Nope, Kansans don’t need any new sources of electricity. They can just plug into some more expensive, unproven and unavailable elitist approved outlets.

Face it, coal and oil are going to be with us for a while. I’m not opposed to new methods, but they just ain’t viable yet.

This simply has to stop.

Al Gore made a subtle call to civil disobedience in exclaiming his surprise that people don’t physically prevent the construction of new coal plants. Hopefully if these two go to that stage, people will use their bodies to prevent their construction.

I will be doing so.

Why is Al Gore a rich man?

I understand the need to inform people of the threat coal burning poses. But objections should be based on analysis and goals. If the plants emit little or no CO2, are there objections?

Kansas lawmakers should know that retrofitting carbon capture onto IGCCs would require significant (costly) changes to the turbine and rest of the plant. For example, it’s my understanding the output pressures would need to be higher and this would change the turbine design, reheat unit and overall efficiencies.

Why should KS electric customer have to pay for something twice? Sunflower should be asked to submit designs NOW that would be able to add geologic carbon sequestration with no changes. Or whatever other method of carbon capture they choose.

They should be required to pick locations where the underlying geology is compatible with CO2 injection and storage.

A quick search of their website and I didn’t find anyone doing coal research there.