Comments on: Clean coal, meet harsh reality http://climateprogress.org/2008/12/23/clean-coal-meet-harsh-reality/ The Latest on Climate Science, Solutions, and Politics Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:18:44 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Asteroid Miner http://climateprogress.org/2008/12/23/clean-coal-meet-harsh-reality/#comment-25628 Asteroid Miner Thu, 25 Dec 2008 01:19:36 +0000 http://climateprogress.org/2008/12/23/clean-coal-meet-harsh-reality/#comment-25628 No need to wait for new nukes. They come from a factory now. And the factory recycles the fuel. See: http://www.hyperionpowergeneration.com/ No need to wait for new nukes. They come from a factory now. And the factory recycles the fuel. See: http://www.hyperionpowergeneration.com/

]]> By: Asteroid Miner http://climateprogress.org/2008/12/23/clean-coal-meet-harsh-reality/#comment-25627 Asteroid Miner Thu, 25 Dec 2008 01:16:07 +0000 http://climateprogress.org/2008/12/23/clean-coal-meet-harsh-reality/#comment-25627 Does anybody have email addresses for NBC, ABC & CBS? My computer is too old to use their internet emailers. I saw it on NBC only so far. Add uranium and thorium to that list of heavy metal poisons in coal, RJ. The complete list is: URANIUM, ARSENIC, LEAD, MERCURY, Antimony, Cobalt, Nickel, Copper, Selenium, Barium, Fluorine, Silver, Beryllium, Iron, Sulfur, Boron, Titanium, Cadmium, Magnesium, Calcium, Manganese, Vanadium, Chlorine, Aluminum, Chromium, Molybdenum and Zinc. "Modern electrostatic precipitator plants are capable of operating at greater than 99.5% collection efficiency but can still release 35 lb/year of uranium as just one component in almost 3 million tons of ash vented through stacks. In addition to this radiological species, all the radon in coal is released during combustion. An estimate for average Rn-222 release is about 2 Curies/year for each 1000 MWe coal fired facility15." Somebody should give the complete list of heavy metal poisons in coal to everybody. Does anybody have email addresses for NBC, ABC & CBS? My computer is too old to use their internet emailers. I saw it on NBC only so far. Add uranium and thorium to that list of heavy metal poisons in coal, RJ. The complete list is: URANIUM, ARSENIC, LEAD, MERCURY, Antimony, Cobalt, Nickel, Copper, Selenium, Barium, Fluorine, Silver, Beryllium, Iron, Sulfur, Boron, Titanium, Cadmium, Magnesium, Calcium, Manganese, Vanadium, Chlorine, Aluminum, Chromium, Molybdenum and Zinc.
“Modern electrostatic precipitator plants are capable of operating at greater than 99.5% collection efficiency but can still release 35 lb/year of uranium as just one component in almost 3 million tons of ash vented through stacks. In addition to this radiological species, all the radon in coal is released during combustion. An estimate for average Rn-222 release is about 2 Curies/year for each 1000 MWe coal fired facility15.”
Somebody should give the complete list of heavy metal poisons in coal to everybody.

]]> By: www.GreenPoliticsNJ.com http://climateprogress.org/2008/12/23/clean-coal-meet-harsh-reality/#comment-25615 www.GreenPoliticsNJ.com Wed, 24 Dec 2008 22:57:20 +0000 http://climateprogress.org/2008/12/23/clean-coal-meet-harsh-reality/#comment-25615 Joe can you please set the example you established a few weeks ago? ... It's "killer coal" from now on. Even your educated readers who already agree with you should have the constant mental association of "coal" with "killer." After all, surely some of your readers are still relying on the black stuff for their electricity. Joe can you please set the example you established a few weeks ago? … It’s “killer coal” from now on. Even your educated readers who already agree with you should have the constant mental association of “coal” with “killer.” After all, surely some of your readers are still relying on the black stuff for their electricity.

]]> By: Matt http://climateprogress.org/2008/12/23/clean-coal-meet-harsh-reality/#comment-25601 Matt Wed, 24 Dec 2008 18:50:49 +0000 http://climateprogress.org/2008/12/23/clean-coal-meet-harsh-reality/#comment-25601 Well, at least that's better than nothing. I haven't been watching today! Well, at least that’s better than nothing. I haven’t been watching today!

]]> By: Joe http://climateprogress.org/2008/12/23/clean-coal-meet-harsh-reality/#comment-25594 Joe Wed, 24 Dec 2008 17:01:29 +0000 http://climateprogress.org/2008/12/23/clean-coal-meet-harsh-reality/#comment-25594 I hear it just made CNN, although it didn’t get the same coverage of the water may burst. I hear it just made CNN, although it didn’t get the same coverage of the water may burst.

]]> By: Matt http://climateprogress.org/2008/12/23/clean-coal-meet-harsh-reality/#comment-25591 Matt Wed, 24 Dec 2008 16:38:24 +0000 http://climateprogress.org/2008/12/23/clean-coal-meet-harsh-reality/#comment-25591 I just want to know why 400 acres of toxic ash covered land isn't being covered by CNN, etc, when a water main burst yesterday DOMINATED. I just want to know why 400 acres of toxic ash covered land isn’t being covered by CNN, etc, when a water main burst yesterday DOMINATED.

]]> By: Rick http://climateprogress.org/2008/12/23/clean-coal-meet-harsh-reality/#comment-25586 Rick Wed, 24 Dec 2008 15:11:43 +0000 http://climateprogress.org/2008/12/23/clean-coal-meet-harsh-reality/#comment-25586 wow - I thought all the coal garbage ended up in the atmosphere - no idea they had sludge lakes behind dikes. wow – I thought all the coal garbage ended up in the atmosphere – no idea they had sludge lakes behind dikes.

]]> By: paulm http://climateprogress.org/2008/12/23/clean-coal-meet-harsh-reality/#comment-25569 paulm Wed, 24 Dec 2008 09:47:12 +0000 http://climateprogress.org/2008/12/23/clean-coal-meet-harsh-reality/#comment-25569 The act now link above is failing - here is the source link http://thebigask.eu/ The act now link above is failing – here is the source link

http://thebigask.eu/

]]> By: bob Wright http://climateprogress.org/2008/12/23/clean-coal-meet-harsh-reality/#comment-25555 bob Wright Wed, 24 Dec 2008 04:04:05 +0000 http://climateprogress.org/2008/12/23/clean-coal-meet-harsh-reality/#comment-25555 Hey! Accidents happen, Dude! I just read Hansen's pdf of his AGU Bjerknes lecture slides. P18 has the ocean fast response model prediction of global temp to 2020. Add in an El Nino and a healthy solar cycle 24, and 1998 and 2007 will be the good old days. http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/ Scary stuff. If GW is hysteria, then skeptics can be redfined as future GW hysterics. Hey! Accidents happen, Dude!

I just read Hansen’s pdf of his AGU Bjerknes lecture slides. P18 has the ocean fast response model prediction of global temp to 2020. Add in an El Nino and a healthy solar cycle 24, and 1998 and 2007 will be the good old days.

http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/

Scary stuff. If GW is hysteria, then skeptics can be redfined as future GW hysterics.

]]> By: Mr.Mom http://climateprogress.org/2008/12/23/clean-coal-meet-harsh-reality/#comment-25550 Mr.Mom Wed, 24 Dec 2008 01:31:25 +0000 http://climateprogress.org/2008/12/23/clean-coal-meet-harsh-reality/#comment-25550 Can you say Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm......mercury. Can you say Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm……mercury.

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