text: U.S. electricity prices may be going up for good http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na - Page 2
  04-27-14, 01:15 AM #11
  Yes it is, the coal power plants are contributing to it and the power plants are powering the polluting industry. Not to mention the damage caused by mining it. Do you think that coal is completely clean now?
  04-27-14, 01:25 AM #12
  yep those that was what mid 90's ?
  Where are all the warnings and fear mongering about acid rain in Russia. I mean we both agree china is the dirtiest place on earth.
  one would thing the acid rain would be so bad russia and china be doing something about it.
  All i could find was this old scare mongering article from 1984? really well that was when they started the fear over it.
  But hey whatever, we are not even building any new nuclear power plants either. go figure
  04-27-14, 01:27 AM #13
  This is kind of an issue. If it rains, guess what is in the rain.
  04-27-14, 01:43 AM #14
  04-27-14, 01:55 AM #15
  04-27-14, 01:57 AM #16
  A) Well...of course they have never been cleaner 'ever'...name a technology that goes backwards in efficiency over it's life?
  That's like saying a disease has never killed less people because the first year it killed 1000 people and the next year it killed only 999.
  B) Yeah...how is all that coal producing electricity going for China so far?
  'China Smog at Center of Air Pollution Deaths Cited by WHO'
  http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-0...ort-shows.html
  'New coal technology'...that seems to be the right's solution to everything.
  Global warming, heating costs, abortions, the Dallas Cowboys sucking...more 'new coal technology' will help.
  I am not convinced about global warming...but I have seen enough evidence to take it seriously.
  And 'new coal technology' screams of cons saying 'we don't believe in global warming, but we will just throw the title 'clean coal' on coal plants and hope that will appease those left-wing, green pinko's without sacrificing our swimming pools'.
  Last edited by DA60; 04-27-14 at 02:08 AM.
  04-27-14, 03:17 AM #17
  China is wicked dirty but it is not from coal powered plants!
  it is because of all the OTHER industry they slave labor out to their citizens.
  What are those industries doing that makes China's air so bad?
  They must be putting something into the atmosphere.
  04-27-14, 03:21 AM #18
  Actually as a good solid power source, nuclear is a good way to go. The problem comes with ramping up and ramping down the demand for power at a given time. Coal does that far superior to anything at the moment. Nuclear has come a LONG way in the ways of security and safety since Chernobyl and getting rid of the waste (90% of it) isn't that hard with today's technology in refinement.
  04-27-14, 03:37 AM #19
  04-27-14, 06:23 AM #20
  Luckily the country did not start innovating alternative energy and phasing out coal as early and forcefully as other countries. This means the technology has had time to develop and it is now getting to a point that makes it halfway viable. If the US stays that course, takes its time, then it might work okay. Just don't install inefficient plant. You are saddled with it for a long time.