Is that a nuclear power plant by Lake Michigan?
A. No. Visitors and residents alike are impressed by the Michigan City Generating Station (fossil-fuel powered, not nuclear) cooling tower. This natural draft, hyperbolic cooling tower is 361 feet in height, 252 feet in diameter, and is constructed almost entirely from reinforced concrete. Its purpose is pretty cool, too. The tower cools and recirculates water pumped from Lake Michigan for reuse in the generating process at a rate of 200,000 gallons per minute and cooling by 20 to 25 degrees. The cooling tower operates much like the radiator of a car. Warm water is pumped into a ring at the top of a collar around the base, and then it is allowed to cascade down over different levels. The cascading water temperature drops naturally as a portion of the water evaporates.
