Photo: Yaciretá hydroelectric power plant

Brother Provisional

#1 – 2:08 PM March 28, 2009

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DSMVWL THS

#2 – 2:54 PM March 28, 2009

Beware of Krell!

G_REMY

#3 – 3:00 PM March 28, 2009

MONUMENTO A LA CORRUPCION
Have you seen "Memoria del saqueo" de Fernando Solanas ?
http://video.google.fr/videoplay?docid=5911055113163856683&ei=lZzOSbLBMITt-Aa4mYmvCQ&q=memoria+del+saqueo&hl=fr
It's at 20:29

Brother Provisional

#4 – 3:09 PM March 28, 2009

That was supposed to be "I (heart)hydroelectricity," but the "greater thani 3" emoticon was mistaken for code, fouling the post.

tubgull

#5 – 3:24 PM March 28, 2009

Be careful! There's hydroelectricity in there!

SinisterExaggerator

#6 – 5:34 PM March 28, 2009

DSMVWL THS: I nearly spewed my beer across the keyboard, good one. Except they extincted themselves with the unexpected results of too much power, and we would never... Uh, never mind.

Are all hydroelectric power plants this beautiful? I remember the first time I saw Hoover Dam, up close and inside, I was dumbstruck by how beautiful it was. It's the only one I've seen, until this.

This one is clearly no slacker in the eye candy department, either.

colonel gentleman

#7 – 5:58 PM March 28, 2009

This looks like Dr. Venture's basement.

wingbatwu

#8 – 7:01 PM March 28, 2009

If they repainted some of those red tiles in white, they could film a resident evil movie in there

kathryn

#9 – 7:40 PM March 28, 2009

Yeah, I was thinking this place is just begging to have a major dramatic scene for the next James Bond or similar type of movie filmed in it.

sg

#10 – 10:16 PM March 28, 2009

Of course you'd never be able to shoot this photo if the facility was in the US- if you tried, you'd be lucky if you weren't arrested. Because if we let people take photos of architecture, the terrurists have already won...

Anonymous Anonymous

#11 – 10:21 AM March 29, 2009

Stunning, but puzzling. Any civil engineering types out there who can explain why the ceiling is so high? Is that an artifact of construction (dropping the turbines into place or something)?

Pip_R_Lagenta

#12 – 10:55 AM March 29, 2009

I had no idea that hydroelectric power was so... er... flat!

erzatsen

#13 – 11:32 AM March 29, 2009

anyone notice that W's pronunciation of "terrorist" and "tourist" were indistinguishable?

WalterBillington

#14 – 1:37 PM March 29, 2009

Yes. Which was some kind of ridiculous, tangential justification for finger-printing me when I arrive in the US. I absolutely hate that.

dustbuster7000

#15 – 11:29 AM March 30, 2009

@11 - It look like the green gray line about 2/3 of the way up the wall is a rail for an overhead crane. Which is used for maintenance, when you need to move seriously large pieces of equipment up and out of their operating area. So you need enough head room for the crane, its support beam and workings and still have enough room to completely clear the nearby turbines which is jutting up from the floor, so you can drag whatever your lifting all the way to the end of the building and drop it onto the truck and take it too the workshop. Hence, very high ceilings.