Sunday, February 28, 2010

Ryan's "Power"

This is part of Omaha Steel's plant. Somewhere deep inside is a 5 ton capacity electric arc furnace, along with 4 smaller induction furnaces. This place consumes some power....

Last night they were doing a pour, I think. When the furnaces are running you can smell the plant though the entire neighborhood. Tonight it was dark and less offensive smelling.



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2 comments:

Michael said...

Worth the wait!

You used to be able to smell that thing for miles. I always thought someones tranny was going out!

Ryan said...

Yeah... every now and then I catch a whiff of it and think someone is burning their clutch out.

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