Agent Orange: Friendly fire that keeps on burning. | jd43 - 12/22/2024 07:36 There is a large windmill farm next to us and the power goes to the Baltimore grid. I have no idea how that's done being 200 some miles away.
Electricity can be transported a long ways, with small losses. Big plants, like Colstrip in SE Montana have huge lines running to the Seattle area. With the de-commissioning of the coal fired units at Colstrip, the lines are being re-purposed for clean energy transport from MT to WA.
The Glen Canyon dam, near Page, AZ transports all the hydro-power from the dam to pumps at the south end of Lake Havasu Reservoir and booster pumps along the canal that feed the CAP that waters Phoenix and Tucson. People in the Page area were powered by coal generators. Coal came from the Black Mesa area, that was transported via a 78 mile long electric railroad and 17 mile elevated conveyor belt. The mine and transport system has been shut down and I don't know where Page is currently getting their power. Previous to the RR and conveyor, some of the coal from Black Mesa was ground and slurried to a pipeline that fed generating plants in Laughlin, NV - a distance of 273 miles. Three million gallons of slurry were pumped every day. That operation no longer exists. |
Question for the guys in oil country.
