Is wv headed for a winter heating crisis (Charleston: leases, home)

[AliceT]

Hard times are coming in the winter to all points of the country.

[snorpus]

HL,

There's no smoke coming from a nuclear plant. What you probably saw were the cooling towers for the steam/water that drives the turbines. Both nuclear and non-nuclear plants heat water into steam, which drives the turbines that produce the electricity. The used steam is then cooled back into water, and sent back to the boiler.

The "classic" picture of Three Mile Island, showing the towers, would look almost exactly the same for a fossil fuel plant. The characteristic feature of an N-plant is the containment dome, which really isn't all that tall and doesn't stand out like the cooling towers do.

[homesickhillbilly]

Mongahela Power built a power plant in Haywood West Virginia back in the 70s when I was in high school and honestly I didnt have a clue about that or anything else. Its a wonder I made it this far.The power plant is still in op and it is just four miles or so from where I was raised . I have taken pics of it from rideaways where I used to hunt as a chld growing up. The thing about WV is it IS beautiful but at the same time it has things the world/commerce desires. Coal namely and since it is worth so much, entities will go to extreme lengths to get it and to hell with the hillbillies!I wish it could rise up and squash all them braggards as flat as a penny laid on the train tracks like we used to do ....teehee.....that would show'm!

[David Kennedy]

Yes, and in the early days...before stack scrubbers, the acid rain from the steam would disolve the paint on everyones cars...not so today...not a problem at all...tells me that the scrubbers are doing their job...

[homesickhillbilly]

I agree. Technology has came a long way and that is a good point of progress. We gripe about the government but at the same time, they are the ones responsible for autos getting much better gas mileage. They have given the auto industry fits the last few decades, demanding they produce low emission products. I guess nothing is totally bad or negative. It just depends on how you look at it. Course, the hillbillies were done really wrong years ago. I have a book about it. It includes Kentucky,WV, and a few other states. If they couldnt buy the land , they would just steal it or mine above them and then when it rained, Mother Nature would do the job of moving them out.
By the way, David, I was in school in Harrison County with several kids whose fathers were killed in Farmington No. 9 . We got the news that the mine had blown up and they let the various ones who had dads working go. Mine was not there. He was already gone due to other circumstances. I felt for them cause I had already went through that tragedy.
One good thing mining and gas lines etc have created is they make rideaways and rideaways are great to hunt from. God Bless Rideaways! lol. These are just some random thoughts I am throwin at ya'all. Have a good one.

[r601020]

Just in case those two hillbillies who built the battery car from spare parts are lurking.

f.y.i.

Video - Breaking News Videos from CNN.com

[vec101]

I vote on using garbage as fuel.

Have you ever been to a large landfill? The trucks pouring in and the amount of garbage is unbelieveable. It's actually pretty scary.

I believe the one near Martinsburg gets garbage from the greater DC area.

[Two-Rivers]

Brrr! Almanac Predicts Cold, Wet Winter

I've seen problems with the heating assistance program in the past. They'll announce on the news that applications for assistance are now being accepted, by the next morning they are turning people away. How does that happen? Meanwhile, all the people that have gotten the assistance for the past ten years straight, got their's.

Family members of DHHR employees get notified, by their respective family member, and are first in line.

For that reason, I've given up telling people they might be able to get assistance through the DHHR.

[David Kennedy]

At one time their was a great business in Wv with medical waste...certain politicos would keep the gates open after mid-night to let the landfills 'Air Out...medical waste was hauled all the way from New York City and dumped after dark at the tune of $15,000 per tractor-trailer load. Feds put them out of business because of stream pollution. Nobody knows who was involved and New York City resumed dumping the waste in the ocean...It's possible that this enterprising (haz-mat)business is alive and well in other parts of Wv as we speak.

Garbage as fuel....works in other countries...wouldn't work here...no demand for it in the energy sector...I can see us exporting it to China to fuel their power plants...that would work....compact it into large blocks and send it overseas with the coal we sell them...

[x1x]

Originally Posted by David Kennedy

At one time their was a great business in Wv with medical waste...certain politicos would keep the gates open after mid-night to let the landfills 'Air Out...medical waste was hauled all the way from New York City and dumped after dark at the tune of $15,000 per tractor-trailer load. Feds put them out of business because of stream pollution. Nobody knows who was involved and New York City resumed dumping the waste in the ocean...It's possible that this enterprising (haz-mat)business is alive and well in other parts of Wv as we speak.

Garbage as fuel....works in other countries...wouldn't work here...no demand for it in the energy sector...I can see us exporting it to China to fuel their power plants...that would work....compact it into large blocks and send it overseas with the coal we sell them...

Good idea DK, We could send it as a bonus for buying our coal!!!!!