The first U.S. plant, built on the Rocky River in Connecticut in 1929, was also only marginally economical.
The plant, built on Sakhalin Island north of Japan and part of the $22 billion Sakhalin 2 development, will greatly expand Russia's natural gas empire.
If the company goes ahead, it would be the largest new power plant built on Long Island in decades -- and kilowatt for kilowatt, the least polluting.
A plant built on Lake Lefroy, 2 miles (3 km) northeast of Kambalda, produces nickel concentrates, which also contain copper, cobalt, palladium, and platinum.
Ford officials insist that the new Rouge plant makes economic and business sense, although they concede that it will cost about 10percentt more than a conventional plant built on a rural site.
If built, it would come on line by the summer of 2004 at the earliest and be only the second new 24-hour-a-day power plant built on Long Island in the last 25 years, said Bonnie J. Habyan, a KeySpan spokeswoman.
The Squamish demonstration plant, built on an abandoned industrial site, will capture only about 500 tons CO2 per year, which is barely enough to offset the emissions of 33 average Canadians.
The utility, known as SMUD, started SolarShares, one of the nation's first community solar-power-plant programs, in July 2008 when it offered customers the opportunity to buy electricity from a 1.2-megawatt photovoltaic power plant built on a turkey farm southeast of Sacramento.
On 18 December 1957, Shippingport Atomic Power Station the world's first commercial nuclear power plant, built on the Ohio River 25 miles northeast of Pittsburgh began generating nuclear power (U.S. NRC 2011).
