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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: combjelly who wrote (349191)9/6/2007 9:37:35 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (2) of 1576163
 
Most of it is, Tim. Pretty much all of the coal mined is used for power generation. A substantial fraction of natural gas is used for it.

But very little of the oil, or refined oil products.

And natural gas produces less CO2. The coal produces a lot, but it would be hard to replace.

That is the point, Tim. Much of the electrical generation equipment can be retrofitted to burn other fuels. So it doesn't have to be replaced.

What other fuels are you going to use. Alcohol isn't a practical solution. Replacing with non-CO2 emitting sources of electricity wouldn't mainly be about using other fuels but using something other than fuel. Nuclear (well in a sense uranium is its fuel, but its very different, and not a cheap plug in replacement at coal burning plants), hydro power, wind power, solar, geo-thermal etc.
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