The Cleanest T-Plant in Eastern Europe?

[ben_meyers]

Does Leno still do headlines?
It just looks funny.

Bulgaria's Maritza Iztok 3 thermal power plant has turned into the cleanest one in Eastern Europe after the installation of sulphur filtering systems and shutting down the plant's fourth unit for rehabilitation, the management announced.

"It is the only plant in Eastern Europe that uses Flue Gas Desulphurisation (FGD) systems and meets EU environmental standards," Mike Foster, executive director of Enel Operations Bulgaria, which manages the plant, said at a press conference on Thursday.

"We are very proud of the work done for the modernization of Maritza Iztok (East) 3, which can only bring benefit to the people living near the plant and those working in it," Foster added.

Bulgaria's Maritza Iztok 3 t-plant has become the cleanest in Eastern Europe, the plant's operator Enel declared. Photo by Alexander Markov (Sofia News Agency)

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=91302

[Arctic Dave]

1. With all the geothermal activity in Alaska

you would think we would have something like this. Oh wait I forgot, our politicians are asshats. Nevermind.

[ConcernedCanuk]

2. "The new limestone-based wet FGDs filter about 24 tons of sulphur dioxide per hour " wow

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That's a lot of shit they been putting in the air,

NOW

What do they do with 576 tons PER DAY of that?

210,240 tons a year

wow

[NickB79]

3. So, how many tons of CO2 is it releasing per day?

What, there are no economically suitable scrubbers for that? Oops.

The really ironic thing is that the sulfur dioxides emitted by coal-fired plants contribute to a global dimming effect, helping to offset the warming associated with the CO2 release. Cleaning up coal plant's sulfur emissions could save thousands of lives a year in the short term, only to allow the ice caps to melt and the breadbaskets of the world to turn to deserts, killing millions.

Stuck between a rock and a hard spot, that's for sure.

[NNadir]

4. It's even better than that: Bulgaria was forced by the EU to shut perfectly good nuclear plants.

The Kozloduy nuclear plants - which were essentially emission free plants - were forced to close by the EU.

They weren't, as it happens, particularly great nuclear plants, but in any case, the worst nuclear plant is infinitely safer than the best dangerous fossil fuel plant.