Post AZQFGL8CXqNYSlTOjo by JohanEmpa@mastodon.green
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 (DIR) Post #AZQFGKFxnUzfkY65CK by JohanEmpa@mastodon.green
       2023-09-04T05:54:30Z
       
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       🇺🇸 West Virginia 👀     • 91 % coal powered    • Saving a coal power plant from being shut down    • Expanding the plant to burn twice the amount of coal "Coal is such an important part of our economy and our state’s history" - West Virginia’s governor(1/2) #WestVirginia #USA #coal
       
 (DIR) Post #AZQFGL8CXqNYSlTOjo by JohanEmpa@mastodon.green
       2023-09-04T05:57:49Z
       
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       Looks like they're expanding it to make graphite in addition to electricity.The journalist seems to be confused about the hydrogen "promise". On one hand it's written that hydrogen will be produced as a by product and on the other hand it says that the coal plant will be converted to run on hydrogen.(2/2)https://www.hydrogeninsight.com/power/west-virginia-power-plant-saved-with-promise-of-hydrogen-conversion-will-burn-coal-for-up-to-two-more-years/2-1-1510672
       
 (DIR) Post #AZQFGLojzgPGahNN2m by vfrmedia@social.tchncs.de
       2023-09-04T11:37:49Z
       
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       @JohanEmpa >Omnis plans to use a patented “quantum pyrolysis” method, which processes hydrocarbons such as coal at extremely high temperatures over 3,000°C to produce hydrogen and solid carbon such as graphite,this seems to be just a modern variant of how towngas was made (nasty stuff, which was purged out of Europe in the 1970s) and only a slight improvement on how coal fired power statins always operated..