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 Posted: Fri May 19, 2006 8:30 am |
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| Posted: Fri May 19, 2006 10:05 pm |
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Not very useful info. First, I believe Keystone is in Armstrong County, not
Indiana. Keystone, Conemaugh, and Homer City are big plants and big plants,
and even when big plants are clean, they have a lot of emissions of
everything. Their owners have invested a lot in pollution control
equipment, including coal cleaning, SO2 scrubbers, and NOx control.
If you want some real dirty plants on a pounds of pollutant per megawatt
hour, look at the plants in Ohio and Indiana. A lot of Pennsylvania's
pollution comes in from the west and southwest, from states with less
stringent air pollution laws.
Homer City unit #3 for the longest time had been limited to an SO2 emission
rate of 1.2#/MMBtu. Keystone was 2.5#/MMBtu. Conemaugh was about
3.5#/MMBtu. At the same time many of the Ohio plants were emitting at about
6#/MMBtu.
As long as we burn coal, we are going to be emitting most, if not all, of
the elements we find in the Earth's crust, including Mercury. If we are
going to attempt to cut Mercury emissions, it makes sense to do it in the
most economical way possible and that will usually mean have the largest
plants add the emission controls and leave the smaller plants alone. In
essence, cap and trade emissions.
How much oil do you think Keystone, Homer City and Conemaugh are displacing?
Use an 80% capacity factor and let me know.
"Useful Info" <useful_inf@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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[quote:e58dcabc9f]Keystone Power Plant in Shelocta, Pennsylvania
http://home.comcast.net/~plutarch/keystone.html
Homer City Generating Station in Homer City, Pennsylvania
http://home.comcast.net/~plutarch/homercity.html
Both plants are in Indiana County, Pennsylvania.
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