The Gavin Power Plant
These images were taken on a recent tour of the Gavin Power Plant in Cheshire Ohio with Matthew Friday's art and ecology class.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
General James M. Gavin Power Plant is a 2.6-Gigawatt coal-fired power station in Cheshire, Ohio, USA operated by American Electric Power. Named after James M. Gavin, it is the largest coal fired power facility in Ohio, and one of the largest in the nation. Its two units, rated at 1300 MWe each, were launched into service in 1974 and 1975.[1]
The plant is located at 
38°56′09″N 82°07′00″W
, just 2.5 km (1.6 mi) upstream along the Ohio River from a smaller, older coal-fired Kyger Creek Power Plant.
References
- ^ "Existing Electric Generating Units in the United States, 2006" (Excel). Energy Information Administration, U.S. Department of Energy. 2006. Retrieved 2008-07-14
Big Muskie: King of the Giants
I just received a scanned copy of an article about Big Muskie!
citation:
Coal Age, 1969, Big Muskie; King of the Giants: v. 74, no. 12, p. 50-60
from:
Anne M. Huber, M.L.S.
Library and Public Information
Office of the Director
ILLINOIS STATE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN
Phone: 217-333-5110
E-mail: huber@isgs.illinois.edu
Coal collecting and Mine Tour
Last week I drove to New Lexington Ohio to find a large piece of coal on the word of the old man that sells antiques in Shawnee. I talked my way into a tour of the Strip Mine / Landfill with Bill Glass the foreman of the landfill side of the operation. I did not take a camera but my phone did the job.
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Archive Coal Cut-out
The following image is a test for a series of work in which I remove the image from a scanned archival image then rescan the image with coal in place of the original image.
OU SoA Critical Regionalism Initiative Spaces Installation
The newly formed Ohio University School of Art Critical Regionalism Initiative focuses on this region and an examination of coal mining in Southeast Ohio. The group will premiere their project for this exhibition, bringing the ideas of site-specificity in contemporary art into fruitful contact with the work of both governmental agencies and nongovernmental activists on a range of regional issues.
The following images are from the installation at Spaces Gallery in Cleveland OH
Shawnee Silhouettes
Hand drawn silhouettes of the porches of Shawnee Ohio. This architecture style is unique to the the micro region of The Little Cities of Black Diamonds in South-east Ohio.
Nelsonville Bypass: American Reinvestment and Recovery Act
The following images and documents are from the Nelsonville Ohio Bypass Project which is funded through the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act of 2009.
Appalachian Carboniferous Map
Below is a simple map of Appalachian states. The black line on the map denotes the outer borders of the carboniferous, meaning coal-bearing, portion of this region.
Big Muskie First Person
This is a video exploration of the monument to Big Muskie from my point of view.
Big Muskie was the Second Largest piece of land moving equipment ever made.
Here are some of the Dimensions I found on the following site: http://www.worsleyschool.net/science/files/extreme/muskie.html
Weight:
12 million kilograms (12,000 tonnes)
27 million lbs. (13,500 tons)
Bucket Capacity:
165 cubic m (220 cubic yards)
295 tonnes (325 tons)
Height: 68 m (222 ft)
Length of the boom: 95 m (310 feet)
Total length with boom: 149 m (488 ft)
Width: 46 m (152 ft)
Empty bucket weight: 209 tonnes (230 tons)
Power cable diameter: 12.7 cm (5 in)
Electrically powered: 13,800 volts
Big Muskie moved, as do most large mobile drag lines, on two huge hydraulically driven walking feet.
Big Muskie First Person POV from Jeff Lovett on Vimeo.
MPSU – Acid Mine Drainage
On December 17th Matthew Friday, Dr. Bernhard Debatin, Jason Nein and I visited four separate sites of acid mine drainage (AMD). These scans are from this site visit.
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