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.
(Excerpt) Read more at hotair.com ...
It’s just like Gun Control. They make progress in increments and never give back what they take.
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!
Comrade, the PC police are everywhere :-)
See! See! Coal plants are dirty! </environut>
https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/images/712130main_8246931247_e60f3c09fb_o.jpg
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.
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 ?
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