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@@davidgrisez Obviously you worked in the industry your entire career which is why you were able to spot such things. I assumed that opening the vent was sucking in air because combustion needs oxygen and it was pulling air in through that vent not realizing that there could be a pressurized furnace. There must be an advantage to pressurized furnace. What would that be? More effective burning hence more yield out of the same amount of coal? The coal burning power plant in Kemmerrer, Wyoming was purchased by Bill Gates and supposed to go nuclear. Any idea what is the delay there? Inspections? Federal permits?

@@WoodyWyoming There are both advantages and disadvantages to both a balanced draft boiler furnace and a pressurized boiler furnace. Here is one of the differences. A balanced draft furnace requires a minimum of 4 powerful fans. Two of the fans will be forced draft fans that take outdoor air and supply the air to the boiler. The other two fans will be induced draft fans on the exhaust of the boiler to discharge the combustion gases to the chimney. With a pressurized boiler furnace only two powerful forced draft fans are needed instead of four powerful fans. With a pressurized furnace the furnace enclosure must be made gas tight. If a furnace combustion air leak occurs with a pressurized furnace fire will come out of the boiler. With a balanced draft furnace if furnace chamber leaks occur, outside air will go into the boiler furnace and no flames will come out. This means that the boiler can continue to operate to a later date and repairs of a casing leak can be delayed. With a pressurized furnace the unit will need to be shutdown when an operator sees fire coming out of the furnace casing. Also when a lot of emissions control equipment is attached to a boiler it is preferable to have induced draft fans to move the combustion gases through the emissions control equipment. If this coal burning power plant is to be replaced with a nuclear power plant, the process of designing and building a nuclear plant takes a long time because of the many rules and regulations.

@ Very nicely explained. Obviously you have worked in that system. One thing that I don’t understand is what is the advantage of pressurized furnace. Yes it needs only two fans but it seems it will cost more to hold that pressure down and downtime is longer in case it leaks. Therefore I am assuming it is more efficient just like a turbo gas engine where gas and air mixture under pressure combusts better providing more propulsion of piston hence higher electricity generation. Did I get this part right?

Wait till I send you stories on my near arrests. X2

Way to Go Dr. Grant. Beautiful nite pics of your destination! Thank you for sharing all the fun!! Carol and Tom

Even our group visa was held up for a long time. Had to go for visa interview. Sat there like a fool. Nobody came and talked to me and then they let me go. Probably watching me on CC TV all along.

I hear you. You just can’t say that when you are there.

Nobody knows there what is going on or they are tight lipped. You are right. There is neither war nor crisis going on there. What is the UN doing there? Maybe it is Western effort to keep China out of Nepal??! Or just helping out the villagers there? The armored vehicle drivers were rude and yelled at us for coming in front of them. We had to back up long ways. They were aggressive, kind of unbecoming of the UN, in my opinion.

Good question. That is the bone of contention there. China owns Tibet now and wants to keep it that way. Slowly the language and culture will change over a few generations. I think that’s the plan. Flying CCP flag is the least they can do. Nobody answers questions there. Either they don’t know or are afraid of telling me the truth. That’s all I can say.

No, but I got two Tibetan Mastiffs instead. Their face was four times my size.

@@WoodyWyoming 🤣🤣. My dad used to have bull mastiffs, they drool everywhere

@@WoodyWyoming😂😂😂

Nothing wrong with a little vitamin enrichment.

@@WoodyWyoming 🤣🤣🤣🤤

Sure, that is what people do. Fly from Shanghai to Lhasa, spend a week acclimatizing. Then go and see Mount Everest. You can fly from Lhasa to New Tingri and drive only an hour to EBC. But you miss out on all adventure and sights. You want the Tibet experience too, which will come in Vol 3. At any time, they can cancel your Tibet permit depending upon political situation. You can also take a train ride from Shanghai to Lhasa over 5 days or so. It even has oxygen spigots in each cabin.

Tibet is still there when it comes to people, culture and relics. Just that China owns it since 1959 so China wants you to call it Tibet Autonomous Region of China. Now that’s a mouthful.

Travel is my profession. Medicine is my hobby. If you pack all that toilet paper, TSA would think that you have some secret knowledge of COVID returning!?!

When I landed in Northern California to gas up, a whole bunch of bugs splattered on my windshield including wasps. No bumble bees though!

25 years.

Never thought I would see you here. Ha ha, yes, it takes a different skill set to get famous on TH-cam. That’s not the intent. Most of my trips are learning trips and that means a lot of information. Make sure you read the description. That’s where the real information is. I like story writing more than video but video has its own charm. Most hunters are from the US and Germany. Some French as well. Didn’t know about the Mendelian experiment in your backyard was a thing.

OMG! PTSD coming back!! Good hearing from you.

@@WoodyWyoming 😎. Good to see you posting

You should be riding your Harley there!