– You are driving up Highway One on the Central Coast of California enjoying the bucolic scenery when upon reaching a rise in the land a spectacular site meets your eyes. Rising like magic from the sea is a huge monolith and you know from the tourist guides you’ve read that this can only be the famous Morro Rock. But wait, what is that there to the right? Three tall structures pierce the tip of the sky. What are they, you wonder? What else could they be but exhaust chimneys for a power plant.