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[Ruadhrigh]

How much more can you talk about a gypsum wallboard plant anyway.

if only you knew

 

[pappy]

In the background is the coal burning power plant whose byproduct is synthetic gypsum, which just happens to be the main raw material for making Sheetrock!

So the power plant in the distance is burning coal (carbon), and somehow it has a byproduct of synthetic gypsum. How does that work? Is it calcium sulfate (real gypsum) or some other product that substitutes well?

 

[SteveLCetc]

I suspect the gypsum is the product of mandatory mitigation of sulfur emissions, to prevent the release of acid rain causing sulfuric acid (was it determined there was enough to actually be a problem?). It has nothing to do with the release of CO2, (which has definitely never been shown to be a problem).

NASA - Top Story - GLOBAL GARDEN GROWS GREENER - June 05, 2003

Coal is only about 50% carbon on average btw - despite the dogma.

 

[TroutRunner]

Ouch. Is your ABQ home still vacant or are you renting it?

Sorry for the hijack Ali/Onur but your thread is probably dead anyway. How much more can you talk about a gypsum wallboard plant anyway.

Renting it to a military family for at least 2..maybe 3 years. Looking at it now I may have taken the lowball offer I had but I'm glad we rented it. When things recover I will sell.

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[alia176]

So the power plant in the distance is burning coal (carbon), and somehow it has a byproduct of synthetic gypsum. How does that work? Is it calcium sulfate (real gypsum) or some other product that substitutes well?

This article does a good job of explaining the process: Flue gas desulfurization - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The power plant in the background was required to reduce emissions by 2010 so they built a $650 million scrubber. We are building a $200 million plant right next door to use their byproduct as our main ingredient.

 

[pappy]

This article does a good job of explaining the process: Flue gas desulfurization - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The power plant in the background was required to reduce emissions by 2010 so they built a $650 million scrubber. We are building a $200 million plant right next door to use their byproduct as our main ingredient.

Now I understand. So how long will it take the wallboard plant to net $850million?

 

[alia176]

Now I understand. So how long will it take the wallboard plant to net $850million?

Yeah, about that......

 

[SteveLCetc]

Actually it only needs to net $200 million. Environmentalists decided the energy users needed to pay the $650 million. Whatever happpened to that acid rain scare anyway?

 

[pappy]

Maybe true, but do you think the power plant is giving away the ash to the drywall plant? No matter how you slice it, profits need to be made by both companies. The drywall plant will be paying for the scrubber one way or the other.

 

[SteveLCetc]

I think if it were not for the drywall plant the power plant would have to *pay* to dispose of the ash. See the link in #13:
"This material would have otherwise been sent to a mine reclamation facility or landfilled"