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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fritz the Cat" data-source="post: 297642" data-attributes="member: 605">I worked at Coteau supplying coal to Antelope Valley Generating and Dakota Gasification. Both are owned by Basin Electric Coop. When I was there we mined 15 million tons per year. Baseball sized chunks went to the Gasification Plant. They needed them to move oxygen through it while the fines went to the AVS boilers. Natural gas was made and put into a pipeline to Chicago. Just think, ND heated Chicago while the propagandized people of Chicago voted for Obama who was against coal. Sure there was talk of turning the gas off for a couple of cold winter days to make the low information voters in Chicago see the light. Of course we can't do that. If one person in Chicago were to die of exposure we could be sued. It chaps my ass how we bucked over snowbanks and worked around the clock through some really bad weather to get the product in the pipeline and powerline to people who have no appreciation. Cheaper natural gas from oil wells have since replaced coal to gas put into that pipeline. Dakota Gas has switched to making fertilizer and several other by-products. Antelope Generating also captures CO2. It goes into a pipeline destined for Canada. Pushed down into a non-producing oil well head, it helps push or recover more oil while sequestering the CO2.The last truck I drove was a Kress. Hauled 300 ton. 1900 horse engine. The engine is in the back setting backwards on top of the differential. From the engine into a converter then into a drop box. The drop box went into the transmission mounted on the differential. The operators really liked these trucks, the mechanics not so much. It was tight and busy around that drive train.</blockquote>

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