Bob Morris Posted on Mon Nov 23, 2009 19:05 pm.
Brazil Pellet has developed a way to process bagasse, the waste from sugar cane processing into pellets for use in coal plants. They are thinking very big, like 520,000 tons of pellets a year that would produce 2,420 GW of power. Most bagasse now is dumped where it decomposes and produces methane. Burning it instead [...]
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Bob Morris Posted on Mon Sep 21, 2009 1:32 am.
This innovative and worthwhile project is being funded with stimulus money. The project is being hosted at the 995-megawatt Cholla Power Plant in northeastern Arizona. Early results indicate that the algae are able to capture 70 metric tons of carbon dioxide per pond acre per year.
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Bob Morris Posted on Sun May 3, 2009 18:45 pm.
Finally. This pork-laden boondoggle that brings coal by train into DC to burn to create power for Congress and others will finally be converted to natural gas. Naturally the National Assoc. for Destroying Mountaintops and Pumping Carbon into the Atmosphere whined mightily about this indignity.
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Bob Morris Posted on Thu Apr 23, 2009 20:45 pm.
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission chair Jon Wellinghoff says forget about coal and nuclear power, they’re too expensive, renewable power is what we need. Wellinghoff said renewables like wind, solar and biomass will provide enough energy to meet baseload capacity and future energy demands. Nuclear and coal plants are too expensive, he added. “I think baseload [...]
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Bob Morris Posted on Wed Mar 25, 2009 15:49 pm.
The highly destructive practice of blowing up mountain tops to get at coal, with dumping of waste and rocks into valleys and streams has been put on immediate hold by the EPA until they review environmental impacts. It’s so nice to have sane people running the government again.
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Bob Morris Posted on Mon Jan 26, 2009 10:47 am.
In a welcome reversal from the do-nothing days of Bush’s EPA, new EPA administrator Lisa Jackson revoked an air permit granted by the Bushies for a coal plant in South Dakota. The Sierra Club said “EPA is signaling that it is back to enforcing long-standing legal requirements fairly and consistently nationwide.” Indeed. Obama directs EPA [...]
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Bob Morris Posted on Sat Dec 27, 2008 17:30 pm.
Photo: J. Miles Carey/Knoxville News Sentinel, via Associated Press 300 million gallon of toxic coal sludge broke through a dam and has deluged hundreds of acres of land near Knoxville, Tennessee. Unlike flood waters, which eventually recede, it looks like much of this highly toxic glop will remain. Naturally, BushCo officials are doing nothing except [...]
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Bob Morris Posted on Thu Dec 4, 2008 19:45 pm.
Bank of America, a lead financier of coal, announced that they will be phasing out financing for companies that practice mountaintop removal coal mining, a highly destructive and controversial method of coal extraction. This is the direct result of a whole lot of work by Appalachian activists and groups like Rainforest Action Network, who will [...]
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Bob Morris Posted on Wed Nov 26, 2008 8:30 am.
Such a switch would not be easy, but Canada is considering doing it. Figuring out how to burn biomass such as wood or switchgrass pellets could solve many problems at once. The government could make good on its commitment to phase out coal. It could keep a sizeable amount of electricity generation in the area [...]
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Bob Morris Posted on Sun Nov 2, 2008 0:27 am.
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