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Coal Log Pipelines - The Answer to the perpetual PRB transport problems?
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I'd think a pipeline of any kind should go to the nearest navigatable place on the Missouri river where it could be shipped the rest of the way east by water. Sending it to rail defeats the economics as pipelines are expensive to build but an order of magnitude more efficient to operate provided there's sufficient quantitiy. <br /> <br />I also wouldn't view it as a complete replacement for rail. Another alternative would be to burn more coal near the mines and export electricity. Higher fuel prices should compensate for increased transmission line losses. <br /> <br />If logs in petroleum wont work, how about bowling balls in a Natural gas pipeline??
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