Jan 18, 2022
4:34:51pm
4:34:51pm
That power plant is gas-fired and quite clean. I remember one time we lost a seal on a battery on the coke plant. Within
10 minutes the entire valley was filled with a thick, rust-colored smoke. That place could produce some major particulate (PM10 - PM50) in a heartbeat. If the scrubbers ever went out, it was a bad week.
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Pic taken earlier this morning, after exercising / walking around town and feeling my lungs get tight.
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100%. In Utah Valley the main culprits were Geneva Steel and the iron plant in South Provo. They are both gone now and
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That power plant is gas-fired and quite clean. I remember one time we lost a seal on a battery on the coke plant. Within
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Understood. I wish we had more access to the power from IPP, but IIRC, most of that power is already sold to CA markets.
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This is the number one reason we'd never move to UT or SL counties. Air pollution. The kids are gone and two of them
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