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The Hansa Coke CDQ (Coke Dry Quenching Plant) during one of its last nights
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Demolition of Hansa Coke's Coke Dry Quenching Plant (Kokstrockenkühlung) took place July 14, 2005 at 14:30. I introduced you to this special plant back in last October - everything you can see on those past photos is gone by now. In a world where preservation of technological milestones is mainly determined by sheer age instead of technical importance, this plant of just 23 years of age has had no chance to not see its share of dynamite. There is no other plant of similar suitability for preservation and documentation than this one in Germany: Hansa Coke's CDQ was a rather small pilot plant (with full everyday use) of limited technological complexity where you could actually see how it worked when looking at it. All we can look at now is this video clip of its demolition:

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Note that the video clip (like all my photos) is copyright protected and can be licensed - feel free to ask.