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What energy sources are you referring to? Coal accounts for about 48.5 of our generation and that is spread across the nation but heavy in certain areas. Wind and solar are a silly pipe dream. We have a good mix but when you remove a significant portion of something as large a coal you are going to have problems, serious problems.

16 posted on 08/22/2011 5:07:29 PM PDT by WHBates

We have natural gas coming out our you know what and Texas is on 20% wind which is a joke.

37 posted on 08/22/2011 5:43:22 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)

I wonder what's going to happen in Kansas? Not far from here is the La Cygne coal fired power plant. It's one of the biggest, highest capacity coal fired plants in the world. In fact, its output with both boilers and turbines going is in the nuclear plant range, La Cygne puts out nearly 1.6 Gw (with both boilers) versus a bit less than 1.2 Gw for the Wolf Creek nuclear reactor. According to some leftist enviro-whackos, it was the 16th dirtiest power plant in the country.) The EPA is demanding massive environmental retrofitting before June, 2015.

If La Cygne gets shut down, it will be very dark and intemperate for a large part of eastern KS and western MO.

Mark

64 posted on 08/22/2011 6:44:09 PM PDT by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)

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