Plenty of it, just like oil and natural gas. We should take an “all of the above” approach to energy generation. Most certainly “ocean breezes and sunshine” cannot replace the wonderful dense energy we enjoy from the fossil fuels, for all kinds of reasons.
Well. Walking to the McDonalds yesterday I watched a CSX full of it passing along by the eastern branch of the Potomac. I thought the Congressional power station had converted to natural gas unless it was headed into Virginia or beyond of course.
Coal can be combusted as clean as natural gas. With the Rotary Particulate Collector the exhaust has 98.8% of all particulate removed affordably. (much more efficiently than ESP)
The CO2 can be captured and converted into Calcium Carbonate or a high grade Fertilizer.
The heat energy can also be recovered and utilized, instead venting into the atmosphere cool exhaust.
We have the coal. We have the natural gas. Lets use them and keep our beautiful horizons as God created them.
The global energy narrative has become impossibly obtuse, where the words have 3 or 4 meanings. International energy policy had better start better communications on the path to practical environment and economic development.
If usa closes a Coal Plant it should be replaced with Firm EGEN Combined Cycle Gas 60% efficiency not Gas Peakers 30% efficiency, or Nuclear, which can be built cheaply and safe. Closing Coal Egen Prematurely only raises ERATES and makes usa poorer and industry to Offshore to cheaper energy in Asia.
America is the "Saudi Arabia of Coal" and it was U.S manufacturers that designed and built some of the cleanest, most efficient coal plants in the world....up to the 39% efficient Turk Plant in Ark. which became commercially operational about 2013. This was 146 years after Babcock & Wilcox Patented the water tube boiler. A great run. I recently saw an excellent presentation by a Chinese group that has continued advancing coal power (Thanks to the great foundation B&W, C-E and others provided), to approach 50% Thermal efficiency. America should be doing the same for many reasons. Not the least of which is energy security and stored energy on-site for months of operation. Natural gas plants operate with just in time, pipeline supplied gas from pipelines vulnerable to disruption.
Plenty of it, just like oil and natural gas. We should take an “all of the above” approach to energy generation. Most certainly “ocean breezes and sunshine” cannot replace the wonderful dense energy we enjoy from the fossil fuels, for all kinds of reasons.
Coal is filthy. Gas is better.
Well. Walking to the McDonalds yesterday I watched a CSX full of it passing along by the eastern branch of the Potomac. I thought the Congressional power station had converted to natural gas unless it was headed into Virginia or beyond of course.
On its way to the Norfolk export port.
Coal can be combusted as clean as natural gas. With the Rotary Particulate Collector the exhaust has 98.8% of all particulate removed affordably. (much more efficiently than ESP)
The CO2 can be captured and converted into Calcium Carbonate or a high grade Fertilizer.
The heat energy can also be recovered and utilized, instead venting into the atmosphere cool exhaust.
We have the coal. We have the natural gas. Lets use them and keep our beautiful horizons as God created them.
No matter how much CO2 we emit, it has no impact on the climate. None.
Love this message, Sid!
The global energy narrative has become impossibly obtuse, where the words have 3 or 4 meanings. International energy policy had better start better communications on the path to practical environment and economic development.
If usa closes a Coal Plant it should be replaced with Firm EGEN Combined Cycle Gas 60% efficiency not Gas Peakers 30% efficiency, or Nuclear, which can be built cheaply and safe. Closing Coal Egen Prematurely only raises ERATES and makes usa poorer and industry to Offshore to cheaper energy in Asia.
America is the "Saudi Arabia of Coal" and it was U.S manufacturers that designed and built some of the cleanest, most efficient coal plants in the world....up to the 39% efficient Turk Plant in Ark. which became commercially operational about 2013. This was 146 years after Babcock & Wilcox Patented the water tube boiler. A great run. I recently saw an excellent presentation by a Chinese group that has continued advancing coal power (Thanks to the great foundation B&W, C-E and others provided), to approach 50% Thermal efficiency. America should be doing the same for many reasons. Not the least of which is energy security and stored energy on-site for months of operation. Natural gas plants operate with just in time, pipeline supplied gas from pipelines vulnerable to disruption.
Thank you, Dick!