> "JennyC" wrote
>

>>>> Bloody shame.
>>>> In Germany they have saved loads of old industrial sites/buildings
>>>> etc., and transformed them into all sorts of other uses. Theatres,
>>>> amusement parks,
>>>> climbing towers.........

>>>
>>> What could you do with a cooling tower?
>>> Mike

>>
>> Indoor climbing centre
>> Fill with water as a diving school
>> Art gallery (just add huge spiral staircase)

>
> OK - what do you do with a structurally unsound cooling tower? Which is
> what E-On reckoned these were.
>
> As for filling them with water...Ummm...even if they _had_ been
> stucturally sound, the stresses involved would have been in entirely the
> wrong directions.
>
> Using the site for a Biomass power station seems more prudent. :-)
>