Comments on: Coal waste dumps: ticking toxic time bombs http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2008/12/30/coal-waste-dumps-ticking-toxic-time-bombs/ Think - it ain't illegal yet... Mon, 15 Mar 2010 04:41:47 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Scholars and Rogues » The Weekly Carboholic: OCO satellite lost, GOSAT gets “first light” http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2008/12/30/coal-waste-dumps-ticking-toxic-time-bombs/comment-page-1/#comment-63721 Scholars and Rogues » The Weekly Carboholic: OCO satellite lost, GOSAT gets “first light” Thu, 26 Feb 2009 04:00:58 +0000 http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/?p=6258#comment-63721 [...] coal ash from a Tennessee Valley Authority power plant in Kingston, Tennessee (here, here, here, and here). Over a billion gallons of semi-solid ash mixed with water poured out from behind a [...] [...] coal ash from a Tennessee Valley Authority power plant in Kingston, Tennessee (here, here, here, and here). Over a billion gallons of semi-solid ash mixed with water poured out from behind a [...]

]]> By: Scholars and Rogues » Kingston, TN sings “Auld Lang Sludge” http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2008/12/30/coal-waste-dumps-ticking-toxic-time-bombs/comment-page-1/#comment-60260 Scholars and Rogues » Kingston, TN sings “Auld Lang Sludge” Thu, 01 Jan 2009 06:30:37 +0000 http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/?p=6258#comment-60260 [...] byproducts (CCBs). His other posts are here, here, and here. Tom was also kind enough to let us crosspost his CCB toxicity post. And he’s recently written a piece on how the Scientific American piece talking about fly ash [...] [...] byproducts (CCBs). His other posts are here, here, and here. Tom was also kind enough to let us crosspost his CCB toxicity post. And he’s recently written a piece on how the Scientific American piece talking about fly ash [...]

]]> By: Lex http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2008/12/30/coal-waste-dumps-ticking-toxic-time-bombs/comment-page-1/#comment-60243 Lex Wed, 31 Dec 2008 22:30:41 +0000 http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/?p=6258#comment-60243 All the trace elements that the plants, from which the coal is made, soaked up over the course of their collective lives remain...to be set free in our quest to attain the left over hydrogen that those plants used to power their lives. When that coal was laid down, the atmospheric concentration of CO2 was between 2 and 3 times what it is today. It meant plants in overdrive, breaking apart the CO2 as fast as they could get their little chloroplasts on it...and sequestering the left over carbon. Trace elements are toxic to plants in anything above trace amounts. Now we have them let loose into the ecosystem after being concentrated at least twice. Sometimes it seems like we are the monkey wrench in the works. All the trace elements that the plants, from which the coal is made, soaked up over the course of their collective lives remain…to be set free in our quest to attain the left over hydrogen that those plants used to power their lives.

When that coal was laid down, the atmospheric concentration of CO2 was between 2 and 3 times what it is today. It meant plants in overdrive, breaking apart the CO2 as fast as they could get their little chloroplasts on it…and sequestering the left over carbon.

Trace elements are toxic to plants in anything above trace amounts. Now we have them let loose into the ecosystem after being concentrated at least twice.

Sometimes it seems like we are the monkey wrench in the works.

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