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The results show that nearly all the trace metals exit with the clinker and destruction and removal efficiency (DRE) numbers for the three metals are estimated to be 99.96% for lead, 99.95% for zinc and 99.94% for cadmium. The use of waste oil as an opportunity fuel, then, provides both a low cost energy source and a means fm managing toxic emissions from combustion of this material. 

Lower reboiler temperatures permit the use of less costly energy sources such as low pressure steam or hot water. 

Potassium Chloride. The principal ore encountered in the U.S. and Canadian mines is sylvinite [12174-64-0] a mechanical mixture of KCl and NaCl. Three beneficiation methods used for producing fertilizer grades of KCl ate thermal dissolution, heavy media separation, and flotation (qv). The choice of method depends on factors such as grade and type of ore, local energy sources, amount of clay present, and local fuel and water availabiUty and costs. 

El-Halwagi, M. M. (1993). A process synthesis approach to the dilemma of simultaneous heat recovery, waste reduction and cost effectiveness. In Proceedings of the Third Cairo International Conference on Renewable Energy Sources ( A. I. El-Sharkawy and R. H. Kummler, eds.), Vol. 2, pp. 579-594. ... 

These have the advantage that they are low-cost units to install the running costs, however, depending on the source of electricity, are generally higher than other energy sources. 

People differ in their preferences and m the value they put on their time. For consumer choices in particular, the entire list of qualities of services provided by different energy sources can be important. For example, both kerosene lamps and electric lights can be used to illuminate a home. Most households shifted quickly to electricity once it became available, and few would shift to kerosene today even if kerosene for lamp fuel were free. The lighting provided differs in more ways than cost. 

The fear of accidents like Chernobyl, and the high cost of nuclear waste disposal, halted nuclear power plant construction in the United States m the 1980s, and in most ol the rest ol the world by the 1990s. Because nuclear fusion does not present the waste disposal problem of fission reactors, there is hope that fusion will be the primary energy source late in the twenty-first centuiy as the supplies of natural gas and petroleum dwindle. 

One energy source that first appeared to be highly attractive was nuclear power. The problem with nuclear power is that some costs were hidden in its initial development. Especially pernicious is the disposal of uranium oxide fuel after it has become depleted. It can be reprocessed, but at considerable expense, and the product plutonium can be used for weapons. In the United States the plan is to bui y... 

If the particular energy source in question is already taxed (say at a five percent rate), then part of the external cost is already internalized. The true cost of fuel would remain the same (P X 1.04 X 1.10) but the size of the additional tax needed to correct for the externality would be smaller (about five percent instead of ten percent). 

New subsidies often outlive the public policy purpose that they were intended to address. The better-designed subsidies contain sunset provisions that require explicit action to reauthorize them after a certain time. Subsidy and externality policies arc often interrelated. It may be politically difficult to tax an energy source with high external costs, but much easier to subsidize a competing energy source with low external costs. Such second best solutions arc often implemented when political considerations block the preferred option. 

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