What the Clean Power Plan Means for Water

So how exactly do they think they can cut CO2 emissions by 30% without reducing the output capacity of the power plants being there is a limit to how efficiently they can convert their fuel sources into electrical power and most modern power plants are already running at the upper ends of the combustion cycle efficiency as is?

Adding more renewable AE sources will help on the overall production level but in the actual construction and implantation of said AE systems they too also contribute a substantial amount of CO2 and other things they don't like.

Or are we just going to ignore the manufacturing emissions part of the process and take it that wind generators and solar panels just magically grow out of the ground?

Why don't they just give up on this efficiency stuff? Let's go with nuclear power generation. It's ZERO carbon dioxide! Too many people worry about radiation, waste, etc, etc; those problem are improved about 100 times by fast nuclear. The trade-off is no contest--fast nuclear being the winner. Don't forget that coal has many other emissions than CO2.

This is as clean as it gets for coal...

https://www.duke-energy.com/about-us/edwardsport-overview.asp

Which is actually pretty clean but in addition to what is already happening to curb CO2 emissions, we need to be planting 10 trees a year for every human on the planet in order to turn things around.

It doesn't matter what kind or where just so they can grow to maturity and live out their natural lives.

Fixing the Methane Problem would be as simple as stop giving healthy cows so may antibiotics and start giving them proper probiotics and beano!

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