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The Discovery Channel's "How do they Do it?" featured a segment on the famous bucket wheel excavators mining lignite in Germany, specifically the mines near the Schwarze Pumpe power plant in eastern Germany. I happen to know that there are nice models of the excavators in the Deutschen Bergbau-Museum Bochum, the German mining museum in Bochum.

It turns out the Google Earth images are good enough to show the excavators in the mines and the power plant.

Some google maps links:
north mine
south mine
plant

Date: 2007-12-10 11:20 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] aryana-filker.livejournal.com
Google maps is so cool!

Date: 2007-12-10 06:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dan-ad-nauseam.livejournal.com
Black Pump?

Date: 2007-12-10 07:13 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] beige-alert.livejournal.com
Yes. I'm sure there is some fascinating story behind the name, but I don't know what it is.

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