Modern Day Giants - Answer

After seeing following image of a windmill and a cooling tower of power plant I thought that if Miguel de Cervantes was alive today, he most probably would have made Don Quixote attack the ash/smoke spewing cooling towers (actually these emit water vapours) instead of the windmills and instead of dreaming to be a knight, Don Quixote would have gained fame as an environmentalist.



With this in my mind I started searching for largest cluster of Cooling Towers and found one with 9 cooling towers in a single cluster and another one with 12 towers in two clusters of 6 each.





Your task is to find these two sets of cooling towers and post their GE/GM (not GSV) views and also try to find bigger cluster(s) than mine. My search for bigger clusters continues.

Note: By cooling towers I mean the free standing type of towers shown above and not the Industrial Cooling Tower System shown in this link.

another one with 9:


now, let's find one with 50 cooling towers...

I’m still searching for one of the two.

Did you ‘visit’ the small town near the windmill? Not a pretty sight ....

May 27, 2020 16:26:17 GMT bridgeplayer said:

Did you ‘visit’ the small town near the windmill? Not a pretty sight ....

EDIT

yeah, Doel NL in Belgium is pretty well known and it's a very sad situation (NL? ...shame on me)

we had some puzzle(s?) years ago, at least in 2013, at the old GEC, you know the one that was deleted by dummies

May 27, 2020 16:41:03 GMT krenek said:

May 27, 2020 16:26:17 GMT bridgeplayer said:

Did you ‘visit’ the small town near the windmill? Not a pretty sight ....

yeah, Doel/NL is pretty well known and it's a very sad situation

we had some puzzle(s) years ago, at least in 2013, at the old GEC, you know the one that was deleted by dummies

Doel/B. The border is a 9 minute drive.

May 27, 2020 16:41:03 GMT krenek said:

May 27, 2020 16:26:17 GMT bridgeplayer said:

Did you ‘visit’ the small town near the windmill? Not a pretty sight ....

yeah, Doel/NL is pretty well known and it's a very sad situation

we had some puzzle(s) years ago, at least in 2013, at the old GEC, you know the one that was deleted by dummies

Correction: It is Doel/BE, part of my town!

The 12 tower station is one of my favourites.  

Well done krenek , Walter_V_R and lockhopper  

I had found these cooling towers the hard way - poring over the list of large Thermal Power Stations (Coal. Peat, Lignite, Nuclear etc) and also searching the images of cooling towers.

For others who have yet to find these, I will make the task easier by giving clues;

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One uses Biomass and other uses Lignite as fuel.

I have yet to find the Niner posted by krenek and I request him to please post a clue for finding it. Thanks in advance.

May 31, 2020 16:33:10 GMT CuriousJM said:

I have yet to find the Niner posted by krenek and I request him to please post a clue for finding it. Thanks in advance.

clue:

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AZ

Thank you krenek for the clue!

Good find.  Even better with a clue

Well done all!

The answer is;

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12 Cooling Towers - Drax Power station near Selby in north Yorkshire. It uses Biomass as a fuel - Google Maps

9 Cooling Towers - Jaenschwalde Lignite Fired Power Station Brandenburg Teichland, Germany - Google Maps

The 9 cooling units posted by krenek - Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station, Tonopah, Arizona - Google Maps