New power plant to be first ever to self-impose limit on CO2 output

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  lewis2005@...

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  RE: New power plant to be first ever to self-impose limit on CO2 output

  How much more per kilowatt hour will electricity from this plant cost than from more traditional plants? Did the people of California agree to higher electrical costs? Do the majority of voters in California believe in global warming? Cheap energy encorages job creation. I am sure the 10% of Americans who are unemployed feel warm and fuzzy about this new plant!

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  Thermoguy

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  RE: New power plant to be first ever to self-impose limit on CO2 output

  Any power generating station is only supplying the electrical demand
  required by homes and industry. Continuous work on generating
  stations to be more efficient while demand dictates emissions is
  working at the problem in reverse.
  
  Buildings becoming urban heat islands costs the city of Los Angeles
  alone over 100 million dollars a year in energy costs. 100% of it is
  a waste and reacting to symptoms of buildings being radiated by the
  same sun that burns our skin. Building and energy codes call for us
  to use paint, shade or finishes on the exterior that reflect solar
  radiation. If you don't reflect solar radiation, the building will be
  radiated and generate heat the building isn't insulated for. Due to
  the fact it couldn't be seen, professionals reacted to the symptoms
  with massive electrical waste, emissions and ozone depletion. Here is
  a link to show you urban heat islands and the cause with infrared
  applications employed at the molecular level. Paint or shade to
  decrease the electrical load, not increase electrical generation to
  accommodate waste. http://www.thermoguy.com/urbanheat.html

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  LarryPTL

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  CO2 is not a meaningful contributor to global warming

  Increases in CO2 do not have a 'linear' relationship to how much heat they trap. The effect is logarithmic. At present concentrations any heat trap increase from a significant increase in CO2 will be indistiguishable from the "room for error" used when measuring heat increases.
  
  In other words, it is irrelevant!

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  lewis2005@...

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  RE: New power plant to be first ever to self-impose limit on CO2 output

  The American people have said no to Cap and Trade. Polls suggest there are insufficient votes in the Senate. Why pretend the will of the people has already been trampled by special interests?
  Cap & Trade is being forced on us because it creates a multi-trillion dollar commodity market. The beneficiaries are special interest who will set up the exchanges and trade in hot house gases and companies expecting federal subsidies to create alternative fuels and transportation.
  But citizens will pay more taxes and more for goods as business passes the cost along.
  And all this based on global warming theories proposed by scientists dependent on proving their theories in order to continue receiving federal grant money.
  Question: did Fred Flintstone?s truck fleet cause the last period of global warming or is global warming a cyclical event that is more affected by sun spot cycles. The Earth has had multiple tropical and glacial ages over the millennia. The most recent news is that the oceans of the world will be cooling for the next 25-30 years.
  Furthermore, it is my understanding that the most prevalent hot house gas is water vapor. Should citizens of earth try to stop the rain cycle?
  There is a political STD called Gonorrhea Lectim that runs rampant in the US. The cure is VotemOutOfThere!

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  Jostrom@...

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  RE: New power plant to be first ever to self-impose limit on CO2 output

  CO2 is a serious problem for our planet and is the main contributor to global climate change. I'm thrilled to see a power plant that is taking that into consideration and limiting their CO2 emissions before they are regulated to do so. It's the good citizen thing to do.
  
  But burning Natural Gas emits just half of the CO2 that burning coal does. So it seems more like you've chosen a cleaner fuel and that's what's limiting the CO2.