Category: Personal Experiences of Coal Plants and Industrial Expansion
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The Era of Reliable, Affordable, Energy and Electricity Generation: Part 1
This is my Perspective of Proven, Reliable, Affordable & Abundant Energy & Electricity Generation during my lifetime. Here are some of the significant technical advances, changes, regulations, incidents, events and policies that have shaped energy and power generation over the last eight decades. Some personal experiences are interjected during this era just to show where…
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Electric Generation Planning, Then and Now. What Will Be The Monuments to Poor Planning in 2024?
The U.S. has no Energy Policy in 2022. Only a Decarbonization Policy without a Rational plan to achieve a low carbon Energy supply. Keep in mind, Energy is needed for not only electricity generation, but also for Transportation, Industrial production, Commercial and Residential uses. Currently, about 87% of our total primary energy is provided by…
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Texas and Coal Power 6,000+ MW’s of Coal plant Capacity is missed!
Introduction: My first assignment to Texas was as a young B&W Results Engineer. I was participating as one of the Results engineers to perform acceptance tests of a large (500 MW class) natural gas fueled boiler at the P.H. Robinson Plant near Houston. That was about 1968. After that involvement I watched with great interest…
Power for the U.S.A. 