Shifting it back to electricity, you may be wondering what the three red and white smokestacks are in the picture Joe shot from the train window.

Those are the smokestacks for one of KeySpan's power generating plants. It used to belong to Consolidated Edison (who also owns the gasworks and steam heat pipes) until a few years back with this whole deregulation thing.

The plant is located in Long Island City, on the banks of the East River facing Manhattan. I used to have a nice view of these stacks from my mom's place. Could tell if it was windy outside by just looking which direction the smoke columns...bent. [Linked Image]