Re: AS to DAR, financial drain for next 50 years.

["Rod [comtrain]" <freight_man@hotmail.com>]

"William Miller" <backtran@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message
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> You have completely misquoted me.
>
> I did not say Northern was not base load (or anything else)....... only
that
> it would *only* need support energy for upset and low load conditions.
EVERY
> plant goes through low load and start conditions once or twice a year at
> minimum. I know this because I am familiar with the fuel, the process to
> prepare it and the specific equipment installed at Northern to burn it.
>
> I was referring to combustion upset conditions - the real driver behind
> having to burn support energy or not. Not system electrical disturbances.
A
> system electrical disturbance may contribute to a combustion upset but
this
> is rare.
Tell pushing his barrow again!!



Thank You William,
I ofton wondered why brown coal as such was unable to be used as fuel for
steam engines, and yet the dust collected as a by-product from the stacks
could after modification be used, and it did do a good job.
Somewhere else I read that liquefied brown coal [just add water ??], could
be stored in tenders and used to fire very modern steam engines, and being
both user friendly, and convenient. This system would sit in the wings
untill Fuel oil actually did run out, or the Barons finally priced it out of
the market.
Cheers,
Thanks for your contribution
Rod