Is It Any Wonder …
Is it any wonder that when I was a little, I thought that John Amos Power Plant made the clouds? I was so sure of it, I never bothered to ask my parents. I just knew. I even decided that each state must have it’s own John Amos to make their own clouds, and that states with deserts probably weren’t doing it right.
Well, they don’t make clouds.
- They do make 2,900 megawatts of energy a day from 23,000 tons of coal.
- As a part American Electric Power, John Amos is part of the largest generator of electricity in the United States.
- AEP provides affordable energy, with rates 26% below the national average.
So they don’t make clouds. But I have heard of thunderstorms triggered by plants such as John Amos.
Click Here if you’d like to see more photos of John Amos Power Plant in Flickr Photos. Lunyboy’s photo is a favorite of mine.
February 11th, 2008 at 11:16 pm
I always told my kids that they were hot dog plants, not power plants. I don’t know why I did that, it’s pretty stupid. They still call them hot dog plants.
February 12th, 2008 at 12:26 pm
hahahaa! That’s so funny, because I was driving my daughter across the Nitro bridge one day last summer, and she said the same thing. I thought it was such a cool thing to think.
I used to think that my Dad worked for the West Virginia National Air Garden. I was really disappointed when I finally got to go to work with him and there were just these big, green planes (they were green then) and there were no fields of flowers growing on top of the clouds.
The world is so much cooler when you’re 5.
February 12th, 2008 at 1:38 pm
Chris, some of the chemical plants around here look like fairy castles at night. When my little sister in law come to WV for the first time she was about six and they drove up after dark. I told her to look for fairy castles. She was so excited to tell me about them after she got here!
Rebecca, my husband works at Toyota, but he used to tell our Little One that he worked in the Pokemon Fields of Toyota. It sounded like such a magical place to her — and one day he stopped off at Kmart and brought the kids home a couple stuffed Pokemon, said he caught them trying to escape. It was just the sweetest thing! Shame about that WV National Air Garden. That would have been something to see!