Same things here. Ken may not have realized what you meant exactly or
they actually have rectangular ones in southern California. I've seen
ones in Washington state and Alabama here where I live, U.S. of course.
Maybe Ken is in Russia? Don't think I've seen any pictures of the
tapered  tube kind there. j/k
Anyway, I know what you mean by the angular bracing beneath them.


Steve wrote:
> 
> Our cooling towers, (the ones I'm thinking off) were all built in
> the sixties, early seventies.  They are very tall, round, and at
> the bottom for about 20 feet up or so have a metal structure
> resembeling scafold poles, from there upwards they are curved
> concrete. and have a very wide apperture.  These are mainly used
> for cooling water at power stations or heavy industrial sites.  I
> saw two being demolished once, and managed to get lots of
> photographs of them as they fell.
> 
> When you get close enough to look inside these towers, the view
> you get is similar to that of Grim's image, the main difference
> being the dripping water and a constantly wet floor in the
> cooling towers.
> 
> Over the next day or so I'll try to find a web site where they
> have images of British cooling towers and let you know about it
> in this thread.
> 
> Steve
> 
> Ken wrote:
> >
> > Steve wrote:
> > >
> > > This reminds me of the bottom of a cooling tower, don't know if
> > > the cooling towers in the US are the same as the ones here.
> > >
> > > Cheers
> > > Steve
> >
> >   Most of the cooling towers here look nothing at all like this.
> > The are usualy rectangular, tall, have screened circular openings
> > for the fan blade intakes, and then are painted silver. It would be
> > cool if they did resemble this but they are lacking in line or form
> > and have nothing that would inspire an artistic notion.
> >
> > --
> > Ken Tyler
> >
> > mailto://tylereng@pacbell.net

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