Posted by RodInNS on March 05, 2009 at 09:25:49 from (216.118.158.123):
In Reply to: Re: O.T. Hydroelectric posted by buickanddeere on March 05, 2009 at 08:31:43:
When Lingan was built, the had a belt system running from the mine I believe... There were a number of them handy there... #26, Lingan, Phalen were the last in my memory. Point Aconi was also designed to burn the high sulfur coal from Prince... again, right next to it. That never really worked though. The boilers couldn't handle it. I believe they're burning a mixture of low sulfur venezulean coal and petcoke these days since the mines closed... and Lingan is now using some strip coal from the surface of the Prince site. Lingan can burn it, then send it up the pipe. I've got my doubts if you'll ever see a reactor here tho. It's the same as everywhere else. Not in my back yard... doesn't matter how much sense it makes. To be honest, I wouldn't have much faith in NSP managing that either. They can't keep the damn lights on as it is. They went to the Monty Burns school of electrical system management... They'd probably hire Homer J. to run it.
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