Rope

Ross is doing a weeks work experience at a local power
station.

Yesterday he was in 'Materials Handling' i.e. unloading
coal. Apparently, on full chat, the station consumes 1/2 a
trainload of coal an hour.

Most of this coal comes from the docks - imported.
But *some* comes from 'Up North Somewhere'

Apparently this colliery has to dispose of the
furnace-grade stuff, and the most economic way to do so is
to *pay the power station to burn it*

Now to me, and I accept I am probably being a bit
simplistic here, but I would have thought that, rather than
*pay* the power station to 'dispose' of it, they could
possibly try to *sell* it to the power station at a
competitive price? - even if it was at a loss, it would
still, surely, be cheaper than *paying* them to burn it?

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Nidge

OK, So the real question is what could UKRM profitably do with half a
train load of coal a day, right?

Nidge (at work)

Tim

In message <VA.0000120a.138a2954@ukrm.net>, Rope <spam@ukrm.net> writes
>Ross is doing a weeks work experience at a local power
>station.
>
>Yesterday he was in 'Materials Handling' i.e. unloading
>coal. Apparently, on full chat, the station consumes 1/2 a
>trainload of coal an hour.
>
>Most of this coal comes from the docks - imported.
>But *some* comes from 'Up North Somewhere'
>
The imported stuff is probably "brown" coal which has a high sulphur
content.

>Apparently this colliery has to dispose of the
>furnace-grade stuff, and the most economic way to do so is
>to *pay the power station to burn it*
>
There's not enough home use these days and so many power stations burn
gas or oil.

>Now to me, and I accept I am probably being a bit
>simplistic here, but I would have thought that, rather than
>*pay* the power station to 'dispose' of it, they could
>possibly try to *sell* it to the power station at a
>competitive price? - even if it was at a loss, it would
>still, surely, be cheaper than *paying* them to burn it?
>
I think the market is regulated so they cannot, but someone will be
along who knows.

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