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Default Another cooling tower down at Thorpe Marsh power station

On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 08:06:20 +0100, Brian Gaff wrote:

Why would they wan it to be secret? are they expecting a riot?
I'd suggest though that the dust generated by these to be quite a hazard
if people breathed it in for too long and you cannot give everyone a
mask.


The public are normally kept well back from the dust, unless the wind
changes...

I suspect the problem here is that unlike a BOOM Crump demolition
they don't really know when it's going to collapse, only when they
might start pulling one the rope and once you have started you don't
really want to stop if some daft ****er decides to wander in... Once
you've started cutting the thing it is potentially unstable.

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Dave.