Steve wrote: > Have another dumb question which someone might have a few thoughts > on.. When they take one of the electric plants offline that is really > badly polluting... Why do they just throw the generators away. As > far as I know, the technology of these big generators has not really > changed radiically over the years. Burn something.. make steam.. run a > turbine turbine turns the generator.. bing... out comes electricity.
Actually, IIRC, most of the time when a plant gets decomissioned the equipment usually gets sold as surplus, burners, boilers, turbines, generators and all. There is a worldwide market for such stuff, and power companies will always take advantage of anything that adds to the bottom line. AP Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/index.php?list=biofuel Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biofuel/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
