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Steam and smoke

e: your striking image of a coal-fired power station in your edition on (). Surely you should be aware that cooling towers emit only steam (as they are cooling waste steam to recycle in the process) and not smoke. The steam may alter the local microclimate around the plant but is in no way a source of the airborne pollutants that the article is rightly challenging. It is the smoke from chimneys behind the cooling

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