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To: AK2004 who wrote (275503)	2/19/2006 4:15:09 PM
From: Taro	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1578084

In plants from the late 50s they used to mix heavy oil with fine coal like dust in Europe. Don't know about the US though. Some of that oil came from the Soviet Union and was so thick you could walk on it until it got heated up to be moved from the tankers to the plant. Taro

To: AK2004 who wrote (275503)	2/19/2006 5:31:41 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578084

"oil used to generate less than 2% of electricity in US" This contradicts my post because?... You stated that you didn't know if oil was even used to generate power in the US. I stated that it is used. I stated that most power is generated by coal gas and fuel oil. Now, true, fuel oil is a tiny amount, mainly because of cost. But many of the turbines used to generate power can be fueled by oil or gas, and a fair percentage by oil, gas or coal. So they can use what ever is economic and/or available. When it is used, it is usually because of availability. Now around here, almost all are gas/oil, but gas is what is almost always used. Almost none use coal. However, the city of Bryan is talking about building one of those next generation facility which uses coal and sequesters the CO2 produced.