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How It's Made - Electricity - Generator LbNA #57028

Owner:Family Grave Seekers
Plant date:Feb 20, 2011
Location: Graham Baptist Church
City:New Haven
County:Mason
State:West Virginia
Boxes:1
Found by: booklady mama
Last found:Sep 1, 2012
Status:FF
Last edited:Feb 20, 2011
How It’s Made – Electricity - Generator

Have you ever wondered where your electricity comes from? Or how it is made? Traveling north on Rt. 62 from Point Pleasant, W. Va. to Mount Alto, W. Va. you will pass four coal-fired power plants, two on the Ohio side of the Ohio River and two on the West Virginia side. You will also pass a hydroelectric plant as well.

Let’s continue a simplified coal-fired plant description that was started by two other letterboxes south of here. Pulverized coal is burned to heat water into steam in order to spin a turbine. Attached to the spinning turbine is a huge magnet. The magnet spins within a huge coil of wire and this induces (generates) current otherwise known as electricity. Sounds like magic, right? I agree. Here is a link with an animation that shows the same principle, however the animation is slightly different because it spins the coil within the magnet, which yields the same result as spinning a magnet within a coil.

http://www.generatorguide.net/howgeneratorworks.html

This letterbox commemorates the 1,050 megawatt Philip Sporn Plant completed in 1960 and named for American Electric Power’s president that served from 1947 - 1961.

Clues:

Travel north of New Haven, W.Va. on Rt. 62, noting the mile marker signs. After mile marker 41, turn right at Graham Baptist Church and cemetery. Locate the shrub that is most southeastern. You will have a good view of Philip Sporn Plant to the east. You seek a camouflaged bag tucked between the shrub and a deciduous tree.

Please be discreet when retrieving and rehiding and make sure all containers are resealed well. Let me know of the letterbox and contents condition and how your visit to the area was by contacting the placer. While you are in the area, you might want to look for the “Caution … Crossing” letterbox. Happy Letterboxing!