I worked at a coal-fired power plant when I was in college in the early 2000s as summer labor to pay my rent and tuition. My grandfather was a shift engineer at the plant when it opened in 1949. My dad started working there in 1982 when my grandfather retired. He worked there until the last day it was in operation. It's been sad watching it slowly be dismantled over the last few years. Each month everyone gets together at the local McDonalds for breakfast on the first Monday of the month.
The plant that I worked at was oriented along the Ohio River in such a way that it couldn't be retrofitted with scrubbers. Its sister plant further down the river was oriented 90 degrees relative to the river. Much of the equipment ended up getting stripped out and shipped to that plant.
I worked at a coal-fired power plant when I was in college in the early 2000s as summer labor to pay my rent and tuition. My grandfather was a shift engineer at the plant when it opened in 1949. My dad started working there in 1982 when my grandfather retired. He worked there until the last day it was in operation. It's been sad watching it slowly be dismantled over the last few years. Each month everyone gets together at the local McDonalds for breakfast on the first Monday of the month.
I think a new coal plant is $2B. They are imploding at lot of them when they shutdown (maybe cheaper than paying property tax on the equipment)
The plant that I worked at was oriented along the Ohio River in such a way that it couldn't be retrofitted with scrubbers. Its sister plant further down the river was oriented 90 degrees relative to the river. Much of the equipment ended up getting stripped out and shipped to that plant.