Powered By Coal
April 26, 2009 6:56 PM
Coal is America's most abundant and cheapest fossil fuel but, as Scott Pelley reports, burning it happens to be the biggest contributor to global warming.
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?With coal likely to remain one of the nation's lowest-cost electric power sources for the foreseeable future, the United States has pledged a new commitment to even more advanced clean coal technologies.?
(link: http://www.fossil.energy.gov/programs/powersystems/cleancoal/)
The U.S. Department of Commerce reports a ?Total Worldwide Demand for CCT Equipment from 2003 to 2030: $254 billion,? August 29, 2008
(link: http://tradeinservices.mofcom.gov.cn/en/f/2008-08-29/54421.shtml)
i think the co2 probably is generated on the ground by industry forest fires and volcanoes.. but that even though its heavier than normal air. somehow maybe in the direst sun, since co2 is made of carbon, and carbon is black, and co2 is known to absorb infra red, that it is heated and becomes lighter than normal and if able to rise like a hot air balloon , in that way it could be more concentrated in higher atmosphere areas where it would shield off the suns rays and cause or contribute to the atmospheric cooling that i have read and heard some research to suggest.
if so. than if it is heating the stratosphere. then it seems highly likely that it prevents water vapor from freezing in the intense cold of the stratosphere and disables the mechanism that freezes water vapor and prevents clouds from rising(threw their own form of absorbing its own color of light). and rising up and into the mesosphere and turning to some form of team that can become so light that it can pass threw the ionosphere and finally into the unfiltered solar radiation into space at a rate that could prevent the sea level from ever rising. and cause it to eventually drop after the poles are all melted dedicating the earth. maybe. probably
co2 is bad.
theres less co2 in the earths atmosphere per volume than the atmosphere os the moon.
co2 is probably building up in tyhe measosphere and causing watyter vapor to be syphenned into space
maybe causing heat to be convected to the lower atmosphere and melting the poles.
the earth's a ball dirt with a top layer of water. it rains on the hot part and snows on the cold part. the snow builds up the polar caps till they extends way into the air. quite a few miles high.
it snows at about the same rate on the north pole and south pole.
but
the sun only gets intense enough to melt the snow when:
1)the pole is tilted toward the sun and
2)when the earth is on the part of its orbit that is closest to the sun.
which is only possible on the north pole since the sun is closest when the north pole is tilted towards the sun
the south pole is melted by another mechanism.
because the south pole builds up more snow since it almost never heats hot enough to melt . the south polar ice cap is a big heavy ice cube. the south polar ice cap is so heavy that it presses down on the earth beneath the ice cap
it presses so hard that it creates a depression in the earth's crust.
the depression is so deep that it presses the crust into the sub crust just above the molten part of the earth.
the earth's sub crust is hot at that depth. so hot that it melts the ice under the ice cap.
the following is a sort of guideline to create a model of why the north pole melts.
the temperature of the earth is probably about 75 degrees farinhite. the temperature looking into outer space on the night side of the earth is probably 150 degrees below 75 degrees. and in the direct sunlight probably about 200 degrease. water freezes at 32
the temperature on the equator must be 125(since half day and half night) poles is probably an average of -50
the north pole goes colder in its winter and hotter in its summer.
but the south pole varies less in temperature. so it never gets above point where the accumulation melts faster than the snowfall rebuilds it
"One fact you cannot deny...there is absolutley NO WAY to capture and Control MERCURY POLLUTION from burning COAL BURNERS , furnaces , incenerators.
I don't care one farthing if you want to die in a filthy environment.
Y-O-U just don't have my permission to kill me with that FILTH. "
I SECOND THAT. The legal basis to shut down all the coal plants is that they are destroying the country that no one generation has any right to trash. The country and the world belong to future generations and it's illegal to destroy the air and land that doesn't belong to us. Why don't a group of Eco-minded lawyers get on this and let's get a class action suit started against the coal industry. I will repeat that. We need a class action lawsuit against the coal industry as guardians of our children and future generations. Let's get some lawyers on this.
Yoy've also followed the " magic Dollar " and supported the purveyors of filth. Now you deny Global Warming.
One fact you cannot deny...there is absolutley NO WAY to capture and Control MERCURY POLLUTION from burning COAL BURNERS , furnaces , incenerators.
