[NormsRevenge]

Heavy smoke billows from the chimney at a paper plant. US President Barack Obama's administration said Thursday it will regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, after legislation on climate change died in Congress. (AFP/File/Olivier Morin)

[goodnesswins]

do you know WHERE that “plant” is?

[NormsRevenge]

eO.. Eo.. IT's off to Hawaii I go EO Eo..

[Red Badger]

Looks Chinese............

[4woodenboats]

That is NOT a paper plant, but I am am fairly certain the exhaust pipe is a muffler from an Earth Mover or other large diesel .

Paper plant exhausts look nothing like that, and they exhaust STEAM, not smoke.

I just searched the web for paper plant smoke pics, and every one labelled as such either showed white steam or was shot with the sunset in the background, which of course changes the color of the water vapors from tighty whitey to skidmark brown.

This picture was was obviously shot at either sunrise or sunset, as the light is at/slightly below the horizon, and at one side. Even the tint on this one is due to the shadow of the (probably rising) sun.

This pic is a fraud.

[hattend]

Looks like a steam plume to me.

Note how it isn’t “connected” to the stack. As the hot water vapor comes out of the stack and hits the cold atmosphere, there’s is a delay before it turns into a cloud.

[Sequoyah101]

Most of that heavy “smoke” is water vapor.

This is a bit F__k You and Merry Christmas from Barack Hussien Obama.

Get ready for more or get rid of him.

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

Soon all of our paper will be made in China, which is exactly why Obama/Soros wants this.

[Uncle Miltie]

“paper” / “power”, hey, whatever makes for a good picture, right?

P.S. - I’ll bet dollars to donuts that paper plants mainly billow steam.

[Pikachu_Dad]

That looks like STEAM to me, not SMOKE.

Are you fussing about water vapor now?

[dynoman]

That could be water vapor just like out of the exhaust pipe of a car. In the right lighting it can look pure white, or dark like in that picture. A lot of SOx and NOx control systems use water based chemical solutions sprayed in the flue gas making the water vapor plume even more dense in the right weather conditions.

But to the point of the thread, if Americans think their electric rates have gone up enough already get prepared for at least another 50%-100% increase if CO2 control becomes law. It's an investment that will produce nothing - much like spraying gasoline outside an engine and wondering why the power doesn't increase. The government is very good at spraying money outside the capitalistic (economic) engine where it produces absolutely nothing. If we citizens continue to let our government do that the economic engine will grind to a halt. Not much hope that won't happen because most people don't have any idea or rational comprehension how a capitalistic economic engine runs - it isn't taught in school. Basically if you take a commodity like electricity and make it cost more (through regulating SOx NOx mercury etc) with no tangible return for the investment, it's a drag on the economic engine, it decreases its efficiency and if it's allowed to continue it will kill it.