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POPScoal-fired boilers Safe-Fire's highly reliable MB-3 Rigid Igniter delivers smooth, trouble free ignition for large coal-fired boilers, particularly tangential firing types
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POPSNuclear policy meltdown Coal also causes plenty of other environmental damage, far worse than the side-effects of nuclear power production: from mountaintop removal to acid rain and heavy metal pollution. An article in Scientific American points out that the fly ash produced by a coal-burning power plant “carries into the surrounding environment 100 times more radiation than a nuclear power plant producing the same amount of energy.” Of course it’s not a straight fight between coal and nuclear ... But we’ll still need to generate electricity, and not all renewable sources are appropriate everywhere. While producing solar power makes perfect sense in North Africa, in the UK, by comparison to both wind and nuclear, it’s a waste of money and resources. Abandoning nuclear power as an option narrows our choices just when we need to be thinking as broadly as possible. David Suzuki says nuclear energy is not renewable, therefore by definition not sustainable.
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POPSMystery of Earth's Greatest Extinction May Be Solved The massive natural CO2 emissions from the Siberian traps' coal fires are analogous to the man-made CO2 emissions from burning coal for power and cement production. Humans are in the process of recreating the conditions that led to the greatest mass extinction event in earth's history.
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POPSNew Concrete Made From Coal Plant Waste Lasts 10 Times as Long Over its life cycle, the new breed of concrete emits 90% less than its Portland brethren, and could last ten times as long, in addition to having a slew of other advantages. it could reduce the need for fly ash disposal sites--like the one that burst open in Tennessee last December and spread toxic byproduct over hundreds of acres. There are now some 600 coal ash dump sites around the US--and that could all theoretically be turned into perfectly safe concrete.
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POPSThe Environment Arsenic, Selenium, Mercury, and other substances? Wonder what that contributes to health care costs.
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POPSThe War on Coal Continues Just remember that when your electricity bill doubles or triples - its done directly as a result of the ecoNazis and the Obama Administration.
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POPSThe Economics of Coal Speaking of COP15 evidencing Coal over Climate, “it was one year ago,” records WaPo staff writer David A. Fahrenthold*, “an ‘earth-and-ash dam holding back 1 billion gallons of waterlogged coal ash’ in Kingston, Tennessee, failed, but ‘most of the fly ash on the land is still there’ and the Environmental Protection Agency is yet to regulate coal-ash ponds.”
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