I don't care one farthing if you want to die in a filthy environment.
Y-O-U just don't have my permission to kill me with that FILTH.
SHUT DOWN COAL FIRED POWER PLANTS>
Next item : We have absolutley no manufacturing facilities left that require heavy electrical usage. So for whom are they building the new plants for ?
Discussions about whether we need more coal or nuclear power plants?or even more solar and wind?when there are advanced, non-polluting energy technologies that are virtually unlimited in resource is like discussing whether it is better to light a house with candles, gas lights, kerosene lanterns, or torches when electric light bulb technology has been around for years.
Advanced technologies like zero point, electrogravitics, and low energy nuclear fusion (aka cold fusion) are real and have been around for decades. But until a critical mass of the population is reached where they start demanding the release of these technologies, and/or a conscience is grown by those on the inside who know they have been actively suppressing these technologies to keep the energy cartel firmly in control of the world economies and governments, we will continue to destroy the planet and ourselves at an exponential rate.
Wake up people and do your own research. Don?t believe me, the government, mainstream academia, or the media. The information is hidden in plain sight, but you actually have to open your eyes and your mind to take it in.
And for those of you on the inside who know the truth and have been having second thoughts about your role in the suppression, I implore you to search your soul and ask yourself is what is rapidly unfolding in the world really what you want? Is what you are doing really worth the cost to you and your family and its future generations? Do you really want to live in a world where such secrets, deception and ruthlessness require you to trust no one and to keep looking over your shoulder? Is wealth, power and control really all that matters?
For those of you who would like to do your own research and investigation into what I?ve said there is a wealth of information in books, journals, videos and CDs, and on the web. Here are a few good resources and topics you can start with by searching the web or visiting your local library or book store:
Brian O?Leary, Ph.D.
Paul LaViolette Ph.D.
Ervin Laszlo, Ph.D.
Eugene Mallove, Ph.D.
Thomas Townsend Brown
Paul Biefeld, Ph.D.
Nikola Tesla
Tom Bearden
Guy Obolensky, Ph.D.
Eugene Podkletnov, Ph.D.
Stanley Pons, Ph.D.
Martin Fleischmann, Ph.D.
Michael McKubre, Ph.D.
Jeane Manning
Zero Point Energy (ZPE)
LENR (Low Energy Nuclear Reaction; aka Cold Fusion)
Electrogravitics
Subquantum Kinetics
Everything he stated translates into: Privatize the gains, and socialize the losses.
Seriously, what's it worth?
"...Jim Hansen's predictions and numbers have been continually discredited. Do your research.Go to the NSIDC site and see that the Arctic sea ice extent is back to normal.
Posted by elmeramos at 6:58 PM : Apr 26, 2009"
Additionally, even if we figure out a way to do IGCC w/ CCS as cheap as the dirty plants of today - you still have to get the coal out of the ground, and MTR is one of the most environmentally destructive activities practiced on this continent (except for maybe tar sands in Canada). And you will still have the problems of the coal-ash lagoons, just like the one that failed in Tennesee last year causing billions and billions and billions of dollars in property damage.
The coal man interviewed in this segment is not "reformed". He's so greedy he wants to make money killing off future generations of people. Same with T. Boone Pickens. They're both frauds. We need to be interviewing people with solutions to climate change, not these snake oil salesmen. "Yeah, I believe in climate change, but I'm gonna keep building coal plants anyway." Are you frakkin' kidding me? This man should be put in jail. He's killing people.
IGCC coal plants with CCS, Solar thermal plants and photovoltaics panels, wind farms, turbodiesel European cars, smart grids, and biomass are the right way to go for America. We could probably have solar and wind farms producing half or more of our electricity in 20 years. IGCC coal plants could serve as a mainline back up. We should also back this up with aggressive recycling programs and energy conservation programs for buildings. Forget nuclear power it will be an economic failure. S. David Freeman used to be in charge of the TVA in the 1970's and he canceled nuclear power plants because they were uneconomical. Far smarter to invest a few trillion dollars in IGCC plants and turbodiesel cars that get 70 MPG. Then we can bring our troops home forever from the Middle East and read Psalm 23 for OPEC's obituary. I do not think many America families who have lost servicemembers in these wars will feel very sorry for OPEC's demise. I won't either.
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