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From: seb@ahutb.UUCP (s.e.badian)
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Subject: Re: renewable energy
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Date: Fri, 5-Apr-85 09:41:14 EST
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	There's an added advantage to localized energy production. You
don't have to haul the coal, or oil, or whatever to the far reaches of
the universe. Seems like a lot of energy must be used to haul all
that crude from Saudi Arabia to New Jersey, and then on to the rest
of the Northeast. Same argument can be said for coal burned in the
eastern part of the country; most of it comes from out west in South
Dakota, or Montana, or one of those other ex-Carboniferous Period
seas.
	Why do you think there are few small power plants that
use local resource to their advantage? Economy of scales? Not
enough money in it for the big utilities to research and develop
it? My college drilled for gas on college property while I was
there. They even found some, and have been saving quite a bit of
fuel with the natural gas they pump out of their own well. It's
not a lot of gas, but it's enough for pay for the drilling.
Why don't more private parties research this kind of thing?

Sharon Badian  ihnp4!hocsd!ahutb!seb