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Re: Coal plants in the world today [Re: ] #6537978
05/15/19 02:32 PM
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I worked in a coal fired power plant for 36 years. It is now shut down and being striped of anything salvageable. They are planning on imploding it sometime this fall according to rumors.


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Re: Coal plants in the world today [Re: ] #6538045
05/15/19 04:16 PM
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I have a buddy that used to work at a coal power plant. He was around when someone was complaining about mercury in the water and blamed it on the coal power plant. Now this was in the middle of summer. My buddy said, that’s no problem. Just go home and turn off your a/c and lights. That guy just looked at him and walked off.

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Re: Coal plants in the world today [Re: Gator Foot] #6538064
05/15/19 04:49 PM
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Originally Posted by Gator Foot
I have a buddy that used to work at a coal power plant. He was around when someone was complaining about( mercy) in the water and blamed it on the coal power plant. Now this was in the middle of summer. My buddy said, that’s no problem. Just go home and turn off your a/c and lights. That guy just looked at him and walked off.

You mean Mercury?


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Re: Coal plants in the world today [Re: ] #6538442
05/16/19 06:02 AM
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there are none left in u p of Michigan last one I Marquette they closed

Re: Coal plants in the world today [Re: Fisher Man] #6538448
05/16/19 06:28 AM
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Originally Posted by Fisherman
I certainly do not want to put American Coal miners out of work, but I'm very concerned with acid rain down wind of the coal burning plants.


you need to "get with the program"...the acid rain scare tactic went out in the 80's. we're using the "global warm"...I mean "climate change" scare tactic now.

ANYTHING to convince Americans to give up their competitive advantage. (It's a shame they don't understand that Individual Freedom is what made us great)

Re: Coal plants in the world today [Re: white marlin] #6538453
05/16/19 06:47 AM
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Originally Posted by white marlin
Originally Posted by Fisherman
I certainly do not want to put American Coal miners out of work, but I'm very concerned with acid rain down wind of the coal burning plants.


you need to "get with the program"...the acid rain scare tactic went out in the 80's. we're using the "global warm"...I mean "climate change" scare tactic now.

ANYTHING to convince Americans to give up their competitive advantage. (It's a shame they don't understand that Individual Freedom is what made us great)



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Re: Coal plants in the world today [Re: Timothy] #6538468
05/16/19 07:34 AM
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Originally Posted by Timothy
There will be two less in IL. Synergy is closing the duck creek station and the plant in Havana, IL. This is after millions was spent to upgrade the plants . Makes no sense to me.

This is how Congress members become millionnaires......


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Re: Coal plants in the world today [Re: ] #6538473
05/16/19 07:46 AM
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Re: Coal plants in the world today [Re: ] #6538498
05/16/19 09:01 AM
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They prefer us not to be great, just to embarrassing. Mike

Re: Coal plants in the world today [Re: ] #6538579
05/16/19 11:03 AM
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The underground limestone mine I worked in produced lime almost exclusively for coal fired power plant scrubbers. They have lost a lot of business and contracts in the last few years and are in pretty bad shape now. Used to be we couldn't send enough rock up the conveyor and out of the hole to keep up with demand. Now they are shutting down kilns. A lot of families in that area depend on that mine to make a living. Not many other jobs around in that area

Re: Coal plants in the world today [Re: ] #6538632
05/16/19 12:33 PM
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I have 3 within a 20 mile radius of me. Im the black blob seen on the map in PA. There is/was talk about converting over to gas but I haven't been keeping up. Some guy/emissions expert from Virginia told me years ago that the one closest to me spews out the most mercury of all of them. Excuse me I have to go get this growth on my neck checked out.

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Re: Coal plants in the world today [Re: Hobbs] #6538641
05/16/19 12:59 PM
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Originally Posted by Hobbs
Originally Posted by Fisherman
I certainly do not want to put American Coal miners out of work, but I'm very concerned with acid rain down wind of the coal burning plants.



Not sure where you heard about acid rain, but I live 30 minutes from a coal power plant and fish the river directly beneath it and have been rained on plenty. Just normal rain, All the plants around all of the power plants I have been around look awfully green and healthy, for background I build mining equipment and have been to 15 coal mines and 5 coal fired power plants. Not saying i'm an expert but I have some first hand knowledge

So be careful or you'll turn out like Hobbs. grin

Re: Coal plants in the world today [Re: Catch22] #6538664
05/16/19 01:39 PM
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Originally Posted by Catch22
Pretty sure we have more then 15 coal plants.

Not that many...I live within 20 miles of two and similar plants across the river are being shut down or converted to natural gas.

Re: Coal plants in the world today [Re: ] #6538669
05/16/19 01:45 PM
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We have a recently built natural gas powered plant in my home county with half a dozen more planned in the county.


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Re: Coal plants in the world today [Re: ] #6538739
05/16/19 03:55 PM
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If we can put a man on the moon, we should have the technology to burn clean oil. I, for one, am tired of burning oil from people in the middle east. If we stopped buying from them I wonder how long it would take for them to be back living in tents and using camels for transportation.

Re: Coal plants in the world today [Re: ] #6538750
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Coal isn’t the entire answer nor is gas, wind, hydro, oil, sunlight or nuclear. Combined, we have enough power to keep us running. Coal alone gave us acid rain before scrubbers were required. Gas gives us lots of CO2. Wind doesn’t always blow nor does the sun always blaze hot and clear. Nuclear is an accident waiting to happen and it’s catastrophic when it does. Oil is just too darned expensive and belches greenhouse gases, etc. Together, we have a system that continues to provide jobs either for building up or correcting operational problems. I’m glad I’m not an energy strategist. Things are changing constantly and you’re never going to make everyone happy all of the time.


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Re: Coal plants in the world today [Re: ] #6538805
05/16/19 06:29 PM
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Emissions is not the only drawback with coal. Storage of the ash that contains some nasty stuff is also a big expense factor. Much of the ash is buried in unlined fills and the nasty stuff leaches into the water table. Duke power had a major ash spill from one of their NC plants a couple of years ago that polluted miles of the Dan river. It is costing them and me as their customer a small fortune to dig up all of the ash in unlined landfills in NC and move it to the safer lined landfills.


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Re: Coal plants in the world today [Re: ] #6538830
05/16/19 07:35 PM
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What would make you think oil is going to burn clean?
The reason we get oil overseas is because the gas fraction in the oil is much higher than say the nw pa crude.

Re: Coal plants in the world today [Re: ] #6538835
05/16/19 07:50 PM
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I was in Beijeng two years ago. Cannot imagine that they are building another coal fired plant. Air quality was terrible. Even the Chinese people were complaining!

Re: Coal plants in the world today [Re: ] #6538856
05/16/19 08:21 PM
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There are 46,000 chinamen born each day,according to current statistics.
Only 4,400 die each day.Most from air pollution related illnesses.
So roughly there are 10 born for each one that kicks off.

In India there are 49,500 births per day and 14,500 deaths per day.Just over 3 to 1

In the usa there are 11,000 births per day and 7,500 deaths per day.

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