Posted on 06/05/2016 12:58:35 PM PDT by PROCON
It’s just like Gun Control. They make progress in increments and never give back what they take.
Photo was taken on a very cool day. In the back, the cooling towers are steaming, not releasing pollution.
On each plant the “blowdown” is open allowing steam to be released and any minerals like silica to flow to a holding pond. again no pollution.
On the stacks, the hot moist exhaust is meeting cool air and is condensing into water vapor.
The plant probably has hot side precipitators to remove 99.99% of the fly ash. This is a very clean plant!
LET’S CLOSE IT!
Comrade, the PC police are everywhere :-)
See! See! Coal plants are dirty! </environut>
https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/images/712130main_8246931247_e60f3c09fb_o.jpg
Turbine peaking plants rapidly change output--can be brought from hot-standby to full output quickly--and can be cold-started and brought online in a reasonable short time-frame.
At most, some 20-30% of electric production can be sourced from the non-dispatchable solar and wind. Above that margin there will be brown-out or black-out. Shut down the coal plants and we immediately enter the instability zone above the threshold.
Couldn’t resist it , obamas vision regarding US power grid
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/monkey-knocks-out-kenyas-entire-8136825
Hey if it works for his home, why not make the US grid like theirs ?
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