Collapsing Cooling Towers

:D The first set of towers was in Athlone, Cape Town, South Africa! It was a big deal when they were demolished. Tons of people made a mission to go and see the demolition... Awesome to see they made it to this ad :)

3 windmills - lol. That's an understatement.

The 4 set of chimneys was the Lakeshore plant in Mississauga, Canada, and yes, it was a coal fired plant.

I don't know, i think it might take more then 4 swirly-gigs to replace those cooling towers.

Oh the humanity! Those poor towers were just enjoying their tea or a nighttime nap...

Where do you get the idea that these are "nuclear cooling towers"? For a start several of the towers in the video are actually chimeys from fossil fuel powered stations and secondly I recognise two of the cooling tower locations and both of those were coal fired.

Seems counterproductive to me, too. The cooling towers seem friendly and innocent, just enjoying a cup of tea, but they kill them and replace them with faceless wind towers and their spinning blades of death.

Oh good, I'm not the only one who thought this advert was sad. Maybe if they gave the towers mean faces and the windmills nice ones.

Otherwise it as like the nice towers were being executed D:

I feel sorry for the towers. If anything, that just makes me want to build more of them.

I don't know what this commercial is going for... I mean, I do, but it was put forth very poorly. I felt bad for those poor nuclear and coal towers... And why didn't the windmills have faces? It would have had a more reincarnation vibe rather than robot windmills taking over the previously happy City of NuclearCoalville by force if the windmills came up with a happy face.

If they think wind power is the answer, they need sectioning. I realise that there is a lot of hype in the wind turbine business, but to suggest that 3 turbines can replace a four-tower power plant is dishonest at best, even accounting for "poetic license". 1000 wind turbines working at full capacity are needed to produce the equivalent power of just 1 modern nuclear power plant. When there is little or no wind, which is most of the time, turbines are useless. They work at full capacity less than 5% of the time. In fact they drain electricity from the grid in long periods of no wind as they have to keep turning or the blades are prone to deforming. When we realise that nuclear power is the only option, these money wasting wind turbine monstrosities need to be consigned to the scrap heap.