Hi Greg,

On 26-Feb-04, Greg Mayman wrote to Jay Emrie:


 JE>> Keeping it on track a bit. My oldest son works for the CCC Group
 JE>> as an electrical supervisor. He is going to Georgia (USA) in a
 JE>> couple weeks to install new electrical devices (scrubbers, etc)
 JE>> to reduce the fallout from smoke stacks.

 GM> Some years ago I read about a factory that was forced to put
 GM> scrubbers on their stack, on penalty of being shut down.

 GM> The article said that the chemicals they reclaimed from the
 GM> scrubbers paid for the installation in under six months!!!

 GM> I guess the management were kicking themselves over the value of
 GM> the stuff they had been throwing away for years.

Then there was the plant producing the materials for the kind of motar
the Romans used, the only one in Europe. They had some dust coming out
of their stack, most of which landed within their site and the rest on
surrounding farmers fields. Because of new emmissions regulations from
the EU the local authorities said they had to fit scrubbers to remove
it (they actually sold the same material to farmers to spread on their
land as a fertiliser!), the cost of said equipment being _much_ more
than their annual profits (from memory over 2 years worth). They
couldn't justify this on their sales and so closed down...
Now, a few years later, the EU is funding a program to develop the
material!!! Of course at much greater cost than the scrubbers for the
defunct company and sold for scrap site, now just another derelict
area, along with the skilled staff who knew how produce the material
who were all made redundant... :-(.



George

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