Three and a half years into the Biden Administration, and to an ordinary citizen on the ground it might seem like not that much has changed as to energy.
EIA data here for 2022 show about 79% of U.S. primary energy from fossil fuels, barely changed since Biden took office, and indeed very stable for decades.
Perhaps this situation of stable energy production and consumption results because it reflects what markets and consumers want and need to satisfy their demand for energy.
This approach makes the plant less efficient by increasing its "Parasitic load"-and CCS more than triples combustion turbines' normal parasitic load.... This is the cause the Wyoming study analyzed that showed installing CCS technology would devastate plants' heat rates and lower net plant efficiency by 36%. There is endless more of same.
To capture more and more of the CO2 from the plant takes more and more of the plant's output of energy, until in the limiting case you use all the energy of the plant and still some small amount of the CO2 escapes.
Well, the sensible comments have all been rejected and EPA has just gone ahead and done what it was always planning to do, which is to order up something that can't ever work economically and can only result in forcing the closure of an energy system that works without any idea of something realistic to replace it.
It's just another week in the Biden Administration energy clown show.
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