That should read 7.3 ft^3 per second. Fat fingers.
On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 12:48 PM, Terry Blanton <[email protected]> wrote:
> Gnorts, vorts,
>
> Next month a fifty year old 600 MW coal plant inside the perimeter of
> Atlanta is scheduled to go off line. Coming on line will be a 2.5 GW
> natural gas plant.
>
> http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&q=plant+mcdonough+atlanta+ga&fb=1&gl=us&hq=plant+mcdonough&hnear=0x88f5045d6993098d:0x66fede2f990b630b,Atlanta,+GA&cid=0,0,14231416157010689344&ll=33.827111,-84.468255&spn=0.027914,0.038581&t=h&z=15
>
> The marker 'A' is not actually on the coal plant. It is just SE of
> the marker. You can zoom in and recognize the smoke stack which I
> have seen belch smoke for most of my life. If you follow the river NE
> to the bend you will see the new natgas combined-cycle generators on
> Port Cobb Drive. Huge difference in size.
>
> A new 19 mile pipeline was built to feed the plant which will consume
> over 73,000 ft^3/s of gas at 100% efficiency (back of the envelope).
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