Somebody wrote me a while back wondering why I had not written about the Rock Tenn [If you are over forty think Champion or Hoerner Waldorf or Waldorf] burner proposal. I guess that one reason is I just don’t know enough about the matter. [I know, I know, that doesn’t usually stop me.]
I guess that Mayor Coleman the Second did note at a recent meeting burning fuel oil there negated the improvements made by getting Xcel [NSP] to change from burning coal to natural gas by the high bridge.
Gee. What a surprise.
I can remember driving on the Short Line Road [what the yuppies and Dakota County trespassers now call “Ayd Mill Road”] a few years ago and seeing the steam pipes being installed along the Milwaukee Railroad [now Queen Elizabeth’s Canadian Pacific] line and reading articles [no, not while I was actually driving] whooping it up that this new energy source would allow whatever the paper plant was being called to stay in business for a long time.
And I remember our city leaders exulting while telling us that they had gotten NSP to switch from coal to gas. Since it never occurred to me that burning gas would not produce steam, I never made the connection.
But couldn’t somebody downtown?
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I’ve been wondering about that too. When I was growing up my next door neighbor worked for Waldorf. Although there have been a few fires most of the time its been a good neighbor. We’ve lost so many places that we shouldn’t lose any more.
There’s a place in Minneapolis which might be able to produce the steam. I wonder if maybe there is some way that the steam pipe could be linked with the rail line on the Central Corridor since the right of way would there already.
Midway Barb
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