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Originally Posted by Piotrsko
You can buy coal. Just difficult to get it delivered cheaply. I can buy it from the local fuel place, but it isn't $3 a megbtu. I think it is $100 a ton on my doorstep
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If coal is 12,000BTU per pound then 1 ton is 24 million BTU, or about $4 per million BTU, which is cheaper than natural gas.
I was thinking coal might be a little cheaper if delivered by the train load to a ship yard.
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