A coal train just went by. I've been wondering about some power factoids, so finally looked them up.
- Boulder consumed 1,160 million kWhr (in Y2k)
- 91% from coal power. I don't know if it's mostly all generated in that one plant or not.
- Coal -> steam turbines -> electric generation runs about 35% efficiency.
- 42 million kWhr from hydro, by the way.
- we pay $114 million/yr (that's 10c/kWhr? Sounds high...)
- 100 tons of coal in a RR car, and 1 lb coal/kwHr (nice neat numbers, eh?)
Therefore, Boulder burns 1 RR Car of coal every 90 minutes.
- various sources
- various sources
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