• Yozen Hernandez@fosstodon.org
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    4 days ago

    @[email protected] Beautiful shot of something I see outside my window everyday. It’s amazing you were able to make a structure that – to me, having lived for years next to – is so mundane and bring out its beauty.

  • Matt Blaze@federate.socialOP
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    This is a composite of two side-by-side images, each captured with the Rodenstock 50mm/4.0 HR Digaron-W lens (@ f/5.6), shifted left and right +/- 12mm to produce a 205MP 2:1 aspect ratio final image.

    The Ravenswood plant, along the East River in Long Island City/Astoria Queens, was built by Con Ed in stages during the early- and mid- 1960’s. When opened, it had capacity for about 20% of the city’s electricity demand, as well as producing co-generated steam for the city’s steam loop.

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      Congratulations on the visit to Roosevelt Island! I hope you kept cool in the heat. When I grew up, we only ever called the power plant big Alice (no one ever spelled out “Allis” that I can recall), so thanks for looking into that!

    • Matt Blaze@federate.socialOP
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      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 (rarely 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.