Coal Power Online

sll10 asked:


I’m trying to compare the cost of electricity produced by geothermal processes to “normal” processes. Geothermal is anywhere from 2.5-10 cents per kWh. I’d like to know what the average cost is for gas, coal and oil fired electric power plants by kWh.

Sunshine asked:


I have complained many times,and they say there is no health concern,and they can’t control which way the wind blows.(That is why they say at times we get coal dust falling on our property.)The Health Department investigates every now and then,at my urging and that of neighbors.What else,if anything,can be done?
I’d like to move,but cannot right now.
Yes,I have contacted the EPA.

Amy L asked:


The question was found in an interview with Hunter Lovins, who said of nuclear power:

“Again, it is not clean in carbon terms. If you count the entire fuel cycle of nuclear̶digging the stuff up, enriching it, transporting it, building the very concrete intensive reactors which as they cure release CO2—nuclear is not carbon neutral.”

Her answer to the question is towards the end of the interview.

http://www.motherjones.com/interview/2008/05/interview-hunter-lovins.html

It doesn’t seem like anyone has looked at Lovins answer to the question:

“MJ: Would you rather live next to a nuclear power plant or a coal burning plant?

HL: The nukes. Coal plants spew out mercury and the nuclear safety record is actually not that bad. The real harm is the entire fuel cycle.”

wild_eep asked:


I need something quite authoritative and definitive that will stand up to scrutiny. However, I’m only looking for base load figures, averaged over your generic power station classes (coal, CCGT, OCGT etc). Assume OCGT burns distillate and the coal is bituminous. But that’s too much detail for now…

wdmuk asked:

Campaigners gathered outside power company E.ON’s offices in London to protest against the plans to build a new coal power station in Kingsnorth

OnTheEdgeToday asked:

On The Edge Today asked Neil Hendricks, the CEO of Sunbury Generation LP what he thinks of Obama’s comments on bankrupting the coal companies through taxes. For the full interview, go to FOX222.com.

jimbonumber9 asked:

“As many as 600,000 babies may be born in the U.S.A. each year with irreversible brain damage because pregnant mothers ate mercury-contaminated fish,the Enviromental Protection Agency says.U.S.A. TODAY

gpsea asked:

Workers from from Panay Power Corporation surrounded the Greenpeace “climate defenders camp” with bamboo and tarpaulin fence at a proposed coal power plant site in Baranggay Ingore, Iloilo City about 600 Kms south of Manila. Greenpeace activists have camped there for 3 days by erecting tents and a tower with banners “Quit Coal, Save the Climate”.

kc5tpa asked:

50% of our Electricity

youthlab2007 asked:

A video about Midwest Generation’s toxic coal power plant and the harm it is causing in Chicago’s Little Village neighborhood.