Re: the light bulb police are coming

[nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Dave Houston)]

nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Dave Houston) wrote:

>As I've said before, most of our electricity comes from coal and that is
>certain to increase as it's both cheap and plentiful. To save the planet we
>need these coal fired plants to improve their conversion efficiency as well
>as capture and sequester carbon dioxide (and there's proven technology for
>capturing 90% of the mercury as well). BTW, this has to be done worldwide.

Today's NYT has a timely article on the first large scale test of carbon
sequestration.

     http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/15/business/15carbon.html?ref=science

If it works and if overall conversion efficiency can be improved at least
enough to cover the added costs of sequestration, those Iowa farmers may
have to drink their corn squeezin's and Mexicans can again afford tortillas
(at least until the coal runs out in a few hundred years).

And Alstom might be able to sell the same generating equipment to China and
Australia.

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