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Show Miingr-Entrprli- , Thursday, April 5, If 84 Pag 85 New UP &L geothermal power plant will be delivered prefabricated Utah Power & Light Co. will have its next power plant delivered to its doorstep, ready to assemble. Unrealistic? No, those are the terms of the company s $1 0.6 million purchase order for a geothermal unit. Biphase Energy Systems, a division of Transamerica-DElava- l, will deliver the prefabricated kit to UP&Ls Roosevelt Hot Springs site during winter of By spring of 1986, the plant should be on line. geothermal 1985-8- 6. Its a small unit, roughly the coal-fire- d This steam-watcapability is ideally suited to the Hot Springs site. When the scalding fluids enter the power plant, they are about four-fiftliquid water and one-fiftsteam. (The water stays liquid, even at 430F., because its under high pressure in the pipes and tanks at the plant.) . The prefabricated design creates g several advantages. For one thing, it minimizes the field work that will go into building. This reduces engineering and labor costs. And because most of the fabrication will be done under controlled, indoor conditions, errors will be limited. er h of a plant. But it capacity Its also smaller. These make it almost portable quicker to assemble, cheaper to buy. Also, the new plant is expected to get 30 percent more electricity from geothermal fluids than the earlier version. It will use both steam and superheated water to turn the turbine generator, while the unit uses steam only. generator. characteristics represents several forward strides in geothermal technology, and some significant benefits for customers. The plant will be a wellhead unit, meaning it will sit almost on top of a single geothermal well. This differs from the arrangement of UP&Ls plant ready to go on line this spring. That plant brings geothermal fluids from several well into a central generating station. One advantage of the wellhead operation is that it uses much shorter pipelines to get the steam to the can be cut to units. 18 months for future shorter construction period means less interest expense during the building. The total cost of the plant is estimated at $14.7 million. On a cost per kilowatt basis, this compares with the Hunter 3 plant. The geothermal investment takes a much smaller chunk of capital than the $450 million coal plant, though. Another advance is in reduced operating expense. The plant is designed to be unmanned after startup. Long-rang- e plans call for a single operator to run several plants from a central control room. A The construction schedule will also move faster. From order to in service, the plant will take only 24 months. The company thinks this Control weeds in alfalfa, USU specialist advises He said downey brome or cheat grass presents an even more serious weed problem in alfalfa. The seeds can cause lumpy jaw in cattle eating the hay. "You have to put out some money to control weeds in alfalfa. Fortunately, you usually get that back 2 to 4 fold. As my predecessor Lou Jensen used to say, It doesn't cost to control weeds, it pays," Chase said. He noted that several herbicides can be used effectively in controlling weeds in alfalfa in the spring. Metribuzin sold as Lcxone and Sencor applied at half a pound active per acre in March provides excellent control of mustards. It gives fairly good control of downey brome, though it usually will give better control when applied in the fall. Treatment with the material will cost about $12 an acre. - . Hexazinone produced by Dupont as Velpar gives excellent control of mot weeds in alfalfa, even dandelions when applied in the spring. It also costs about $12 an acre for treatment. Chase said fairly good control of quackgrass has been achieved by applying Velpar in the spring along in March. He expects that in a few years there will be some even better products for controlling quackgrass The in alfalfa in the spring. with some are coming companies good herbicide materials for controlling grasses, he said. Salable at auction 975 compared to 1053 last week 1269 last year. Princep, mostly operating geothermal power plants. 265 N. Stata, Mt. Pleasant cm AD, NOSE & THROAT Glen Lund, MD 0 Feeder Steers: Medium and Large 0 lbs 74.50-81.5Frame 1 400-50lbs 69.00-72.0package 420 lbs 62.00-69.5lbs 74.50; 500-600 lbs package 630 lbs 65.25; 63.00-65.0- lbs 600-70- 800-100- lbs Feeder Heifers: Large Frame 1 64.00-66.75- ; 300-40- Cutter and lbs 0 lbs 400-50- 0 lbs lbs S4.00.60.00. Cows: 2 44.00-48.0- Medium 500-60- 0 600-70- 0 0 Large Frame 0 55.00-59.0- 56.50-62.0- sllugllMr and boning 38.00-42.5Utility Breaking 38.75-41.0utility and commercial Cutter 35.00-37.5High 2-- 4 1250-185- Douglas K. 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The geothermal field is eight miles long, north to south, and six miles wide, east-wes- t. AUDIOLOGY cost-cuttin- 0 Weeds reduce both quantity and quality of alfalfa. Rick Chase, extension weed specialist, Utah State University, said two trials conducted by USU Extension found that weeds, mainly mustard, reduce the alfalfa yield by 32 percent. Since the weeds were lower in nutritional value and less palatable to the cows, they also made the hay of poor quality. Mustard weeds can be a big problem in alfalfa fields. Chase noted that they were particularly bad last spring, resulting from a previously wet fall and the wet spring preventing people getting on the fields to control the weeds: This will be UP&Ls second permanent geothermal unit. An early, 1.6 MW experimental plant has been operating for test purposes for three years. The 20 MW plant, built at a cost of $34 million, will go on line in late April or early May. UP&L has exclusive agreements with all the geothermal resource lease holders at the Roosevelt Hot Springs site 12 miles northeast of Milford in Beaver County. Phillips Petroleum Co. is the chief lease holder, having control over 75 percent of the resource on federal lands. The remaining 25 percent is on state lands, and leases are held by a consortium of Steam Reserve Corp. and OBrien Resources. Ephraim, Utah 283-426- 2 A. |