If these eco types were truly concerned about the environment, they would focus on scrubbers that break down the exhaust into inert or reusable matter.
Then we can burn as much coal as we want and use the byproduct for another useful application.
If they were concerned about the environment, they wouldn't destroy beautiful landscapes with ugly windmills and service roads. If they cared one whit about wildlife, they wouldn't chop up hundreds of thousands of endangered raptors and other birds each year. Just like BLM, its all about money and control, using leftist rhetoric to harness the power of gullible useful idiots.
And the technology is there. Obama even said at one point that he had solutions "right off the shelf". They know. The Sierra Club opposes solid storage of carbon but that may have something to do with the use of biomass or other things to get the process to net zero. At the end of the day, scrubbing CO2 is a lot less hard on the planet than producing wind turbines and solar farms.
They kinda did that with 2008 era diesel engines. They were fitted with extra large EGR feed tubes and coolers, a large catalytic converter, a DPF, and an air intake heater with a variable vane turbocharger and variable intake.
Together it all catches 99% of the soot, produces 50% less nOX than traditional diesels, no carbon monoxide with the palladium catalytic converter, and has soot filter pressure differential sensors to sense when it needs to be cleaned, then puts the engine in "regen mode" where it injects diesel fuel between the engine cycles to dose fuel downstream to the catalytic converter that ignites it and heats up the soot filter so hot it burns the captured soot off as ash at 40+ MPH for about 35mins given or take
Yup, and engines from that era and on are nowhere near as reliable as the earlier engines, nor do they have the fuel economy. A 12v Cummins powered Ram 2500 can get 20 mpg and the engine will literally last a million miles. The regen cycle on the engines unfortunately equipped with them kills the turbo. You have to rip all of that junk off of them to make them reliable again.
If these eco types were truly concerned about the environment, they would focus on scrubbers that break down the exhaust into inert or reusable matter.
Then we can burn as much coal as we want and use the byproduct for another useful application.
If they were concerned about the environment, they wouldn't destroy beautiful landscapes with ugly windmills and service roads. If they cared one whit about wildlife, they wouldn't chop up hundreds of thousands of endangered raptors and other birds each year. Just like BLM, its all about money and control, using leftist rhetoric to harness the power of gullible useful idiots.
I am sad every time I drive out into West Texas. They have destroyed the beauty of our State.
And the technology is there. Obama even said at one point that he had solutions "right off the shelf". They know. The Sierra Club opposes solid storage of carbon but that may have something to do with the use of biomass or other things to get the process to net zero. At the end of the day, scrubbing CO2 is a lot less hard on the planet than producing wind turbines and solar farms.
They kinda did that with 2008 era diesel engines. They were fitted with extra large EGR feed tubes and coolers, a large catalytic converter, a DPF, and an air intake heater with a variable vane turbocharger and variable intake.
Together it all catches 99% of the soot, produces 50% less nOX than traditional diesels, no carbon monoxide with the palladium catalytic converter, and has soot filter pressure differential sensors to sense when it needs to be cleaned, then puts the engine in "regen mode" where it injects diesel fuel between the engine cycles to dose fuel downstream to the catalytic converter that ignites it and heats up the soot filter so hot it burns the captured soot off as ash at 40+ MPH for about 35mins given or take
Yup, and engines from that era and on are nowhere near as reliable as the earlier engines, nor do they have the fuel economy. A 12v Cummins powered Ram 2500 can get 20 mpg and the engine will literally last a million miles. The regen cycle on the engines unfortunately equipped with them kills the turbo. You have to rip all of that junk off of them to make them reliable again.
coal gassification is what is needed. Turns coal into something similar to natural gas called "synth-gas.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwardsport_Power_Station#IGCC_units
If they were concerned about the environment and CO2, they would expand nuclear. If the future is electric cars and trucks, we need lots of power.