Power station cooling towers, with a windmill in the foreground (centre). The windmill is the North Leverton Windmill, near Retford, Nottinghamshire,

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Power station cooling towers, with a windmill in the foreground (centre). The windmill is the North Leverton Windmill, near Retford, Nottinghamshire, UK. It was built in 1813, and was used to grind wheat. The power station is West Burton coal-fired power station, which opened in 1968. It has eight cooling towers and generates 2000 megawatts of power.

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