Motorists making the drive from Chicago northward into Wisconsin on I-94 will see a plume of smoke rising a few miles past the state border. The plume belongs to a coal burning electric power plant in Pleasant Prairie, just south of Kenosha.
The plant just completed a test of technology that can reduce carbon emissions by more than 90 percent. It's unclear whether the plant will permanently adopt the technology due to the cost of maintainance and the need for a place to store the tons of carbon particulates that are trapped by the filters. Can anyone say NIMBY?
Meanwhile, the plant continues to belch away 24/7/365.
Five-image HDR from a single RAW file. Photograph © 2009 James Jordan.
2 comments:
This image is *amazing*.
"Holy Smoke"
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