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Re: Uses for diamonds?

by Wildepad <noreplies> Feb 5, 2008 at 05:33 PM

On Mon, 04 Feb 2008 16:46:32 -0500, George W Harris
<gharrus@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>On Mon, 04 Feb 2008 13:38:30 -0600, Wildepad <noreplies> wrote:

>:Diamond dust is extremely abrasive. Bearings would fail within hours.
>:Nozzles would erode away even faster. etc. etc. etc.
>
>	That's why you don't grind it into dust before 
>burning. 

I don't know of any modern coal-fired plant that doesn't pulverize the
coal first. They simply don't have the capacity for burning chunks.

You'd have to build an entire new plant from scratch.
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Uses for diamonds?
 Wildepad <noreplies>  2008-02-02 22:28:05 
Re: Uses for diamonds?
 Phillip Thorne <pethor  2008-02-03 00:22:05 
Re: Uses for diamonds?
 Robert Martinu <invali  2008-02-03 06:44:05 
Re: Uses for diamonds?
 Wildepad <noreplies>  2008-02-03 14:15:03 
Re: Uses for diamonds?
 Robert Martinu <invali  2008-02-04 09:13:13 
Re: Uses for diamonds?
 Crown-Horned Snorkack <  2008-02-03 08:43:18 
Re: Uses for diamonds?
 Wildepad <noreplies>  2008-02-03 14:15:03 
Re: Uses for diamonds?
 George W Harris <gharr  2008-02-03 00:45:00 
Re: Uses for diamonds?
 Wildepad <noreplies>  2008-02-03 14:15:03 
Re: Uses for diamonds?
 George W Harris <gharr  2008-02-04 01:52:22 
Re: Uses for diamonds?
 Bryan Derksen <bryan.d  2008-02-04 07:46:21 
Re: Uses for diamonds?
 George W Harris <gharr  2008-02-04 03:00:55 
Re: Uses for diamonds?
 Wildepad <noreplies>  2008-02-04 13:40:54 
Re: Uses for diamonds?
 Bryan Derksen <bryan.d  2008-02-04 23:51:16 
Re: Uses for diamonds?
 Robert Martinu <invali  2008-02-05 07:33:38 
Re: Uses for diamonds?
 Ilmari Karonen <usenet  2008-02-08 19:03:52 
Re: Uses for diamonds?
 Wildepad <noreplies>  2008-02-04 13:38:30 
Re: Uses for diamonds?
 George W Harris <gharr  2008-02-04 16:46:32 
Re: Uses for diamonds?
 Wildepad <noreplies>  2008-02-05 17:33:46 
Re: Uses for diamonds?
 Mike Williams <nospam@  2008-02-03 06:53:11 
Re: Uses for diamonds?
 Wildepad <noreplies>  2008-02-03 14:15:03 
Re: Uses for diamonds?
 Bryan Derksen <bryan.d  2008-02-03 09:20:26 
Re: Uses for diamonds?
 Bryan Derksen <bryan.d  2008-02-03 09:27:52 
Re: Uses for diamonds?
 Wildepad <noreplies>  2008-02-03 14:15:03 
Re: Uses for diamonds?
 Dr J R Stockton <jrs@[  2008-02-03 21:34:51 
Re: Uses for diamonds?
 Wildepad <noreplies>  2008-02-04 13:45:33 
Re: Uses for diamonds?
 nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]   2008-02-04 02:45:07 
Re: Uses for diamonds?
 Wildepad <noreplies>  2008-02-04 13:46:39 
Re: Uses for diamonds?
 Bryan Derksen <bryan.d  2008-02-04 23:48:57 
Re: Uses for diamonds?
 throopw@[EMAIL PROTECTED]  2008-02-05 00:08:45 
Re: Uses for diamonds?
 Bryan Derksen <bryan.d  2008-02-05 05:38:19 

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