The Dilemma Over Coal Generated Power

The future of our climate may be summarized as a problem. How do you deal with the coal problem? Coal produces almost half the electric power of the United States and the world. But due to carbon dioxide or major greenhouse gas carbon dioxide, it is the dirtiest fuel.

A few days ago the Obama administration announced that carbon dioxide poses a threat to human health and plans to impose regulations. However, securing coal safety will bring astronomical costs

After economic development, this may be the biggest debate in Washington. One of the most influential people is Jim Rogers. Coal made Rogers and his company rich, so we were surprised to hear what the Gaofei electric bullets had about the impact of coal on the environment.

As Rogers expects the United States to rely heavily on coal within 60 minutes, he flew to the press Scott Paley to see one of the twenty coal-fired power stations.

"I remember missing such a power station for the first time on a helicopter, I said when I was 41 years old.

Rogers is Chief Executive Officer of Duke Energy, the third largest power company in the United States. His chimney sucks 100 million tons of carbon dioxide annually, making Rogers' mouth unexpected.

"In your opinion, suppression of carbon emissions is inevitable in the near future, this will happen," Perry said.

"You are one of the world's most polluted polluters in terms of carbon emissions," Paley noted.

"We are one of the biggest emitting countries, we can see how difficult it is in the future," Rogers replied.

"People in the industry may know who is saying global warming is not a big problem," Paley said.

"This is my judgment, this is a problem," Rogers said. "We still need to continue working and it is important to take action in this country."

Mr. Rogers said that like the reformed cigarette executives, we can not afford to buy emissions generated by our industry. He showed me 60 minutes to the power station in North Carolina. And it was able to illuminate 1.5 million homes.

Rogers told Paley that a specific power plant burned about 19,000 tons of coal. "This is two trains, there are about 100 trains for each train," he explained.

Indeed, the United States relies on the coal business. That is one of the reasons. The Powder River Basin between Wyoming and Montana State may be the largest coal reserves on the planet. We have 200 years reserves - cheap, and still at our feet. It is no wonder that coal produces half of electricity.

But this is a cruel part. Coal is twice that of natural gas and carbon dioxide in the air is more than all our cars and trucks. In short, we are trapped in rocks and hot places

"This is good news," Rogers said. "When you see the plume from a large number of power plants, it is water vapor, which basically says that it purifies the waste."

The high cost of producing coal is just a dilemma. In the United States artificial mining - the worker's generation loses black power - or the power plant - which is the seventh largest source of carbon pollution, there are also costs, and exacerbate asthma, cause a heart attack, and shorten the lifespan Toxic chemicals. You can see plant contamination away from the Grand Canyon. Perhaps beyond the Hopi and Navajo tribes, Peabody is determined to keep open the Navajo power plant. The coal company said that it found many potential buyers for plants, but that did not reveal any name. Investors are unlikely to line up to buy power stations. IEEFA expects that it will cost more than $ 400 million to plan to maintain online by the end of 2019 and will require a subsidy of more than $ 2 billion to maintain the operation in 2030.

Today, coal is an important part of the Kentucky economy. Coal produces more than 95% of Kentucky's electricity and coal-fired power plants are lighting our landscape from the west of Kentucky State to Ashland. Coal fields have billions of dollars of coal mining infrastructure, from railways to railways and coal mines themselves. Obviously, coal is here today and it will be here tomorrow. But coal will never be here. Geologists, mining engineers and energy economists discussed the details of coal in the future, but most people agree - most coal miners agree that most of the coal that can be easily and cheaply mined in eastern Kentucky I know that it was mined. Almost all of the five coal beds produced by Kentucky coal are depleted violently. Coal is a limited resource and, as we know today, it takes years for coal mining. The bold prediction of the Appalachian coal mine in the future is actually just a speculation