Thursday, January 08, 2009

Thinking about energy

I work at a coal plant. We generate tons of waste from burning about 135 railroad cars of coal per day. There is waste that flies up with the waste gases, this is called 'flyash'. There is waste too heavy, that falls to the bottom of the boiler, this is called 'bottomash'. What happened in Tennessee involved bottomash. There are also waste gases that cause acid rain and global warming.

The real viable alternative is nuclear power. I have worked at a nuclear plant, too. The one I worked at had been in operation for ten years and every bit of it's radioactive waste was housed at the plant. One years worth of waste from a coal plant would bury the plant. There is a lot less waste from a nuke plant. In my experience they are also a lot cleaner to work at, and alot more safely ran than the coal plants. Thank Federal regulation for that. Anyway, rethink your opposition to nuclear energy, if you want clean and plentiful energy.