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Is it just me, or is this a nuclear power plant on VW's property in Wolfsburg?
http://g.co/maps/hxkkc
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It's a cooling tower, commonly used to remove heat caused by manufacturing. I doubt it is nuclear.
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I'd love to take a spin on the test track just to the west of it 
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It's not manufacturing. Nothing that big would ever be used for cooling. Take a look at the coal beds and cooling water ponds adjacent to the tower and the symetric buildings to the right. Definitely a power plant.
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| Posted: Fri Oct 21, 2011 9:48 am Post subject: |
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It VW's own powerplant, coal powered...
Visited the plant last year and is HUGE (even that word is too small )
The kids had a lovely day in Autostadt (a VW museum just to the east of the old powerplant - here: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=wolfsburg&ll=52....6&z=16)
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| James 93SLC wrote: | | I'd love to take a spin on the test track just to the west of it |
Me too! And I'd love to live on "VW-Strasse". 
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| Posted: Fri Oct 21, 2011 10:44 am Post subject: |
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| PDXWesty wrote: | | Definitely a power plant. |
I'll give you that much.
| PDXWesty wrote: | | Nothing that big would ever be used for cooling. |
It still is a cooling tower though. 
Not a pic of the actual tower...
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| PDXWesty wrote: | | It's not manufacturing. Nothing that big would ever be used for cooling. Take a look at the coal beds and cooling water ponds adjacent to the tower and the symetric buildings to the right. Definitely a power plant. |
A pretty impressive amount of coal stock piled. I wonder is they have supply problems which require so much reserve. I worked at a power plant of about that same size years ago and they kept enough reserve on hand to make it through any anticipated railroad or miners strike. |
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| Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2011 9:32 am Post subject: Re: Nuclear power plant |
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| Spinal Tap wrote: | Is it just me, or is this a nuclear power plant on VW's property in Wolfsburg?
http://g.co/maps/hxkkc |
they have a sewage treatment plant too...
so?
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| Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2011 2:30 pm Post subject: Re: Nuclear power plant |
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| Foxx wrote: | | Spinal Tap wrote: | Is it just me, or is this a nuclear power plant on VW's property in Wolfsburg?
http://g.co/maps/hxkkc |
they have a sewage treatment plant too...
so? |
They need it with what they're producing these days, too.
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Tram: <They need it with what they're producing these days, too.>
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| kamzcab86 wrote: | | James 93SLC wrote: | | I'd love to take a spin on the test track just to the west of it |
Me too! And I'd love to live on "VW-Strasse". |
Which one... VW-Strasse 4, 41, 1a, 2, 52, 5, 13, 7, 15, 15a, 16, 17, 60, 105, 135, 20, 22, 26, 28, 131, 135, 110, 133, 132, 107, 97, 98, 102, 102a, 137, 80, 100, 101, 06, or 6?
Must be a helleva hard time to get from A to B for a new hire!
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| Wolfsburg Heating Power Plant, provides hot water, steam and power. |
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