Frankly Scarlett I hardly know where to start.
I guess I’ll start with my big problem.
That would be the Governor of WY buying into a Bill Gates program that is as yet in my opinion unproven, and a dream.
Number two would be the fact WY the energy State, home to the collapsing Coal industry.
Number three would be the 500 or so shuttered coal fired generating facilities. Many of which are not just shuttered, they are closed and torn down to the dirt they were built on.
It is Government and bureaucracy at all levels and the morons in the environmental industry that are driving the insanity, hoping so called renewables will fill the energy void.
It doesn’t take much sense at all to see the nonsense that is destroying the reliability of the electrical grid nationwide.
So, Mr Governor, why is it you are urinating on the industry your State was built on in the wild hope that Mr Gates and a yet to be named city and shuttered powerplant will offer something you seem excited about though a dream in someone’s head. It is not yet constructed nor has it produced one KW hour of electricity.
Oh, by the way the shuttered plant produced far more energy than the Gates plant is even forecast to produce.
The Governor in my opinion should be getting the Liz Cheney treatment.
==”Frankly Scarlett I hardly know where to start.”
Shirley, you jest!
The days of burning coal without massive expansive as in $100 million per plant or more in emissions control are over in the USA. It is almost assured that this plant lacked the triple layers of scrubbers. Even with scrubbers the emissions are not zero where as natural gas emits ZERO lead,Mercury,or particulates. Natgas does have some NOx from high temp combustion the levels are so low they meet EPA limits via specially designed combustion chambers or SCR is used down stream of the turbines. Natural gas has zero sulfur dioxide when burning sweet gas which all pipeline grade gas must be by law. Only gas plants burning flare gas or Y gas before the midstream plant will have any sulfur in it and Only if the gas source it self was sour.
Coal is a dead end technology best left in the dust bin of the 19th and 20th century. The simple fact is that even with millions in scrubbers coal will never be as clean as natural gas and gas will never meet nuclear power level of air cleanliness.
The costs to meet the emissions for coal to just barely pass the limits is exuberant and natural gas will meet and exceed those limits as will Nuclear without hundreds of millions in extra scrubbers. The days of burning coal at atmospheric pressure and letting the stack gasses go unfiltered into the air are over forever accept it and move into the 21th century.
As always peer reviewed science.
https://www.epa.gov/mats/cleaner-power-plants
Coal can be zero emissions oxy fired combustion can meet or beat the EPA regs for not only coal but natgas as well.