Plug Power Inc (PLUG)

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For the Fox Mulder in every Plug investor (because we really WANT to believe) here are some easily accessible images of what many of us believe to be the HD DC in Luckey, OH. The building in question is located between Pemberville and Lemoyne Roads with an entrance off of Pemberville Road at approximately 22253 Pemberville Road. This is about fifteen hundred feet south of the Fremont Pike (Hwy 20) which in turn is approximately 2 miles south of the Ohio Turnpike (Hwy I90).

Terraserver seems to have the latest satellite imagery (11/2/2014) and an overview can be had at http://www.terraserver.com/?tid=21&cx=295029&cy=4595132&proj=32617&mpp=4.342&pic=img&prov=dg&stac=1d03952a6b4219bc9d0e50cffca9ca2f

This image has the new warehouse in center left with the main access road running off Pemberville Road (vertical line in center of image) and being directly across the road from the entrance to a CITGO Truck Lube. Unfortunately the western edge of the satellite imaging passes through the middle of the structure preventing a complete view of the building. The employee parking lot is visible and empty.

North is towards the top of the image. Immediately south and west of the intersection of Pemberville Road and the access road is a pad with what appear to be six sets of long white cylinders with an E-W orientation.

A quick flip to imagery from 2011 on the web site shows a field full of crops where the building now stands, so we know that this building was constructed well after that.

An image zoomed in on the mysterious pad is available at http://www.terraserver.com/?tid=21&cx=295032&cy=4595136&proj=32617&mpp=0.336&pic=img&prov=dg&stac=1d03952a6b4219bc9d0e50cffca9ca2f

It appears that there are no pipelines to the building at the point of construction when the image was captured.

For reference there are images of a liquid hydrogen storage and evaporator unit on the Plug website at http://www.plugpower.com/News/blog/post/2014/10/30/Why-a-GenFuel-Hydrogen-Infrastructure-Makes-Sense.aspx

For a street level view from Google Earth (Bing's street level is too old to show anything but a field full of crops) set your street view position to 41d29'18.11"N and 83d27'29.07"W and rotate so you are looking south. (If you move any more to the East the imagery is too far out of date to show anything.)

From this position you can see a VERY large warehouse to the right with approximately 40 truck loading docks and what appears to be a rail car access door to the right, and more truck loading bays on the extreme right which is partially obstructed by some trees. Turning the view slightly to the south east (above the two wooden fence posts) one can see the structure which resembles what is (presumably) the liquid hydrogen storage tank and evaporater which can seen from the satellite image. Further to the east the CITGO buildings are visible. The four high stacks visible above the warehouse are actually from what appears to be an oil fired generating station to the south of the warehouse that also appear in older street level views.

Unfortunately I don't have a database of tank dimensions to which I can compare the white cylinders in the images, and the resolution simply is not good enough in any of the images for me to positively identify exactly what these are. For now I can only infer these are hydrogen storage tanks at an early stage of installation.

What I do believe is that the more concrete evidence that gets posted here the faster the official annoucement will come. If your a PR person at HD or Plug it would be embarrassing to be the issuer of a press release containing the worst kept secret of which company signed a new big purchase agreement.

Perhaps the friend of uksausage who drove by the facility can post some pics of the tanks which should be easily visible from the road.

Maybe he can also tell me if Fox Mulder's sister is there!