Paradise Cooling Towers Implosion 

I have stressed this with every project I have done. What we take away was someone’s livelihood and we should always respect that.

​@@jarrodlewis123 As a veteran of the Elrama and Cheswick power stations, and having done a lot of work as a contractor at Hatfield's Ferry, I can tell you that it really, really sucks to have to watch as your life's work is reduced to so much rubble in seconds. But here are the facts of life in PJM: Every June an auction is held where wholesale power buyers bid for capacity. PJM has gone on record as liking to have a total capacity of around 150,000 MW. Natural gas is meeting the demand at this time. Elrama, Mitchell, and Hatfield failed to get picked up in the auction in 2011 and were retired a year later. Cheswick didn't get picked up in 2021, two months after I retired, and was retired a year later. Our parents used to say "don't put all of your eggs in one basket". PJM is almost completely dependent upon natural gas. Renewables typically provide less than 10 percent of the energy needed. You're not taking anyone's livelihood away. That was done by the nameless, faceless suits in Washington and New York City. The old makes way for the new. For those who insist that the United States MUST decarbonize, Google how many United States coal plants have been decommissioned, and then see how many new coal plants have been built in China and India.

Cooling tower: "Well, if you're gonna be THAT way about it..."

What do you think would a good replacement?

@@KieraCameron514 The only practical replacement is natural gas generation. There is no wind in the Valley and solar needs 30 acres of property per MW and is useless during the hours of darkness without billions of dollars worth of toxic Lithium Ion batteries. And we’re 15 years away from small nuclear reactors.

​@@KieraCameron514 Nuclear power is a logical, responsible solution. What is idiotic is destroying proven generation capacity and replacing it with either unreliable sources or nothing at all..."we'll get our power from someone else."

Yes and we experienced the repercussions of this decision yesterday: rolling blackouts at the first cold snap Tennessee has had. You don't have rolling black outs with coal plants.