ABSTRACT
The choice of abatement technique not only effects the level of damages, it also effects the type of damages still caused by the power plant. Nitrogen oxide control primarily decreases damages connected with acid rain and vegetation. Abatement techniques which prevent emissions will lower final damages in direct proportion to the reduction of each pollutant. The benefits of dispersion oriented abatement techniques involve a more complicated estimation than the benefits of emission oriented control techniques. Evaluating all of these abatement techniques involves comparisons across different bundles of goods. Comparing technologies on the basis of their expected health and non-health costs, it is apparent that some techniques are better than others. The techniques not underlined are less effective because they incur unnecessarily higher costs in order to achieve a given reduction in health effects. The marginal effectiveness of most single technologies also diminish when combined with other abatement techniques.
