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This is, of course, the entire point of the exercise.

You're right about that.

But what will really happen is the NY Utilities will buy energy from Western PA, Ohio and Indiana generators, who will generate power by burning low-grade coal. And where will the smoke from those coal-fired plants wind up?

You get three guesses, and the first two don't count.

[AdamSelene235]

But what will really happen is the NY Utilities will buy energy from Western PA, Ohio and Indiana generators, who will generate power by burning low-grade coal. And where will the smoke from those coal-fired plants wind up?

Oddly, there is more energy in the radioactive waste produced by coal burning plants than there is in the coal itself!

If a nuke dumped equivalent amounts of radium, thorium and uranium straight into the atmosphere, it would be shut down and sued into oblivion.