Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Steam Turbine

Steam Turbine

Original - A steam turbine produced by Siemens AG Germany used in power plants to extract mechanical work from pressurised steam. Steam turbines benefit from their high efficiency and high power-to-weight ratio compared to other technologies, leading to its widespread deployment from electricity generation to marine propulsion.

Reason

A breathtaking photograph of something that's rarely seen. Provides a sense of scale and impressiveness of the machine.

Articles this image appears in

Steam turbine, Power station, Fossil fuel power plant, Thermal power station, Polar moment of inertia

Creator

Christian Kuhna, Siemens AG Germany

• Support as nominator antilived^{T | C | G} 23:08, 22 December 2007 (UTC)
• OpposeSupport It's very annoying that the turbine ist cropped and not shown completely. Thats unencyclopedic and the quality of the picture is not very high, too. Sorry. —αἰτίας •discussion• 02:21, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

Do you know the scale of these things? They are taller than a person and longer than a bus, inside a cramped area. Please enlighten me on your method of capturing the whole turbine with one shot while still being able to discern the blades on the turbine itself. --antilived^{T | C | G} 02:38, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

Changed. Best regards, —αἰτίας •discussion• (Happy new year!) 03:58, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

Longer than a bus? Thinking not. --ffroth 07:17, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

Depends on the definition of bus and they, some multi-staged ones are really huge. --antilived^{T | C | G} 05:04, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

• Support Superlative industrial photograph. Note that even if it were not cropped, it would be impossible to see the far side that's hidden by the shaft. But it's not important. The far side looks like the near side and the blades are identical all around. Symmetric objects don't have to be photographed in full to be encyclopedic. In my opinion, this is quite appropriate for an encyclopedia. Fg2 (talk) 04:30, 23 December 2007 (UTC)
• Support. Excellent shot. Neutrality^talk 19:33, 24 December 2007 (UTC)
• Support the thing is too big to not be cropped and get a useful photograph of. The lighting is fantastic in my opinion Furmanj (talk) 15:00, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

• Support, "wow", informative and good enough technical quality. --Aqwis (talk – contributions) 13:46, 24 December 2007 (UTC)
• Support - meets all the criteria and it's original.--Svetovid (talk) 18:33, 24 December 2007 (UTC)
• Support has a definite "wow" factor and meets all the criteria. --Haemo (talk) 04:20, 25 December 2007 (UTC)
• Support--Mbz1 (talk) 05:48, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
• Support Per above --Abdominator (talk) 23:45, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
• Weak Support I wish the image had better color composition, but its encyclopedic value is off the scale. --Sharkface217 23:46, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

Promoted Image:Dampfturbine Laeufer01.jpg MER-C 02:25, 29 December 2007 (UTC)