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To: yldstrk
Wow! Guess the Arabs better think about developing their economies........

Exactly how much oil do you think is being burned to spin a turbine?

I've been in most of the base line power plants in the upper midwest and have yet to see anything rated above 50MW burning anything but coal or uranium. Other than natural gas, the only petroleum products I've ever seen burned is kerosene (J4) in GE jet turbine backups. The gas burners' output watts hardly rank as "base line". Its why they're called "peakers".

28 posted on 01/22/2007 4:07:10 PM PST by woofer (It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.)
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To: woofer
have yet to see anything rated above 50MW burning anything but coal or uranium

GE offers the widest range of heavy duty gas turbines available, ranging from 26 to 480 megawatts

33 posted on 01/22/2007 4:20:11 PM PST by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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