Let the people who voted for politicians who shut down coal plants face the consequences.
To: reaganaut1
2 posted on
03/11/2014 9:36:07 AM PDT by
ken5050
(I fear a world run by adults who were never spanked as kids and got trophies just for participating)
To: reaganaut1
Let ‘em freeze in the dark.
Meanwhile, in GA, we’re FINALLY bringing our new Nuke on-line...
3 posted on
03/11/2014 9:59:37 AM PDT by
Little Ray
(How did I end up in this hand-basket, and why is it getting so hot?)
To: reaganaut1
So their elecrticity rates "skyrocketed" after the EPA shutdown dozens of plants in the northeast and what...
People are shocked that they can't afford to heat their homes?
4 posted on
03/11/2014 10:10:23 AM PDT by
Pietro
To: reaganaut1
“as the coal-fired power plants that utilities have relied on to meet the surge in demand are shuttered for environmental reasons.”
No, they were shut down for political reasons.
To: reaganaut1
Here in the USA, burning coal is not the dirty air pollutant it once was, thanks to modern emission controls to remove the sulfur compounds and heavy metals from the coal in the exhaust stream. As such, it's still a viable source of generating electric power until something like the molten salt reactor design for nuclear reactors get commercialized.
8 posted on
03/11/2014 11:58:11 AM PDT by
RayChuang88
(FairTax: America's economic cure)
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