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Letter: Letters : Hot concrete

Published 9 August 1997

From J. J. Watson

Darlington, Co. Durham

Your article about the high emission of carbon dioxide from cement kilns
(This Week, 19 July, p 14),
prompts me to suggest that one way of securing a
reduction in this emission, albeit indirectly, might be for the heat output of
these kilns to be harnessed to generate electricity for national distribution.
This would result in a reduction of carbon dioxide emissions from conventional
electricity generation.

Issue no. 2094 published 9 August 1997

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