Route pics

[AirDancer]

View attachment 9928

Picture post card view!

Love it!

 

[jasonc]

Picture post card view!

Love it!

It was taken at 730 in the morning.

 

[AirDancer]

It was taken at 730 in the morning.

Perfect timing, then!

 

[jasonc]

this one is my best.View attachment 9924

the sister plant that big blue will see the same fate. she was taken away from us in 2009.View attachment 9935

 

[jasonc]

http://fmpa.com/new-power-plant-in-fort-pierce-begins-commercial-operation/

 

[jasonc]

http://archive.tcpalm.com/business/...issioned-ep-403138370-331413741.html?d=mobile

That plant,it's grid predate vero electric .1911. Historical edifice gone.it is older then the diesel plant.

 

[AirDancer]

the sister plant that big blue will see the same fate. she was taken away from us in 2009.View attachment 9935

That is sad.

I do hope the powers-that-be actually know what they're doing....but at this point, I'm highly sceptical.

 

[jasonc]

That is sad.

I do hope the powers-that-be actually know what they're doing....but at this point, I'm highly sceptical.

Ft pierce went online with the fmpa and they were contracted to run their plant. BIG blue in part is being decommissioned because of that.

 

[AirDancer]

Ft pierce went online with the fmpa and they were contracted to run their plant. BIG blue in part is being decommissioned because of that.

I guess I'll just continue to shake my head at it all.

 

[jasonc]

I guess I'll just continue to shake my head at it all.

Big blue pushed power south.

 

[AirDancer]

Has there been any discussion about wind power being added to your area?

 

[jasonc]

Has there been any discussion about wind power being added to your area?

Vero wont,fpl has some in the Hobe sound area.

 

[AirDancer]

There are all sorts of groupings of those wind turbines throughout Illinois. Ugly. Expensive. Subsidized by our tax dollars.

 

[jasonc]

There are all sorts of groupings of those wind turbines throughout Illinois. Ugly. Expensive. Subsidized by our tax dollars.

They hate the towers of big blue ,and I can't fathom a wind turbine not that high .

 

[AirDancer]

Ah, yes....the towers. I can hear it now: "A blight on the landscape!"

 

[jasonc]

Ah, yes....the towers. I can hear it now: "A blight on the landscape!"

The h.d. king plant is as close to the lagoon and just a clear field.

 

[AirDancer]

Nothing has been built on the site ?

 

[jasonc]

Nothing has been built on the site ?

Still empty. I found the location by tracking the ft pierce tie in from vero.

 

[AirDancer]

Still empty. I found the location by tracking the ft pierce tie in from vero.

That's surprising that the site is still empty.

 

[jasonc]

That's surprising that the site is still empty.

Site clean up,just like the diesel plant. Which was decommissioned in the 90s .the renovation didn't occur until a decade ago.