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Since a higher grade coal will contain different fern spores than a lower grade coal, identifying the type of spore will indicate to coalmen the quality of their deposit...
...make burning coal more difficult than ever. The amendments already require, among other things, that new coal-fired plants install highly complex "scrubbers" to remove sulfur pollution from exhaust smoke. The scrubbers cost $80 million or more for an average-size, 800-megawatt generating plant. What really upsets coalmen is that the regulations would force utilities to use scrubbers to remove up to 85% of sulfur pollutants even from coal that has virtually no sulfur content at all, an incredible waste of money...
COAL producers stand to mine rich profits out of the energy plan. The President has called for increasing production from 665 million tons a year at present to 1.1 billion tons by 1985. Even so, coalmen are far from happy. They worry that tough clean-air standards will divert utilities to nuclear power and new strip-mining regulations will inhibit output. Mine operators are concerned that the surge in demand will drive up prices and Government allocation plans and price controls could become necessary...
...antipollution devices, called scrubbers, already exist; G.M. and several big utilities now use them. Congress should specify that similar equipment be installed in power plants and factories over the next five years. Once such rules have been set, industry could make firm plans for using the fuel, providing what coalmen call "a marriage, not a date." Under these conditions, the coal industry could supply 24% of the nation's needs, up from...
Miners Rebel. A problem arose when the government persuaded a group of coalmen to get together this year to form Ruhrkohle, A.G., a state-funded giant that aims eventually to mine 85% of the Ruhr's coal. Everybody wanted the Rossenray in the combine mine-but who would pay for Arndt's allowance? Naturally, the combine would have to do so, insisted Günther Vogelsang, the chairman of the executive board of the Krupp empire, who has brought the company back from the brink of bankruptcy in 1967 to the point where it now expects a profit...