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Heavy
metals,
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mercury,
lead,
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cadmium, etc.
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Coal
fired power plants,
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mercury
is present in the
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ash
and is reduced to
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mercury vapor
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Environmental
poison, health hazards to humans, difficult to
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capture because
concentrations are very low. Future
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regulations
will impose far more stringent standards.
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Fine
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particulates,
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sulfates,
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aromatics,
etc.
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Coal
fired power plants,
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but
also to a lesser extent,
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cars, (diesel),
and
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conventional
turbines
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Apparent
health hazard, statistical data
point to strong
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correlations
between fine particulate emissions from coal
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fired
power plants and mortality rates.
Particles smaller
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than
10 micron are unregulated, are a category of particular
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concern
as they tend to make it into the lung where they get
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captured. Regulations are still being discussed.
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Visual
pollution from power plant haze (e.g. Grand
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Canyon).
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Any
fossil fuel based
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power
source, coal plants,
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gas
plants, cars, machinery
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etc.
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Climate
change and environmental change, global impact,
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direct human
impact is considered minimal.
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Carbon
dioxide is the normal end result of power generation
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from
fossil fuels, it is therefore difficult to avoid it.
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