[DrGunsforHands]

This is literally the dumbest decision I have ever heard. Here's why: Sunflower, which already has a smaller coal-fired plant in Holcomb, has portrayed the proposed plants as part of a "bio-energy center" that would include an ethanol plant and an $86 million facility that would use a still-experimental algae process to capture carbon dioxide emissions from the proposed generating units. But one investor in the center had pulled out before yesterday's decision. They took into consideration the carbon dioxide and provided a means for dealing with it! How retarded can these people be? Not only would the algae capture CO2 and mercury and pollution, but the algae would produce oxygen and the excess of the continuously growing algae could be collected and used to produce ethanol! It's the most ingenious system ever developed for producing cheap, clean power, and they just ignore it because it's "experimental". I'm so angry right now, that I feel that I might at any moment burst into flames. How could they be this stupid!?! ARGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Reeses]

Not only would the algae capture CO2 and mercury and pollution, but the algae would produce oxygen and the excess of the continuously growing algae could be collected and used to produce ethanol!

Depending on the algae it can also produce diesel and emit hydrogen gas instead of oxygen. If they also used the waste heat from the power plant to evaporate water this would create man-made clouds which have a powerful climate cooling effect.