Buschhaus Power Station

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Buschhaus Power Station is a German brown coal power station. By Braunschweigi coal mines are operated the AG (BKB) and are convenient in the proximity of Helmstedt in the Land of the Federal Republic Lower Saxony. It has an output of 380 megawatts and had a 307 meter high chimney, which ranks among the highest in Germany. After the demolition of the 337 meters high chimney of Westerholt power station at end of 2006, the chimney of Buschhaus Power Station will be the tallest chimney in Germany. In 2002 the power station was modernized and also its efficiency was increased.

[edit] History

The power station was planned at the end of the 1970s, when the old Federal Republic of Germany actually needed no more power. The new power plant construction created however additional jobs in coal mines and in the generation of electricity. The power station should be operated with sulphurous salty lignite of the environment. For the used quantity a new open mining was installed. The operator Braunschweigi coal mines AG (BKB) supported by the CDU federal state government of Lower Saxony did not refuse the installation of a flue gas desulphurating plant as to the state of the art accordingly. There the insight became generally accepted for the installation of the flue gas desulphurating plant only slowly. The nachruestung would leave itself temporal in in its opinion only in the power station shrub house without flue gas desulphurating plant to make. In this time there were several except-parliamentary actions. The new Federal Government Kohl exerts itself due to the strong political pressure for a two years later start-up of shrub house, in order to then start with a desulfurization plant the enterprise. Thus it stood against the federal state government of Lower Saxony of Ernst Albrecht. In a special meeting of the federal daily called up by the SPD on 31 July 1984, to which the delegates had to be called from the vacation, the politicians decide a compromise: Shrub house goes to the net, may fire the schwefelhaltige salzkohle however without flue gas desulphurating plant not, but a sulfur-poor variant from other mines. By far legal fights was shifted start-up still until March 1985. But in the Federal Republic of Germany this meant for the first time a decision with strong consideration of the environmental protection thought.

[edit] Weblinks

• http://en.structurae.de/structures/data/index.cfm?ID=s0024212
• http://www.skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?b5443

Supertall self-supporting chimneys (at least 300 meters in height)

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