Daily Grist: SEWAGE AND COOLING NUKE PLANTS

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At 12:26 PM 8/21/07, you wrote:

>Cool Runnings

>Effluent would be used to cool power plants in an innovative Maryland project

>

>Charles County, Md., is poised to be the first area in the U.S. to use

>treated sewage to cool down power-plant towers. A proverbial " win-win "

>scheme, the proposal would conserve groundwater, which is usually used for

>power-plant cooling, and would cut down on the amount of sewage being

>dumped into the Potomac River, which feeds into the beleaguered Chesapeake

>Bay. Power companies also like the concept because they can diffuse

>opposition to power plants if those plants will use less water. " This is a

>process that is going to be very quickly imitated around the country, "

>predicted state Sen. Thomas M. Middleton (D). " We need to spread that sh*t

>around. " OK, he didn't say that last bit, but he should have.

>

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>straight to the source: The Washington Post, Philip Rucker, 19 Aug 2007

 

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