack of the absurdly massive light bulbs they resided in in the 98 anime and manga..Like, Not all of the light bulbs were humongous, hanging over towns, but the ones that were, were mindboggling...There is something intense about something so powerful (and kinda eldritch) being captured in something so massive yet fragile looking.  I loved the old bulb and plant designs so much because they werent just cool aesthetics... I loved them because their size and design didnt make sense. As a man made horrors beyond our comprehension shouldnt make sense. And their visuals evoke in me memories of how it felt standing at a foot of a 125 meters tall cooling tower of a nuclear power plant. Its monumental, useful and potentially very dangerous... so much so one has to feel humbled.

- Plants in trigun 98 (we didnt learn much about them because there wasnt enough of material to work with)

- Plants in the manga...whats important to note, is  that the plants often stood over the towns as in constant vigil (monumental yet sentient)... not just visible from all around by everyone, but they themselves kept on observing all the people living their lives underneath their bulbs... All the people prospering from their services.... or fighting and killing over them

- Plants in Stampede.. While they are still interesting designs, the little aquariums conveniently small enough to be more easily stolen dont do it for me, even though they still represent the power of captured nature. They are also...very very sheltered from humans. Hidden and overlooked, although important.. Which makes me sad. And doubtful that there will be many interaction scenes between them and the people... Hopefully in next season there will be big bulbs and interactions.. but who knows.. (Ok, like, it makes sense that a core of a power plant should be hidden and protected inside of a building,  but I wish to see some big bulbs!! I wish to see them spilled out of the wreckages of the big space ships)

And to illustrate what I meant about the comparison to actual nuclear power plants in their absurd monumental insanity (which is somewhat also sort of mundane??).. here are some photos of our nuclear power plants. Dukovany and Temelín

-Dukovany photo by Zdeněk Dvořák

- Temelín as the Big Night Watchman (video mapping by Milan Cais, photo by ČTK)

I love this sort of thing so much n need more of it.

The Time Machine | photos of Portuguese hydro-electric power plants by Edgar Martins

Internet Archive link (aka no paywall): https://web.archive.org/web/20230318235147/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/15/climate/epa-states-pollution-smog.html

"The Biden administration on Wednesday finalized a rule forcing factories and power plants in 23 Western and Midwestern states to sharply cut smog-causing pollution that is released from their smokestacks and fouls the air in Eastern states.

Known as the “good neighbor” rule, the new regulation strengthens and expands an earlier interstate air pollution standard that was enacted during the Obama administration. While that rule directed power plants to clean up their emissions, the revised rule enforces similar controls on mills, factories and other industrial facilities.

The Environmental Protection Agency is required by the Clean Air Act to periodically review and revise the rule. After failing do so during the Trump administration, it is now strengthening restrictions under a court-ordered deadline.

The good neighbor rule holds that states should take measures to ensure that their pollution doesn’t affect downwind states. It directs coal-burning power plants and industrial facilities such as iron, steel, cement and concrete manufacturers in the Western and Midwestern states to reduce their emissions of nitrogen dioxide, a pollutant that causes smog and is linked to asthma, lung disease and premature death...

“Every community deserves fresh air to breathe,” E.P.A. Administrator Michael S. Regan said. “We know air pollution doesn’t stop at the state line.”

The tighter rules on power plants will come into force later this year, while the new controls on factories and other industrial polluters will take effect in 2026.

The revised rule is one of a stack of climate and clean air regulations expected this year from the Biden administration, including stricter controls on planet-warming emissions from cars, trucks, power plants and oil and gas wells and mercury pollution from power plants. Collectively, they are designed to strengthen the clean air and climate protections that had been rolled back by the Trump administration, and to accelerate the nation’s transition away from fossil fuels and toward renewable energy.

The E.P.A. estimates that the updated good neighbor rule will cut emissions of nitrogen oxide in the affected states by 50 percent from 2021 levels by 2027, preventing 1,300 premature deaths, avoiding more than 2,300 hospital and emergency room visits, preventing 1.3 million cases of asthma and avoiding 430,000 lost school days and 25,000 missed work days..."

-via The New York Times, 3/15/23

Note: The NYT is disproportionately focused on the results to distant low-industry and often majority-white states, such as Delaware (I couldn't find a more comprehensive article on this, unfortunately). But these regulations will also have powerful impacts on areas and communities disproportionately affected by heavy industry by cutting emissions at the source, which will hopefully help to reduce the devastating impacts of environmental racism and protect communities that actually live next to these factories, not just hundreds of miles away.

Map of Every Power Plant in the United States, 2020.

Kraków ul. św. Wawrzyńca 19-25 / Dajwór 27 Elektrownia Miejska, 1900-1914 hala maszyn z 1904 r. architekt: Jan Rzymkowski foto z 28 sierpnia 2016 i 18 czerwca 2022

Najstarsza publiczna elektrownia miejska w Krakowie ruszyła 18 lutego 1905 r. Tak wyglądała ceremonia otwarcia w relacji lokalnej prasy: Po przemówieniu inżynier Gajczak podał prezydentowi miasta [Juliuszowi Leo] nożyczki na poduszce, ozdobionej herbem m. Krakowa. P. prezydent przeciał wstążkę o barwach miasta, wiążącą koło rozpędowe do maszyny. W tej chwili puszczono maszyny w ruch i wszystkie lampy w zakładzie światłem elektrycznem rozbłysły. dziennik Czas, 20 lutego 1905 r.

Maszyny, które tamtego wieczoru zaczęły pracę, były dwoma silnikami o mocy 300 koni mechanicznych firmy Emil Škoda z Pilzna, spalającymi gaz dostarczany z sąsiedniej gazowni miejskiej, które napędzały prądnice wiedeńskiej firmy Allgemeine Union Elektrizitäts-Gesellschaft, o wydajności 200 KW każda. Cały zespół został zaprojektowany przez inż. A.W. Schlayena i dostarczał początkowo energię do 345 odbiorców. W rok po uruchomieniu elektrownia zasilała 28 758 żarówek w Krakowie.

