CLEAN and Citizens Action Coalition Respond to Balanced Energy's Video Challenge

[beech18s]

First of all coal is not a clean fuel. They are feeding the ratepayers a bunch of BS. There are big pay offs at the top of the political chain to get this project thru. In the end, the hard working ratepayers, the ones that still have a job,and the rest of us will foot there bill.

[Uniteo8]

Thank YOU!!

When I 1st saw the DUKE version of the vid I wanted to Scream, Clean Coal is an oxymoron!! Love this response!! thank U, thank U

for making it. I have posted it everywhere!!!

[caci2009]

Thank you.

No technology is the perfect solution. However, wind is more perfect than nuclear.

Nuclear plants cost 18 to 22 cents per kilowatt hour to construct. Adding O&M, fuel, decommissioning you're at about 30 cents per kilowatt hour.

Wind can be installed at 4 to 9 cents per kilowatt hour with minimal O&M costs, no fuel costs and no waste that will be toxic for 250,000 years.

The Economist: "Once said to be too cheap to meter, nuclear power is too expensive to matter."

[heidiface3d]

Please don't promote wind as perfect, go nuclear before wind - but thanks for highlighting the problems with "clean" coal!

[caci2009]

See comment submitted by caci2009 in response to the same comment posted earlier and then removed.

Also, the lower emissions refers to the rate per megawatt hour, not actual emissions, which for CO2, CO, VOCs, particulate matter and lead will be higher.

Also, Duke will never commit to substantial amounts of CO2 capture because they would have to redesign the entire plant at enormous cost.

The plant was proposed to increase revenue because of depreciation on the older ones.

[balancedenergy]

In 2012, the Edwardsport plant will start producing reliable electricity (which the state regulators said was needed to meet customer demand) and replace a smaller unit and produce more electricity with lower emissions. Also, Duke is talking about carbon capture & storage at the Edwardsport plant. The fact that The Clean believes that wind is the sole solution shows that they dont know much about how electricity is generated and supplied to meet customer needs.

[caci2009]

CLEAN does not view wind as the only solution. CLEAN views end-use energy efficiency and renewables as ways to meet electric demand cheaper than coal-fired power can. For instance, if all states in the union used electricity as efficiently as the top 10 most efficient states, the amount of demand reduction would be equivalent to 62% of the annual coal-fired output in the country. Efficiency costs less then 1 to 4 cents per kilowatt hour. Coal with CCS 18 to 24.