Fossil Plant Smokestacks Demolished by Dynamite[IMAGES]

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There are some things which are simply cool to watch. Implosion demolitions of large buildings and other structures is one of them. This old fossil of a coal fired power plant was a crowd pleaser. The video shows at least six-story towers collapsing in apparent slow motion like a magnificent set of dominoes.

Power plant implosion

A total of six towering smokestacks “crashed to the ground Wednesday in a controlled implosion that began with the boom of dynamite and ended with a huge cloud of dust.” The Alabama facility was decommissioned and the demolition was well planned ahead of time. It only took a few seconds but they were spectacular ones.

As reported by KTAR, once “charges were set, workers toppled the structures in mere seconds at the Colbert Fossil Plant, which operated in northwest Alabama for more than six decades beginning in 1955.”

According to the Tennessee Valley Authority, “the project was part of its move away from coal toward cleaner fuel options.” The coal miners are all on food stamps now. Video has been making the rounds of the interweb of “a man counting down and then yelling: ‘Fire in the hole. Light it up, Roger.'”

KTAR explains that Roger is “Roger Homrich, owner of the demolition contracting firm Homrich, based in Michigan.” Hire him for all your demolition needs. This plant will be replaced with a much cleaner one.

It started with a few flashes at the bottom of the power plant smokestacks and “four of the towers collapsed almost immediately.”

Like a ballet in slow motion, the two larger towers grudgingly obeyed the laws of physics and succumbed to the force of gravity.

Upgrade to gas

The TVA relates that coal miners may be out of work but at least the new plant will be set to burn natural gas, which is something America now happens to have a whole lot more of than we know what to do with.

The “implosion was part of a $43 million project to prepare the site for development and cleaner energy.”

The utility company expects to shell out “$500 million, adding to generating units that are fueled by natural gas and operate on the 1,300-acre Colbert plant site.” That says a lot when it comes from the nation’s largest public power utility. Four more “old, coal-fired generating plants” have been blown to bits since 2017.

TVA provides power to “seven Southeastern states.” In total they keep the lights on for “about 10 million customers.” They really want to go green. TVA said “it could shut down all its coal-fired plants by 2035 pending approval.”

All across America, folks can agree that anything cleaner is better and the taxpayers aren’t funding the upgrades. Coal miners may lose but the gas fired plant idea is a reasonable compromise solution.

At least the liberals aren’t trying to strap tanks on cows to harvest methane. If the demolitions of the old dirty fossil smoke belchers are as spectacular as this one, it won’t be so bad.

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