A photo accompanying the article is captioned “Copenhagen already gets much of its electricity from wind power (photo: Justin Gerdes)”. Note coal plant blazing away in background.
A photo accompanying the article is captioned “Copenhagen already gets much of its electricity from wind power (photo: Justin Gerdes)”. Note coal plant blazing away in background.
Given Europe’s restrictive water emission policies, I sincerely doubt that they use once-through system. In fact, there are a number of plants in Europe that filter their process water instead of having purges so that they can operate without an outfall at all.
I thought carbon crucifixes were supposed to turn into the wind. Those didn’t. Maybe that’s why the ones in Scotland keep falling over.
I wonder if the Danes have done environmental impact statements on the effects of returning warm water and managing the corrosion and carbonate deposition in the heat exchangers. I’m also pleased with the fact that no one in Denmark denies or questions that they can control the climate. Also, the price per kwh for electricity in Denmark is $0.40 compared to the US range of $0.08-$0.17. Such a deal this green energy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_pricing
Water vapor. Nice white plume. But like your fake smoke picture, the media seems to find water vapor a way to show the public pollution spewing out of some evil stack. The shear repetition of these types of photos has very likely resulted in the media not even recognizing that it is propaganda.
Yes, though that’s probably just steam coming out of the stacks, like in the Washington Post’s “fake smoke” photo last month:
http://tinyurl.com/WPfakeSmoke
Looks like Brondby Vester, which case it is an old coal plant transformed to natural gas. Your point remains though.