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They post pics of all that smoke going into the air, when it's all just steam.
Thats only the case for a nuclear power plant.
Like the tailpipe on our truck, the white smoke is mostly steam... But also sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide, mercury, CO and CO2.
That is why the stack is so high, to get the exhaust above the population.
 

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Remember many years ago when industrial smoke stacks would be outfitted with a filtration system to help take out impurities ? What happened ?

 

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Thats only the case for a nuclear power plant.
Like the tailpipe on our truck, the white smoke is mostly steam... But also sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide, mercury, CO and CO2.
That is why the stack is so high, to get the exhaust above the population.

Yep and with the regulations today these emissions are the lowest they have ever been making the plants cleaner than they have ever been.
 

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Thats only the case for a nuclear power plant.
Like the tailpipe on our truck, the white smoke is mostly steam... But also sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxide, mercury, CO and CO2.
That is why the stack is so high, to get the exhaust above the population.
That's the case for a lot more than a nuc plant.
Like the electric fired steel mini mills all around here.
Likely most any stack that you can see it's plume these days is just steam.

Not saying that there isn't some other stuff coming out of other stacks, but those you typically don't see "smoke".

And in the case of the scrubbed coal stacks - The farmers now go to the mill to get Gypsum that has been scrubbed, to now spread it on the fields, when it used to be free.
 
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