Eire > 20050.02.01
© Leslie Garland Pictures
Photographer: | Leslie Garland | |||
Collection: | Eire | |||
Filename: | 20050.02.01 |
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Upload Date: | 2005-06-29 10:45:08 | |||
Photo Size: | 8.7mb 4795x3640 pixels | |||
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Caption: | Interior view of Shannonbridge power station Shannonbridge County Offaly Eire |
Keywords: | Showing the tops of the peat silos where the peat is tipped after being fed from the conveyor belt into the power station The tipped peat is then beaten to a powder before being fed into the furnaces One of Ireland s peat fired power stations built primarily as employment creation schemes as they only produce something like 3 per cent of the nation s power requirements Ireland Irish electricity electrical generation alternative fuel low calorific value burning greenhouse gases effect climate change global warming inefficient job bog handling machinery |