Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Tug Boats & Coal

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This wonderful coal pile is put on barges and goes up the river every day.  Watching tugs push what makes our power every day helps me understand how much we burn. It is one small high demand use only coal plant just outside of downtown Milwaukee. In fact I have driven by it so my times in my life without giving it a passing thought. Now I can see it's smokestack from the apartment window, and cannot help but ponder the constant churning and burning that must happen across the world at a unfathomable rate.  Enjoy.

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