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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (374908)	3/24/2008 5:27:49 PM
From: combjelly	Respond to of 1575771

"but I do know that coal is one of the dirtiest sources of energy even if you ignore the CO2. Just look at China." Modern power plants can go a long way in making them cleaner. But, the precipitators, scrubbers and other things required to reduce NOx, SOx and the particulates aren't cheap and have an ongoing cost. So China and India don't use them. All new coal plants built in the US since the early 1980s have had to use a full suite of these technologies. I think that all existing plants have already been retrofitted.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (374908)	3/24/2008 6:35:30 PM
From: Alighieri	Respond to of 1575771

Not sure exactly what you mean by "flattening the economic field," but I do know that coal is one of the dirtiest sources of energy even if you ignore the CO2. Just look at China. We've gone off track some. You started by asking me to prove that nuclear power has a poor ROI, so I posted an MIT link and then closed by saying that, unless coal is made to be more expensive, either through levies that are somehow used to subsidize cleaner forms of power generation, or through clean air initiatives that force coal plants into more expensive scrubbing or CO2 recapture installations, nuclear will continue to suffer a poor ROI. Clear energy is more expensive right now...period. Maybe as humans we have to come to grip with this. Al