Do these drunken asshates know what kind of pollutants are released from burning that much coal? Forget CO2, their country is going to be pissing acid rain for a century so that they can make fake teeth.
might be a good idea. it could all be controlled by them though. theoritically bitcoin could be hacked by quantum computers. satoshi moves his coins and the price crashes...
depends on how easy that gold is to extract and collect.
If gold does exist in coal, why have no coal plants been seeing it so far? There are coal plants all over the eastern US that have been in operation for over a century. They burn way more than 10,000 tons per year, and nobody has seen a pile of slag gold in the ash heaps?
What is 10 kilos of gold worth? at today's rate, just over $550k. LMAO. That is like an hour of operation. They have to wait a year with this new technology to get $550k??
Not worth it. Especially when most of these plants will make ten to a thousand times more than that for a year.
do you work in a power plant? they have pretty tight security...who knows what's going on. the gold is extracted from the fumes into a liquid and then the liquid is refined later...
they could tell the people that work at the plant that the gold capturing thing is capturing pollutants. we had to pay all that money for that carbon capturer up in the smoke stack and have to pay someone to haul this liquid away! damn epa!
I actually wouldn't be too upset if the pollution capture also produced gold. That is their right as a power producer.
I would like to see it in the SEC filings that they have a revenue stream from it.
But the fact remains that the actual electricity is worth way more than any gold captured, so adding any useless technology for a fraction of what the electricity earns is pretty stupid.
the executives are just people placed in posistions. they don't really have controll over any of it. I mean the cia got caught selling cocaine to buy a few guns...you don't think they would want some untracked gold?
CIA is gov through and through, with badges, and developed a multi-billion dollar operation to get around congress.
Execs in power plants do not have badges and I would imagine it would be difficult for anyone to get around the regular cleaning guys without being noticed pulling out slag gold.
do you really think they are spending all this money to capture carbon out of the air...lol
there is mercury floating around in the air and their is also gold floating around in the air. they air trying to harvest the gold in the air. they are evil space demons trying to take all our resourses.
The gov gives them tax credits (way more than any gold they captured) and subsidies - along with fucking rate increases - to offset the "cost" of capturing the carbon.
The power companies will never lose a fucking shekel doing carbon capture on any scale.
Computergeek01 ago
Do these drunken asshates know what kind of pollutants are released from burning that much coal? Forget CO2, their country is going to be pissing acid rain for a century so that they can make fake teeth.
Pioy ago
:) Curious
mememeyou ago
buy crypto then?
israelmossadjewgold ago
might be a good idea. it could all be controlled by them though. theoritically bitcoin could be hacked by quantum computers. satoshi moves his coins and the price crashes...
JesusRules ago
Burn the coal pay the toll
celerycar ago
1 gram of gold per ton.
Yeah, that will work out for them.
Search for how much gold is dissolved in 1 km^3 of the ocean - that's a mind boggling number.
Get gold from seawater instead.
israelmossadjewgold ago
yeah but if your already using the coal for something like the nazi war machine...why not get some gold while you are at it...
celerycar ago
depends on how easy that gold is to extract and collect.
If gold does exist in coal, why have no coal plants been seeing it so far? There are coal plants all over the eastern US that have been in operation for over a century. They burn way more than 10,000 tons per year, and nobody has seen a pile of slag gold in the ash heaps?
What is 10 kilos of gold worth? at today's rate, just over $550k. LMAO. That is like an hour of operation. They have to wait a year with this new technology to get $550k??
Not worth it. Especially when most of these plants will make ten to a thousand times more than that for a year.
Boris ago
Well a ton of gold is between 20-40$ depending on many variables. Burning 10,000 tons of coal at 30$/ton is 300,000$ which produces 550$ in gold.
Their math is optimistic.
israelmossadjewgold ago
do you work in a power plant? they have pretty tight security...who knows what's going on. the gold is extracted from the fumes into a liquid and then the liquid is refined later...
they could tell the people that work at the plant that the gold capturing thing is capturing pollutants. we had to pay all that money for that carbon capturer up in the smoke stack and have to pay someone to haul this liquid away! damn epa!
celerycar ago
I actually wouldn't be too upset if the pollution capture also produced gold. That is their right as a power producer.
I would like to see it in the SEC filings that they have a revenue stream from it.
But the fact remains that the actual electricity is worth way more than any gold captured, so adding any useless technology for a fraction of what the electricity earns is pretty stupid.
israelmossadjewgold ago
untracked gold is more valuable than tracked gold. untracked gold can be used to by drugs untraced and guns...fund armies untraced...ect...ectt..
celerycar ago
You think power plant gold is untracked?
You think the "executives" of the power plant get into that pollution filter and grab kilos of gold?
israelmossadjewgold ago
the executives are just people placed in posistions. they don't really have controll over any of it. I mean the cia got caught selling cocaine to buy a few guns...you don't think they would want some untracked gold?
celerycar ago
CIA is gov through and through, with badges, and developed a multi-billion dollar operation to get around congress.
Execs in power plants do not have badges and I would imagine it would be difficult for anyone to get around the regular cleaning guys without being noticed pulling out slag gold.
israelmossadjewgold ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1Y3QUowqGk
do you really think they are spending all this money to capture carbon out of the air...lol
there is mercury floating around in the air and their is also gold floating around in the air. they air trying to harvest the gold in the air. they are evil space demons trying to take all our resourses.
celerycar ago
Carbon is gold vapor to power plants.
The gov gives them tax credits (way more than any gold they captured) and subsidies - along with fucking rate increases - to offset the "cost" of capturing the carbon.
The power companies will never lose a fucking shekel doing carbon capture on any scale.
israelmossadjewgold ago
yes but they can't use that money to fund contras in iran...
it is tracked...wherever it is withdrew will leave a trail.
they can smuggle gold on a plane to israel and then to iran though...
ClaytonBigsby313 ago
At $58 per tonne for coal, that's pretty profitable.