if this were true, if there would be a shortage due to time taken to make a safer cleaner plant, well, then we need a shortage!
On 2/27/08, R C Macaulay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Howdy Jed, > One of the 20 worse polluting USA coal fired electric power plants, The FPP > plant ,Fayette county Texas has a problem. Seems their effort in finally > getting the scrubber installed ( a little oversight when constructing it > some 40 years ago...) hmmm. the concrete foundation for the new dual new > scrubber failed inspection. > To give you some idea of the enormity of the problem, the concrete slab will > have to be broken up and removed . It is 70 feet in diameter and 8 feet > thcik with reinforcing steel.... oh ! I forgot to mention the deep pier > pilings under the slab are too difficult to remove so they will " re-inforce > the piers. The trick will be to drill holes in the slab and fill with a type > of expanding grout to fracture the concrete into pieces for removal. > Comment with the report.. it is obvious there will be a delay in completing > our environmental improvements. This plant is owned by the state of Texas > and the city of Austin... pristine in their thinking and rightousness in > going after any polluter but their own. > > Not to be outdone.. as no Texas power producer can .. the Houston ship > channel industries old Reliant power plant, one of 4 fallen into bankruptcy > because of rising fuel costs and too broke to install pollution equipment, > was resurrected from the dead and sold for 450m and change. > The new owners will be given time to work out their pollution problems. > > No place but Texas, where no man's life nor property is safe when the > legislature is in session. Not to worry says the regulators.. we in Texas > are way ahead of the curve because the US is in serious trouble and face > catastrophic electric power shortages across the nation this year caused by > an aging infrastructure and by environmentalists causing delays in new > plant construction. > > Richard > > -- That which yields isn't always weak.
