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Electric rates will continue climbing with no end in sight. Eventually you will be rationing your electricity and cycling it yourself. Shifting from coal baseload operations was a HUGE mistake. I am even against scrubbers because they are extremely expensive and a large drain on the output of the power plant with a tiny bit of pollution control. It’s just not worth it. Some day your grand kids won’t believe you when you say we had electricity 24 hours a day. Even at night when we slept.


78 posted on 06/03/2024 9:57:01 AM PDT by BipolarBob (If at first you don't succeed then skydiving is not for you.)
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About 50 years ago there was a huge boom in constructing new coal fired power plants all incorporating the latest technology to boil water. With these new plants came the never before seen unit trains to haul coal from Wyoming and other similar places. All brand new at that time. We young engineers were fascinated. That is all old now and so are we.

Before your scenario happens we will see some form of distributed power supplied by small factory built nuclear reactors. If we were smart, and we aren't, they would be Thorium based. Before anything good happens there will have to be a painful crisis. This is just about always the case.

Inertia, greed and stupidity block the solution to most problems. We have plenty of mis-guided stupidity and greed right now. The solutions are available but they are blocked.

90 posted on 06/03/2024 10:24:47 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (The Government that got us in this mess is not the Government that can get us out of it.)
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