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New York Times May 7, 1974;

ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851-2007)

?pg. 65.

 

 

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1e EnV?irdnmentai Protection Agency recom-
ends that electric utilities install. ?stack gas
:rubbers" 'to control sulfur-oxide emissions
1d meet thestandards that have been set.

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tere are many _?stack gas scrubber? systems.
II have been tested. Some?the mast .
'omising?more than others.

imply stated, the scrubber lsdesigned to
iminatemost of the sulfur-oxide emissions

rcreating, in a chamber, a? violent rainstorm 

water'laced [with huge quantities of a
remical, limestone or lime for instance.

DOES CAREFUL EXAMINATION


'oblems. Horrendous problems. 

:rubber systems do remove sulfur-oxides.
at in the process all of them are plagued
ith one or more problems that make them
treliabl?e and impractical for a major
utility. 

 

 

 

 

Many scrubber systems produce a by-product 

that clogs the operation or erodes or corrodes
the mechanism. Fau'lts that cause shut downs.
An impossible situation for an electric utility
that must have a reliable power supply

I operation that will work all day, every day.

If the system doesn't clog and-Shut down it
creates massive amounts of sludge.

Some like the most popular and most.
studied system, the wet lime or limestone 
scrubber? do both.

To understand the vastness of the amount

of ground-polluting sludge produced.

consider this: 

lf limestone scrubbers were applied to a
12,000 megawatt coal-fired system they would
in only five years produce enough of this
"oozy'gook" to destroy and cover 10 square
miles of America to a depth of 5 feet.

How?s that for a system that's supposed to
solve pollution problems!

If it deesn't have either of these major faults,

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. Chances areit will have some ofis'everal 

less dramatic problems. And chances are-it

hasn?t been tested at a coal-burning plant. 

WHAT MAKES AMERICAN ELECTRIC Power-1' . 
.REJECT scauesens'z - ..

The problemsrevealed. Thescore card 0n?-
scrubber tests. Time and time'again proven
too unreliable, too impractical for electric .
utility use. . - -

. But agreater overriding reason is the sincere
- belief'that there are better ways to solve

the sulfurwoxide emission problem.

One way is to release the enormous reserves 

of U.S. Government-owned low sulfur coal 
in the west. -

At the same time continue the investment of
time, energy and money in the development of
the technology to clean high-sulfur coal
before it is burned.

Such a positive program, we think, is In the
best interest of the people we serve and the?

country we live in.

American Electric Power System 

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