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

[Tell <telljb@ozemail.com.au>]

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

> "William Miller" <backtran@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message
> 3b0520e9$0$25491$7f31c96c@news01.syd.optusnet.com.au">news:3b0520e9$0$25491$7f31c96c@news01.syd.optusnet.com.au...
> > >
> > 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


Actually pulverised brown coal using imported
technology was burnt in Victorian locos quite
successfully, but Diesel Electrics put a stop to it.

Suggest you read John L Bucklands article in the ARHS
BULLETIN magazine July 1972.

....Tell