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(6) Environmentalism
I am an environmentalist. Yet I favor nuclear power plants. I think we
will eventually come to that. If we can't do it now, I favor coal
gasification to syn-gas running gas turbines followed by secondary steam
turbines. That's what's being built 20 miles from my home. But the extreme
environmentalists want zero new power plants. They want conservation.
Ain't gonna happen.
Okay, can't conserve, let's go with natural gas power plants. Oh no. Poor
choice. We'll just have more natural gas shortages and higher prices. The
technology is available for coal gasification, even mixed with garbage
incineration, with air emissions that can match natural gas.
Environmentalists are afraid of that.
But even with coal/garbage to syn-gas we have the global warming problem
from CO2 emissions. Ultimately we have to go nuclear.
I am afraid the CA problems are the tip of the iceberg.
Michael D. Edmiston, Ph.D. Phone/voice-mail: 419-358-3270
Professor of Chemistry & Physics FAX: 419-358-3323
Chairman, Science Department E-Mail edmiston@bluffton.edu
Bluffton College
280 West College Avenue
Bluffton, OH 45817