Coal Fired Power Plants

Apr 12, 2022 | email

[Dr. Sivana]

My comment had to do with coal-fired pizza ovens. I think you meant your response for someone else.

[Dr. Sivana]

The Big Bend power station has a cool Manatee Viewing Center, it uses water from Tampa Bay to cool the generators and the warmer water from the exchange, the manatees have figured it out.

Its free to visit and worth it if you are in the Tampa area.

As it turns out, my family DID go to the Manatee Viewing Center. Unfortunately, it was a foggy, misty Monday in February (day after the Eagles Super Bowl) and we could barely see the Manatees. Good experience nonetheless.

[Repeal The 17th]

“...I assume you have a special trusted source...”
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Well, better than Upchuck’s friend Leo.

[stylin19a]

Thanks.

what is the frequency of those emissions ? tons per year ? hour ?

[old-ager]

So, who benefits, and who is pushing it?

Behind the scenes.

Lots of useful idiots here.

Hope they get caught and receive justice before it’s too late.

[Repeal The 17th]

“...assuming Wiki’s numbers are correct...”
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Better than your friend Leo.

[wjcsux]

If I remember correctly, most of the coal fired power plants in the Four Corners area are being shut down. Thousands of megawatts of generating capacity going bye bye.

[Paladin2]

0bama did that, most likely.

[wjcsux]

The Springerville Generating Station is supposed to be shut down by the end of the year. That’s 700 megawatts going away.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

There is a MAJOR error in the data you received.

The USA today has 379 coal-fired generating units in 170 operating utility power plants with a total nameplate capacity of 172,000 MW. This is far more than the 15 plants in the text you posted.

The overall conclusion is correct, of course. But it is degraded by such a serious error.

The raw data for all power plants in the U.S. area available at the U.S. Energy Information Administration's "Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory."

[ProtectOurFreedom]

“so retrofitted and smogged down to a fraction of their true capacity. We’re paying a BIG price for very little emission difference.”

Bob, stick to your knitting. You don’t have a clue what you are talking about.

[Renfrew]

Indeed. We should also be more willing to celebrate our environmental accomplishments. Unlike GW, smog and acid rain were real problems making life worse for Americans.

It was in the 1980s under Reagan and then Bush that we brought in sensible regulations to solve those problems.

[wita]

However, the question might be just how many have been shut down, and of those how many had years remaining on their viability.

[Repeal The 17th]

Ask Leo.

[infool7]

The thing that makes coal so attractive.

1) Dig it up

2) Transport it

3) Shovel it in

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[little jeremiah]

Plus there’s tons of it in the ground, just waiting.

[sauropod]

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[ProtectOurFreedom]

Absolutely right. Nobody celebrates electricity or contemplates life without it. Life was 95% drudgery and toil just to survive before electricity.

I spent five years starting up new utility and industrial boilers. Then I spent the next 20 years doing R&D on new energy systems. The advent of SO2 scrubbers, baghouses to remove almost all fly ash from the exhaust gases, and selective catalytic reactors to reduce NOx made coal power plants extremely clean. Sulfur, nitrogen oxides and particulate matter were very serious problems, but they were solved.

People alive today don’t believe how clean coal plants truly are and, because they have been brainwashed to believe CO2 is a “pollutant,” they think coal is very dirty.

[Inyo-Mono]

Bookmark.

[Blood of Tyrants]

There are far more than 15 coal-fired power plants in the US. It’s more like 246. I know of two within an hour of my house.