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PurGen One would produce a net of approximately 500 megawatts of power per year.<ref name="pgoaag">[http://www.purgenone.com/purgen-one-at-a-glance.php "At a glance",] PurGen One website, accessed September 7, 2010.</ref> The plant would originally produce 750 MW, but would require 250-300 MW to operate, or at least a third of the power produced.<ref name="adegopp">Andrew Davison, [http://sub.gmnews.com/news/2010-06-03/Front_Page/Environmental_groups_oppose_power_plant.html "Environmental groups oppose power plant",] "Suburban", June 3, 2010."</ref>
The name "PurGen" was created by shortening the term "Pure Generation."<ref>Jane Califf, [http://www.northjersey.com/news/opinions/more_columnists/103023994_How_do_we_get_electricity__You_don_t_want_to_know.html "How do we get electricity? You don't want to know?",] "Bloomfield Life", September 16, 2010.</ref>
==Project Details==
==Coal Gasification==
The PurGen One plant would use IGCC technology which would heat up coal without burning it in order to create a gas.<ref name="blbocat"/> The coal would be partially combusted in oxygen, creating carbon monoxide and hydrogen.<ref name="blbocat"/> The hydrogen would be separated and used to power the utility plant when economically worthwhile to do so.<ref name="blbocat"/> When the price of electricity is down, and the hydrogen would be used to make products like ammonia and urea, which can be sold as fertilizer at other timesor for pollution controls in automobiles or industrial plants.<ref name="blbocat"/><ref name="pgoapgo">[http://www.purgenone.com/about-purgen-one.php "About PurGen One",] PurGen One website, accessed September 7, 2010.</ref> Water would be added to the carbon monoxide to create carbon dioxide, which would then be sequestered.<ref name="blbocat"/> Mecury and sulfur would also be separated out during the gasification as a pollution control.<ref name="pgoapgo"/> The plant would be cooled by air.<ref name="pgoapgo"/> SCS plans to use water from the Linden-Roselle wastewater plant and claims there would be no water discharge or water used from natural sources.<ref name="pgoapgo"/>
SCS hopes to receive part of the $1.8 billion offered by the federal government for coal gasification projects.<ref name="blbocat"/>
SCS does not plan to create a test project.<ref name="pgofag">[http://www.purgenone.com/faq.php "Frequently asked questions",] PurGen One website, accessed September 7, 2010.</ref> The company often cites a carbon sequestration project, known as the [[Sleipner Carbon Capture and Storage project |Sleipner]] project, off the coast of [[Norway and coal |Norway]] in the North Sea as a comparable operation.<ref name="pgofag"/> The Sleipner project has been operating since 1996 and buries less than a quarter of the amount SCS plans to sequester.<ref name="apfuebas"/> SCS claims the PurGen One plans would be more fool-proof than Sleipner because its well would be deeper, causing there to be more pressure and a lower temperature, which would provide added safety.<ref name="pgofag"/>
When faced with environmentally-based criticisms, SCS uses a [http://www.purgenone.com/files/NRDC_CCS_Policy.pdf statement on CCS] written by the [[Natural Resources Defense Council]] to legitimize the plant.<ref name="pgofag"/> NRDC's statement endorses the wide scale use of CCS technologies that adhere to standards outlined by the organization.<ref>[http://www.purgenone.com/files/NRDC_CCS_Policy.pdf "Statement from the Natural Resources Defense Council on Carbon Capture and Sequestration Projects",] Natural Resources Defense Council website, accessed September 7, 2010.</ref> Likewise, SCS attempts to discredit the local opposition, which includes the New Jersey Sierra Club chapter, by saying that the national [[Sierra Club|Sierra Club's]] [http://www.purgenone.com/files/SC_basics-sequestration.pdf policy is generally supportive of CCS].<ref name="pgofag"/> NRDC and the Sierra Club have been criticized for being "[[Big Green]]" environmental groups that hava close relationships with industry.
==Coal Consumption and Sources==
==Public Relations==
In an attempt to distance PurGen One from the negative connotations associated with coal-fired power plants, SCS Energy promotes PurGen One as a plant that "will not burn coal," because coal would not simply be burned but rather gasified.<ref name="pgoapgo">[http://www.purgenone.com/about-purgen-one.php "About PurGen One",] PurGen One website, accessed September 7, 2010.</ref> However, PurGen One is fueled by coal and therefore, like other coal-gasification plants, is a coal-fired power plant.
==Citizen Groups==
