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Murph - There's water there, else why is there a problem with dewatering coalbed methane sites? It may not be fit to drink, but it'd do for coal carriage. <br /> <br />dehusman - The thought regarding using coal pipelines was to run them from the basin to more distant railheads, where the coal would be dried and transloaded to the unit trains at those sites, aka Rawlins, Billings, Cheyenne, or Scottsbluff, ect. Those sites are on mainlines which have more capacity than the Orin line does currently. And the Orin line is at capacity, else why are the utilities only scheduled to recieve 80% of their PRB coal demand this year? <br /> <br />martin - You're correct. Coal liquification is probably the best usage of vast amounts of coal, since the price of oil is well above the benchmark cost for commercially viable coal to liquid fuels technologies. The US can always run new power plants on nuclear technology for it's electricity needs, but vehicles (and the infrastructure that serves them) are geared for gasoline and diesel fuels. Only railroads have the characteristic that can utilize energy by wire, while trucks, planes, and barges gotta have petrol.
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