In this environment, GE Capital invested up to $ 750 million to
install scrubbers on two of the plant's three units in order to comply with the Environmental Protection Agency emissions rules, including the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards rule that took effect in 2015.
A classic example is coal - fired power plants in the United States that were built before the Clean Air Act and are thus exempt from the obligation to
install scrubbers.
Most environmentalists were pushing a «command - and - control» approach, with federal officials requiring utilities to
install scrubbers capable of removing the sulfur dioxide from power - plant exhausts.
In 1952, a few years after WWII, this happened in London: http://library.thinkquest.org/C003603/english/fogandmist/casestudies.shtml
Install scrubbers and then make the stacks higher, so the stuff drifts to China.
The use of scrubbers (yes China and India
installed scrubbers although not used consistently) to remove SO2 along with the shift to natural gas means the amount of aerosols has not kept up with CO2 forcing.
Creating a new energy infrastructure is more comparable to the creation of the railroads, the inter-state highway system, personal computers, the Internet, and the space program than it is to installing catalytic converters,
installing scrubbers, or phasing out ozone - depleting chemicals.
Installing scrubbers is the equally obvious first step to stall Arctic ice melt, if that is the policy goal.
After all,
we installed scrubbers, and they have done very well.
Not exact matches
People initially thought it would require developing and
installing new
scrubbers at power plants at a cost of billions of dollars.
Nonetheless, the Department of Natural Resources issued a temporary shutdown order for the plant in December, prompting Appel and his colleagues to
install more ozone
scrubbers.
If we want to reduce CO2 emissions, make the coal, gas, and oil fired powerplants
install CO2
scrubbers / processors and give tax incentives and lawsuit immunity to private investment for Nuke Plants.
American Electric
installed three «
scrubbers» at its largest power - generating unit at its John Amos Plant in West Virginia.
But the decrease in «aerosols» caused by All those spanking new
scrubbers we
installed from the 70s to 90s all over the world could have been the big contributors to the increase in temp in those decades.
One way CA refineries can meet their targets is to clean up their processes by
installing equipment like flue gas
scrubbers.
Or they may continue to purchase heavy fuel oil, but
install»
scrubbers» to reduce the output of SOx in order to have an equivalent means to meet the requirement.
Creating a new energy infrastructure is more comparable to the creation of the railroads, the interstate highway system, personal computers, the Internet, and the space program than it is to
installing catalytic converters and
scrubbers, or phasing out ozone - depleting chemicals.
After
scrubbers were
installed, the problem went away.
A number of the remaining, uncontrolled plants will need to determine the effectiveness of
installing an FGD
scrubber or a DSI system to comply with MATS.
This 1/1/1995 article about
scrubbers says that they «have been used for 25 years,» which suggests that the first
scrubbers were
installed around 1970:
To meet this goal, plant owners can implement one of or a combination of three main strategies: use lower sulfur coal in their boilers, retire plants without emissions controls, or
install emissions control equipment — primarily flue gas desulfurization (FGD)
scrubbers.