20—The Daily Collegian Tuesday, Jan. 2.8, 1986 Coal: Pa. looks to By HEATHER MALARKEY Collegian Staff Writer Anywhere you dig a hole in Pennsylvania you will find coal. But mining and purifying costs of the fuel are not worth the electricity it would produce, said the acting director of the coal research section of the University. Alan Davis said about a 200-year supply, 21 billion tons, of bituminous coal is not being mined because of the cost of pre-mining prepa rations such as underground exploration, mine plans and mining permits. Before any means of burning the coal can be utilized the coal must be brought up to the surface. This is the major problem facing Pennsylvania at the present time and is a major deterrent facing financial backers, coal mining, and production, Davis said. Many backers are not willing to put up that kind of money without some kind of guarantee of a profit, Davis said. Even as several coal burning plants are being built in eastern and central Pennsylva- USG Senate: By STEVE WILSON Collegian Staff Writer The Undergraduate Student Gov ernment Senate will vote on three nominees for department directors at 7 tonight in 225 HUB. Last weekend the USG executive branch nominated: Danielle Y. Mow ery for director of the Department of International Affairs; Jennifer S. Emry for co-director of the Advertis ing Department; and Neal L. Slifkin for co-director of the Department for Political Affairs. All three have to be 1 Free Bacon Free bacon on any larg 16" pizza One coupon per pizza exp. 1/30/86 Fast, Free Delivery"' North: 237-1414 1104 N. Atherton South: 234-5655 421 Rear E. Beaver oiler good only at participating !natio customer pays applicable sales tar approved by the senate before taking their posts. In addition, the senate will consider approving an executive recommen dation to eliminate the assistant di rector position in the advertising department and make the present assistant director, David J. Kiessl ing, a co-director of the advertisng department. The three current directors, as well as Tony Wilson, director of Minority Affairs, announced at the beginning of the semester that they would be resigning because of class load and new techniques to become self-sufficient with its fuel source nia, there are still many technical problems that need to be addressed, other than the flat cost of construction, he added. The construction of these plants would enable the use of coal as a source of cheap fuel, costing very little to mine, Davis said. The plants being built now will use old coal compiles located near the Earth's surface which still have large amounts of coal that can be mined at a much cheaper cost. These plants are able to clean the coal by creating a combustion with limestone to soak up the sulfur contained in the coal, he said. The purifying of this sulfur is another ex pense the coal industry finds a problem, said the Information Officer of Fossil Energy at the U.S. Department of Energy, Robert Porter. This is 'in part because the coal contains a high percentage of sulfur that when burned produces a gas containing pollutants. The cost to filter these pollutants from the gas is an added expense for industries, Porter said. The state has been working for nearly 15 New department directors to be discussed an increased workload at the USG All the USG departments will also get an invitation, in the form of a bill, from senate President David Rishel, to draw up formal guidelines for their departments. Rishel said the bill will not call for any specific guidelines but is de signed to get the departments moving toward better orgnization. The de partments will be asked to develop their own guidelines, which will then be approved by the senate. The bill may make some reference LL THIS WEEK GET THE FACTS FROM THE CLASS RING EXPERTS M • Corner of College and Allen Downtown State College A Shade Different From All The Others Before you choose your apartment for next year you owe it to yourself to stop out and see us. LARGE 1 & 2 Bdroom Apartments 2 Bdrooms w/den 3 Bdroom Townhouse Southgate Apts. & Townhouses Come see us at the Housing Fair 801 A. Southgate Dr. • State College, PA • 814/234-0333 Professionally managed by VMS Realty years on a new way to use this coal by washing out the sulfur. As far as underground mining is concerned, the Waits Mill Project, a plant that converts coal to electricity in Madison, has been con ducting extensive research into a coal-gasifica tion combined cycle since the early 19705. The coal-gasification combined cycle is a more economically efficient process that cleans sulfur from coal gasses before they enter the atmosphere. The key to the .coal-gasification combined cycle is in the way it eliminates the pollutants from the gas. The plant burns the coal into a gas, the gas can be cleaned of 80 percent of its pollutants within the gasifier, Porter said. By cleaning the gas within the gasifier, outside filters are eliminated along with the cost to keep the filter clear, he said. Utility companies are urging the devel opment of the plants because they are modular units. These companies are required to predict the amount of electricity that will be needed to service the public. Since it takes as long as 10 to keeping records on projects under taken by the USG, Rishel said, with some assessment of how successful those programs have been. Rishel added he does not want the bill to pass tonight but would rather the senate and departments spend at least a week evaluating criteria for the departments. The legislation is a result of a report by Rishel at the first meeting this semester calling for enforcing senate rules and making regulations more specific. years to build an electricity plant, utility com panies must predict electricity consumption at least that far in advance, Porter said. With the installment of the coal-gasification combined cycle, utility companies need only predict the amount of electricity necessary for the year ahead. The new plants can be built to produce smaller amounts of electricity than the larger coal burning plants. If the compa nies need to produce more electricity, these new modular coal-gasification plants can be added on to already existing plants, rather than building a separate plant, Porter said. These plants produce 525 megawatts of elec tricity annually. 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