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Ok, here is some food for thought.... I work at a relatively small coal fired power plant (225 Megawatts) and did some calculations based on our operating data and the information given in the article. One of our cyclone burner uses about 40,000 Lbs per hour at approx 70% of full load We have three cyclone burners per boiler. (40,000* 3 = 120,000 lbs per hour per boiler) multiplied by the 2 boilers = 240,000 Lbs per hour for both boilers. multiplied by 24 = 5,760,000 Lbs per day. The article states a water to coal ration of 1Lb of water per 3-4 Lbs of coal. (I used 3.5) 5,760,000 / 3.5 = 1.65 million lbs of water per day for transport The conversion of Lbs of water to gallons is a factor of .11996 1.65 million * .11996 = 197,934 gallons per day to transport coal..... That's a lot of water... and our largets coal plant is 1300 Megawatts it uses about 6 times as much fuel so figure it would require about 6 times as much water. The simple fact is that our plant isn't that big and still requires a lot of water. A larger plant would almost require it's own pipeline, just on the basis of the amount of coal and water. Me thinks this has way to go before we see anything like this on a commercial basis.....
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