The reading asserts according to representatives of power companies, imposing new regulations for handling and storing coal ash are not required. To elucidate their position, the passage provides some explanations. However, the lecturer finds the ideas dubious and casts doubt on each reason provided by the reading passage.
First, the author argues that the current regulations, which power companies currently have, are capable since they require companies to use liner while they dispose of coal ash in disposal ponds. Conversely, the lecturer brings up the idea that the companies use liner only when they dispose of coal ash into a new pond or landfill. But, they aren’t required to add liner to old ponds. As a result, the condemnations may leak into the grand water and make it polluted. Therefore, strict rules should be considered to control the disposal of coal ash for new sites as well as old sites.
Furthermore, the reading holds the view that adopting new rules for handling coal ash would cause consumers to stop buying the products which are made out of recycled coal ash since consumers may conceive that they are hazardous. On the contrary, the professor underlines the fact that the stricter rules will not influence the consumers. As the same experience about making strict rules for handling mercury have been successful and did not affect the customers who bought the restored products, creating new rules for handling coal ash won't affect recycling coal ash as well.
Finally, the reading passage asserts that the increased cost of disposal and handing would be so much that it entails companies to augment the price of electricity significantly. In contrast, the speaker dismisses the issue due to the fact that although the cost of imposing new regulations will be a lot for companies, according to calculations, the average price of electricity bills will increase only one percent. Thus, the minor increase in electricity bills is worthwhile to keep our environment clean.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, conversely, finally, first, furthermore, however, if, may, so, therefore, thus, well, while, in contrast, as a result, as well as, on the contrary
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 5.04856512141 158% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 12.0 12.0772626932 99% => OK
Pronoun: 17.0 22.412803532 76% => OK
Preposition: 32.0 30.3222958057 106% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 5.01324503311 100% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1691.0 1373.03311258 123% => OK
No of words: 325.0 270.72406181 120% => OK
Chars per words: 5.20307692308 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.24591054749 4.04702891845 105% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.77517993446 2.5805825403 108% => OK
Unique words: 172.0 145.348785872 118% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.529230769231 0.540411800872 98% => OK
syllable_count: 513.9 419.366225166 123% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 12.0 8.23620309051 146% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 2.5761589404 155% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 23.0 21.2450331126 108% => OK
Sentence length SD: 61.0525033333 49.2860985944 124% => OK
Chars per sentence: 120.785714286 110.228320801 110% => OK
Words per sentence: 23.2142857143 21.698381199 107% => OK
Discourse Markers: 10.7857142857 7.06452816374 153% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 4.45695364238 90% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.27373068433 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.560818103663 0.272083759551 206% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.170505856823 0.0996497079465 171% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.144642336756 0.0662205650399 218% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.301814478989 0.162205337803 186% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.120683143217 0.0443174109184 272% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.7 13.3589403974 110% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 48.13 53.8541721854 89% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.3 11.0289183223 112% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.18 12.2367328918 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.71 8.42419426049 103% => OK
difficult_words: 81.0 63.6247240618 127% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 10.7273730684 103% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.2 10.498013245 107% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.2008830022 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.0 Out of 30
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