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The purpose of this page is to tell you about the
energy technology
market you can mine.
Rebirth of
The largest power plants are the low-hanging Global Warming fruit.
Few in number, they can't run and they can't hide.
There is a next-generation high temperature nuclear
boiler that is well-suited to replacing even the largest of today's coal burning
boilers.
Coal Fired Steam Power Plants, Having the Largest of All
Fossil Fires, Are
the Best Place to Start:
Since power plants are currently making 37% of ALL
Global Warming and will continue to make Global Warming until they are fixed, it
only makes sense to begin where Global Warming began - fossil fuel combustion.
2. New small modular nuclear reactors installed next to old coal burners.
3. Nuclear repowering of large, existing coal burning boilers with perhaps
some excess reactor capacity.
Examples:
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The three options open to
coal power plant operators.
All three options have their strengths and
weaknesses.
1. Carbon Capture. Stay With Coal, Add Carbon Capture Equipment, Suffer Capacity Loss.
2-1-1 Coal's Carbon Capture and Storage Option Replacing end of life coal plants with CCS plants .pdf
2. New Small Modular Nuclear Reactor. Add Complete Small Modular Nuclear Generating Units, And Increase Capacity.
2-2-1 Mature Complete Small Modular Reactor Electricity Generating Units (SMRs) 10, 25, 45 and 125 MWe units.
3. Nuclear Repowering. Convert Existing Plants to Nuclear Boilers and Possibly Add Residual Capacity.
2-3-1
Nuclear Repowering's Option
Expanding and Repowering Existing Coal Power Plant Sites.
Taking advantage of new small nuclear boiler technology.
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In the news:
EPA Issues New Standards For Coal-Fired Power
Plants.
Note: This is NOT the CO2 ruling.
The New York Times (7/8, Broder, Subscription Publication) reports that the
federal Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday issued new rules that aims
to drastically cut emissions from power plants in 28 states. Known as the
Cross-State Air Pollution Rule, the new regulation is "essentially a rewrite of
one issued by the George W. Bush administration in 2005 but invalidated by a
federal judge in 2008." Although the EPA maintains that utilities can meet the
new rule at a "modest cost," utility companies and many Republican lawmakers
argue that the new rules will "impose heavy financial burdens on power companies
and their customers."
In a related story, the AP (7/8) reports, "EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson
announced on Thursday a plan to reduce smokestack pollution causing smog and
soot in downwind states - where it combines with local air contaminants, making
it impossible for those states to meet air quality standards on their own."
During a conference call with reports, Jackson said that the new rule would
ensure that communities no longer have to bear the burden of pollution from
another state. While the agency insists that the "suite of regulations will not
cause the power to go out, almost everyone agrees that it will help close down
some of the oldest, and dirtiest, coal-fired facilities."
Also reporting on the newly issued rule, the Christian Science Monitor (7/8,
Clayton) says that "beyond environmentalists' cheers, industry groups were
predictably upset." Responding to the industry's complaints about the rule's
deadlines, the EPA points out that utilities have been on notice since the
George H.W. Bush Administration that new regulations would be put in place.
The Hill (7/8, Restuccia) "E2 Wire" blog says that "Republicans quickly blasted
the new regulations Thursday." In a statement, Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) said,
"Today's economically devastating rule is just the latest strike in the
Administration's ongoing war against traditional sources of American energy."
The blog also notes that utility industry groups have "echoed Barrasso's
concerns."
Nuclear Industry Looking For New Employees.
The New Orleans Times-Picayune (12/28, Thompson) reports that after three
decades of stagnant hiring, an aging workforce, and the potential for new
nuclear reactors means that the nuclear field may provide opportunities for job
growth. "New nuclear power plants create upward of 1,800 high-paying jobs on
average during construction, with peak employment estimated as high as 2,400
jobs during that period, and yield 400 to 700 positions once the plants are up
and running, according to statistics from the Nuclear Energy Institute. ... Last
month, Entergy New Orleans, a subsidiary of the New Orleans-based power provider
Entergy Corp., hosted a free, three-hour workshop on nuclear power production
for Orleans Parish public school math and science teachers. The program, called
Power Path to Nuclear Energy, offered training, curriculum materials and the
potential for bringing guest lecturers into the classroom in an effort to spur
an early interest in nuclear science in sixth- through 12th-grade students."
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