Gas Turbine Generator Plant
USA /
Colorado /
Fountain /
World
/ USA
/ Colorado
/ Fountain
World / United States / Colorado
Essentially an enormous jet engine hooked up to a generator instead of an airplane. Can produce 40 megawatts electricity, as compared to 70 megawatts from all of Colorado Springs Utilities coal-fired power plants together.
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 38°37'41"N 104°42'24"W
- Colorado Springs Public Utilities 1.8 km
- Transit Test Track - TTT 37 km
- Cotter Uranium Mill 52 km
- Casita Park 117 km
- Mt. Maestas 121 km
- Zapata 132 km
- Sugarite Canyon State Park 184 km
- Endless Blue Resort 207 km
- Old Red River Pass Road 223 km
- Molycorp tailings ponds (Questa Molybdenum) 227 km
- army firing range 6.6 km
- Butts Army Airfield 7.2 km
- Fountain Creek Regional Park 9 km
- Fountain Valley School of Colorado 13 km
- Fort Carson 13 km
- Big Johnson Reservoir 14 km
- Colorado Springs Airport - (COS/KCOS) 19 km
- Peterson Air Force Base (COS/KCOS) 22 km
- High Security Area 25 km
- Schriever Air Force Base 26 km