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State looks to soften up the hard road ahead with more spending
Published: 16 April, 2009, 09:21
Russia will spend an additional $13 billion to rebuild its roads as a way to get out of the financial crisis. It's an idea used during the Great Depression by the US and also resembles China’s current stimulus package.
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In Spain superhighways are private. A very good business. Government does not have to pay a single euro. All the opposite, Government receives millions of euros in taxes every year from the companies managing the superhighways. A source of income for the Administration as oil in Russia.
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With the cost of road building material (concrete) being high at the moment Russia needs to look in its own back yard for a viable solution. I refer to the millions of tons of pulverised fly ash (PFA) which is the residue from coal fired power staions, currently stored in lagoons around Yekaterinburg and other places and which continue to grow by 7+ million tons per year. A British company RockTron Limited (www.rktron.com) has developed a process whereby over 80% of this ash is converted to a cement substitute at half the cost of manufactured cement. test results have achieved a substitution rate in excess of 55% with the added bonus that no carbon dioxide is given off compared to that in the manufacture of cement itself. A further bonus is that the remainder of the waste is recycled to to produce cenospheres, magnetite and high purity carbon leaving no resultant waste for disposal. If Mr putin is serious about the governments plans for its road building in the near future it could do no worse than to evaluate the RockTron Process and clean up its waste from the power industry at the same time.