The end for Kodak?

[RattyMouse]

From time to time it has been mentioned that Kodak has as its burden an old power plant to drive the industrial area. Well, it seems that Kodak has been able to transform that burden to money and at the same time keep the wheels turning: http://www.rbj.net/article.asp?aID=193484

It's good that they unloaded that dinosaur, but 10 million is nothing to Kodak's financial problems.

 

[Sal Santamaura]

...http://www.rbj.net/article.asp?aID=193484

Any time a coal-fired electrical generating plant, anywhere, gets converted to natural gas, it's great news for all creatures in the area that breathe. How the transaction impacts Kodak's fate is small potatoes compared to that.

 

[DREW WILEY]

Haven't you heard about "clean coal technology", Sal? - thought you'd need a good holiday laugh ...
I still haven't figured out what that means either.

 

[Photo Engineer]

Kodak had huge scrubbers on their stacks. I guess this is clean coal technology. And, they had 2 plants, one at KP ant the other at KPW.

PE

 

[DREW WILEY]

Scrubbers were related to particulates and SO2 - the topic of acid rain - but now "clean" includes
the idea of carbon sequestration underground - pretty much a pipe dream at this point except for
some token experimentation - and realistic just until the earth gives off a big belch, which it
ineveitably will! But at the moment, coal is still firmly the #1 energy source in this country.

 

[Photo Engineer]

Drew, no smoke cam out of any of the 4 stacks unless it was an accident. So, the exhaust would have been H2O and CO2. That is pretty clean. I am told that the second plant was equipped to burn waste chemicals, thus destroying them except for the H2O and CO2. Again, an effort to be as clean as possible.

PE

 

[DREW WILEY]

Wow! That would have been pretty advanced (and expensive to implement).

 

[Prof_Pixel]

Again, an effort to be as clean as possible.

It seems to me I saw cyan smoke a time or two from the waste burner (back in the old days).

 

[h.v.]

Well, on the semi-bright side, I talked to my local lab, and they said in the worst case scenario event that Kodak does stop producing films next year, they'd more than likely stock more Fuji (they tend to be sparse on Fuji stock, more dominated by Ilford/Kodak). I've often wondered if Kodak stopped making film, would people just give up on colour film photography and not even bother with Fuji, would this be the beginning of the end of C-41 processing labs? I know B&W is in it for the long haul, thanks to Ilford, but it is Kodak that dominates colour. I'm trying to get accustomed to Fuji 400H. A very nice film, with a unique quality, but I would sure miss Portra, which has such rich and vibrant (without Ektar's saturation) colours. The warmth of the Portra's is unlike anything I've seen.

 

[Photo Engineer]

It seems to me I saw cyan smoke a time or two from the waste burner (back in the old days).

Fred, when instant ended, there was a big demand to destroy all PR10 and PL979 chemistry. During this rush, the burner was overloaded. Thus, cyan smoke. You missed the magenta smoke I take it?

PE

 

[DREW WILEY]

Seems like they missed a great opportunity! They should have had three separate stacks so they
could simultaneously output Y,M, and C smoke. The tie-dye generation would have tripped out on that!

 

[Photo Engineer]

Drew, there were 4 stacks. Someone planned on C/M/Y/K. He thought we needed that. Same guy built the coating machines too big!

PE

 

[MattKing]

Drew, there were 4 stacks. Someone planned on C/M/Y/K. He thought we needed that. Same guy built the coating machines too big!

PE

PE:

Don't you mean C/../Y/K?

Because after all, the M stack doesn't really exist

 

[Photo Engineer]

According to Sir Robert Hunt, it is a color!

http://arnetminer.org/person/robert-w-g-hunt-258313.html

He taught me 2 courses on color many years ago.

PE