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The problem now, is that due to rules regarding burning coal in a power plant, the coal cannot be completely consumed during the burn.

Which means, there is no more flyash.

Which means, lime must be used in place.

So, instead of using a by-product of power plants to stabilize roadbeds, parking lots, and building pads, now the limestone must be quarried, crushed, and burned into lime.

Every step of that process uses hydrocarbon fuels, mostly diesel and natural gas.

What that means is that instead of stopping the evil carbon emissions resulting from burning coal, we have many times the emissions from burning fuels to process limestone to get a product that we already had 'free'.

And this was a result of all those smart people in Washington.

Sounds much like burning gasoline and or diesel to plant, cultivate, transport, etc.corn to produce ethanol
 

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