Spinning requires water power
It was true in 1750 and it's still true now. In an odd and indirect way, the American textile industry may be
starting over, again relying on water power:
MOSES LAKE, Wash. -- Representatives from the automaker company BMW broke ground on a new manufacturing plant in Moses Lake Wednesday.
The plant is expected to bring hundreds of jobs instantly to the region.
"We needed a constant power supply for our plant here and that is the reason why we looked at hydropower," says Automotive Carbon Fibers Project Manager Andreas Wullner.
Thus bringing them to Moses Lake. Year-round access to hydropower can provide clean energy for the $100 million plant.
No completed BMWs will be rolling off the assembly line there. Instead, the plant will import raw materials from Mitsubishi Rayon in Otake, Japan, and spin them into fibers that will turned into fabric in Germany for components of BMW's Megacity vehicle.
Clean energy? Can't be! Hydro is officially defined as "dirty" and "non-renewable" by the genocidal tyrants of the state-sponsored terrorist organization EPA.
While EPA continues its scorched-earth blitzkrieg, shredding our industrial base in a way that the Japs and Krauts of 1940 could only dream about, we have
modern Krauts helping to rebuild this unfortunate land.
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Sidenote: Seems like an awful lot of shipping involved. Carbon fibers are ultimately derived from coal or oil, which aren't native to Japan, so Mitsubishi must be getting coal from China. Ideally the process could be cheaper, and use less energy, if a local company forms up the unspun fibers from Montana coal or oil. Would be a good opportunity for an American business, if the EPA doesn't forbid it.