{"id":3360,"date":"2012-07-17T14:59:16","date_gmt":"2012-07-17T12:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/?p=3360"},"modified":"2018-07-13T17:08:41","modified_gmt":"2018-07-13T15:08:41","slug":"marnham-power-station-is-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/?p=3360","title":{"rendered":"Marnham Power Station is gone!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-648\" title=\"video\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/video.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" \/>Collapsing buildings always look spectacular. Even more when you see<br \/>\nfive 200m tall cooling towers of a coal power plant collapsing within<br \/>\nseconds. What looks like &#8220;piece of cake&#8221; in the video is the result of a<br \/>\nmonthlong planning and engineering to avoid surrounding damage.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->These two videos show the collapse very impresssively:<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-3360-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Five-cooling-towers-demolished-at-High-Marnham-power-station-Nottinghamshire.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Five-cooling-towers-demolished-at-High-Marnham-power-station-Nottinghamshire.mp4\">https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Five-cooling-towers-demolished-at-High-Marnham-power-station-Nottinghamshire.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-3360-2\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/HD-High-Marnham-Cooling-Tower-Demolition-Power-Station-Viewed-From-A-Height.mp4?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/HD-High-Marnham-Cooling-Tower-Demolition-Power-Station-Viewed-From-A-Height.mp4\">https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/HD-High-Marnham-Cooling-Tower-Demolition-Power-Station-Viewed-From-A-Height.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>Taken by AFP\/20min.ch from the very near position:<br \/>\n<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-3360-3\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/262300m.mp4?_=3\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/262300m.mp4\">https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/262300m.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div><\/p>\n<p>Videos are courtesy of their respective owners<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Collapsing buildings always look spectacular. Even more when you see five 200m tall cooling towers of a coal power plant collapsing within seconds. What looks like &#8220;piece of cake&#8221; in the video is the result of a monthlong planning and engineering to avoid surrounding damage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,3,150],"tags":[1904,1905,1906,219],"class_list":["post-3360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-curiosities","category-news","category-video","tag-collapsing","tag-cooling-tower","tag-explosives","tag-video-2"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}