Comments on: Air Quality to Improve Tomorrow in North Texas http://frontburner.dmagazine.com/2008/10/13/air-quality-to-improve-tomorrow-in-north-texas/ FrontBurner® has been called the best blog in Dallas (repeatedly), a snarky celebration of ignorance, and a daily conversation about Dallas among the editors of D Magazine. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 03:59:30 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: fred http://frontburner.dmagazine.com/2008/10/13/air-quality-to-improve-tomorrow-in-north-texas/comment-page-1/#comment-48301 fred Mon, 13 Oct 2008 22:22:49 +0000 http://frontburner.dmagazine.com/?p=17146#comment-48301 How about the 700,000 fraudulent vehicle emission inspection stickers in our area? How about the 700,000 fraudulent vehicle emission inspection stickers in our area?

]]> By: Spamboy http://frontburner.dmagazine.com/2008/10/13/air-quality-to-improve-tomorrow-in-north-texas/comment-page-1/#comment-48281 Spamboy Mon, 13 Oct 2008 20:57:18 +0000 http://frontburner.dmagazine.com/?p=17146#comment-48281 Thank. God! One of the sickest days of my life is when I had to spend the night in Midlothian. The guk in the air set off my allergies like nuclear ragweed. I'm glad to hear some progress is being made in "The Cement Capital of the World". Thank. God!

One of the sickest days of my life is when I had to spend the night in Midlothian. The guk in the air set off my allergies like nuclear ragweed. I’m glad to hear some progress is being made in “The Cement Capital of the World”.

]]> By: Don in Austin http://frontburner.dmagazine.com/2008/10/13/air-quality-to-improve-tomorrow-in-north-texas/comment-page-1/#comment-48224 Don in Austin Mon, 13 Oct 2008 18:11:34 +0000 http://frontburner.dmagazine.com/?p=17146#comment-48224 In a former career I was up close and personal with those stacks performing emissions testing. Though sympathetic to the Downwinders and with personal beliefs that line up more towards the treehugger side of things, the use of flammeable hazardous waste as fuel in a cement kiln always seemed to me like a good way to get rid of the stuff. Test results prooved that out at TXI where the destruction removal efficiencies were high. If I had lived in the vicinity I would have been far more concerned with how the material was transported to the plant (truck, rail, etc)than what the stack emissions were. I'm guessing that the inefficiences of the wet process cement manufacturing eventually outweighed any fuel savings and disposal benefit gained by burning the "chemical fuel." Less haggling with the downwinders is just a nice byproduct benefit. In a former career I was up close and personal with those stacks performing emissions testing. Though sympathetic to the Downwinders and with personal beliefs that line up more towards the treehugger side of things, the use of flammeable hazardous waste as fuel in a cement kiln always seemed to me like a good way to get rid of the stuff. Test results prooved that out at TXI where the destruction removal efficiencies were high. If I had lived in the vicinity I would have been far more concerned with how the material was transported to the plant (truck, rail, etc)than what the stack emissions were. I’m guessing that the inefficiences of the wet process cement manufacturing eventually outweighed any fuel savings and disposal benefit gained by burning the “chemical fuel.” Less haggling with the downwinders is just a nice byproduct benefit.

]]> By: Brown Bess http://frontburner.dmagazine.com/2008/10/13/air-quality-to-improve-tomorrow-in-north-texas/comment-page-1/#comment-48204 Brown Bess Mon, 13 Oct 2008 17:22:48 +0000 http://frontburner.dmagazine.com/?p=17146#comment-48204 # Dallasite @ October 13th, 2008 at 12:15 pm So, what are we going to do with hazardous waste now? Well, for starters, it will not be sent to 1960's cement kilns never built for the job of waste disposal and with no modern pollution control equipment. There's less haz waste in geneeral than there was in the 80's and 90's and the stuff that is stil produced can go to fully-permitted haz waste incinerators and landfills made specifically for the task. This is a good thing. # Dallasite @ October 13th, 2008 at 12:15 pm

So, what are we going to do with hazardous waste now?

Well, for starters, it will not be sent to 1960’s cement kilns never built for the job of waste disposal and with no modern pollution control equipment.

There’s less haz waste in geneeral than there was in the 80’s and 90’s and the stuff that is stil produced can go to fully-permitted haz waste incinerators and landfills made specifically for the task.

This is a good thing.

]]> By: Dallasite http://frontburner.dmagazine.com/2008/10/13/air-quality-to-improve-tomorrow-in-north-texas/comment-page-1/#comment-48197 Dallasite Mon, 13 Oct 2008 17:15:57 +0000 http://frontburner.dmagazine.com/?p=17146#comment-48197 So, what are we going to do with hazardous waste now? So, what are we going to do with hazardous waste now?

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