Not neutral
To the editor:
The statement “This new technology and integration would have rendered the expansion nearly carbon-neutral,” appeared in the recent column by Senate President Stephen R. Morris and House Speaker Melvin Neufeld. While the proposed plant featured an innovative approach to use carbon more efficiently, using carbon dioxide to enhance the growth of algae, which in turn would be used to create biodiesel, this would not have made the generating plants carbon neutral. Carbon from the coal would still end up in the atmosphere once the biodiesel was burned.
Larry Hoyle,
Lawrence