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Of carp and coal
Clever fish farmers exploit the waste heat of a coal-fired power station.
The brown coal power station Jänschwalde, on the Polish border,
a couple of kilometers north of Cottbus, went on stream in 1981 and
was one of the most modern in East Germany. Since the beginning of
1996, the plant has produced 18 billion kilowatt hours of electricity
per year; and, as fish farmers have been allowed to exploit the heated
waste water used to cool the plant, an additional 150 tons of carp,
60 tons of trout, and several tons of |
sturgeon, perch, eels, welse and tench. In France, two brothers have
gone a step further. In the Rhone valley, two hours south of Lyon
by car, they opened a crocodile farm a few years ago: this is heated
by the waste water from a nuclear power station.
(Thomas Ramge in brand eins 9/2002)
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Soft paws across the border
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