[Magdalen] stuck at the drawbridge

[Charles Wohlers]

Coal is just about the worst thing one can use to make electricity. It's 
about half as efficient than natural gas (emits twice as much CO2 as natural 
gas per energy generated). And it's dirty - everything in coal that's not 
carbon (and there's quite a bit of that) goes right up the smokestack into 
the air, unless one takes special precautions to trap it - which, of course, 
the owners of coal-fired power plants are loathe to do. Before the federal 
government made them scrub it out, acid rain was a real problem, caused by 
sulfur in burning coal. And coal-fired power plants emit more radiation than 
do nuclear power plants, plus they're a major source of mercury in the air.

The sooner we can get rid of coal, the better.


Chad Wohlers
Woodbury, VT USA
chadwohl at satucket.com



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In a message dated 5/2/2017 7:11:20 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
ann.markle at aya.yale.edu writes:

Lots of  coal was mined and shipped out by train, too.
It's considerably better than  it used to be for east-west trains with the
construction of big overpass  roads on 3rd street and Fruitridge Ave.,
though they are on opposite ends  of town.  The north-south lines, and the
tracks that run through the  middle of town are still a
problem.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>



In case it is not well known, the railroads have been in
an awful two year slump because of the drop in the use
of coal in electric power plants.  Being such a fan of
railroads, then, I view Trump et al advocating back to coal
and cutting the environmental standards with mixed
emotions.

I know in my
heart that it is a good thing to cut the coal, but I dearly
hope the railroads can develop other revenue.  When I
see the endless truck traffic on I-81 and I-80 that should
be on the rails, I shake my head.



david S.