Hey patric! Lighting questions.

[patric]

A good example of Mercury's relationship to electrical generation in the news today:


(MUSKOGEE, Okla.) June 17 -  Environmental researchers say mercury concentrations in rainfall samples collected near an eastern Oklahoma town were higher than those found in all but one other town in the U.S.

Rainfall samples collected at an air quality station near Stilwell in Adair County had a mercury concentration of 15.4 nanograms per liter.

That's more than twice the national average of about 7 nanograms per liter, according to the Mercury Deposition Network, which is part of the National Atmospheric Deposition Program.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has previously identified coal-fired power plants as a main source of atmospheric mercury, and four such plants are in counties near to Stilwell.

[PonderInc]

Didn't I read somewhere that AEP wants to build a huge coal-fueled power plant in Oklahoma somewhere?  This strikes me as folly in a state known for it's natural gas reserves.  (Especially given the devastation caused by leveling mountains to get at the coal...too bad the folks in W.Virgina don't have much say in the matter...)

[sgrizzle]

quote:Originally posted by PonderInc

Didn't I read somewhere that AEP wants to build a huge coal-fueled power plant in Oklahoma somewhere?  This strikes me as folly in a state known for it's natural gas reserves.  (Especially given the devastation caused by leveling mountains to get at the coal...too bad the folks in W.Virgina don't have much say in the matter...)

AEP and OG&E are cooperatively building a coal-fired plant south of Ponca City next door to OG&E's sooner power plant. While AEP's oklahoma subsidiary runs almost entirely on Natural Gas, the parent company is almost exclusively coal.