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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (184980)4/11/2006 7:28:53 PM
From: Noel de Leon  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 281500
 
OK, I understood your use of the term thermal power to be some sort of non-hydrocarbon thermal source. For example geo-thermal sources.

The interview gives a reasonable economic argument for not doing what you suggest, burn their own hydrocarbons.

The pipeline is for the transport of oil/gas and is part of the reason for going nuclear. Plus it allows partial independence of the Hormuz strait.