Power Plant Turns Waste into Energy and Doubles as a Ski Slope and Climbing Wall

This reminded me of The Oregon Garden (see below). The City of Silverton zaps all its waste water with UV light, after other treatment processes, leaving the water a few degrees too hot to put back in to the watershed. So, the water is then pumped a few miles to a manmade, multi-acre wetlands habitat, that cools the water down and naturally adds nutrients prior to re-entering a stream. On top of that, the City has built a botanical garden that also uses this water and added a conference center. There is also a free educational program sponsored by a local grocery store owner that utilizes the area to teach K-12 kids about wetlands.<p>There are all sorts of other neat factoids about the complex, but there really are creative&#x2F;ingenious ways to address our waste.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.oregongarden.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.oregongarden.org&#x2F;</a>

This article reads like PR. No content about the power plant, just praise for making it a fake ski slope.<p>&gt; what is possibly the greenest power plant in the world<p>That&#x27;s a bold claim with no evidence. They&#x27;re burning trash. How could that possibly be the greenest power plant in the world?

There&#x27;s an epsisode of &quot;Abstract - The Art of Design&quot; on netflix in which this building is featured.

For anyone else more interested in the climbing wall, direct link to their climbing page: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.copenhill.dk&#x2F;en&#x2F;activities&#x2F;climbing" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.copenhill.dk&#x2F;en&#x2F;activities&#x2F;climbing</a>

Just to point out, Copenhagen isn&#x27;t (entirely) located on Amager, as the article suggests. Part of it is, but that&#x27;s only a couple of neighborhoods in the city which is composed of 8-ish distinct areas. Copenhagen is located entirely on Sjælland, but calling it Sjælland Bakke wouldn&#x27;t make sense in the local context.

<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Amager_Bakke" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Amager_Bakke</a> I especially like that it can transition between heating and electricity production. Community heating is something I think North America needs to embrace more.

They had trouble getting permission for people to be allowed on the roof back in May, because there was a chance for visitors to be cooked alive if there was an accident.<p>I wonder how they solved that, likely with a waiver, as it might be a risk you take if you ski on a power plant.

We have a few of these plastic ski slopes in the UK and I have to say on a cold, wet winter evening - which is often when people visit them, getting a bit of practice in for a ski holiday in the Alps - they can be bloody miserable. And from experience falling over on one I can testify that plastic has a lot less give in it than snow.<p>Now: an artificial outdoor slope with real snow running from say 2500m down to 1500m, that could be interesting, but would also require the tallest structure on earth.

I remember videos about this project from many years ago. His plan was to make the chimney puff a ring of smoke. Seems it took longer to finish than anticipated

I was just in Copenhagen and saw this building from a distance. I was curious about it then and am surprised to see it featured here.

This is pretty cool. It would be interesting to see more industrial projects using some of the space available to them for community activity spaces such as this

Hasnt this power plant been there for like 5 years at least? Not exactly new anymore

Why do I want to end this statement with “what could possibly go wrong ?”

It is an incinerator with a fancy roof.