Comments on: Coal Plant Shut Down, Required 35-45 Million Gallons of Water Daily

By: jlh

jlh — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 23:11:00 +0000

Upon closer inspection, I realized that the photo accompanying this article is of an area several miles from the Savannah River Site. In fact, it’s of my old neighborhood – the National Hills area of Augusta. See http://goo.gl/maps/Vkb8s.

By: 227-MW Coal Plant Could Be Converted to Natural Gas - CleanTechnica

227-MW Coal Plant Could Be Converted to Natural Gas - CleanTechnica — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 11:09:31 +0000

[…] Burning natural gas in combustion turbines also uses less water than burning coal. For example, a coal power plant that was shut down in Georgia used an estimated 35-45 million gallons of water […]

By: Garytulie

Garytulie — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 11:33:00 +0000

France had problems with their water cooled nuclear power plants in the hot summer of 2003 and had to give a special dispensation to the plants to raise the temperature of river water above the normally accepted threshold.