On Sep 14, 12:42*pm, krw wrote:
In article 344df6a9-b7e6-448c-8275-cfec659f8d43
@j22g2000hsf.googlegroups.com, says...



On Sep 11, 8:51*am, Phil Again wrote:
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Example two: Am I the only person who thinks USA should outlaw the use of
Oil and diesel fuel from being used as fuel at large Electrical power
plants?

Hopefully. *Large Power Plants use fuel oil almost exclusively
*to ignite their primary fuel, coal. * Outlawing it would make it
harder to get the coal burners started, which would lead to
environmental problems (unburnt coal in the fly ash) without
substantial savings of petroleum.

Oil and natural gas combined only account for about 10% of
the electricity generated in the US. *Most of that is at smaller
facilities.

Sorry, that should have been 20%.


Mostly at "peaking" plants, AIUI. *Small/cheap plants needed for
quick availability (on line in minutes) to offset peak loads. *It
takes time to start a bioler or nuke.
..

Yes.

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