Gustavus Swift once said about his meat-packing operations that they used "everything but the squeal." We have just seen the world's politicians meet in Paris to sign a worthless piece of paper aimed at reducing global emissions of carbon dioxide in a questionable belief that man-made global warming threatens our existence.  There was endless promotion of wind and solar renewable power, and there were promises to end the use of fossil fuels. What if the global nemesis, carbon dioxide, can play a role in providing clean, reliable, efficient electric power?  A consortium of companies is currently building a 50-MWt (megawatt thermal) demonstration power plant in Texas to find out. The plant is due to begin operations in 2016.  Here is the gist from Power Engineering: CB&I (NYSE: CBI), Exelon Generation (NYSE: EXC) and 8 Rivers Capital have teamed to build a $140 million demonstration power plant that produces zero emissions from natural gas....(Read Full Post)