Carbon capture

The reason the US has lowered its CO2 emissions is because the country changed coal fired power plants over to natural gas. The Biden administration is planning to roll out aggressive new rules to regulate planet-warming pollution from natural gas power plants The rules have not yet been released but insiders say it will be about carbon capture. That means adding scrubbers to the exhaust to clean and sequester the CO2. This will add about five cents per KW hr. The current cost in MN is 13 cents which averages out to $154 per month. This means the new cost will be $213. This $59 per month will not effect wealthy people but it will hurt the poor especially retired poor living on social security. Add this to the new tail pipe rules for gasoline powered cars and the push is on for more wind and solar. The US will clean up its carbon while China will be building more coal plants so they can have the power to mine rare earths, build EV batteries and build wind mills and solar panels. All of this is just one more reason to go nuclear.