Comments on: Gulf Power Accelerates Plans To Switch Plant Crist To Natural Gas Delivered Through North Escambia Pipeline

By: SueB

SueB — Sat, 14 Nov 2020 14:54:22 +0000

Need to keep crist plant for backup. Going to gas is not like cooking with gas. GP just creating a steam plant. What happens if pipelines bust/fail need a backup plan. At least coal can be brought in by barge.

By: David Huie Green

David Huie Green — Thu, 12 Nov 2020 18:43:19 +0000

REGARDING:
“With proper emission control, the acidiation you speak of is mitigated.’

Just using natural gas reduces the carbon dioxide per unit of energy to about half that of coal. And, yes much coal has a lot of sulfer which makes for acids, but the carbon dioxide itself produces carbonic acid in water. Without trapping it, there is little mitigation possible.
Soda gonna be soda. Seltzer like.

If we had perfect batteries, we could use noncarbon sources to charge them. We don’t, but they ARE getting better. In the meantime, natural gas is a nice transition source.

David for improvements

By: JR

JR — Thu, 12 Nov 2020 17:51:46 +0000

David Huie Green,
I agree, there is a downside to fossil fuels. And I am all for Solar and Wind. They are just not consistent enough for continous usage, imo.
“Nuclear would be best”. Maybe, maybe not. Too many Nuc plants are built near water, rivers, etc, and near fault zones. Not hard to research. And the waste. Meltdowns happen, granted not very often. But have lasting effects.
“Up until four years ago he was the worst president I have known” I guess it is a matter of opinion. Imo, the worst in my lifetime was the previous, by far.
You carry on.

By: retired

retired — Thu, 12 Nov 2020 14:20:25 +0000

WOW “Result in a net decrease in the typical residential customer bill of $0.73″

CAN’T EVEN BUY A CUP OF COFFEE.

When it is time for us to pay it is always DOLLARS not PENNIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: Some Guy

Some Guy — Thu, 12 Nov 2020 12:51:26 +0000

Mr. Green. The amount of natural gas is finite, of course. It will run out in about 200 years. (Or so they say) The natural gas feeding Crist comes from mainly, offshore *gasp* Majority of the state of Florida power is natural gas fired. I agree, coal is pretty nasty. It far and away is cleaner than coal. With proper emission control, the acidiation you speak of is mitigated.

By: David Huie Green

David Huie Green — Thu, 12 Nov 2020 03:11:24 +0000

REGARDING:
“Biden wants to end natural gas”

Not NOW, this instant, but in time, yes. It’s use will end eventually because there is only so much of it.

It is the cleanest and safest fossil fuel, but it IS a Greenhouse gas and its waste is a Greenhouse gas which is also acidifying the oceans.

Nuclear would be best but wind and solar are good too.

Coal is nasty and dangerous to mine. The country was getting away from it until President Carter pointed out that we had over a thousand year supply of it and the Middle East is an unreliable source of energy.

He also opposed using natural gas as industrial fuel because he thought it should be reserved for home heating exclusively. Mexico offered to sell us plenty but he rejected the offer.

He also shut down recycling of nuclear fuel and then said nuclear power was a bad option because of the nuclear “waste” he refused to recycle the fuel.

Modern reactor systems can safely use every bit of what is called waste and provide energy more than that thousand year mark as well without mining another ounce.

President Carter is a good man but was a poor president. Up until four years ago he was the worst president I had known.

David for better batteries

By: CW

CW — Wed, 11 Nov 2020 18:28:48 +0000

And now Biden wants to end natural gas, and install solar panels and windmills everywhere. LOL

By: Aaron

Aaron — Wed, 11 Nov 2020 11:00:58 +0000

I think this will be great for the community on emissions, and for the local natural gas plants that sale to Florida gas.