Posted on 06/29/2017 9:07:03 AM PDT by rktman
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A Mississippi power plant announced Wednesday it would not use the federally-funded technology the Obama administration used to justify implementing a “Climate Action Plan” making it hard to build new coal-fired power plants.
Southern Company and Mississippi Power announced the Kemper power plant would be not using its carbon capture and storage (CCS) system to generate electricity. The plant will continue to only use natural gas, but not the federally-funded technology the Obama administration argued would be the future of coal power.
“We are committed to ensuring the ongoing focus and safety of employees while we consider the future of the project, including any possible actions that may be taken by the Commission,” Southern Company CEO Thomas Fanning said in a statement.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) cited the Kemper power plant and its CCS system as justification for a 2015 rule that effectively banned the construction of new coal-fired power plants unless they used CCS.
EPA also cited two CCS plants planned in Texas and California. The agency pointed to a Canadian government-backed project, which eventually became the world’s first commercial-scale CCS plant.
Critics said EPA’s citing of Kemper to impose a de facto ban on coal plants was not only illegal, but technically and economically problematic. Kemper was one of several projects EPA cited that had gotten federal grants, loans and tax credits.
The plant was also plagued by cost overruns and delays. The $7.5 billion CCS plant came in $4 billion over budget and was supposed to begin operating in 2016.
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NON Print version if you must get another gander:
CCS = both economic & scientific INSANITY.
I honestly believe that Obama saw this global warming thing as a way to get rich quick. My guess is that he (or someone close to him) invested in many of these climate schemes in order to become as rich as Al Gore and/or many of the millionaires in congress and senate. Heck, they were probably in on it, too.
Ping.
CCS may cost as much as 35%of the power plant’s own power to recapture the co2 going up the stack.
The only carbon sequestered in this project was little pieces of green paper, Federal subsidies sequestered in various bank accounts.
Ten Years ago when I was college and Gore's Movie was out.
It was a deluge of Global Warming stuff on campus.
I worked in the College Library at the time and we had a big set up of books and posters and stuff. Pushing the ideas of Clean Coal and Natural Gas.
Hells Bells, 10 years later we have the technology, the future is here.
Now? It is evil or needs to be forgotten about.
In actuality, it was the way that Enron did their scams that those within he protection of the establishment saw the way to do the same thing but with government protection.
It's never enough. They always move the goalposts. That's why it isn't worth it to play the game with them.
I utterly enjoy and look forward to the complete dimunition of Bath house Barry and his regime’s damage.
In actuality, it was the way that Enron did their scams that those within he protection of the establishment saw the way to do the same thing but with government protection.
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I hope Trump takes them down for this as well but his list of priorities with regard to corruption is soooooooo long that it may take years. Maybe he can just hold it over their heads for a while....
Thank you for reminding me about Enron, I was a bit too young and self involved back then to take much notice but I remember some of it and will look up what I missed.
Allam power cycle—Net Power—8 Rivers Capital—Exelon are all components contributing to a CCS capable generation system achieving 61% eff.for Natural Gas and 52% eff. for coal gasification.
The EXTRA power needed to (uselessly) extract, separate, clean and compress, then pump underground the CO2 is the wasted energy that lowers the efficiency of the power plant. Plus, the removed CO2 will not change the global average temperature by even 0.01 degree.
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