Charleroi
A cooling tower rests next to steel company Carsid's mothballed power plant.
Cooling towers
Cooling towers dissipate heat released from power generation, chemical plants or other industrial processes. The excess heat, often from steam or hot water, is pumped into the cooling tower where it is cooled by exposure to the atmosphere.
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Limburg
Four concrete cooling towers flank the former Beringen mine power plant, the only preserved mine cooling towers in the Limburg mining region.
Ruhr Area
Four wooden cooling towers cooled thousands of cubic metres of water produced by the Hansa coking plant near Dortmund daily.
Nordrhein-Westfalen
In 1973, the foundation stone of the nuclear power plant of the future was laid in Kalkar, Germany. However, power was never produced there. Where did it go wrong?
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