It is a color

It's not entirely green, it's not entirely brown, it's not entirely black. It's just a color that blends to the nature.

Monday, October 13, 2008

In Landesbergen

I was on a road trip to one of the plant we just 'took over' in a small remote town called Landesbergen. It's about 4 hours drive from Cologne(it'd be around 3 and half hours drive if you drive 200kmph very often with 17liter/100km fuel consumption with a brand new Ford Focus like my co-worker did). We even got a speed ticket for it, and the camera caught us off guard at the 70kmph speed limit zone when we're off the Autobahn and on the country roads. The country road is not what I am more used to like those in Malaysia, single lane roads each sides, without shoulders, with lots of potholes and uneven patches, super windy for great cornering and most fun of all.... NO STREET LIGHTS! ^^ But over there, the roads are very civilized, and pretty much felt like it was explored.
Anyhow, we got there at night, stayed in our hotel rooms, watched Rambo:The First Blood(that's the reason why we were speeding, trying to catch the show -___-;;) And the next morning we just had breakfast and off to our plant.
It's a very old plant. Year built : 1973. Plant Capacity 445MW. Upgrades: Biomass Plant burning husks from farms...pretty much all over where your eyes could lay on ^^ I'll try to see if we could get the picture of us taken by the speed camera once my friend got the ticket and possibly the picture. That'd be funny :D
So this is my room. It's bigger than my apartment -__- Even the TV is bigger! Grrr
The bed's bigger, it has more table lamps... wait, I don't have a table lamp in my apartment.
Okay! I win here... I got 2 closets! :) And bigger sofa!
The bathroom is of course bigger than mine as well.
Look!!! A real full-sized SCYTHE!!! ^^ I couldn't help thinking about one with a black dark robe carrying this around at night...stalking....walking.... *chillssss*
Some other farming tools displayed all around the walls.
It's a warm hotel, compact but actually with lots of rooms. Not a lot of guests though, I think there were only two of us. In such a place, we couldn't stop thinking about people here being weird and eat tourists for dinner... and plus I'm a Chinese, and one of the cook could be saying like.. "Tonight...my fellow townsmen...we're having ORIENTALS!!!" >_<
This one I've just gotta explain. We were driving through the town at around 10pm... it was totally quiet! No people... and we saw a guy taking out trash and were a bit startled actually.. and joking about this town being like the one in "The Waxhouse" movie, and everything is just fake and mechanical. So we finally took a turn into a darker street, and this telephone booth was lit, and there was a person inside..and I was like "Look... real people!" and as we looked... IT WASN'T A REAL PERSON >___<>
Here comes the less interesting part. Biomass plant.
This chimney is probably around 150meters (not 80meters, thanks Leonard) high. I am not too sure. It'd be a pain to have to climb up there just to replace a light bulb, and half way through... oh, nice, you forgot a tool!
Steam turbine, all out open design like the good ol' days. I guess land wasn't that expensive or scarce back then.
This is a small gas turbine, Silo burner, nothing to should about.
Cut-away picture of the Steam Turbine again. And below is how the plant used to look like. Look at the surroundings... totally flat ^^

3 Comments:

At 6:41 AM, Blogger Evie Redding said...

omigosh, love the scythe~

can we get one?? ^o^

Rambo= best movie EVER

 
At 4:37 PM, Blogger Leo + Boon Hui said...

the older plant's chimney seems higher.. probably 150-200m ? Not so efficient in emission control those days right...

 
At 8:04 AM, Blogger Alex said...

Yeah, it's a "deadly" weapon ^^
Rambo cried in the end of the movie, maybe that's what makes it the best :Þ

Leonard, you're right about the chimney, it's not 80m...I corrected it thanks to you! :D

 

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