Sunday, February 28, 2010

Cory's Power


The last two years of my time at Argonne have been spent keeping a giant computer running. We keep it hidden away in a secret lair on the scary side of the lab, back where they used to dump radioactive stuff on the ground when they were done with it. Our machine room is built inside of a giant warehouse-type building that once housed parts of the Star Wars program, but today is mostly used for storage and weird science experiments. It is also prejudiced against hydrogen.

Beneath the building is a series of tunnels that were used to keep the intense pulsed neutron source running, but are now mostly empty. It was down there that I found this great still life of power equipment. I'm especially intrigued by that can - it looks like it has been sitting right there since the mid 60s.

1 comment:

Ryan said...

Your hot water circulation pump seems to be shut off. You should turn it back on before something overheats. Or overcools. Or something.

/rl