Real mondern eviormentaly friendly technology of the last century; way to go Saint Danilo Back to the Future!

The energy mix or potfolio is better having a balanced approach. Coal has its place in that balance.

Caca de Buey!

Was I in a long term dream?
It seems to me that about 6 months ago they were going to build 2 300 megawatt plants and 6 months before that, China was going to build huge gas powered plant and sometime before that, yet another. Do they think the public is stupid and they can rerun the same story every 6 or 8 months? Never mind. I just answered my own question.

They don't think it, they know it.
OTOH, isn't south of Haina same thing as upwind from the to-be-developed SW beach resorts?

YES.

Cheap, efficient and Clean. Coal is the way to go for a 3rd world nation like the D.R.
Stop wasting time and money with the rip-off that is wind or solar.

We will bill you for the Coal Ash disposal IDIOT!

You don't see what's happening in China!


Natural Gas is the way to go ignoramous!

In terms of cost I would go with coal since natural gas prices will only go up. If our country had money I would go with solar.

Power Production Emissions

After refining, natural gas goes to a power plant to generate energy. Burning natural gas at the power plant produces nitrogen oxides and carbon dioxide, but in smaller amounts than produced by oil and coal, according to the EPA. Natural gas that hasn't burnt completely releases methane, too, as does coal (see References 3). However, natural gas emits one third as much nitrogen oxides as coal, for instance (see References 1). Natural gas also produces 43 percent fewer carbon emissions than coal and 30 percent fewer emissions than petroleum, according to the Union of Concerned Scientists (see References 4). Thus, natural gas is a far cleaner burning and more efficient fuel than coal or petroleum, the Union of Concerned Scientists holds (see References 4).

greenliving.nationalgeographic.com/natural-gas-cleaner-petroleum-coal-20485.html

Coal is in a struggle with a perfect adversary: ultracheap natural gas.

With all the shale reserves unlocked by fracking, gas prices have steadily declined since mid-2008, to the point where they're hovering around $2 per million British thermal units for the first time in a decade. That's lower than coal prices.

Read more: sfgate.com/business/article/Cheap-natural-gas-drives-down-coal-industry-3519986.php#ixzz2LHT2FVtm

Danilo you have the floor!

For this cost you could have them build a more efficient natural gas power plant like the one in PERU by the owners of the power plant in Pto Pta .In this power plant nothing goes to waste thru the stack.

josean,

Being an Ignorant, snarky, bigoted, Chopo (In other words a member of the P.R.D." is no way for you to go through life.

You have been informed.

Attack the Messenger, you little FASCIST Ayn Rand Placenta, since you can't debate that natural gas is better than coal!

Josie,

Every time you call me a Fascist you just display your ignorance. I am a free market capitalist. I believe in the rights of the individual than of the state.

You, on the other hand, espouse all of the main traits of Fascism.

Centralized Economy fueled by Cronyism, Nationalism, bigotry and total disregard for the rights of the individual.


Now to the argument of Coal Vs. Natural Gas. Currently power generation is cheaper with Natural Gas but the price is volatile and subject to massive fluctuations while coal prices are historically stable.

A major power company like some in the USA can invest in both types of generation and then switch use as the price changes. A 3rd world, small nation like the D.R. will not have the luxury.

But of course you wouldn't know that because your knowledge of energy production is gleaned from the Talking points of the Huffington post.

"Now to the argument of Coal Vs. Natural Gas. Currently power generation is cheaper with Natural Gas but the price is volatile and subject to massive fluctuations while coal prices are historically stable."


I thought you believe in the invisible hand?

What's the matter you don't trust a free market?

PS

Your are still an Ayn Rand FASCIST Placenta; just too much of a Kool Aid drinker to realize it!

While there is no doubt natural gas is more environmentally friendly, the cost comparisons here are probably wrong. Nat. gas is dirt cheap in N. America, and will remain so for years, but we can't access it here without a pipeline, so we have to import it as LNG and that is much more expensive than the pipeline gas in the US or Canada. That's why the gas producers are so desperate to build LNG terminals, especially on the Pacific coast. They want to export their Nat gas as LNG and make some real money again.

How many times have I heard the same story being told?
In any case, I'll have to agree with Josean and consider the ash byproduct. What do you do with it?

Anthony C, states:

"Cheap, efficient and Clean. Coal is the way to go for a 3rd world nation like the D.R.
Stop wasting time and money with the rip-off that is wind or solar."

Coal isn't any of those adjectives. It is dirty, not cheap, finite, and bad for the environment.

Want to burn something? Instead of coal, how about the tons of garbage generated every day in major cities?..As it's done in New York City, to generate megawatts of electricity??
Garbage can become a commodity and sold to the incinerators by the truck load! Everybody and his sister would be fighting to get their hands on the precious garbage. !
The scavengers will maintain our cities and countryside, free of litter and other eyesores!
Talk about a win-win situation, eh?