Caption

The village of Vanikum, part of the municipality of Rommerskirchen, main street, behind it the Neurath lignite-fired power plant, near Grevenbroich, thick water vapour cloud from the cooling towers in winter, near Grevenbroich, will continue to run until 2024 to secure energy supplies, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Date

Dec 07, 2022

Credit line

Photo12/imageBROKER/Jochen Tack

Reference

BRK25B68_085

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No

Property release

No

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Rights managed

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119,2Mb (6,5Mb) / 26,3in x 17,6in / 7903 x 5271 (300dpi)

Keywords

concept concepts deserted no one No People nobody uninhabited empty gloomy dreary dark material materials evening evenings Evening scene house houses home homes building buildings structure construction constructions village villages chimney chimneys smokestack smokestacks tower towers unhealthy saving energy saves energy energy saving Energy use Power consumption Energy uses Energy consumption energy consumer power generation power generations energy production power supply electricity supply power supplies energy supply brown coal lignite brown coals coal coals coal power station coal power stations coal-fired power plant power plant power plants power station power stations open cast mining strip mining opencast mine opencast mines open cast energy price energy prices electricity tariff electricity costs electricity rate prices for electricity emission emissions exhaust gas exhaust gases waste gas waste gases flue gas mining mining cost costs spending expenses save money saving money saves money save saving saves go going goes walk walking walks movement movements motion crisis crises pollutant pollutants contaminant protection protect shelter steam water vapor water vapors water vapour water vapours air pollution air pollution raw material raw materials natural resource environmental pollution environmental pollution pollution pollution of the environment environmental contamination ecocide environmental destruction ecocides global warming global warming environment environment cloud clouds sky skies winter in Winter winter time wintry winterly Wintery North Rhine-Westphalia NRW Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia North-Rhine Westphalia German symbolic picture symbolic pictures symbolic image Symbol photo Symbol image Concept image mining minings gray grey Europe Europe's village town place spot mood atmosphere smoke smoking smokes cloudy climate change climate change protect protecting protects protective road roads street streets Straße residential building residential buildings residential house residential home residence residential houses residential homes residences Apartment building symbolic symbol symbolise symbolize symbolizing symbolising secure save safely run running runs race racing races price prices cooling tower cooling towers atmospheric moody electricity electricity cloudy overcast sky overcast cloudy sky cloudy skies sky with cloud Dusk evening light evening light in the evening light light of the evening sun energy energies Dusk twilight dawn energy source energy sources economy thrift european smoke fume smoke carbon dioxide CO 2 carbon dioxides CO2 emission emissions energy efficiency energy efficiencies environmental pollution ecological damage environmental pollutions power supply power supplies power industry energy industry power industries consumption consumption Rhineland energy costs energy costs evening sky evening skies production productions extraction fossil energy source fossil energy sources fossil fuel fossil fuels quick speedy fast rapid safety security save money saving money saves money economical Germany German Federal Republic Republic of Germany FRG BRD smoke fume evening atmosphere evening atmospheres evening mood evening hour evening shot block blocks industrial building industrial buildings environmental damage environmental damages ecological damage effizient effective thick cloud of steam clouds of steam steam cloud steam clouds brown coal power station brown coal power stations lignite-fired power plant lignite-fired power plants environmental issue environmental issues Neurath Power Station Grevenbroich polluting harmful to the environment Environmentally harmful run running running over atmospheric light atmospheric light light atmosphere Light mood light scene blue hour Rheinisches Braunkohlerevier Rhenish lignite mining region Rhenish lignite mining area dim dusky steam cloud steam clouds soft lightning gentle lightning mellow lightning steaming steam particulate matter fine dust Central Europe Middle Europe coal mining coal mine climate crisis warm light main road main roads Main Street main street main streets Water vapour cloud Strip mining lignite Strip mining lignite lignite open-pit mining Opencast lignite mining open-cast lignite mine opencast lignite mine Opencast lignite mining area Large power plant Lignite mining energy-saving Neurath lignite-fired power plant Neurath lignite-fired power station Energy crisis energy efficient Power plant unit Energy security