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Originally Posted by merrylander
What ever happened to coal gassification? Or scrubbers, years back in another life I worked for Combustion Engineering, we used to build big (initially) coal fired plants for the pulp and paper companies, Every single one had scrubbers just ahead of the chimneys. They would start up on coal but when it was available they would burn black liquor, something that came from the paper making process that was combustible.
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The coal plants have really cleaned up their pollution over the years. And we've got plenty of coal.
IMHO, unless we want to freeze to death in the dark with nothing to eat, we should go with the energy we have while the green energy comes of age.
I can't think of a better way to kill a recovery than to raise the rates on energy consumption. Get America back to work and perhaps then we can afford to deal with some of our other problems.
Chas