The European Union subsidizes Western companies that buy outmoded cement plants in poor countries and refit them with green technology.
The implicit assumption is that China can greatly improve efficiency because it must still be relying mainly on wasteful, aging boilers and outmoded power plants.
Older, outmoded coal plants, along with electrons generated by oil, LNG, and marine coal no longer make economic sense.
AEP is trying to shift outmoded coal plants which it deregulated back into its rate base in Kentucky and West Virginia, so that it can continue to make profits on assets which are no longer useful.
There's still plenty of opposition from politicians and environmental groups that cite, among other issues, the negative effects of the plant's outmoded cooling water intake system on Hudson River fisheries, the continuing leak of radioactive water into the Hudson and the absence of a workable evacuation plan or a long-term solution to the disposal of nuclear waste.
And over the last two decades, federal money for such programs has fallen by 70percentt, according to the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, which estimates that a quarter of the state's sewage and wastewater treatment plants are "using outmoded, inadequate technology".
But looming above all are the deadly, dirty, outmoded Fisk and Crawford coal plants, which are a threat to citizen health, to reliability of electrical service, and to the gains that the City has made in recent decades.
Environmental campaigners who have accepted the argument for nuclear power have argued giant plants such as Hinkley are outmoded and unworkable and that instead the government should use small modular reactors.
Bye-Bye Humans too have become rigid, intractible in our reliance upon outmoded technologies (gasoline-powered cars, coal-burning power plants) which are poisoning our atmosphere.
In a major victory for environmental advocates, New York State has ruled that outmoded cooling technology at the Indian Point nuclear power plant kills so many Hudson River fish, and consumes and contaminates so much water, that it violates the federal Clean Water Act.
