There are 18 other mega plants in the NM to Grand Canyon area. Desert Rock is just the next one.
Emmissions run about 1 millions tons per day total on the whole ( been going on and increasing for well over 20 years ).
Weather moves West to East in the USA. The particulate air now gets trapped on the East by the Sangre De Cristo Wall. South end of the trap is the Jemez Mountains, North Wall of the trap is the San Juan Mountains.
It's a "witches brew " as far as drouth weather climate affect for ALL of Eastern NM, Western Kansas, SE Colorado, Western Oklahoma, Texas Panhandle and West Texas.
That affect really boiled and accumulated to start in 1998 / 1999 and has been ongoing ever since.
The Interior American West now has a Heat Increase of over Double the global warming average increase and experts of course cannot seem to understand
Granted, exhaust scrubbers installed to 125% of burn capacity and USED would clean up all these plants ( the 4 to 5 tons of Mercury that has been emmitted now annually for 25 years is affecting the major watersheds which are the Rio Grande and the Colorado River.
Some of the plants do have scrubbers.
The plants in the area tend to continually exceed their burn capacity, so the flues generally run opened ( which bypasses scrubbers ) and it's strait brown cloud exhaust to the atmosphere.
Perhaps as long as energy is viewed as being cheaper to produce in the afore manner, that may defray the $5 billion in drouth subsidies spent annually now and cleaning up the mess later.
( this mercury in the water thing affects a huge population area, because the 2 rivers in question water the whole Southwest and a bunch of Texas and Mexico too ).
One thing is for sure, out West now Americans get to see the Air now and not much scenery.
And as far as the Navajo "crock of crap " that they love Mother Earth? Heck it's their coal that feeds the whole deal.
If they really cared, they could cut off the coal until scrubbers were installed and used properly on the whole.
Face it, the mega plant operators would then have No other choice but to "clean it up " or simply sit idle.
Typical deal...All about money, all the way around ( and the invisible middle that got squeezed is now perfectly visible ).
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Emmissions run about 1 millions tons per day total on the whole ( been going on and increasing for well over 20 years ).
Weather moves West to East in the USA. The particulate air now gets trapped on the East by the Sangre De Cristo Wall. South end of the trap is the Jemez Mountains, North Wall of the trap is the San Juan Mountains.
It's a "witches brew " as far as drouth weather climate affect for ALL of Eastern NM, Western Kansas, SE Colorado, Western Oklahoma, Texas Panhandle and West Texas.
That affect really boiled and accumulated to start in 1998 / 1999 and has been ongoing ever since.
The Interior American West now has a Heat Increase of over Double the global warming average increase and experts of course cannot seem to understand
Granted, exhaust scrubbers installed to 125% of burn capacity and USED would clean up all these plants ( the 4 to 5 tons of Mercury that has been emmitted now annually for 25 years is affecting the major watersheds which are the Rio Grande and the Colorado River.
Some of the plants do have scrubbers.
The plants in the area tend to continually exceed their burn capacity, so the flues generally run opened ( which bypasses scrubbers ) and it's strait brown cloud exhaust to the atmosphere.
Perhaps as long as energy is viewed as being cheaper to produce in the afore manner, that may defray the $5 billion in drouth subsidies spent annually now and cleaning up the mess later.
( this mercury in the water thing affects a huge population area, because the 2 rivers in question water the whole Southwest and a bunch of Texas and Mexico too ).
One thing is for sure, out West now Americans get to see the Air now and not much scenery.
And as far as the Navajo "crock of crap " that they love Mother Earth? Heck it's their coal that feeds the whole deal.
If they really cared, they could cut off the coal until scrubbers were installed and used properly on the whole.
Face it, the mega plant operators would then have No other choice but to "clean it up " or simply sit idle.
Typical deal...All about money, all the way around ( and the invisible middle that got squeezed is now perfectly visible ).