“After years of being held captive by Environmental Extremists, Lunatics, Radicals, and Thugs, allowing other Countries, in particular China, to gain tremendous Economic advantage over us by opening up hundreds of all Coal Fire Power Plants, I am authorizing my Administration to immediately begin producing Energy with BEAUTIFUL, CLEAN COAL.”
Donald Trump
North Dakota, Montana and Wyoming are awash in coal… it’s cheap energy but probably not as clean as nuclear but that was discredited decades ago because of a movie starring Jack Lemmon and Hanoi Jane Fonda. I don’t know about you but I get all my financial and scientific advice from movie stars… how about you? lol
But,but … you can not get to China with a coal power plant.
And my best movie advice I ever got is:
The Russians are coming,The Russians are coming.
and its sequels:Red Dawn and Invasion USA.
So real,so true – but Zelensky churchilling keeps us all safe for now.
We need at least 500 ppm of CO2 to see the deserts become green again, as they once were. The more fossil fuel we burn, the better. Let us hope the 21st Century’s Piltdown Man hoax has finally been put to rest.
+1
I’m not sure I would want to live prevailing winds downwind of a coal fired power station, unless modern coal burning tech can improve the emissions of the old tech stations.
I live very close to a coal-fired power plant here in Arkansas. I can look out my window and see the smoke stack. Unit one came online in the late seventies and unit two in the early eighties. You would never know it’s in operation. You look at it and see water vapor coming out of the twin cooling towers and occasionally see something coming out of the smoke stack. It has been a good neighbor for decades. We have had more problems with a close-by feed mill plant causing offensive odors. The power plant has never caused any problems.
Well, you hit the nail on the head. “Modern coal burning tech” DOES greatly “improve the emissions” of coal plants. Nitrogen oxides (NOx), sulfur dioxide (SOx), and particulates are all well controlled with state-of-the-art equipment.
Anecdotal, for certain, but 30 years ago the city skyline 10 miles distant was normally hardly visible in haze; These days it is usually quite clear. Now, I am aware that pollutants and particle sizes vary and have differing effects. That said, I notice that family, friends and even myself suffer more respiratory issues than back then. In the 50 and 60s I only knew one kid with asthma.
IMO the EPA bureaucracy, mostly to justify its existence, has raised expectations to expensive, unreasonable and unnecessary levels. A couple of decades ago I improved a process integral to the business and was called to Corporate HQ for recognition. After all the congrats and backslapping the CEO asked about progressing to the next level. My answer was simple – “You can’t afford it”.
Exactly Czech. we cleaned everything up over the past 50 years but the EPA doesn’t consider the job done. instead they’ve expanded into calling mud puddles navigable Waters and wanting to regulate them. thank God Trump is reining this crap in