That used to be the case in my area as well, most of them switched to natural gas and have tanks of No. 2 for backup.
Would not surprise me if it is illegal to burn No. 6 in some states.
That used to be the case in my area as well, most of them switched to natural gas and have tanks of No. 2 for backup.
Coal is not too expensive for generating electric,they don't use the same stuff we buy for heating .David... wrote: ↑Sat. Feb. 10, 2018 9:03 amI suspect less or no oil is burned in the summer because there is much less demand for NG then. People complaining about renewables need to move on, they aren't going away. Coal is too expensive to be used to generate electricity. That is why plants are shutting down. Unfortunately we will have to settle for less pollution as a result.
David
+1Coal is not too expensive for generating electric,they don't use the same stuff we buy for heating .
That is NOT why coal fired plants are shutting down.
Coal plants are shutting down because of the environmental wackos..
David... wrote: ↑Sat. Feb. 10, 2018 9:03 amI suspect less or no oil is burned in the summer because there is much less demand for NG then. People complaining about renewables need to move on, they aren't going away. Coal is too expensive to be used to generate electricity. That is why plants are shutting down. Unfortunately we will have to settle for less pollution as a result.
David
Barney the one lone phrase in your post that I can agree with was "In the future, ANYBODIES GUESS WHEN".BigBarney wrote: ↑Sun. Feb. 11, 2018 11:08 amThese coal power plants that reduce the waste banks could be subsidized to
get rid of the waste coal mounds that dot the areas where mining was done
previous years. The real cost is the transportation of coal that has a very
low energy value , you need the power plant near the waste coal so you
can retrieve the energy and transport the ash back for landfill disposal.
In the future , anybodies guess when , all plants fueled with any fuel that
cost above 0 will be uneconomical , because the speed of innovation in
the solar energy will deem them obsolete. Power companies are now
planning for this eventuality by shutting down the most costly and older
plants and not building any new ones , same with the oil industry , they are
all conserving capital .
This is different for an individual using coal to economically heat their home
and DHW , especially when you are close to the source of the coal. I heat with
coal for that reason and I don't have many other choices with natural gas not
available as first choice because of the low cost.
BigBarney