[apoliticalone]

Coal plants need to be converted to gas. If you live in an area that has one you will understand why. Dirty trash and fly ash comes out of their smokestacks and pollutes everything. A worker there told me he has to decontaminate his car every week that is parked there because of fly ash. There is one about 25 miles east (fortunately) of me that is near a golf course. They need fixed or phased out.

[Balding_Eagle]

A worker there told me he has to decontaminate his car every week that is parked there because of fly ash.

Why on earth is he working there?

[stocksthatgoup]

The Problem:

If it has low carbon content, flyash from coalfired power plants can be recycled and used, for example, as a partial replacement for Portland cement in concrete. Fly ash containing high levels of carbon negatively affects the air entrainment properties of concrete, and therefore must be “treated” before it is used as a cement substitute.

The Ceramatec Solution:
Ceramatec’s proprietary Capsulate Processing technology greatly reduces the foam index score of high carbon flyash, making it possible for the treated material to be used in concrete applications.
The Ceramatec Capsulate Process employs a proprietary chemical treatment process. After efficiently mixing the Capsulate chemistry with the mercury-laden carbon-containing flyash an encapsulation barrier is formed preferentially around the mercury-laden carbon particles within the ash. This barrier layer prevents the adsorption of intentionally added organics (such as air entraining agents) in the concrete mix design. The encapsulation layer also further prevents the mercury from leaching into water supplies.

Instead we can send our coal to China which has virtually NO regulations on pollution. Unintended consequences are not always difficult to predict.

[WHBates]

"A worker there told me he has to decontaminate his car every week that is parked there because of fly ash.

You friend is full of s**t. Maybe a wash, most sites provide them. Well with the current EPA your friend will be out of a job soon, maybe you and he will think that is a good thing. With all of the conversion to Nat Gas it won't be long that the electric rates will sky rocket as well. I'll bet you'll be the first one to bitch about it.

[RayChuang88]

Then why is that fly ash not being recycled? Instead of being dumped into the atmosphere and becoming a pollution hazard, the fly ash could be used as a base ingredient for cement and concrete.

[rxtn41]

move

[wita]

Coal plants need to be converted to gas. If you live in an area that has one you will understand why.

Absolute balderdash, poppycock, BS, horse hockey, etc, etc, etc.

I live and work near a whole bunch of coal fired power plants, and for your information, about 70 percent of generated power in these United States is generated by cheap clean coal. If you want high prices just turn all the coal fired plants into NG generators and wait for the price of gas to rise as it surely will. INSANITY!!!!!!!!!!!!

EPA is a train wreck and that is a quote from one of the electric companies in the area, related to the EPA chart that is the time line for the destruction of our energy producers. The train wreck is in progress as we speak.