Tuesday, August 21, 2018

Hess tanks, Charlotte, NC


Oil or gas tanks near the airport, the roofs of the two in the middle showing one of the remarkable things about such structures.  Notice that their lides are much lower than the others? Often, tanks like these do not actually have a fixed roof per se, but a floating disk that rides up and down atop their contents. You can thus tell how full such tanks are by the depth to which the "roof" has sunk.

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