File talk:PowerStation3.svg

How to view .SVG pictures?

I am having trouble seeing this image in its full detail. The Scalable Vector Graphics (.svg) format is a vector format scalable to any size. On the image page you only see a .png image of size 800 pixels (122kB).

I am using Internet Explorer and have the Svg viewer plugin from Adobe installed. (I use it for viewing m0n0wall traffic graphs.) If I open the 463kB .svg file I only see the upper left corner of the image. The image displayes in Internet Explorer, but no scroll bars are available.

I did try a trick to generate a .png file of a more suitable size. I added [[Image:PowerStation3.svg|1600px]] on a temporary page and pressed preview. The picture created is unhappily only 1024 pixels wide, but readable in its native resolution. (To view the saved image you need to change the file extension to .png)-- Petri Krohn 01:32, 10 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

P.S. For those of you who are too lazy to try this out, here is the image in its optimum on in the plain Microsoft environment.

Improvement proposal

An image like this would be much more effective if the Coal Conveyer were #1 instead of #14, and mousing over the numbers would cause a ballon to pop up with the description of that component and its operation in sequence. Trying go go back and forth between the image and the descriptions on the bottom of the page is ineffective, and not much fun. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 75.2.144.10 (talk • contribs).

So far as I know, this functionality is unavailable under the MediaWiki software on which Wikipedia runs, unless you know of a way of implementing it. --BillC 17:09, 11 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

While this is a very good picture of a coal fired power plant conversion of coal to electricity it needs to include more information on the emissions control systems which are no longer optional and add to the cost significantly, i.e., a Flue Gas Desulferization system for SO2 control and Selective Catalytic Reduction system for NOx. As it is this plant would have been constructed about 1970. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by JRMOON (talk • contribs).

I accept that FGD and such emission controls works are now mandatory. Space in the diagram was however limited and the diagram is intended to be a simplified representation. A better place for describing such features would probably be the article itself. --BillC 17:09, 11 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]