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i_think_sotoday at 11:31 AM1 replyview on HN

I wonder what the pollution from these gas turbines is like. SO2 from trace sulfur compounds? Is it much worse than a traditional gas-fired power plant for some reason? I can't imagine it would be but I have to plead ignorance and beg for hints here.


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i_think_sotoday at 2:25 PM

Well, from a quick bit of searching it looks like it's all NOxes. There are supposed to be known ways of mitigating NOx formation [1][2] but there enough dependencies that I'm not going to do any more digging.

1. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/nox-reduction-technologies-ga...

2. PDF: https://www.ifc.org/content/dam/ifc/doc/1990/handbook-nitrog...