More than half of the electricity used in the USA comes from burning coal. New coal burning electric utility plants on the drawing board today will capture CO2 and pipe it to oil field, where its pressure will be used to recover additional oil. I suppose the CO2 would then be shut in, so it couldn't escape into the atmosphere. This sounds great, but it will be a very expensive solution, assuming the Government Regulatory Agencies of the Department of Energy would even approve any new coal burning electrical plants.
I don't know to what extent existing coal burning electrical plant have been cleaned up, but we could be looking at a 25 to 30 year time frame before all coal burning electricity plants could meet some kind of Government emissions standards. Never-the-less, the coal reserves of the USA are very abundant with the USA having an estimated 25% of all coal reserves world wide. Regards, LelandJ Michael Madigan wrote: > It's also polution free for solar, wind and hydro. > > It isn't pollution free for coal, but I believe it is > cleaner since many coal facilies have been cleaned up. > > > > --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >>> "As proven in laboratory tests at Daimler, the >>> high-temperature battery that is located under the >>> floor of the vehicle has a lifetime of at least >>> >> 1,000 >> >>> charging cycles, which is equivalent to a calendar >>> lifetime of around ten years." >>> >>> How do they figure that's 10 years? IF you charge >>> >> it >> >>> every day, isn't it 3 years? >>> >> And it's not polution free... the electricity has to >> be generated somehow... unless it's nuclear. >> >> -- >> Larry Miller >> >> --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- >> multipart/mixed >> multipart/alternative >> text/plain (text body -- kept) >> text/html >> message/rfc822 >> --- >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Post Messages to: [email protected] >> Subscription Maintenance: >> http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox >> OT-free version of this list: >> http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech >> Searchable Archive: >> http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox >> This message: >> >> > http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, >> are the opinions of the author, and do not >> constitute legal or medical advice. This statement >> is added to the messages for those lawyers who are >> too stupid to see the obvious. >> >> > > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
