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pulled from another site regarding a georgia coal powered power plant. . i don't know anyone involved in this story..
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One of my sons works at Plant Bowen which is a Georgia Power plant. When he began working there six years ago, the coal heap was a half a mile long and 100 feet high rising like a mountain in the landscape. There was enough coal to provide power to all of the southeast for 4 to 5 years. Today, they have enough for one month. The coal cars used to run through twice a day. Now, my son reports getting maybe one train a week. The plant is currently running only one unit at half capacity, because they simply don't have the coal to fire up the other units.
Now here's something that you may not know. The ash that is produced from the burning of coal is used in many everyday products. Things like concrete, fertilizer, asphalt, Portland cement, bricks, gypsum panel products (dry wall), and on and on. The fly ash is collected and sold to manufacturers who produce the building products mentioned above. So, you see, when there's no coal to burn, there's no ash. And when there's no ash, there will be shortages (and higher prices) for items that are vital to our economy. Look at that list again and ponder this: U.S. coal shipments to China saw a 30-fold increase in the second quarter of 2021 placing it just behind India as the largest importer of American coal.
Something unusual is going on. My son has worked at the power plant long enough to understand that things are not right. They are not getting coal.
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One of my sons works at Plant Bowen which is a Georgia Power plant. When he began working there six years ago, the coal heap was a half a mile long and 100 feet high rising like a mountain in the landscape. There was enough coal to provide power to all of the southeast for 4 to 5 years. Today, they have enough for one month. The coal cars used to run through twice a day. Now, my son reports getting maybe one train a week. The plant is currently running only one unit at half capacity, because they simply don't have the coal to fire up the other units.
Now here's something that you may not know. The ash that is produced from the burning of coal is used in many everyday products. Things like concrete, fertilizer, asphalt, Portland cement, bricks, gypsum panel products (dry wall), and on and on. The fly ash is collected and sold to manufacturers who produce the building products mentioned above. So, you see, when there's no coal to burn, there's no ash. And when there's no ash, there will be shortages (and higher prices) for items that are vital to our economy. Look at that list again and ponder this: U.S. coal shipments to China saw a 30-fold increase in the second quarter of 2021 placing it just behind India as the largest importer of American coal.
Something unusual is going on. My son has worked at the power plant long enough to understand that things are not right. They are not getting coal.
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