Wnętrze hali maszynowej co najmniej dwa lata pó��niej.

Reklama elektrowni z 1916 r.

Elektrownia w tym budynku działała przez osiemdziesiąt lat. Na zdjęciach szczyt z herbem miasta Krakowa oraz jedno z okien hali.

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Krakow, Poland 19-25 św. Wawrzyńca St. / 27 Dajwór St. The City Power Station, 1900-1914 machine room built in 1904 architect: Jan Rzymkowski taken on 28 August 2016 and 18 June 2022

The oldest public power plant in Kraków got launched on 18 February 1905. This is how the local press reported the opening ceremony: After the speech, Engineer Gajczak offered the City President [Juliusz Leo] a pair of scissors on a cushion decorated with the coat of arms of Kraków. Mr. President cut the ribbon in the city colors that tied the flywheel to its machine. At the same moment the machines got put in motion and all lamps in the building lit up with electric light. daily paper Czas, 20 February 1905

The machines in question were two 300 hp engines from Emil Škoda Factory in Plzeň, fueled by gas from the neighbouring city gas station, that drove two 200 kW generators from a Vienna company Allgemeine Union Elektrizitäts-Gesellschaft. The whole set had been designed by Engineer A.W. Schlayen and delivered power to 345 receivers in the city, initially. One year later, the power station powered 28 758 lightbulbs in Kraków.

[interior of the machine room at least two years later]

[the station ad from 1916]

The power station worked in this building for eighty years. The main photos show the center gable with the Kraków coat of arms and one of the machine room's windows.

New rules will slash air, water and climate pollution from U.S. power plants. (Washington Post)

The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday finalized an ambitiousset of rules aimed at slashing air pollution, water pollution and planet-warming emissions spewing from the nation’s power plants.

If fully implemented, the rules will have enormous consequences for U.S. climate goals, the air Americans breathe and the ways they get their electricity. The power sector ranks as the nation’s second-largest contributor to climate change, and it is a major source of toxic air pollutants tied to various health problems.

Before the restrictions take effect, however, they will have to survive near-certain legal challenges from Republican attorneys general, who have been emboldened by the Supreme Court’s skepticism of expansive environmental regulations.

Another wild card is the November election, which could hand the White House back to former president Donald Trump, who has pledged to scrap dozens of President Biden’s green policies if he returns to office.

One of the most significant rules will limit greenhouse gas emissions from new natural gas-fired power plants and existing coal-fired power plants. It will push all existing coal plants by 2039 to either close orcapture 90 percent of their carbon dioxide emissions at the smokestack.

A second regulation will reduce releases of mercury and other toxic air pollutants from the smokestacks of coal plants nationwide. Exposure to mercury, a powerful neurotoxin, can cause serious health effects, especially for developing fetuses and children.

A third rule will expand federal oversight of coal ash, the waste from coal plants that often contains a mix of chemicals linked to increased cancer risk. A fourth will limit the levels of toxic metals in the wastewater that coal plants candischarge into rivers, lakes, streams and other waterways.

Each rule will yield huge benefits for public health and the planet, according to the EPA. The greenhouse gas standards alone will prevent up to 1,200 premature deaths, 870 hospital visits and 1,900 asthma cases in 2035, the agency said. They will also reduce carbon emissions through 2047 by 1.38 billion tons — equivalent to the annual emissions of 328 million gasoline-powered cars.

Together, the rules represent the culmination of an aggressive plan that EPA Administrator Michael Regan first outlined in 2022. Speaking to an energy industry conference in Houston that year, Regan promised an array of regulatory actions to tackle pollution from power plants, which he said often hits poor and minority neighborhoods the hardest.

Jody Freeman, who directs the Environmental and Energy Law Program at Harvard Law School, said she thinks the rule is on solid legal ground, because EPA lawyers crafted it to comply with the 2022 decision and the Clean Air Act. But it is difficult to predict what the conservative justices will decide, she said.

“The Supreme Court will do what it wants, and it’s shown a particular hostility to EPA rules,” Freeman said.

Rural hydro-electric infrastructure of Northeast Georgia

In the early 1900s the Georgia Railway & Power Company(currently known as Georgia Power) built a series of dams along the Tallulah & Tugalo rivers between what was at the time the boundary between Habersham County and Rabun County. The damns themselves are a series of six ‘stairstep dams’ and are among the first large, integrated hydroelectric systems in North America. The site on the Tallulah River(which is where four out of the six dams lay) was chosen due to the fact the Tallulah River has the greatest velocity out of any river in the eastern United States. This North Georgia Hydro Project once was the largest producer of power in the state of Georgia and are accredited to being key in Atlanta’s rapid growth in the 1900s. Now, they only operate at peak power supply. However, these six damns are capable of producing 166 megawatts, and supply enough energy to over 100,000 homes. There is often a seventh plant that is closely associated with this project, that plant is the Estatoah Dam in Dillard, GA. This plant was not however built by the Georgia Railway and Power Company but by the city of Dillard itself. The plant, known as the Rabun Land and Water Company at the time, this plant brought electricity to north Rabun for the first time, and continued to server the community for decades until it was purchased by Georgia Power Company in 1960. Georgia Power still owns & operates all 6 of the plants to this very day, and keeps all plants open to the public for recreation.

The Plants picuted are:

Nacoochee Dam, Lake Seed

Tallulah Falls Plant, Tallulah Falls

(The rails seen in the photograph are still used as access to the plant til this day)

Mathis Dam, Lake Rabun

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