Archive for April, 2008
is it cheaper to produce electricity through wood burning power plant compared to conventional methods?
Two questions.
1) is it cheaper to produce electricity through wood burning power plant compared to conventional methods like, hydral, natural gas, coal? if yes or no, how cheap and expensive would it be comparitively?
2) Does it take more capital cost per MW of electricity to build the wood burning power plant and does it take 5, 10 times more space than say coal burning power plant?
Does coal energy production really produce more radioactivity than a nuclear power plant?
i find it hard to believe, but i keep seeing it coming up in sources such as this:
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=coal-ash-is-more-radioactive-than-nuclear-waste
if this is really true, why don’t we hear about huge talks about where to store our COAL waste? similar to the huge debate about storing nuclear waste.
If you find anything to the contrary, please post a source or link
Very confused,
Joe
A community located downwind from a power plant that burn high-sulfur coal?
A community located downwind from a power plant that burn high-sulfur coal…
a)may experience the effects of acid rain
b)is safe since pollution from the plant is dispersed by the wind
c)will experience ozone depletion in the surrounding air
d)should filter the air before processing it through air conditioning units