Tales of the BullAnt '15

Sir Francis

Displaced person
The station with 8 tall stacks is Hazelwood. Much much older design. One of the oldest and least efficient plants in the valley. Was initially scheduled to be decommissioned about 15 years ago when I first started calling on them. Usually has 1-3 turbines out of action. Think the new owners are just keeping it going to collect a global warming grant from the govt to shut it down.

I always smile as the meeja show the newer chunky stacks with all the white stuff pouring out whenever they say global warming or pollution - the white stuff is steam, the stacks are scrubbers/coolers, the skinny stack to the left with nothing visible coming out is the one pumping the nasty into the air.
 

glitch

Mapping the next ride...
Staff member
Things turn real quiet for the next 50k's or so, following a maze of small farm roads right along the edge of where the Sale Plains meet the northern foothills.
Damn pretty country, too!:drool:


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...the odd kid dropping out of a tree...



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....a 44-gallon bullock team dragging a hay-flicker....:bs



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....slowly working our ways across to Lake Glenmaggie



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....where dead trees stand on many feet....



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Couldn't go past the opportunity....



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...back to where even road sign are "twisties"...



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Further east...


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Some gorgeous, old bridgeworks at Iguana Creek....I like both shots.



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glitch

Mapping the next ride...
Staff member
Nothing wuk-kin' much happens in Wuk Wuk...but they DO have a bridge!



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Bairnsdale and Paynesville...from the ridges in the north.



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Final stop for the day....shoulda heard the first one going down :eek:




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Hmmm....was there something in the food?




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Shyte, I think I swallowed the fork!!



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Nothing beats that end-of-the-day thing out on the decks of the BullAnt.:clap::clap:



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Been shopping together, girls? :whistle::bt (duck, run)



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That bloody Stout packs one hell of a punch, aye? :killingme



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Oooch, nobody listens to me anyways, yer pack 'o basterds



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glitch

Mapping the next ride...
Staff member
A sparkler of a morning!


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But it doesn't take long for this crowd to have the one-liners and laughs going again.....around the.....ahemm, breakfast corridor.


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Back on the road, this time pointing west...and towards a brooding hot and grey Melbourne.


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Just off his L-plates and red-lining the little 250 all day.


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Briagolong fell silent!
When excitement bites, some just can't keep their clothes on :icon-maffick-::icon-maffick-:



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Garry couldn't watch it....and checked the chain-tension on the Katoom instead.



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Some work needed on that seat, too...reckons it gets a bit pinchy in the front compartment after the first 500k's




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On the backroads south of Walhalla



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Thanks to all for a great weekend.
Till next time...



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a86

Getting the hang of it
I always smile as the meeja show the newer chunky stacks with all the white stuff pouring out whenever they say global warming or pollution - the white stuff is steam, the stacks are scrubbers/coolers, the skinny stack to the left with nothing visible coming out is the one pumping the nasty into the air.

Yes those big hyperbolically things are cooling towers, used anywhere that there is not a river or ocean available, such as loy yang. For efficiency you need to get the bottom temperature of your rankine cycle plant as low as possible, so you need to dump heat. Hazelwood created their own enormous recreational lake for this purpose. It has always shat me that hyperbolic cooling towers are used by the media as a symbol for nukes when they are just "any thermal plant" gear.
 

Williamson

Part of the furniture
What a lousy bunch of plicks you brokes are, fancy posting pics and words like that, all I did on Saturday, Saturday night and Sundee was friggin' family duties.

If I was a mod, I'd close this thread and tell youse to pi55-off!

So there, consider yourselves TOLD!!!!!!!:upyrs::upyrs::upyrs:
 

glitch

Mapping the next ride...
Staff member
What a lousy bunch of plicks you brokes are, fancy posting pics and words like that, all I did on Saturday, Saturday night and Sundee was friggin' family duties.

If I was a mod, I'd close this thread and tell youse to pi55-off!

So there, consider yourselves TOLD!!!!!!!:upyrs::upyrs::upyrs:


We love you too, mate....we really do :killingme:killingme
 

asphalt

Tassie...where tyres are flat and nights are long
Bwaaahhhh .... swallowed his fork .....:bs

Each ride without joke is a lousy ride :chug:

Thanks for sharing.
Have all of You a nice Season 2015/16
Greets
Hans
 
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