Posted on 03/22/2017 11:41:37 AM PDT by Sean_Anthony
Coal ash scare stories are the latest tactic in their long war on coal-fueled electricity generation
Coal-fired power plant scrubbers now remove 80-90 % of airborne particulate, mercury, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide and other pollutants. But that means “fly ash” and noncombustible residues (what we used to call clinkers) must be sent to landfills. That’s opened a new front for anti-energy activists, who use accidents, “detectable” pollutants in water, and scary stories about health threats to advance their agenda.
In 2008, a Tennessee Valley Authority earthen retainer dam near Knoxville ruptured, sending 5.4 million cubic yards of rain-soaked fly ash into a nearby river, lake and neighborhood. Twelve homes were damaged by the muck, which contained low levels of arsenic, cadmium and other metals. The TVA’s cleanup efforts were less than exemplary, as were its measures to prevent the accident in the first place.
Side note: don’t CFLs have mercury?
And we are forced to use them in our homes by our overlords and call the hazmat team if you break one of them.
Fly ash is frequently used in asphalt and the manufacture of tires. It does not have to go to a landfill.
And even if it did, it’s mostly soot — amorphous carbon — you know, the stuff all life comes from.
Why don’t we return to manufacturing cinder blocks along with cement blocks? I already know the answer. It’s because the amount of “clinkers” produced nowadays is so small it is NOT commercially signigicant. Only in a leftist lib’s mind does it matter.
If it becomes valuable, it's no longer a "Waste Product" but a "Renewable Resource". Especially if a liberal company gets the contract to mine it.
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