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Response to Jack Bolander Post #4609

In the article attached to your post James Conca points out that gas is the preferred generation source in the U.S., and is driving us to more and more gas generation for electricity. he also projects that these gas generation plants will be in use over the next 40 years.

What this 2012 article didn't address was that operators of natural gas power plants will face ever increasing fines if they don't meet limits for the release of CO2 into the atmosphere. Exxon and Fuel Cell are developing the most efficient way to meet these limits.

In the Article James Conca also points out that a natural gas power plant is the cheapest to build: half that for coal, nuclear and hydro; a fifth that for wind, and a tenth that for solar.

Will the cost of a gas power plant double with the addition of a Exxon/Fuel Cell carbon capture system and make it the same cost as a coal power plant?
Will it cost much less than half the cost for wind and solar.

The cleaner gas power plant will be necessary to back wind and solar.