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Coal plays a vital role in electricity generation worldwide. Altough modern plants are much more efficient than before, it is not a clean form of electricity.
Aerial drone view on the Duisburg Walsum power station at night. A coal fired thermal power station, also creates heat for district heating and a 300m high chimney. Energy infrastructure in Germany. Birds eye view.
Coal burning power plant with pollution in a twilight situation.
Brown coal power station at dusk - backlit
Sunset with dramatic red sky over silhouette skyline in the Bottrop Ruhr area, one of Germany's heavy industrial regions
Pollution versus clean energy for future generations. Germany, NRW, Neurath
Coal power plant and environmental pollution with surrounding nature in Germany, Bergheim.
Aerial view of a large coal-fired power plant at sunset, showing multiple cooling towers and tall chimneys releasing steam into the sky. The red industrial pipelines and surrounding structures highlight the complexity of fossil fuel-based energy production. This image represents industrial engineering, carbon emissions, and the environmental impact of coal-powered electricity generation.
Fiddler's Ferry Power Station, Cheshire, England
colorful illuminated silhouette of power station in Mannheim at blue hour
Toned high resolution photograph of a modern brown-coal burning power plant with pollution.
a power plant with a field
coal-fired power plant at river
Night with color light in winter cold view for nuclear power plant in Temelin CZ 02 04 2025
Duisburg, Germany-June 9, 2025: Industrial landscape in Duisburg, Germany, photographed from the elevated viewpoint of the 'Tiger and Turtle – Magic Mountain' sculpture. The image captures the city's iconic steelworks, chimneys, and cooling towers set against a cloudy sky, with lush greenery in the foreground
Aerial view of emissions rising from the cooling towers of a lignite fired power station in Germany. Dark clouds at dusk.
The Gersthofen industrial park is a chemical and industrial site with futuristic-looking buildings and silo facilities near Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany
Smoke emissions from cooling towers at a power plant shown against a dramatic sunset, highlighting environmental impacts.
Smokestacks and cooling towers of a coal burning power plant with pollution.
A nuclear powerplant near Bonn in Germany
Opencast mining in East Germany
Coal Power Plant
View from above over the Ruhr area.
Aerial drone view of a large coal-fired power station featuring multiple cooling towers and industrial buildings releasing steam into the atmosphere. The energy facility is surrounded by urban infrastructure and transport lines, illustrating large-scale electricity generation from fossil fuels and the environmental footprint of coal-based power production.
Power plant factory chimney emissions causing air pollution.
Monongalia County, West Virginia, USA - Steam from the Fort Martin Power Station on the banks of the Monongahela River slowly rise into the sky at dusk.
High resolution photograph of two brown-coal fired power plants with pollution, Germany.
Nuclear power plant
A coal power plant sits at the river's edge at dusk.  Lights from the buildings and streets glow, and a reflection of the whole scene can be seen on the water of the calm river below, clear sky, industrial district, industrial building, horizontal orientation.
This photo was shot in late December 2025, on Dusseldorf, Germany, and depicts a dramatic sunset, involuntarily quasi-surrealistic and even a bit Dantesque, giving the false impression that the shot has been manipulated with software and/or Polaroid filters, which is not the case; It was the mater timing mainly: Right time, Right angle and Right place at once.This shot focus on a two to three balance between light and shade.
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