07.07.2011 05.Tammus, 5771
Quallenalarm:
Gelatinous creatures muck up filters at Hadera power plant; Global warming, overfishing may be contributing to glut of local species.
Over the past few days, schools of jellyfish inundated the seawater cooling system at the Orot Rabin coal power plant in Hadera, requiring a mechanical “trash-rake” to pull them off the bars of the undersea-filtration grill.
Trucks were subsequently utilized to transfer the jellyfish to a mass disposal area, the Israel Electric Corporation said….