City Water Light -- Dallman Power Plant

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Oct 1st, 2022

Green
May 7th, 2022

Nov 27th, 2019

Driving past I had a wild thought about the plants operating costs and outputs and the Google machine took me to the cwlp website which answered most of the things I wanted to know and had all kinds of fun facts. But it's still a coal plant.. so..
Oct 8th, 2019

CWL&P coal-fired plants have stringent water quality permits to ensure that local waterways are protected. They also carefully manage coal combustion residuals, such as fly ash which is used in manufacturing of concrete and gypsum used by local farmers as a soil fertilizer. CWL&P is constantly looking for opportunities to recycle these into other products to reduce the volume landfilled on site. Gas-fired power stations emit about 500g ofCO 2per kWh of electricity generated. This is about half that of coal-fired power stations. But... The drilling and extraction of natural gas from wells and its transportation in pipelines results in the leakage of methane, primary component of natural gas that is 34 times stronger than CO2 at trapping heat over a 100-year period and 86 times stronger over 20 years. Preliminary studies and field measurements show that these so-called fugitive methane emissions range from 1 to 9 percent of total life cycle emissions. Whether natural gas has lower life cycle greenhouse gas emissions than coal and oil depends on the assumed leakage rate, the global warming potential of methane over different time frames, the energy conversion efficiency, and other factors. One recent study found that methane losses must be kept below 3.2 percent for natural gas power plants to have lower life cycle emissions than new coal plants over short time frames of 20 years or fewer. A study of hydraulic fracturing impacts in Michigan found potential environmental impacts to be significant and include increased erosion and sedimentation, increased risk of aquatic contamination from chemical spills or equipment runoff, habitat fragmentation, and reduction of surface waters as a result of the lowering of groundwater levels. Solar panels glimmering in the sunare an icon of all that is green. But while generating electricity through photovoltaics is indeed better for the environmentthan burning fossil fuels, several incidents have linked the manufacture of these shining symbols of environmental virtue to a trail of chemical pollution. And it turns out that the time it takes to compensate for the energy used and the greenhouse gases emitted in photovoltaic panel productionvaries substantiallyby technology and geography. The manufacturing is mostly located in China, and the panels are often installed in Europe or the United States. At double the carbon intensity, it takes twice as long to compensate for the greenhouse-gas emissions as it does to pay back the energy investments. I've included two pictures of a defunct windmill one of the parks built. It was built to educate people on wind power. they admitted when they built it that the electricity that it would provide would actually never pay for the structure itself. It was broke within the first year. They did put money into it trying to fix it. Now it's an eyesore just like all the other decommissioned windmills scattered across this country. I'm not saying wind power is a bad thing and can't be viable. The wind doesn't blow all the time. I hear stories about them burying windmill blades in landfills. I've read articles about Farmers that have them on their property and the company that built them is now bankrupt and they're stuck with them.
Jun 17th, 2021