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These two imposing industrial structures make up only a small part of the site of Port Talbot steelworks, the largest site for the production of steel in Europe. The facility has its own railway yard, Dock, and vast reservoirs of water to ensure that steel is made and shipped out around the clock. Having flown over the site, it's hard to grasp from the ground just how much there is to the site, and for many who live in this town, the steelworks is their past, present, and future.
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These two imposing industrial structures make up only a small part of the site of Port Talbot steelworks, the largest site for the production of steel in Europe. The facility has its own railway yard, Dock, and vast reservoirs of water to ensure that steel is made and shipped out around the clock. Having flown over the site, it's hard to grasp from the ground just how much there is to the site, and for many who live in this town, the steelworks is their past, present, and future.
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Blast Furnaces are cool!
I would recommend you check out this video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UOLlFm_P4g
I would recommend you check out this video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UOLlFm_P4g
I met an economist in 1979 (?) He was old then and the brother-in-law of a close friend. She was an older lady and sort of my mentor in writing. He did not like the Japanese at all. I asked him why and he said they had had a large unemployment problem, and rather than pay their people unemployment compensation, they put them to work making steel. They then sold the steel under cost. Other countries could not compete with this, so their steel industries went out of business and now they had to pay their peoples unemployment while the Japanese lost very little.
Global politics and cutthroat business practices.
There's lots and lots of examples of this. Mostly it's powered by greed, so I don't suppose there is any true fix for it.
*Hugs...
V.
Global politics and cutthroat business practices.
There's lots and lots of examples of this. Mostly it's powered by greed, so I don't suppose there is any true fix for it.
*Hugs...
V.
It's an unfortunate truth, I think, and it comes to every nation. Japan's own bubble has burst now, and scenes like you see here and in your own country are now being played out in Japan as industry moves to China. China's time will also come, when that industry moves to Nigeria or India; it's little wonder that the PRC is doing what it can to keep its steel industry relevant (Beijing's newest airport is a prime example).
*hugs back*
*hugs back*
Beautiful too! I recall receiving stuff from Bechtel years back showing the various plants they were building around the world. Always a mind blowing maze of tubes and turbines and the like. Yet each were beautiful in their own way. The logic, the engineering, the design, the cooperation between so many required to build it, the science it rested upon, all of it to accomplish the goal of providing energy, clean water, or the like. Fascinating!
Dominus tecum
Dominus tecum
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