[cdn-nucl-l] 10,000 tons (100 train cars) coal/day for 1000 MWe plant!

["Jerry Cuttler" <jerrycuttler@home.com>]

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From: <AtomicRod@aol.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2000 5:35 PM
Subject: Re: Request for suggestion


> In a message dated 12/13/00 1:32:51 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> jmuckerheide@delphi.com writes:
>
> > Of course it was the coal industry and the railroads/rail car
> >  manufacturers etc. who saw that we would be quickly generating 50%+ of
US
> >  electricity from nuclear at the greatest expense of coal, and the
trains
> > that
> >  haul 1000 tons of coal a day/plant.
>
> Jim,
> Just to show that I carefully read what you post, I wanted to mention that
> your above argument would be a bit stronger if you had not forgotten a
zero.
> :-)
>
> A 1000 MWe coal fired plant will burn more than 10,000 tons of good coal
each
> day. (More than 100 train car loads) (For western low sulfur coal, that
> figure climbs above 14,000 tons per day due to the lower energy content.)
>
> Rod