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To: blam

Good time to invest in coal-fired power plants?


18 posted on 09/14/2014 7:43:13 AM PDT by Libloather (Embrace the suck)
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To: Libloather; blam; coloradomomba; EEGator; logi_cal869
A quick read of this executive summary makes it seem as though Dear Leader Obama’s war on coal is designed to make our nation more vulnerable to an EMP attack.

EMP Commission Report .

Older coal plants had mostly electro-mechanical control systems that are more survivable of an EMP attack than the newer digital control systems.

The older coal plants can not meet the new EPA emission standards without very expensive upgrades that make them economically impossible to operate. So the electric utilities decommission them.

And before anyone ask; decommissioning means that they have to make changes to the plants that render them impossible to ever operate again.

53 posted on 09/14/2014 9:24:01 AM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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