09-10-22, 19:35

Why are we villainizing Fossil Fuels?

Let's go back to my old stomping grounds in Utah, back in the late 1970's and early 1980's to a place called Dugway Proving Grounds and Tooele Army Depot South Area. Also known as the Chemical Munitions Disposal Site. The US army was actively meeting our Verzi Treaty obligations and destroying all of the US chemical munitions stockpiles. The Science was new and chemical engineers were building scrubbers that would allow us to burn these munitions, capture the carcinogenic particles and keep the surrounding populace safe from a chemical release that could kill millions.

Part of one of my jobs was maintaining "Bubblers". These were chemical detection units around the areas where munitions were stored and or destroyed. We also maintained stack release units. These units measured the particulate matter being emitted from the burn units down to the particle.

The particulate levels were monitored so closely that even minor deviation shut down systems for repair. We learned how to scrub our outputs from any burn unit to remove 99.9997% of particulate matter. This technology today is used on almost every coal fired plant in the US. Plants in the UK, Australia, and many other first world countries use it to remove the particulate matter from the exhaust stacks of coal and oil-fired plants. It is the reason that we have removed acid rain from our equatorial forests.

This technology is employed on magnesium manufacturing, Metal manufacturing, copper manufacturing and many other industries. The US has made so many leaps on bounds in particulate reductions that the use of Oil, Gas and Coal are as clean as nuclear plants in the output of the cooling towers. 99.991% of the emissions from coal fired plants and other scrubbed industries is WATER VAPOR. Long gone are the ash trials and dead foliage from sulfur and other toxins.

If your worried about CO2 emissions, you should not be. The LOG of CO2 shows that the warming we would see from that trace gas alone is but half of the base log. Our atmosphere is acting as a dampener to CO2 emissions. The exact opposite of the AGW hypothesis indicates should happen. How could we get this so wrong as scientists? Our modeling tells the tale. Every GCM fails empirical evaluation without exception by a factor of no less than 10. Our modeling overestimates the warming by a factor of ten.

So why are we in the US shooting our economy in the head with the Green New Deal? It has no merit and no need to be done, so why are we being forced to go down a road that has no benefit to man or our planet?

As an Atmospheric Physicist I want to know what it is they are thinking.

For further information
--> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tooele_Che...weapons%20.

--> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dugway_Proving_Ground

Another major emitter and cause of acid rain was Kennecott Copper Corporation in SLC (Magna, Ut). IT was one of the first major emitters to employ scrubbing technologies. The smelting operation went from baron hill sides around the Great Salt Lake to foliage covered and wildlife supporting in the span of 20 years. We have proof positive that this technology works, and it works very well.

Kennecott Garfield Smelter Stack - Wikipedia

The Garfield stack in Utah is a prime example of scrubbing tech and how well it works. The capture systems allow them to collect sulfuric acid, mercury and other particulates from the smelting operation. 99.992% of what leaves that stack is water vapor. It worked so well that power companies began using it to remove the particulates from power plants back in the 1980's. They were a mandated piece of equipment for all new plants. They too now emit very low particulates in that same 99.992 range. There was no ecological or scientific reason to kill these plants since that self-imposed regulation was put in place and even older power plants were being upgraded..??