What about Natural Gas fired power plants that have near zero emissions like the ULEV Honda engines now?
powerofcatalysis asked:
California basically generates almost all of the power within it’s state with natural gas fired generators. There are emission reduction systems which achieve almost zero emissions, yet it isn’t required to be that clean so the power generators don’t use this technology. The best available emissions control technology should be used on this power generation equipment.
Eulah
California basically generates almost all of the power within it’s state with natural gas fired generators. There are emission reduction systems which achieve almost zero emissions, yet it isn’t required to be that clean so the power generators don’t use this technology. The best available emissions control technology should be used on this power generation equipment.
Eulah
February 23rd, 2010 at 6:37 pm
Evelyn
You have got your facts completely wrong.
Your statement is entirely incorrect!!!!!!!!!!
Even with the best of technology natural gas fired power plants emit millions of tons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere and make massive contributions to Global Warming!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
These plants are not zero emission plants by any stretch of the imagination!!!!!!!!!!!
Natural Gas fired power plants are not a sloution to the Global Warming problem by any stretch of the imagination.
February 26th, 2010 at 2:43 pm
Glady
Natural gas does produce much less emissions than say diesel or coal but unfortunately it is also getting prohibitively expensive as most of the US natural gas is now being imported.
I agree, we should always use the best and most effective technology as it often translates into greater efficiency and lower operating cost.
What really gets me is in the oil producing countries where they show acres of oil flares belching out the heavy black smoke, the least they could do is generate some power with the gas they are burning off rather than just letting it go up in smoke.
Humans do love to waste.
February 28th, 2010 at 11:46 am
Kathern
Is there a question here, or just a pronouncement?
February 28th, 2010 at 5:12 pm
Leslee
so, how much more are offering to pay for your electricity, to have it “the cleanest possible”?
and are you gonna pay for mine, in case i don’t want to pay extra?
(note, i didn’t say what i prefer, i just asked if it would be okay with you, considering that there are thousands / millions of folks that don’t have a lot of extra money.)
or are you expecting someone else to pay for the extra emission controls?
also, gas is more expensive than coal or oil. Calif uses it because, in the valley, and the LA basin, anything else would be very polluting. Calif users pay more because they use gas.
March 2nd, 2010 at 6:19 am
Leeanne
Mike is correct. It’s simply chemistry. Natural Gas is essentially methane (CH3). A reaction between CH3 and O2 (oxygen) generates CO2 and water. CO2 is a greenhouse gas. Per BTU, natural gas generates as much CO2 as coal or oil.
March 2nd, 2010 at 1:40 pm
Kathrine
The items mined from the earth to generate heat and electricity are in essence carbon which was stored in the form of oil, gas, and coal.
When they are mined or extracted they release some of that carbon, as they are burned, they release more of that carbon, when they are transmitted to your house, the release even more carbon, and when you consume them they release more carbon.
If we didn’t mine or drill for these fossil fuels, we would significantly reduce the amount of carbon released into the earth.
There isn’t a way to generate electricity that is entire neutral to the earth. HOWEVER, once you make a solar panel or make a wind generator, you have a finite amount of negative impact to the earth, then the impact is neutralized, unlike fossil fuels which continue to release negative gasses into the atomsphere.