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Tour of the Abbott power plant at the University of Illinois, showing all of the pieces in person including: boilers ( and the burning coal in it), water walls, turbines (and the stators and rotors inside of them), generator, natural-gas-powered turbine, electrostatic precipitator, clappers, ash silo, heavy metal (mercury) recovery, scrubbers, limestone, gypsum, steam. Combined cycle is explained. The scale and magnitude of power plants become apparent. How acid rain and dry acid precipitate are formed. How much coal is used in a plant.