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Why don't we switch to this rather large reserve, and relatively untouched, form of energy untill we actually complete the renewables process?
A bit about Orimulsion
http://www.gnb.ca/cnb/promos/NB-Power/Orimulsion-e.asp
interesting stuff
A bit about Orimulsion
Fuel deliver
The Coleson Cove Generating Station currently uses heavy fuel oil. This fuel is delivered to Courtenay Bay in single hulled vessels where it is unloaded to storage tanks and then pumped through an existing pipeline 27 kilometres across Saint John to storage tanks at the Coleson Cove Generating Station. Orimulsion®, the new fuel, will be delivered at Canaport utilizing the existing facilities. Double-hulled vessels carrying Orimulsion® to New Brunswick from Venezuela will moor to the monobuoy and unload through a sub-sea pipeline to onshore storage facilities. A new pipeline to East Saint John will connect to the existing pipeline to Coleson Cove Generating Station.
The Orimulsion® marketplace
Orimulsion® is an innovative fossil fuel that was developed in the late 1980s from the vast reserves of bitumen (a heavy hydrocarbon) in the Orinoco Belt of east-central Venezuela. Its primary purpose is as a boiler fuel for electric power generation.
Orimulsion® has been used commercially since 1991, and is now being consumed in Denmark, Italy, Germany, Canada, Japan and China. New contracts have been developed with customers in Italy, Singapore, South Korea and China. The current production capacity of 6.5 million tonnes per year is being expanded to supply this increased demand.
Orimulsion® is shipped from the Caribbean coast of Venezuela by ocean vessel to these worldwide customers. The primary new market for the fuel in the power generation sector is a group of existing power plants that possess certain key attributes. These attributes include the
http://www.gnb.ca/cnb/promos/NB-Power/Orimulsion-e.asp
interesting stuff