Millions of tons of stored coal ash would be collected from Georgia Power’s Plant Bowen under a new project involving the utility and Eco Material Technologies.

The coal ash would be used in concrete to construct bridges, roads, and buildings in Georgia and the greater Southeast. Coal ash has been demonstrated to provide significant value to certain products, such as concrete, in which it adds strength and durability.

Georgia Power is calling it the single largest beneficial use project of its kind in the U.S., and the largest ever for the utility.

Eco Material Technologies, a producer of sustainable cementitious materials and cement replacement products, will manage the project at Plant Bowen.

This is the latest development since Georgia Power partnered with the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) to open a research facility at Plant Bowen – the Ash Beneficial Use Center – to identify, test and speed the development of beneficial uses of coal ash.

The facility allows for pilot projects and testing of technologies to continue to increase the recycling and use of coal ash.

Infrastructure installation to accommodate the work at Plant Bowen will begin immediately, with ash removal expected to begin by 2024 and increasing to 600,000 tons of ash per year.

The final amount of coal ash harvested and used under this project is expected to be 9 million tons in total.

Georgia Power already recycles 85% of all ash and gypsum, including more than 90% of fly ash, it produces from operations for various beneficial uses such as concrete production as well as other construction products.

Plant Bowen is a 3.5-GW coal-fired power plant situated near Euharlee, Georgia. It is one of the nation’s largest capacity coal-fired plants and its four units were brought online in the 1970s.

Pegasus Field is an airstrip in Antarctica, and also the southernmost of three airfields serving McMurdo Station.

Pegasus is actually a blue ice runway capable of handling wheeled aircraft year-round.

The other two are the snow runways at Williams Field that are limited to ski-equipped aircraft and the Ice Runway on the sea-ice available during the summer Antarctic field season.

The field is named after Pegasus, a plane C-121 Lockheed Constellation which is still visible there in the snow after crashing in bad weather on October 8, 1970, and luckily no one on board was injured.

The Lockheed Constellation crashed due to the very low visibility landing conditions that day.

This type of aircraft was the aircraft of the President of the United State, Dwight D. Eisenhower.

The remains of the plane still are left there to this day, buried beneath snow and residing alone in the McMurdo Sound in Antarctica.

Because of that, it attracts many visitors and often gets parts of it dug out for taking pictures.

If the tailpiece is dug out, of course, there you shall see how people have carved out their names all over the orange tail.

What is impressive is that the de-icing gear is still there too. Even though the plane is most f the time buried in snow, it is remarkable that the body f the plane is in god condition, considering the harsh weather elements that surround it all the time.

Over the years it has been covered in snow and ice as well, but people wanting to have memories of the plane, they do dug it out, at least part of it so that the world would see the alluring place where it stands forever and ever.

Nevertheless, the airfield is a major and important link to the rest of the world with Antarctica, where usually flights were allowed during daytime (summer months), except on emergencies, but on 11 September 2008, USAF C-17 Globemaster III successfully completed the first landing in Antarctica using night-vision goggles.