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The next “green” plan: Have the feds seize coal plants and shut them down
hotair.com ^ | June 5, 2016 | JAZZ SHAW

Posted on 06/05/2016 12:58:35 PM PDT by PROCON


How did we not think of this before?

You can almost smell the excitement in the air around the green energy warrior community. The Washington Post ran an op-ed this week from “environmental attorney” Stephen Kass in which he puts forth a bold plan for dealing with climate change and the nation’s stubborn refusal to let go of proven, reliable energy generation via fossil fuels. The big target in Kass’ sights is the coal industry and the nation’s remaining coal fired power plants. With resistance growing to the Obama administration’s deceptively named Clean Power Plan, the author comes up with a more, shall we say… direct plan of action. Just have Washington take over the coal plants and close them.

In the more benign version of his plan he first suggests buying them out, closing them, and retraining all the workers who would suddenly be on the unemployment line.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: coalpower; globalwarming; tyranny; warmunists
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To: PROCON

It’s just like Gun Control. They make progress in increments and never give back what they take.


21 posted on 06/05/2016 3:40:47 PM PDT by Redcitizen
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To: PROCON

Photo was taken on a very cool day. In the back, the cooling towers are steaming, not releasing pollution.

On each plant the “blowdown” is open allowing steam to be released and any minerals like silica to flow to a holding pond. again no pollution.

On the stacks, the hot moist exhaust is meeting cool air and is condensing into water vapor.

The plant probably has hot side precipitators to remove 99.99% of the fly ash. This is a very clean plant!

LET’S CLOSE IT!


22 posted on 06/05/2016 3:59:01 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: jcon40
The only approved use of coal will be to fill approved Christmas Holiday Stockings

Comrade, the PC police are everywhere :-)

23 posted on 06/05/2016 4:07:12 PM PDT by PROCON
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
has hot side precipitators to remove 99.99% of the fly ash.

See! See! Coal plants are dirty! </environut>

24 posted on 06/05/2016 4:10:57 PM PDT by PROCON
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To: PROCON
Remember, North Korea is the green-friendliest country on earth!

https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/images/712130main_8246931247_e60f3c09fb_o.jpg

25 posted on 06/05/2016 4:30:33 PM PDT by Dust in the Wind (U S Troops Rock)
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To: Bruce Kurtz
The coal and nuclear plants are the back-stop to the electric grids. They run near maximum capacity as the base electrical generation, because of engineering constraints related to thermal fatigue damage. They change output slowly to minimize this thermal stress. They do not load follow but provide base-load.

Turbine peaking plants rapidly change output--can be brought from hot-standby to full output quickly--and can be cold-started and brought online in a reasonable short time-frame.

At most, some 20-30% of electric production can be sourced from the non-dispatchable solar and wind. Above that margin there will be brown-out or black-out. Shut down the coal plants and we immediately enter the instability zone above the threshold.

26 posted on 06/06/2016 7:17:09 AM PDT by Ozark Tom
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To: PROCON

Couldn’t resist it , obamas vision regarding US power grid

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/monkey-knocks-out-kenyas-entire-8136825

Hey if it works for his home, why not make the US grid like theirs ?


27 posted on 06/07/2016 6:32:59 PM PDT by redcatcherb412
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