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Ash from coal-based power plants can be used. many years ago, I used to work for a cement plant which used to buy coal ash from local power plant and use it as one of the ingredients in cement manufacturing.
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Originally Posted by rbohm
like the others have said, there are power plants that use natural gas to create electricity, and the numbers are growing each year. remember that coal has been cheap for generations, and as such coal fired plants were the norm. coal is also to use, and there is virtually no problem with leaks or spillage with coal.
and with modern emissions controls, coal fired plants are relatively clean to operate, those that arent are shut down, or have been converted to other energy sources.
the biggest problem with coal however is the ash that is left over after burning.
They have converted two of the coal burning plants in the Twin Cities to natural gas. Not only does it help clean up the air, they run the plants with like half the amount of employees.
Those must be more of those green jobs Obama pinned his economic recovery on and people wonder why new jobs numbers can't keep up with the incoming labor pool.
Those must be more of those green jobs Obama pinned his economic recovery on and people wonder why new jobs numbers can't keep up with the incoming labor pool.
It eliminated union jobs. You should be happy about that
So you have no defense for Obama destroying the economy via his green energy bonanza and epa regs do ya?? I didn't think so.
I happen to know that this was planned during the Bush era. Natural gas is cheap, plentiful and much cleaner (even though it does put CO2 into the air). You don't convert a coal burning power plant to natural gas in one presidential term
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