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Global Monitor: Australia considers seabed sequestration legislation
Aug 01, 2008; Anonymous ... If the Australian Parliament passes legislation that was introduced by the minister of resources and energy in mid-June, the country could have the world's first legislative framework for storing carbon dioxide (COface=+Subscript; 2face=-Subscript; ) offshore, in subsea geological ...
Legal & Regulatory: Reality bites California GHG plan
Aug 01, 2008; Anonymous ... The California Air Resources Board (ARB) recently issued its long-awaited draft Climate Change Scoping Plan (Draft Plan) for implementing Assembly Bill (AB) 32, California's ambitious greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions-reduction initiative. AB 32 requires California to reduce GHG emissions to 1990 ...
Cover Story. 2008 Plant of the Year: Wisconsin Public Service Corp.'s Weston 4 earns POWER's highest honor
Aug 01, 2008; Peltier, Dr Robert ... face=+Italic; Wisconsin Public Service Corp. placed its world-class Weston 4 into commercial service on June 30 and is now enjoying the benefits of coal-fired supercritical technology's inherently higher efficiency, operating flexibility, and lower CO2 emissions. For its unequalled environmental ...
Special Report. 2008 MARMADUKE AWARD: Lamar Repowering Project's creative melding of old and new wins Marmaduke Award
Aug 01, 2008; Peltier, Dr Robert ... face=+Italic; Lamar Light and Power is a municipal utility that has been generating the southeastern Colorado city's electricity since 1920. Rising natural gas and oil costs pushed LL&P to retire its steam plant five years ago and begin hunting for more economic power sources. The answer: ...
New Products
Aug 01, 2008; Anonymous ... GE Sensing & Inspection's new Advanced Modular Calibration System is a multitasking handheld calibrator with bonus pressure measurement and generation capabilities. At its core is the DPI 620 calibrator, a lightweight and waterproof device that can measure and source current, frequency, and ...
Commentary: The EPA's blueprint for disaster
Aug 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Opponents of massive new energy taxes and regulations breathed a small sigh of relief in June when the Lieberman-Warner climate-tax bill went down in flames on the Senate floor. Even 10 Democrats broke with the party and voted against it, writing that they would have opposed the bill on final ...
Focus on O&M: COOLING TOWERS
Aug 01, 2008; Anonymous ... face=+Bold; Assess your cooling tower's condition face=-Bold; The aggressive operating environment that cooling towers are subjected to can accelerate their deterioration in many unexpected ways. This article explores how the following environmental effects must be considered when ...
Features. Nuclear Power: How to solve the used nuclear fuel storage problem
Aug 01, 2008; Hylko, James M ... face=+Italic; A familiar argument against building new nuclear power plants in the U.S. is that there's no long-term solution to the used nuclear fuel storage problem. This situation was created in 1977 with the indefinite suspension of programs to reprocess commercial used nuclear fuel. The ...
Features. Water Treatment: A selection guide for condensate polishing equipment
Aug 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Some plant designs or configurations, by their nature, require a condensate polisher; with others, condensate polisher may be optional. The decision tree in Figure 4 provides a simple approach to quickly determine when a polisher is needed and what type of polisher will work best on a power ...
Features. Carbon Control: Oh Canada! B.C. ratifies North America's first carbon tax
Aug 01, 2008; Peltier, Dr Robert ... face=+Bold; British Columbia began collecting increased tax revenue on fossil fuels on July 1 with a promise to rebate those taxes through reduced income and business tax rates. This 'revenue recycling' plan makes little progress toward the province's goal to reduce COface=+Subscript; ...
Features. Classic Marmaduke: Marmaduke straightens a chimney
Aug 01, 2008; Anonymous ... face=+Italic; Steve Elonka began chronicling the exploits of Marmaduke Surfaceblow--a six-foot-four marine engineer with a steel brush mustache and a foghorn voice--in POWER in 1948, when he raised the wooden mast of the SS Asia Sun with the help of two cobras and a case of Sandpaper Gin ....
Readers Talk Back: The man with a plan
Aug 01, 2008; Anonymous ... I haven't always been a supporter of former President Jimmy Carter's politics, but I did vote for him, mainly because we shared the Navy experience and he was educated as an engineer. His later opposition to nuclear power surprised many of us in the power business at the time, and I found his ...
Features. Water Treatment: Condensate polishers add operating reliability and flexibility
Aug 01, 2008; Layman, Colleen M; Bennett, Lisa L; Corp, Bechtel Power ... face=+Italic; Many of today's advanced steam generators favor either an all-volatile treatment or oxygenated treatment chemistry program, both of which require strict maintenance of an ultra-pure boiler feedwater or condensate system. Those requirements are many times at odds with the ...
Features. Gas Turbines: Field application of compressor coatings saves big dollars
Aug 01, 2008; Mosser, Mark F; Brooks, Paul; Inc, Sermatech International ... face=+Italic; Over time, turbine compressors and other driven compressors suffer from corrosion, oxidation, and, in many cases, severe fouling, which in turn can cause in-service breakdown and premature overhaul. Today's innovative protective coatings can be applied on-site to rotors and ...