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I saw this today - any ideas as to what it is?

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DerbyBorn
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Javelin Park Incinerator

Reply to
Richard

If you look at streetview and move round you can see the sign on the roundabout, Javelin Park Distribution Centre and Gloucester EfW Construction Traffic

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Owain

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spuorgelgoog

Probably the electricity generator powered by domestic rubbish.

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Gareth's was W7 now W10 Downst

snipped-for-privacy@gowanhill.com wrote in news:fa2331a4-a4b1-49f3-aa55- snipped-for-privacy@googlegroups.com:

Thanks (for some reason I only looked from the Motorway - not typical)

Reply to
DerbyBorn

Oddly enough, streetview seems to have views from two different periods at that roundabout.

On one, you see a blocked off entrance and a sign for Javelin Distribution Park, but a step along one of the roads and suddenly the building has appeared and a different sign at the roundabout.

Trying to move to the sign takes you back to the older view. Zooming in instead does show that the sign is about Javelin Waste to Energy.

SteveW

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Steve Walker

Probably a fair bit earlier in the year.

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newshound

Streetview does that kind of thing all the time, substituting an earlier image of it doesn't have the later one for a given viewpoint.

Also, you can look at a viewpoint, say this one of the incinerator

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on the top left, where it says "Street View-Sep 2018" which reveals a slider with (in this case) five previous views. Try it on your own property.

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Graham.

https://www.google.com/maps/@51.7927012,-2.2880083,3a,17.1y,283.3h,82.9t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sKSrBFqJlaBBE-oKBbUSKsg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656 says it's the Javelin park distribution centre on the sign pointing to it!

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The Natural Philosopher

The Google image, yes, but unless the OP has a Tardis...

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Richard

What is that for, incinerating Javelins? Brian

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Brian Gaff

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Interesting, I've never noticed that slider before. For my house it now shows views from Feb 2009, Apr 2010 and Sep 2012, but previously there has been a more recent view displayed (a new front wall was built, the front door repainted a different colour, and a package left in the front porch, which dated it to to 2016). This later view is not now shown, any idea why?

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Davidm

The green solution to plastic waste. Which is why, of course, the Greens are utterly opposed to it.

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Exporting nearly 15 MW.

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newshound

I recently did that for the house I grew up in. It was a nice functional two-story house with dormer windows upstairs. Three bedrooms, and upstairs was a great 'playroom' 24 feet long, and another bedroom and a toilet and washroom. A lovely home, of which I have fond memories. Now it is replaced by a huge McMansion, taller than its neighbours. Using the slider shows that it had earlier received some upgrades, such as a porch for the front door, and bay windows at the front. All tasteful. And then the bulldozers moved in...

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Davey

Sometimes the algorithm that matches and replaces older views can get confused.

eg

The roadworks in 2008 meant the streetview car was in a different lane. Ever since as streetview down Swinton Street the image changes from the (currently Jan 2019) view to the old Jun 2008 version with the digger.

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DJC

Its a waste handling/recycling plant plus incinerator.

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https://www.google.com/maps/@51.7927012,-2.2880083,3a,19.5y,283.12h,85.89t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sKSrBFqJlaBBE-oKBbUSKsg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

Reply to
harry

You can see my house in 2008 and 2012 on Streetview and the aerial view is different again.

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Peter Johnson

As a matter of interest, are you for, or against?

Reply to
newshound

It depends on the technology. Years ago I ran a small incinerator in the NHS. Because of the variability of the waste and the plastic, they can be very polluting. Many were shut down back in the 80's because of pollution. And we can be talking really deadly stuff. (WW1 poison gas standards!) They reckon to have overcome these problems now. dunno if it's true or not. A lot depends on presorting, consistency and keeping the rubbish dry. There is lots of available energy. The combustion gases from incineration f*ck up a conventional boiler in no time they are so corrosive.

As well as normal refuse, we used to burn radioactive medical waste, body parts and other nasties that were hard to dispose of. The combustion gases were so nasty, they eroded the ceramic chimney lining. There was big rows about the effluent disposal from spray coolers and the ash.

How these problems have been overcome I don't know.

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harry

I worked for a short time on the control system design of a proposed waste to energy plant. That used a continually replaced coal arch to support the waste that was being burned by plasma arc. The temperatures were so high that the gases were reduced to constituent molecules and then reformed as syngas. The syngas was cooled (boiling water to drive a steam turbine) and then burned in gas turbines.

It could cope with anything burnable that was thrown at it and the waste did not have to be dry, as long as the moisture content wasn't too high.

I don't know whether it ever went into operation, as I left the company at a fairly early stage.

SteveW

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Steve Walker

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