Comments on: EPA pulls the plug on Desert Rock coal-fired power plant

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hard disk recovery — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 14:48:35 +0000

But these gas emissions are not good for environment, we should also think for alternatives.

By: Eyal

Eyal — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 23:28:49 +0000

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Eyal — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 18:28:49 +0000

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By: chromefan

chromefan — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 23:26:40 +0000

My sister and I visited the Navajo Reservation at 4 corners on the week of the national election for President. From the radio to the enormas signs everywhere, it was all Obama all the time. Why then is Obama not being blamed for this retraction of the permit? The Navajos should have done their homework on Obama—-he told the press one year before his election that he would put coal out of business—and he intends just that.

By: kellermfk

kellermfk — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 14:30:49 +0000

Essentially all the elements to make the technology work already exist, but in a number of different locations. For instance, Japan has designed helium turbines and subsequently conducted prototype testing. Coal gasification work is underway by a number of firms, in and out of the US. Gas reactor designs have been developed by General Atomics in the US, as well as firms in Japan and France. The combustion turbine can be adapted relatively easily from machines produced by a number of different manufacturers.

The problem we are attempting to solve is to forming a consortium to actually commercialize the technology. No one firm (with perhaps one exception in Japan) has all the elements needed. We are attempting to get help from the DOE as well as DOD, but they tend to be insiders clubs.

We believe momentum to move forward with the hybrid-nuclear technology will mount as it becomes painfully apparent that coal is going nowhere because of greenhouse gas and conventional nuclear is also stuck due to painfully high construction cost. The nuclear waste problem is also a major road block, but we believe the hybrid essentially solves that problem because it reduces the amount of waste by about 90%.

By: JoMa

JoMa — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 13:59:38 +0000

Interesting concept. What's the chance of a small pilot-plant being built to demonstrate the claims? My guess is that the French or Japanese might do it, but the “progressives” here are still stuck with “The China Syndrome”

By: JoMa

JoMa — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 12:54:22 +0000

“While a lot of attention has been paid in the last week to the EPA’s recent finding that carbon dioxide–the greenhouse gas that is belched from coal-burning power plants” – “belched”? Obvious what your bias is Marjorie. Remind me not to “burp” the next time I see you on TV. And didn't I understand correctly that the photo you used in this article was a little – ahhh – doctored. White stuff is supposed to indicate CO2, but that's an invisible gas, so throw in a lot of steam to make it look more ominous.

Some idiot from the UK on the BBC's “Have your say” site said he hoped this flu outbreak would kill 99.9% of humankind. Now that would really eliminate the CO2 problem, wouldn't it? I suppose most hard-core environmentalists secretly share that concept.

By: kellermfk

kellermfk — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 11:54:29 +0000

There are unexpected alternatives that burn coal, avoid sequestration and have emissions similar to natural gas plants. One example, see www.hybridpwr.com