Login | Register


Electrical Components

The Electrical Components Blog is the place for conversation and discussion about power generation, distribution and protection; connectors and relays; sensors, RFID & passive components; and magnetics and transformers. Here, you'll find everything from application ideas, to news and industry trends, to hot topics and cutting edge innovations. This blog is inspired by the Electrical Components newsletter from GlobalSpec, which you can subscribe to here.

Previous in Blog: Battery Breakthrough Bars Breakdowns   Next in Blog: Open Source Comes to Cars
Close

Comments Format:






Close

Subscribe to Discussion:

CR4 allows you to "subscribe" to a discussion
so that you can be notified of new comments to
the discussion via email.

Close

Rating Vote:







Plant Purity or Power Play?

Posted November 25, 2007 5:47 AM

Recent national headlines detail regulatory rejection of a coal-fired power plant in Kansas. Environmental concerns were cited, leading one to believe that regulators prefer renewable emissions-free power. Other headlines reveal that regulators in Massachusetts said 'No' to a power cable from a proposed offshore wind farm. It is easy to say no to every new power project, but something or someone has to give. Where is our power going to come from? Is this a case of environmentally concerned regulators or simply a scheme by those who would derail the world's leading economy?

The preceding article is a "sneak peek" from Electrical Components, a newsletter from GlobalSpec. To stay up-to-date and informed on industry trends, products, and technologies, subscribe to Electrical Components today.


Interested in this topic? By joining CR4 you can "subscribe" to
this discussion and receive notification when new comments are added.
Participant

Join Date: Dec 2007
Posts: 1
#1

Re: Plant Purity or Power Play?

12/06/2007 9:57 PM

Rich people in Cape Code value their Real Estate more than clean energy. (They would rather have a coal plant in Kansas?) They will own a Prius AND an SUV. To them wind power is an externality to their economic expectations on their property.

In Kansas, the damage that the coal emissions does to their local residents is an externality that they do not benfit from since the power is for other states.

This is not a "scheme" to derail our economy. It is Nature gaining more value as we undertand the energetics better.

Interested in this topic? By joining CR4 you can "subscribe" to
this discussion and receive notification when new comments are added.

Previous in Blog: Battery Breakthrough Bars Breakdowns   Next in Blog: Open Source Comes to Cars
You might be interested in: Gas Pressure Regulators, Alternative Power Generators, Energy Production, Mines and Exploration Services