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<http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/author/stungunsandmace/> EPA war
on coal plants threatens air conditioning — and public
health<http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/2011/08/12/epa-war-on-coal-plants-threatens-air-conditioning-%e2%80%94-and-public-health/>
*Steve <http://fellowshipofminds.wordpress.com/author/stungunsandmace/>* |
August 12, 2011 at 8:05 am | Tags: Environmental Protection
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Nobody touchs my A/C
*This is a public safety message. Do Not, and I mean Do Not Mess with my
A/C. I will not be responsible for my actions. Pretty sure the Defense would
hold up Too. ~ Steve~*
Does “EPA” really stand for the Environmental *Projection* Agency?
In a surprising, off-agenda
article<http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/12/business/energy-environment/new-rules-and-old-plants-may-strain-summer-energy-supplies.html>today,
the
*New York Times <http://www.newyorktimes.com/>* reports that the EPA jihad
against coal-fired electricity threatens the availability of air
conditioning <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_conditioning> during heat
waves <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_wave>.
The *Times*
reports<http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/12/business/energy-environment/new-rules-and-old-plants-may-strain-summer-energy-supplies.html>
,
As 58 million people across 13 states sweated through the third day of a
heat wave last month, power demand in North
America<http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=48.1666666667,-100.166666667&spn=1.0,1.0&q=48.1666666667,-100.166666667%20(North%20America)&t=h>’s
largest regional grid jurisdiction hit a record high. And yet there was no
shortage, no rolling
blackout<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_blackout>and no brownout
in an area that stretches from Maryland to Chicago.
But that may not be the case in the future as stricter air quality rules are
put in place. Eastern utilities satisfied demand that day — *July 21 — with
hefty output from dozens of 1950s and 1960s coal-burning power
plants<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fossil_fuel_power_station>that
dump prodigious amounts of acid gases, soot, mercury and arsenic into
the air. Because of new Environmental Protection
Agency<http://www.epa.gov/>rules, and some yet to be written, many of
those plants are expected to
close in coming years.*
*While the “dump prodigious amounts of acid gases, soot, mercury and arsenic
into the air” is pure exaggeration (e.g., U.S. coal fired-power plants are
responsible for only about 0.5% of global mercury emissions which is 99+%
less than Mother Nature <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Nature> emits),
the article’s basic point is not.*
Moreover, as the real threat to public
health<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_health>during heat waves is
the lack of air conditioning (as opposed to air
quality), it is the EPA that threatens public health, not coal-fired plants.
As reported by
USA<http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667&spn=10.0,10.0&q=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667%20(United%20States)&t=h>Today
in September 2003,
The death toll in France from August’s blistering heat wave has reached
nearly 15,000, according to a government-commissioned report released
Thursday, surpassing a prior tally by more than 3,000… The bulk of the
victims — many of them elderly — died during the height of the heat
wave, *which
brought suffocating temperatures of up to 104 degrees in a country where air
conditioning is rare.*
*For rest of story Pls Go
HERE!!!<http://junkscience.com/2011/08/12/epa-war-on-coal-plants-threatens-air-conditioning-%e2%80%94-and-public-health/>
*
*~Steve~*
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