THIS Kind of “Green” Initiative I Can Stomach!
In order to minimize damage to a Medieval Belgian town’s environment, one Belgian brewery is doing its part. In order to preserve the town’s ambiance – and reduce truck traffic, emissions, and pollution – the De Halve Maan brewery is building a 2-mile beer pipeline to get its product to the nearby factory that bottles it.
Yes, you read that correctly. A beer pipeline. And it will handle 1,500 gallons per hour.
Now, that’s one “green” project I can support! Think we can get them to run a branch line this way – for QC purposes? (smile)
Category: Pointless blather, Who knows
Dear Leader would stall it with EPA studies etc a la Keystone.
Public spigots every few yards would be cool.
Public spigots? Socialist!!!
What’s needed are pubs built right over the pipeline so’s they can tap directly into the source.
A whole bunch o’ pubs allll the way down the pipeline, wall to wall, or shoulder to shoulder if you will.
Then set up an official Pub Crawl competition. If you can make it all the way from one end of the line to the other’n, you win a free 30 day stay at a detox center of your choice.
Think of the boom in beer tourism!
I’ve changed my mind on what I want to do when I retire. I’m going to work for this pipeline instead.
I want to be that guy who has to sample the quality of the beer after each welded joint … daily!
MCPO, PLEASE LET ME KNOW anytime you need a break from sampling duties and I’ll gladly rush over there to cover for you!!
Green spleen, whatever; capital costs versus operating costs. Don’t buy cheap electric (resistance) baseboard heaters simply because you can buy them cheaply; they’ll eat you alive in operating costs.
Woos stove … Burn it all! That is what we do up state.
At least for now, but this weekend I came across an article saying that the EPA has infected itself into regulating wood burning stoves and fireplaces in order to cut back on pollution. Methinks that shit will go over like a hooker farting in Church during a wedding! Like many things that unelected bureaucrats do, that decision makes as much sense as a pay toilet in a diarrhea ward with no change machine available!!
Nothing new – been something like 30 years since I think it was Vail restricted the total number of fireplaces available in town to cut down on inversion haze – only way to get a new one is for one of the old permit holders to die. I dearly love a good fireplace and run mine any chance I get, but do so in the full knowledge that wood/paper burning is NOT environmentally good.
We use a wood stove to heat our mountain home. We burn about eight cords a year. Polution my ass. This year alone over a 100,000 acres of timber and brush was burned up in my area by a single wildfire. At eight cords a year I would have to live another hundred years to burn that much wood. It’s true that wood smoke contains particulate matter but it falls out in a short time when not trapped by an inversion. Inversions rarely last more than a couple of days and the smoke dissipates quickly. I do not consider woodsmoke to be pollution, but a pleasant reminder of the days that Americans could still earn a living in the woods.
We lived on wood burning when we lived in the mountains… like I said, I love it BUT when you have an inversion and a whole buncha fireplaces going, it can get a bit ugly. Think London with all its wood and coal smoke in the old days – there was a reason its nickname was “the Smoke”.
David: Vail is hardly the only place with such restrictions. Albuquerque also has restrictions (burn/no burn days) – and if I recall correctly, has had them since at least the early 1990s.
http://www.cabq.gov/airquality/todays-status/burn-no-burn
Also Salt Lake City.
I can see the headlines now: Pipeline break in Belgian, several policemen injured trying to protect repair crews from mobs. Here’s hoping it’s a Wit pipeline, the world needs more of it.
If you didn’t click all the way through to the original Telegraph article, the beer pipeline is in Bruges. This is in the Flemish-speaking part of Belgium, on the North Sea coast; it is a quick train-ride from Brussels. If you find yourself in Belgium, Bruges is a nice side trip, the city is very old (about 850) with a cool town square. When I went on the train, there was no place to stash luggage; that has probably changed. For my taste, the Belgian, French, and UK beer is better than Dutch and German beer but, ya know, beer is beer.
. . . . . the city is very old (about 850). . . . . .
Reminds me of the bier ads I used to see when I was stationed in Germany. One ad showed a brewmeister welcoming Noah coming off the arc with a full mug.
BEER, it’s not just for breakfast anymore!!
Everyone needs to believe in something. I believe I’ll have another BEER!
Can I get a line dropped to my house? Just think of how much energy would be saved by not having to run the truck.
Oh man.
Do *not* let the DNC/CPUSA hear of that idea.
“Free beer piped to every home!” would become one of those “but the constitution says so! in pursuit of happiness!” things that the destructionists love to invent to increase their ownership of useful idiots in person, property and vote.