Power to the People
More good news: LES will benefit from the new 790 megawatt coal-fired power plant being built just across the Missouri River in Iowa. Coal technology is getting much cleaner, and it’s one of the cheapest and most reliable forms of energy available. (Not as clean, cheap, or reliable as nuclear power, but that’s a whole other kettle of fish!)
The Journal Star article describing the plant was written by Algis J. Laukaitis. I think he must have been hurting for filler, because I had to laugh out loud at the sheer awfulness of his opening paragraph:
Coal plants are like dragons: They breathe fire. But instead of burning things to a cinder, they generate electricity.
Fortunately the rest of the article reads much more easily.
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