Fooling the Hoopleheads in coal country

Yesterday Lord Kadizzle took a tour through coal country and visited two of the construction sites where major scrubbers are being built to clean the exhaust from the coal fired plants. When the switch is flipped on to make these scrubbers work, a lot of power from the plant will go into running the scrubber. The nature of the universe dictates that it takes energy to remove pollutants from the exhaust stream of a coal fired plant. This was well known from the start. Clean coal energy may not be possible, and if it is , it may not be affordable. No one likes to admit the reality, but it is a failed technoloby at this point. Nuclear power for better or worse is the only thing that comes close to a solution. The people who have so much tied up in coal leases, and coal fired power plants do not want to admit the end for coal has arrived, so a massive fool the hoopleheads campaing is on right here in river city. The big rumor now circulating is that the scrubbers will be completed, but not turned on, because the energy input cost are unworkable. The deciples of the coal barons are being sent about with messages of doom and gloom. The hoopleheads will soon be all a twitter, and of course if all this can be linked to Obama so much the better. Sit back and watch the play unfold.