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CA: New system will feed state's electricity needs ~~ $20B transmission facility ..Wyoming
Orange County Register ^
| Tuesday, April 5, 2005
| Reuters
Posted on 04/05/2005 12:13:10 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: NormsRevenge; Grampa Dave; SierraWasp; Carry_Okie; Dog Gone; randita; snopercod; Robert357; onyx; ..
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posted on
04/05/2005 12:14:48 PM PDT
by
Ernest_at_the_Beach
(This tagline no longer operative....floated away in the flood of 2005 ,)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Good for Wyoming.
Lot of energy lose along those lines though, but it must be less than moving the coal by trains.
With Calif. being all green, maybe they should insist that the endless Wyoming wind be part of the source as well.
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posted on
04/05/2005 12:18:54 PM PDT
by
mad puppy
( "He's with me!" And I'm with W.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
and what, pray tell, are they gonna use for money? LOL
do I see another bond issue in our future...
by the time Ahnold gets out of Sacramento we are gonna be so much in debt; we're not going to be able to afford to "pay attention"
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posted on
04/05/2005 12:20:08 PM PDT
by
kellynla
(U.S.M.C. 1st Battalion,5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Div. Viet Nam 69&70 Semper Fi)
To: mad puppy
Too bad it wont be nuclear. Sigh.
To: mad puppy; kellynla
Buried in the article is a fact that power plants are a part of this effort to del;iver 12 ,000 megawatts, half thru coal powered plants and HALF thru WIND power!!!
OH ...OH....
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posted on
04/05/2005 12:24:07 PM PDT
by
Ernest_at_the_Beach
(This tagline no longer operative....floated away in the flood of 2005 ,)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Sounds like a good idea. Since California needs more power and has this phobia about building power plants within the state, getting more out of state power is the only solution.
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posted on
04/05/2005 12:26:36 PM PDT
by
Dog Gone
To: Dog Gone
I don't like the plan to get half thru WIND power...that's dorky...needs to be financed properly also.
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posted on
04/05/2005 12:30:17 PM PDT
by
Ernest_at_the_Beach
(This tagline no longer operative....floated away in the flood of 2005 ,)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
wind power?
more BS
sounds like another pork barrel spending program for some Ahnold campaign supporter. LOL
They should just build nuclear/desalination plants out in the ocean...two birds with one rock...
electricity & water!
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posted on
04/05/2005 12:38:38 PM PDT
by
kellynla
(U.S.M.C. 1st Battalion,5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Div. Viet Nam 69&70 Semper Fi)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
From reading the article, it appears that the power plants will be independantly operated by private parties. I'll bet it never happens that half the power on the transmission line comes from windfarms. Someone is blowing smoke.
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posted on
04/05/2005 12:43:34 PM PDT
by
Dog Gone
To: mad puppy
The Wyoming coal trains are feeding the older electric plants in the Eastern half of the USA. They are very busy. 2-3 locomotives, 120 cars each. Saw lots of them riding the Pony Express Trail in 2001. Impressive.
To: ridesthemiles
The Wyoming coal trains are feeding the older electric plants in the Eastern half of the USA. They are very busy. 2-3 locomotives, 120 cars each. Saw lots of them riding the Pony Express Trail in 2001. Impressive.My current project is hosted on 5 coal cars in Alabama. When I finish hardware/software upgrades next week, those cars will be headed for a fill up at the Powder River Basin in Wyoming. That coal has a low sulfur content necessary to meet emissions requirements. The heat content is lower, so they have to burn more. The plant where I'm working next week burns 45 tons per minute. It is a 4 GW facility. About 1/3 of what California is expecting.
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posted on
04/05/2005 2:26:12 PM PDT
by
Myrddin
To: Dog Gone
I noticed these are all Republican Governors in these states.....it is a great plan. Burn the coal at the source and export the smog, build the wind projects along the new transmission lines.
Look for PGE, SCE, LADWP and SCPPA to all complain, as they have an invested interested in the status quo.
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posted on
04/05/2005 3:54:54 PM PDT
by
BurbankKarl
(The Mainstream Media is neither.)
To: ridesthemiles
A lot more trains than that!
139,629 carloads of coal a week in the United States.
>>They are very busy. 2-3 locomotives, 120 cars each. Saw lots of them riding the Pony Express Trail in 2001. Impressive.
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posted on
04/05/2005 3:59:14 PM PDT
by
BurbankKarl
(The Mainstream Media is neither.)
To: kellynla; NormsRevenge; ElkGroveDan; Carry_Okie; farmfriend; calcowgirl; tubebender
"we're not going to be able to afford to "pay attention"And... we've got all these danged problems with our government BECAUSE we didn't/don't pay enough attention in relation to the taxes we've been paying!!!
It's exactly like Will Rogers said: "Thank God we're not gittin alla the government we been payin for!"
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posted on
04/05/2005 5:23:12 PM PDT
by
SierraWasp
(The "Heritage Oaks" in the Sierra-Nevada Conservancy are full of parasitic GovernMental mistletoe!!!)
To: BurbankKarl
I hate to break the news to you, but Wyomings governor is a Democrat.
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posted on
04/05/2005 5:42:38 PM PDT
by
Trteamer
( (Eat Meat, Wear Fur, Own Guns, FReep Leftists, Drive an SUV, Drill A.N.W.R., Drill the Gulf, Vote)
To: kellynla
Wind Power can provide ALLof the US's needs. Only Dorks don't see the obvious. Guess what was used to drain the Zyder Zee. Garland Texas has a wind farm in its capital budget for 2007. Makes sense, its renewable and that's the fact Jack!
To: Young Werther
How do like your eagle...baked or fried? Wind power means dead birds. Do you want to know that every time you turn on the microwave, you're helping to kill innocent birds??!!
I'd turn off my sarcasm switch, but it gets stuck from time to time.
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posted on
04/05/2005 5:59:11 PM PDT
by
stboz
To: SierraWasp
and of course we are living under a monopoly as far as electricity & gas power companies are concerned...
Southern Cal Edison...talk about a rude and nasty bunch of clowns to deal with...if I could have switched I would have done it years ago! LOL
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posted on
04/05/2005 6:03:05 PM PDT
by
kellynla
(U.S.M.C. 1st Battalion,5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Div. Viet Nam 69&70 Semper Fi)
To: Young Werther
Jack?
who's Jack?
what's with all the BOLD print...
maybe you should concern yourself with Texas and let those of us who work, live & pay taxes in California deal with our problems, JACK! LMAO
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posted on
04/05/2005 6:05:29 PM PDT
by
kellynla
(U.S.M.C. 1st Battalion,5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Div. Viet Nam 69&70 Semper Fi)
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