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This General Electric Plant, along with another, one mile downstream at Fort Edward, is the source of the PCBs that line the sediments of the Hudson River, making what some call the "largest Superfund Site in the Nation" (the watershed downstream of Butte, Montana also...
This cluster of seven geothermal plants is the largest of three major geothermal energy production sites in the Imperial Valley. A network of deep wells drilled in the geothermal field allow water, heated by the earth's mantle, to come to the surface and to power...
The site of Solar Two is currently an empty lot, since the plant was removed in 2009. For more than 20 years this experimental solar facility was the largest of its type in the country (and only one of two similar structures in the USA), and the first of four major...
The remote Carrizo Plain's status as one of the sunniest places in the state was exploited by the solar power industry from 1983 to 1994. This was by far the largest photovoltaic array in the world, with 100,000 1'x 4' photovoltaic arrays producing 5.2 megawatts at its...
GE made the first jet engine produced in America at this facility in 1942, and since that time, GE has become one of the largest designers and builders of aircraft engines in the world, building engines for more than half of the aircraft in America's military inventory...
The University of California has operated an engineering field station on a portion of this former chemical industry site on the Bay since 1950, conducting building engineering testing, forestry products research, transportation studies and environmental research at a...
The refinery in Rodeo was the first of the five major oil refineries now operating on the shores of the Bay Area. The plant was built in 1896, and now covers more than 1,000 acres, and employs 500 people. It processes 100,000 barrels of crude per day, to make mostly...
These towers hold the equipment that adjusts how much water flows over Niagara Falls. Beneath the towers are the valves that open and close the intake pipes which divert water from this point, a few miles upstream of the falls, through massive underground pipelines to...
Bonneville was the first of eight federal lock and dam structures built on the Columbia and Snake rivers, which are now the largest source of electricity on the continent. Construction began as part of the New Deal in 1933, and now energy production at this dam is over...
This town was established in 1934 to house some of the office workers of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), a government agency that employs 27,000 people and is the largest energy producer in the United States. The TVA is a total topographical modification program...
Vermont has one full-fledged military range, the Ethan Allan Firing Range, near Underhill Center. Owned by the Army, the 11,000 acre range was first established in the 1920s, and was developed as a major gun testing range by General Electric in the 1950s. It is now...
The Aluminum Corporation of America (Alcoa) opened this central Washington aluminum plant in 1952, one of several smelters the company operates in the United States. Washington produces more aluminum than any other state, a situation which started in World War Two when...
The Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola is one of the largest and most notorious maximum security prisons in the country. Nicknamed "the Farm," it is a working agricultural complex that utilizes cheap prisoner labor (wages range between 4 cents and 20 cents per...
A major aluminum facility, Goldendale makes extrusion billets (typically solid columns of aluminum), and other forms of raw aluminum for consumer products, munitions, and industrial applications. Mined alumina, the source of aluminum, is shipped here from India,...