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I assumed gas plants are pretty good in terms of air quality? Coal plants are bad.

• condensedcrab 10mo ago
  Gas plants are not bad… but imagine 400 MW of gas plants in a concentrated area. You’ll always have NOx and SOx by products whenever you’re burning gas.
• HPsquared 10mo ago
  It depends on if they treat the exhaust to remove nitrogen oxides. Not sure what the standard is for this kind of plant though.
• imglorp 10mo ago
  In the case of Grok's turbines, no emissions controls means sick people. Plus all the CO2 pushing climate collapse faster which hurts every coming generation. https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/06/elon-musk-xai-memphis-gas-turbines-air-pollution-permits-00317582 https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/06/elon-musk-xai-memph...
• macNchz 10mo ago
  Gas is certainly less of a problem than coal, but they still produce plenty of bad stuff: nitrogen oxides and bad VOCs like formaldehyde that are well studied to increase risk of asthma and some types of cancer. I certainly wouldn’t want to live close to one.