Power

Monthly Issue | December 10, 2009

No ‘Cash For Clunkers’ In Climate Bill

Certain small utilities with some of the nation’s highest carbon dioxide emission rates want to change the climate bill pending before Congress to give themselves more allowances to emit carbon…


Expect New Mercury Rules by 2011

In a major air regulatory development, the Environmental Protection Agency has agreed to issue rules by November 2011 to reduce mercury and other hazardous air pollution from coal- and oil-fired…


EPA Signals Move to Toughen Ozone Standard

The Environmental Protection Agency has decided it will reconsider the 2008 ozone standards issued by the Bush administration, with the agency suggesting in a court that it would toughen the…


Four Methods of Fly Ash Sampling
Four Methods of Fly Ash Sampling

One of the best indications of performance in the furnace is the quality of ash coming out of a power plant’s boiler. Ideally, all of the carbon is completely burned…


Ceramics Win the War on Erosion
Ceramics Win the War on Erosion

Hidden from view in a typical coal-fired power plant is a battle that never ends. Coal attacks steel and alloy components when the fuel is transported about the plant. Predictably,…


Time Out!

The writer O. Henry had an eye for the satirical, often mixing humor with some perverse characteristic of human behavior. One of my favorites of his short stories is “The…