Citizen Action New Mexico task?
More U.S. coal-waste disposal sites than previously known have contaminated water with toxic metals, according to a survey by an environmental coalition that says the data are limited and only hint at the scope of the problem.
The study said that "large coal ash-generating states like Alabama, Arizona, Georgia, Indiana, Ohio, Mississippi, Missouri, New Mexico and Tennessee, to name a few, require no monitoring by law at coal ash ponds, at least while they are still in operation."
1 kWh = 34132.14163 BTU.
Solar and wind generation
of electricity industries may employ
Shill
• A person paid to endorse a product favourably, while pretending to be impartial.
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Clarence Clearwater played his guitar and sang for the passenger
coming back from the Grand Canyon on Sunday January 17, 2010.
Some Navajos are opposed to the Desert Rock coal-fired power
plant.
http://www.desert-rock-blog.com/blog/_archives/2006/12/17/4425375.html
The 995-megawatt Cholla Power Plant is located in northeastern
Arizona near Holbrook. APS operates the plant and owns Units 1, 2 and 3,
which are capable of producing 615 megawatts of electricity. PacifiCorp (PAC)
owns the 380-megawatt Unit 4 - the largest unit at the plant.
Saturday
January 16, 2010.
Cholla is fueled by coal from the McKinley Mine in New Mexico.
For years, everyone has known the McKinley Mine's days were numbered.
After two layoffs in the last five years as the mine exhausted its leased coal reserves, officials of the mining operation just east of Window Rock have announced that mining operations will stop altogether at the end of 2009.
Top 10 Dirtiest Power Plants in the United States ... Cholla Power Plant; Joseph City, AZ
Grand Canyon railway.
Diesel fuel 129,488 BTU/gal.
Territorial Times 1901-2009
Yavapai point view.
Waiting for train to depart for Williams, AZ. Temperature about 47 F.
Conductor Mark gave our rail car passengers a lecture on his solar home.
Harlan Mark Vale
Mark told us he uses both solar and wind generated electricity.
Golf cart storage batteries are used to store electricity, he reported. Inverter is used to convert the DC to AC.
Mark told us that the electric output of the solar and wind systems was measured in watts.
Not watt seconds or hours or kilowatt hours.
But Mark is liberal arts educated.
My formal music training began at The Evergreen State College in Washington State in the 70’s, where I studied electronic music and audio engineering.
Mark showed the passengers a digital photo on a camera of their solar bedroom.
Bill told mark about 1 kWh = 3413 BTU. Mark wrote this number on a napkin.
Mark told the passengers his other job, while the train was in the Grand Canyon station, was to play the piano at the Bright Angel lodge.
Monday January 18, 2010
Bought at train station in Williams.
They try to be green.
1kWh = 3412.14163 BTU. So 92,250 * 3413 =
Heat goes in and electricity comes out. This is called the HEAT RATE.
Conversely, electricity goes in and heat comes out. 1kWh = 3412.14163 BTU.
The second law of thermodynamics tells us that more heat has to go in than comes out. If not, then one has the thermodynamic equivalent of perpetual motion.
Does the second law of thermodynamics apply to solar and wind generated electricity?
PNM Foil 6 states that it does not.
We are skeptical.
Escalante Generating Station, Prewitt, NM.
Note solar panels to apparently charge batteries for lighting sign.
Total capacity 245 megawatts
Coal source Lee Ranch Mine
Escalante to receive combustion monitoring system.
ESWR's sole purpose for existence is to haul coal to Western Fuels' Plains-Escalante Generating Station (PEGS),
Note attempt to cover coal ash heap.
This warrants a close-up.
Coal Ash: A Danger to the Public.
We wonder if ground water contamination test wells have been installed?
Don Russell, (Plant Mgr.), 505-876-5217, drussell@tristategt.org
Sandia National Laboratories Mixed Waste Landfill cadmium and nickel statistical analysis.
2006 Honda CR-V 5 speed manual real-time 4WD.
Gasoline BTU/gallon.
30.193 * 114,000 =
BTUs gasoline used for essential non-gas-wasting field trip.
