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billp on April 21, 2008 - 8:24pm Permalink | Subthread | Comments top

In New Mexico we are looking at albuquerque water problems which may be connected to peak electricty, peak oil and peak natural gas?

Aussies, San Juan and Navajo coal mines are operated by Broken Hill Properties [BHP] Billiton.

There may be problems in the near future with coal supply.

San Juan Mine Statistics
Ownership
San Juan Coal Company - BHP Billiton Mine site size

17 square miles
Annual yield
7,800,000 million tons
Daily production
17,810 to 19,810 tons per day (average)

Estimated life span

Through at least 2017

New Mexico had a decrease of 2.6 million short tons in 2006 to end the year with a total of 25.9 million short tons, a decline of 9.1 percent, which was attributable to the decreased production levels at BHP’s Navajo and San Juan South mines.

The electric power sector (electric utilities and independent power producers) accounts for about 92 percent of all coal consumed in the United States and is the driving force for the Nation’s coal
consumption.

San Juan coal mine.

How do I find production data for coal in New Mexico?.

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JoulesBurn on April 21, 2008 - 10:17pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

I can't tell if that last one was a question that answered it self or not, but there is also the EIA.

It doesn't sound like ABQ's water problems have anything to do with energy but rather just taking water from the aquifer faster than it is being replenished.

Here is a report with a lot of info on the aquifer (from a term paper for a small college in Kansas?, and in the most ridiculously large font possible on a web page -- plus centered!):
http://academic.emporia.edu/schulmem/hydro/TERM%20PROJECTS/Kuss/Hydrogeo...

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