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To: BipolarBob
Watch the headlines, somebody will install scrubbers on this.

I don't think so, because Peabody has been battling the Navajo Nation and enviro's for some time over it's coal mining and tremendous use of water to transport it's coal to Edison's plant. The coal mine has been in the cross hairs for years & years and was, I think, going to end up shut down anyway. Edison, having no readily available coal for their plant, was going to have to shut down.

The enviro's got a two-fer out of this.

24 posted on 12/30/2005 8:37:53 AM PST by Lester Moore (The headwaters of the islamic river of death and hate are in Saudi Arabia.)
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To: Lester Moore

Maybe so, I have no specific info on Mojave at hand, but I daily keep up with the generation buisness. But I know a station that large with a nearby available coal supply would not let scrubbers come between them and staying operational. If there are other killers to the deal, it may not be feasible. Many times fuel transportation cost is the largest expense to a coal-fired plant.


27 posted on 12/30/2005 8:45:44 AM PST by BipolarBob (Yes I backed over the vampire, but I swear I looked in my rearview mirror.)
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To: Lester Moore
"The enviro's got a two-fer out of this."

Maybe the Utilities should burn "enviros" instead of coal! Now that would be a "two fer one" I could get behind!

68 posted on 12/30/2005 5:38:29 PM PST by Mad Dawgg ("`Eddies,' said Ford, `in the space-time continuum.' `Ah,' nodded Arthur, `is he? Is he?'")
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