[Myrddin]

The Miller Steam Plant in Alabama is similar. My coal car research cars were run between Miller and east WY coal mines.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

There was an enormous growth in power generation in the 50s, 60s and 70s, much of it coal fired. All of those plants are at the end of their economic lifetime...as are the nukes built in the same era.

The US utilities better get serious about replacement power. Unfortunately, utilities are paying far too much attention to Renewable Portfolio Standards which leads to all sorts of gimmicky wind and solar plants, not serious, around-the-clock reliable generation.

In many states, standards are measured by the percentage of retail electric sales. Iowa and Texas, however, require specific amounts of renewable energy capacity rather than percentages and Kansas requires a percentage of peak demand. while most state targets are between 10 and 45 percent, seven states—California, Hawaii, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, and Vermont, and Washington, D.C.—have requirements of 50 percent or greater. RPS requirements can apply only to investor-owned utilities (IOUs), although many states also include municipalities and electric cooperatives (Munis and Co-ops), sometimes with a lower target.

This ridiculous RPS experiment is going to end badly with ultra-high cost unreliable power. Yet the politicians (who know nothing about power) keep pushing it, all because of the fictitious "climate change."

What were your research cars studying?