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by ocschwar 10y ago
This: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/31/Mystic_Generating_Station,_Everett_MA.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/31/Mystic_G...
This is the Mystic Generating Station in Everett, MA.
It is inside Boston Harbor, and receives liquified natural gas to generate electricity.
The arrival of gas ships in Everett is a big security event, and is greeted with a general closure of shipping lanes, chopper patrols over the harbor, and patrol cars at every point in the harbor that are close to the ship. Because each of those ships is a floating fuel-air bomb able to take out the whole city.
Every wind turbine, every solar panel, and every bicycle dynamo hooked to a hamster wheel in New England, lengthens to time between visits from these ships.
So yes, I do feel they are beautiful.